The evening of September 20, 2008, was a cool night at Chastain Park Amphitheater, and I’m not just talking about the weather. David Byrne, he and his band dressed all in white on an equally austere stage, opened with his latest single “Strange Overtones” from his collaboration with Brian Eno, Everything that Happens Will Happen Today.
He played songs from this new disc, as well as some Talking Heads stuff, including “Once in a Lifetime,” “Life During Wartime,” “Cross-eyed and Painless,” and a cool arrangement of “Heaven.” He even had dancers on a number of his songs, including a bit in office chairs. The show, and the crowd, started out pretty mellow, but by the end of his set, everyone was up and showing their best eighties moves, especially the dude next to us. Byrne played three encores to an appreciative crowd.
