US music legend announces huge Glasgow shows as he plays first Scottish gig in eight years
It comes days after a cryptic post left tongues wagging
ICON'S RETURN US music legend announces huge Glasgow shows as he plays first Scottish gig in eight years
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US rock legend David Byrne is coming to Scotland next year amid a string of global concert dates.
The Talking Heads frontman, 73, is bringing his Who is the Sky? tour to the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow.
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David Byrne is bringing his exciting world tour to Glasgow
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Talking Heads posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June 1977
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Dumbarton-born Byrne wears a kilt at a 1997 concert in Belgium
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Jerry Harrison, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads
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It comes eight years after the Dumbarton-born singer last graced the stage of his native homeland.
The Burning Down the House hitmaker hasn't played live since his American Utopia tour - which was hailed by critics as one of the best live shows of all time.
An online blurb for his latest tour reads: "In 2023, as his triumphant American Utopia era came to a close after morphing from an album and tour into an acclaimed Broadway show and then a Spike Lee-directed HBO film, David Byrne began jotting down the occasional groove, chord or melody. It had been a minute."
The world tour comes as the iconic musician releases his first new album since 2018, titled Who is the Sky?
The record was produced by Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon, who has worked with industry icons including Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus.
Meanwhile members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra helped arrange 12 tracks on the album.
Byrne will be in Glasgow next year on Friday 6 March and Saturday 7 March.
Briefs are priced from £42.25 for seats near the back of the venue to £180 for front row seats.
Tickets for the gigs go on sale at 10am on Friday 13 June.
It comes days after Byrne's Talking Heads teased fans with a possible reunion.
Moment Sabrina Carpenter's tour bus arrives at Glasgow hotel as fans queue outside Hydro
The US rockers posted a video on social media showing the moon at night and the sun emerging from clouds with the date June 5, 2025.
Eager fans hope it hints the previously warring group are reforming.
But June 5 is also the date they first played live - in 1975 at New York's CBGB club.
It could herald the release of a remastered recording of that gig.
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A picture of Byrne performing in Chicago, Illinois, dated October 1979
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The US rocker will next year play the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow
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The band - who split in 1991 and whose hits include Once in a Lifetime and Road to Nowhere - last played together in 2002 at their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Frontman Byrne, 73, said at the time more music was unlikely due to "bad blood" and musical differences.
Their last live gig was in 1984 in New Zealand.
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