David Byrne: Colston Hall, Bristol
Stephen Dalton, Times, The, March 2009
LIKE SOME KIND OF vaguely sinister religious cult, David Byrne and his band kicked off their latest British tour dressed in pristine white from head to toe. With his neat shock of ice-white hair and perennially boyish good looks, the eerily youthful 56-year-old is turning into the David Lynch of rock. Behind that mask of deadpan innocence lies a knowing, mischievous sense of humour.
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