David Byrne Extends Tour, Brian Eno Extends Paid Vacation

Steve Martin and John Candy they ain’t. You certainly won’t find Brian Eno traveling with David “The Next-Hardest Working Man in Show Business” Byrne this holiday season. It seems he had “other plans.” But I sure can tell you where you’ll find Byrne: the open roads of North America, where he belongs.

Apparently not content whatsoever with the notion of finishing up his 2008 tourdates and then going home to hang out and enjoy the fact that he’s, you know, “David Byrne” for a while, the talking and singing head has announced that he will add another string of dates to his tour of the U.S. and Canada that will carry him well into the new year. Totally oblivious to the fact that we at TMT already wasted some clever prose on what we thought was a complete tour (TMT News), Byrne will resume his 2-fast, 2-furious pace November 28 with a kick-off show in Buffalo, NY. The subsequent run will wrap up temporarily on December 13 in Miami, FL (looks like someone convinced him to at least try to see his loved ones this holiday season) before resuming again on February 18 in Seattle, WA. The tour will ultimately culminate with a show at New York’s legendary Radio City Music Hall on February 27. THEN THERE IS EVEN MORE TOURING (thanks Terry).

Byrne is, of course, not out there hocking shower curtain rings, exactly. Rather, he’s manically crisscrossing the country like this to support the recent release of that modest little old Brian Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (TMT Review), released in August. So where exactly is Eno, then, you ask? Umm, my guess is probably somewhere a whole lot warmer... potentially tanning himself with sunlight reflected off of solid gold bars. Yeah. That’s my guess.

See? Not everything that happens will happen today:

11.28.08 - Buffalo, NY - Center for the Arts 11.29.08 - Syracuse, NY - Landmark Theatre 11.30.08 - New Bedford, MA - Zeiterion Theatre 12.02.08 - Northampton, MA - Calvin Theatre 12.03.08 - Wilmington, DE - The Grand Opera House 12.04.08 - York, PA - Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center 12.05.08 - Ledyard, CT - Fox Theater at Foxwoods 12.07.08 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre 12.08.08 - Raleigh, NC - Meymandi Concert Hall 12.09.08 - North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center 12.10.08 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium 12.12.08 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Theater 12.13.08 - Miami Beach, FL - Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater 01.19.08 - Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hall 3 01.21.08 - Singapore, Singapore - Suntec City Concert Hall 01.23.08 - Osaka, Japan - Osaka Hatch 01.27.08 - Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya AX 01.28.08 - Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya AX 02.01.08 - Sydney, Australia - Sydney Opera House 02.02.08 - Sydney, Australia - Sydney Opera House 02.04.08 - South Perth, Australia - Perth Zoo 02.07.08 - Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Riverstage 02.09.08 - Melbourne, Australia - Hamer Hall 02.10.08 - Melbourne, Australia - Hamer Hall 02.13.08 - Wellington, New Zealand - Michael Fowler Center 02.14.08 - Auckland, New Zealand - ASB Theatre 02.18.08 - Seattle, WA - Benaroya Concert Hall 02.19.08 - Spokane, WA - Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox 02.20.08 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre 02.22.08 - Edmonton, Alberta - Jubilee Auditorium 02.23.08 - Calgary, Alberta - Jack Singer Concert Hall 02.27.08 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall 03.09.08 - Düsseldorf, Germany - Tonhalle 03.10.08 - Antwerp, Belgium - Koningin Elisabethzaal (QEH) 03.12.08 - Hamburg, Germany - CCH2 Congress Centrum 03.14.08 - Frankfurt, Germany - Alte Oper 03.16.08 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Falkoner Theatre 03.17.08 - Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus 03.19.08 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene 03.20.08 - Malmo, Sweden - Concert House 03.22.08 - Hannover, Germany - Theater am Aegi 03.23.08 - Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom 03.24.08 - Utrecht, Netherlands - MC Vredenburg 03.25.08 - Paris, France - L’Olympia 03.27.08 - Bristol, England - Colston Hall 03.29.08 - Birmingham, England - Symphony Hall Birmingham 03.30.08 - Manchester, England - Bridgewater Hall 03.31.08 - Glasgow, Scotland - Royal Concert Hall 04.01.08 - Gateshead, England - The Sage 04.03.08 - Liverpool, England - Philharmonic Hall 04.04.08 - Sheffield, England - City Hall 04.06.08 - Dublin, Ireland - National Concert Hall 04.07.08 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Belfast Waterfront 04.09.08 - Oxford, England - New Theatre Oxford 04.11.08 - Nottingham, England - Royal Centre 04.12.08 - London, England - Royal Festival Hall 04.13.08 - London, England - Royal Festival Hall 04.14.08 - Brighton, England - Brighton Dome 04.17.08 -a Zürich, Switzerland - Volkshaus Zürich