User:Krelnik/Utopia

Byrne's album American Utopia was his first solo studio album since 2004, and he had not toured solo since 2009.^[1]

George Varga on the significance of Stop Making Sense in SD-UT: "The result was 1984’s stunning “Stop Making Sense,” which set a new conceptual, musical and visual standard. It still stands as one of the definitive rock concert films — and an enduring demonstration of how a live performance, even one carefully edited together from three concerts, can be visceral and theatrical, playful and provocative, robust and refined."^[2]

Details on development & rehearsal^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

“(It) completely rethinks what you can do, what a band, what a show can be,”^[7]

“We’ll be doing some new songs, and many others that will, I assume, be familiar,”^[8]

“I’m excited. This is the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, so fingers crossed.”

other stuff on tech^[9]

matching grey Kenzo suits^[6][5]

Reviews of the tour were overwhelmingly positive. The Los Angeles Times called it "a joy to behold"^[10], NME said it was possibly the "most ambitious and impressive live show of all time",^[11] and Metro Weekly called it "2018’s most thrilling concert experience".^[6] Kitty Empire, writing in The Guardian, called the "highly unorthodox tour" an "unprecedented, exquisite live show".^[12] The Atlantic said the show was "captivatingly bizarre" and a "reinvention of the rock concert."^[13]

Songs are from Byrne's American Utopia album unless otherwise noted. The set list has remained relatively constant over the tour, with minor variations.^{[14][15][16][17]}