David Byrne - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 1994 | Albums That Should Exist

 David Byrne - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 1994

Paul Says: Here's a David Byrne solo concert he did for the BBC in 1994. I'm pretty sure this one hasn't been in public circulation at all until now.

This concert is a big mystery to me, because I couldn't find any information about it whatsoever! It's clear that it has to be from 1994, due to the song list, which closely matches other 1994 concerts. He was promoting his 1994 album, simply called "David Byrne," and played some songs from it that he never played before or since.

I got this from musical friend Progsprog. He's sent me quite a few other things that haven't been in public circulation (including some I still have to post), so this fits that pattern. But unfortunately, he knew absolutely nothing about where it comes from. So the location of London is a TOTAL GUESS, based on the fact that probably 90 plus percent of the BBC concerts I post have taken place in London. But that could very easily be wrong. If anyone knows anything about this mystery concert, please let me know and I'll update the information. I'm posting this here in hopes that someone will be able to help.

But the lack of info about the when and where of this concert doesn't take away the fact that the performance is very good. This was early in Byrne's solo career, so he played a good number of Talking Heads songs. 

Oh, and since I had previously posted a 2002 BBC concert by Byrne, I just renamed that to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2." That meant changing the album cover art and so forth. So here's an updated link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/david-byrne-bbc-four-sessions-union.html

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 A Long Time Ago 
02 talk 
03 [Nothing But] Flowers
04 This Must Be the Place [Naive Melody]
05 Stay Up Late 
06 Strange Ritual 
07 talk 
08 Back in the Box
09 Once in a Lifetime 
10 Angels
11 talk 
12 Buck Naked 
13 Psycho Killer 
14 Burning Down the House 

I too struggled to find evidence of the tour for the launch of his eponymous album and it is listed as 'Inconstant Motion' which produced nothing. His website shows three gigs at The Empire in London in 19-21st Sept so maybe it was one of these. I found someone selling a ticket from back that same year on 24th May (which seemed odd as he launched the new solo album with a world tour (sort of) and that was at the London Palladium (sic) although he was in London to do the show Later With Jools Holland, BBC Television Centre, London, England on May 25, 1994 that gig is not listed on his website. 

Acoustic - David Byrne - My Love is You 1994