![]() ![]() Libretto for this Twelfth Night originates from the duo’s spellbound new Love This Giant, which proved the backbone of the 90-minute main set. ![]() Clark, somewhat anchored to her mic stand and guitar pedals, acted as first ballerina. Byrne put the brassy chorus through most of the paces as allowed him by the freedom of his chordless microphone. They parted like the Red Sea, snaked multiple conga lines, and moved in a square dance formality with all the vigor of a children's matinee for Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes. They were a brass band with a drummer, keyboards, and no bassist.Īnd no one just stood there. Byrne’s backers weren’t a rock band augmented with horns. complimented the brass mine field onstage 10 minutes before showtime, one tuba, two trombones, three saxophones all strategically laid out on the naked stage set-up, a trumpet, flute, and French horn also in and amongst Byrne’s acoustic guitar and Clark’s electric. In Clark’s first encore anecdote of discovering Byrne through Revenge of the Nerds at age three, her awe exceeded his by only a decade or two.Ĭrickets on the P.A. Annie Clark trade on a May/December chemistry of artistic wonderment.Īs tightly choreographed as a dance recital or an off-off-Broadway musical, the nearly two-hour concert still allowed Byrne moments of rapt observation as his Dallas-reared show counterpart skittered across the stage in high heels with her Angus Young guitar – a cherry-red Gibson SG – strapped across her. Vincent bleeding on her guitar at the 2007 gathering – but in stark contrast to Dead Can Dance last month at the Moody and the girl-group flirtatiousness of She & Him, the former Talking Heads frontman and Ms. Not that the pair are playing ACL – although one of the festival's most memorable moments remains St. ![]() Ward at South by Southwest, but a week out from the Austin City Limits Music Festival (now almost as chaotic as SXSW), the best headlining set may have already occurred last night at Bass Concert Hall – with David Byrne and St. True, I missed the pairing of Zooey Deschanel & M. Vincent at Bass Concert Hall, 10.5.12 (by Shelley Hiam) ![]()
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