Talking Heads, the iconic band featuring David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, have just announced their first public appearance in over 20 years. The band will be reuniting for a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival in celebration of the 40th anniversary of their legendary concert film, Stop Making Sense.
The event will be broadcasted as a global theatrical event at IMAX cinemas around the country on the same date. Fans can visit the Toronto International Film Festival website to purchase tickets to showings near them. Additionally, the film will be screened in non-IMAX cinemas around the US on September 22.
The bandmates have had a complicated relationship since their 1991 breakup. They had reunited in 1999 to promote the 15th-anniversary reissue of the film, and in 2002 they performed four songs at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, which marked their only live performance since 1984.
In a recent interview with WIRED, Byrne discussed the idea of a band reunion, saying “I think, in a nutshell, I could say that we came together more as friends than as, you know, incredible musicians. It was really a kind of shared musical taste. And then gradually, as you age and you grow and you explore, your musical tastes start to change. It became more work that we did, we didn’t hang out all the time anymore, so eventually you just kind of drift apart that way.” Tina Weymouth, in a series of essays in the Sunday Times, described Byrne as “insecure”. Chris Frantz, in his 2020 memoir, described Byrne as “insecure” as well as “transactional”.
Despite the band’s fractured relationship, they still managed to honour their record label Sire Records co-founder Seymour Stein after his passing earlier this year. The band’s reunion at the Toronto International Film Festival is a testament to the enduring legacy of Talking Heads.
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