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David Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? Tour Gets 70mm Film

8/27/2026

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Summary

Story summary

David Byrne is turning his Baltimore Who Is The Sky? tour show into a 70mm concert film.
Director Brady Corbet filmed the performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm.
The tour, launched September 2025, has played over 150 shows on four continents.
It ends September 19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York.

History

Historical Context

Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film The Last Waltz captured The Band’s Thanksgiving-day farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland, drawing 5,000 fans and peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard 200, proving large-budget concert movies could succeed. Subsequent 2002 and 2016 box-set reissues kept the model visible, encouraging today’s 70 mm David Byrne tour film as a new global promotional tool.

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Story summary

David Byrne is turning his Baltimore Who Is The Sky? tour show into a 70mm concert film.
Director Brady Corbet filmed the performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm.
The tour, launched September 2025, has played over 150 shows on four continents.
It ends September 19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York.

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