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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/26sdsr8E

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/2JcV4NSTq2Kv661/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Gent, Belgium, on June 8, 1994. The original was in color, but the color was mostly washed out and just generally orange-ish. So I ran it through the Kolorize colorization program. I think it looks much better as a result.