Here’s the latest on David Byrne’s Coachella 2026 set list.
- Byrne’s Coachella weekend one performance featured a mix of Talking Heads classics and material from his solo work, with a 13-song set that included Psycho Killer, Once in a Lifetime, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Burning Down the House, and Slippery People, plus Strange Overtones from his Eno-era collaboration [source: Dork article summarizing the weekend set].[1]
- Setlist coverage for weekend one indicated Byrne performed a theatrical, choreographed show backed by a troupe, drawing heavily from Talking Heads material and his album Who Is the Sky? in the mix.[1]
- Several outlets reported on Byrne extending Talking Heads material at Coachella and highlighting the return of classic tracks to the stage, along with remarks about audience reaction and Byrne’s renewed connection with a broader, younger audience [Rolling Stone Australia feature and related coverage].[5]
If you’d like, I can compile a precise, song-by-song setlist from weekend one and compare it to weekend two, or pull quotes and video clips from specific performances.
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Backed by a full troupe of singers and dancers who performed customised routines for each song, Byrne ran through a thirteen-track setlist that included 'Psycho Killer', 'Once In A Lifetime', 'This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)', 'Burning Down The House', '(Nothing But) Flowers' and 'Slippery People'. His 2008 Brian Eno collaboration 'Strange Overtones', taken from 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today', also featured, as did selections from solo album 'Who Is The Sky?'. … Backed by a...
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