Stop Making Sense — Dance Along
Dance in front of the big screen with the concert film Stop Making Sense, restored in 4K for the 40th anniversary celebration. Including a cocktail bar in the venue!
This is a party, this is a disco
Remaining motionless in your seat and cautiously tapping your foot to the music? That's a far cry from the ideal concert experience. For this special showing of STOP MAKING SENSE, we're shaking things up: we're converting the space in front of the screen in Hall 1 into a lively dance floor, complete with a cocktail bar!
Practical information:
- Date: Friday, January 19th, 9:30 PM
- Tickets: €17.50 (including the film & a welcome drink)
- Limited tickets available, first come, first served.
Stop Making Sense | dance along
Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) rewrote concert film rules with this inventive recording of four rousing live shows from Talking Heads in 1983.
In 1983, legendary art rockers Talking Heads set out to make a concert film like no other. Independent of their record company, they hired Jonathan Demme, a then-relatively unknown filmmaker, to direct. Working closely with Byrne and the band, Demme counteracted the MTV style of the era, avoiding quick cuts or cutaways to the crowd in the certain knowledge that the more we see of what’s happening on stage, the more immersed and mesmerised we will be.
The dazzling set list aside, it’s their film’s formal inventiveness that is amazing, beginning with the conceptual crescendo of the concert’s construction. It starts with genius frontman David Byrne performing PSYCHO KILLER alone on stage with beat box and guitar, then adds instruments, stage machinery and musicians with each successive number. That’s to say nothing of Byrne's expanding white suit.
STOP MAKING SENSE was once dubbed ‘the CITIZEN KANE of concert movies’ and it’s easy to see why: this is a perfect concert movie, a pop cultural dispatch from 1983 that stays forever thrilling.