For Immediate Release May 6, 2009
DAVID BYRNE TO RELEASE
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN ON THIS TOUR

DAVID BYRNE ON TOUR:
SONGS OF DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO

ALL PROFITS FROM DIGITAL EP TO BENEFIT
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

David Byrne will release a 4-song digital EP titled Everything That Happens Will Happen On This Tour, David Byrne On Tour: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno. All net profits from the sales of the EP will benefit Amnesty International. Featuring live recordings from Byrne’s current year-long tour, “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno,” the digital-only EP will be available exclusively via everythingthathappens.com beginning on May 11 before becoming available via iTunes, Amazon and other online outlets in June. Executive director Larry Cox says, “Amnesty International is honored to have worked with David and Brian in the past and applaud their support of human rights. As partners and fans, we are thrilled to be the recipient of the net profit sales of this EP.”
All four tracks on Everything That Happens Will Happen On This Tour hail from Byrne’s critically-acclaimed self-released new album with collaborator Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The EP features live performances of the songs “One Fine Day,” “My Big Nurse,” “I Feel My Stuff” and the single “Strange Overtones.”
Everything That Happens is Byrne and Eno’s first record as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The album was featured on a number of 2008 year-end best-of lists including NPR, Rolling Stone (calling the album, “The strongest song set either of these visionaries has released in ages,”) and Pitchfork Media (“Some of the best songwriting from Byrne in a long time”). Upon the album’s release CBS Sunday Morning stated that “Byrne is still creating provocative works for the ear and the eye,” and the Los Angeles Times called the record “an uplifting experience.”
Byrne’s “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno” tour continues through the summer of 2009 in North America and Europe with stops at Bonnaroo (where Byrne will be the first artist to curate a stage at the festival), the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre and a free show at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell.
Known as the force behind Talking Heads and later as creator of the highly-regarded record-label Luaka Bop, David Byrne also works as a photographer, film director, author, and solo artist; he has published and exhibited visual art for more than a decade. In addition to Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, recent works include Playing the Building, an audience-interactive installation at the Battery Maritime Building in New York City, Big Love: Hymnal, music from the second season of the HBO series, and a series of unique bike racks designed by Byrne and installed throughout New York City in collaboration with PaceWildenstein Gallery and the NYC Department of Transportation.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied