Post your questions for David Byrne

As the former Talking Heads frontman releases his concert film American Utopia in 4K, he will join us to answer your questions

The big suit is what you think of first when you think of David Byrne on stage – but the Talking Heads frontman has kept his pedigree as a live performer at an astonishingly high level right into his mid-70s. As he prepares a 4K cinema version of his acclaimed American Utopia tour, he’ll be joining us to answer your questions.

Born in Scotland but later settling in the US with his family, Byrne brought erudition, passion and puckish wit to Talking Heads, who formed amid the astonishing creative maelstrom of 1970s New York. Across eight studio albums – including hits such as Once in a Lifetime and Burning Down the House – they created a very particular type of funky, spry new wave, which arguably found its finest form in the live concert film Stop Making Sense (with that big suit, a floor lamp as a dance partner, and more).

Byrne had already made projects outside the band including the celebrated Brian Eno collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and his brilliant interstitial music for Robert Wilson’s 1985 opera The Civil Wars. But his solo career really began in earnest after Talking Heads split in 1991, with Byrne embracing half a planet’s worth of music on solo LPs which drew from Latin, African and European styles. There were more collaborations – whole albums with St Vincent and Fatboy Slim, and a UK No 2 hit with Lazy by dance producers X-Press 2 – and his 2018 album American Utopia was a big hit, reaching No 3 in the US.

It prompted one of the most celebrated concert tours of the last decade, ending up with a run on Broadway that was filmed by Spike Lee. That film is now being released in a 4K version for one night in cinemas on 5 August, and to mark the release, Byrne is joining us to answer your questions about it along with topics right across his career (he also released his most recent album, Who Is the Sky?, in September 2025). Post them in the comments before noon GMT on Wednesday, and we’ll publish his answers in the 10 July edition of the Film & Music section as well as online.