Stop Making Sense Live

A concert under the title Stop Making Sense, which shares its name with the 1984 Talking Heads concert film, taking place at Electric Bristol in Bristol.

Stop Making Sense shares its title with the 1984 concert film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film records Talking Heads, the band formed in 1975 at the Rhode Island School of Design, performing at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles in December 1983. Its stage show opened with David Byrne alone, playing Psycho Killer on a boombox, before other members joined him on stage.

The film draws on songs from Remain in Light (1980), the album whose rhythms drew on funk and Afrobeat, and it is the best-known filmed document of the band's live work from that period.

The evening takes place at Electric Bristol, a venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie music.