The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour is a 2008–2009 promotional concert tour of music co-written by David Byrne and Brian Eno with performances by Byrne. In addition to being a retrospective of the duo's collaborations, the tour promoted the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The musical performers were accompanied by dancers who were choreographed to several songs. Performances were held across the world and later documented on a tour EP and a concert film.

Byrne assembled a band to tour for the album, performing music throughout the latter half of 2008 and early 2009 across North America, Europe, and Australasia. He hired more singers than he had on previous tours to reproduce the complex vocal harmonies of the album^[1] and was inspired to bring along dancers after seeing Sufjan Stevens promote the album Illinois^[2] as well as the Japanese films Funky Forest and The Taste of Tea.^[3] Byrne was initially uninvolved in the choreography, but made more suggestions as the tour went on and after he saw a live performance by Deerhoof that incorporated dancing with instruments.^[4] He began booking tour dates before the album was completed^[5] and continued writing his book The Bicycle Diaries throughout the tour.^[6]

In planning the set lists for the tour, Byrne initially considered only promoting this album,^[7] but decided to assemble songs this album as well as their previous collaborations,^[8] including the Talking Heads albums More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light and Byrne's The Catherine Wheel soundtrack. By playing music from all of their collaborations, Byrne hoped to "draw a line linking this new material with what we did 30 years ago"^[9] with the goal of clarifying the connection between all of the duo's previous work.^[5] In reviewing the music, he found that "[t]here might be more continuity than I imagined, which I hope is going to work in my favor."^[10] Although he was invited to participate^[11] and early reports indicated that would, Eno chose to not tour,^[12] letting Byrne decide how to present this music live.^[13]

A month after releasing the album, Byrne was skeptical of market saturation, claiming "I sense that a lot of people don't know we have a record out" and hoped to counterbalance that ignorance with this tour. At the same time, the main goal of the performance was not promotion but the show itself.^[14]

There were only a handful of dates that included other performers and no opening act was scheduled throughout the tour.^[27] Ani DiFranco opened on June 2, 2009, and Byrne played a double bill with Marianne Faithfull opening on July 30, 2009. The Extra Action Marching Band guested on "Burning Down the House" and "Road to Nowhere" on the October 7, 2008, and June 23, 24, and 26, 2009, dates. DeVotchka opened on some 2009 dates.^[28]

The tour was expected to run six months into spring 2009,^[29] including dates in Australia and Europe^[30] before finally concluding after 11 months with five legs worldwide:^[17]

†Date scheduled and later canceled

Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour – David Byrne on Tour: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno is a 2009 live EP released by David Byrne recorded during the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour. The album is composed of live recordings of three songs from the 2009 Byrne/Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and one—"Help Me Somebody"—from their 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

On February 11, 2010, it was announced that a documentary film entitled Ride, Rise, Roar chronicling the tour would be released to the 2010 film festival circuit.^[34] The debut with be at South by Southwest on March 15, 2010,^[35] where it will be screened in all three media categories—film, interactive, and music.^[36] The film was the feature-length directorial debut by Hillman Curtis^[37]—who also worked on the short film that accompanies the deluxe edition of Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.^[38] The film includes concert footage, footage of the planning and rehearsals for the tour, and exclusive interviews with Byrne, Eno, and the supporting musicians and dancers.^[39] Curtis was initially contacted to document the tour with no clear objective for the film and decided to focus on the collaboration between Byrne and his tour mates as well as the unique challenge of combining popular music with modern dance.^[40]

While on tour, dancer Lily Baldwin started receiving letters from a stalker following the show in Europe. She turned her experience into the 2017 film Glass and began a website offering resources for those who are being stalked.^[41]

• Ballet
• Modern dance