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Elvis Costello will dig into the prolific early years of his profession on his 2025 North American tour.
“Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello” will discover Costello crafting a set checklist primarily out of fabric from his first 11 albums, 1978’s My Aim Is True to 1986’s Blood & Chocolate (plus a couple of extra surprises). The tour takes its identify from the early Costello tune that later grew to become his basic 1978 hit, “Radio Radio.”
The tour will kick off June 12 on the Woodland Zoo Park Amphitheatre in Seattle and wrap July 12 on the Fillmore Miami Beach in Miami Beach. Tickets will go on sale Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. native time, with an artist presale slated to start out Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. native time. Full info is on the market on Costello’s web site.
On the trek, Costello might be joined by his backing band, the Imposters, led by guitarist Charlie Sexton, and that includes Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher.
Speaking of the tour, Costello stated, “For any songwriter, it must be a praise if individuals wish to hear songs written as much as 50 years in the past.”
He added: “You can count on the sudden and the devoted in equal measure. Don’t overlook this present is ‘Performed by Elvis Costello & the Imposters,’ an ensemble which incorporates three individuals who first recorded this music and two extra who deliver one thing completely new. They are no person’s tribute band. The Imposters are a dwelling, respiration, swooning, swinging, kicking and screaming rock & roll band who can flip their palms to a reasonably ballad when the chance arises.”
But Costello, who’s now in his seventies, additionally urged that this tour could be the start of a sort of finish. He stated that the Imposter’s shut out the gig with an encore rendition of certainly one of their latest songs — “Farewell, OK” off 2022’s The Boy Named If — “it in all probability means these ‘Early Songs’ could have been carried out in your metropolis for the final time.”
Costello continued, “I don’t wish to return, I wish to deliver these songs into the current day, as soon as extra, within the occasion they’re ever pushed out of the best way by the subsequent quantity that I write. You may say time is working out however solely time will inform. Don’t be late, the band hits at eight.”
Elvis Costello and the Imposters 2025 Tour Dates
June 12 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
June 13 – Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium
June 15 – Reno, NV @ (Venue TBA)
June 17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
June 19 – Wheatland, CA @ Hard Rock Live Sacramento
June 21 – Los Angeles @ Orpheum
June 24 – San Diego, CA @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay
June 26 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort
June 28 – Beaver Creek, CO @ Vilar Performing Arts Center
June 29 – Denver, CO @ Bellco Theatre
July 1 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
July 3 – St. Louis, MO @ The Factory
July 5 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
July 7 – Greenville, SC @ The Peace Center Concert Hall
July 9 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Mahaffey Theater in Duke Energy Center for the Arts
July 10 – Fort Myers, FL @ Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
July 12 – Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theatre
