ELVIS COSTELLO ADDS ADDITIONAL UK & EU DATES TO RADIO SOUL!: THE EARLY SONGS OF ELVIS COSTELLO TOUR
ELVIS COSTELLO ADDS ADDITIONAL UK & EU DATES TO RADIO SOUL!: THE EARLY SONGS OF ELVIS COSTELLO TOUR
PERFORMED BY ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS WITH CHARLIE SEXTON
PLAYS LONDON’S ROYAL ALBERT HALL JUNE 15TH AND SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE ON JUNE 20TH
Due to huge demand Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton have added further dates to their forthcoming Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello UK and EU tour. The new dates see the band play shows in York, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Paris and Dublin.
Kicking off at Science Village Hall in Lund, Sweden on June 5th, the run of shows includes two dates in London, including a sold-out date at Royal Albert Hall on June 15th and a show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on June 20th. Elvis will also play a string of festivals throughout the UK and EU this summer. Pre-sale tickets for the additional dates will begin March 4th at 10am local time with general sale March 6th at 10am local time from HERE.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton play the following dates:
June
Fri 5th Lund, Science Village Hall
Sun 7th Stockholm, Cirkus
Mon 8th Oslo, Konserthus
Wed 10th Hamburg, Laeiszhalle
Fri 12th Brighton, Brighton Dome ^
Sat 13th Birmingham, Symphony Hall ^
Mon 15th London, Royal Albert Hall
Wed 17th York, York Barbican
Thu 18th East Molesey, Hampton Court Palace Festival
Sat 20th London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire ^
Sun 21st Liverpool, Liverpool Olympia
Tue 23rd Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
Wed 24th Manchester, Palace Theater
Fri 26th Portsmouth, Guildhall ^
Sat 27th Chelmsford, State Fayre **
July
Thu 2nd Werchter, Rock Werchter **
Fri 3rd Paris, L’Olympia
Sun 5th Dublin, The Iveagh Gardens
Mon 6th Newcastle, O2 City Hall
Thu 9th Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
Sun 12th Perugia, Umbra Jazz **
^ With Special Guest Chris Difford
** Festival appearance
The Imposters are Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher and they are joined once again by guitarist Charlie Sexton.
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Blood & Chocolate in 1986, along with other surprises. Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Costello’s most renowned compositions from ‘Watching The Detectives’ to ‘I Want You’, along with songs that have remained in The Imposters’ live repertoire over the last 20 or more years, including ‘Alison,’ ‘Man Out Of Time’ and ‘Brilliant Mistake.’
“For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to fifty years ago. Among them, ‘Radio Soul,’ the first draft of what eventually became ‘Radio Radio,” Elvis said of the run. “You can expect the unexpected and the faithful in equal measure. Don’t forget this show is “Performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters”, an ensemble which includes three people who first recorded this music and two more who bring something entirely new. They are nobody’s tribute band. The Imposters are a living, breathing, swooning, swinging, kicking and screaming rock and roll band who can turn their hands to a pretty ballad when the opportunity arises.”
These dates follow the autumn 2024 release of King Of America & Other Realms – a 6-CD anthology that tells the story of that 1986 album and the music to which it led. The King Of America songs are expected to be heard in the mid-show interlude, along with songs written as long ago as 1975 and even some of those “pretty ballads” that Costello has promised.