02.23.2022
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR WIDELY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, ‘THE BOY NAMED IF’, WITH A SUMMER TOUR; NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS TO OPEN SELECT SHOWS
Elvis Costello & The Imposters celebrate the release of their widely
acclaimed new album, ‘The Boy Named If’, with summer tour titled “The
Boy Named If & Other Favourites.” The first announced date is in Huber
Heights, OH on August 6th and the tour closes in Las Vegas, NV on
September 3rd. Costello will also return to Massey Hall, Toronto,
visiting New York City, Wolf Trap, Denver, Anaheim and many other cities
near you with more dates to be announced. Select cities will also
include an opening set by Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, the first time
since 1989 that the pair have toured together.
Costello and his band, The Imposters – Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and
Davey Faragher – will once again be joined on stage by Texas guitarist,
Charlie Sexton, who also played the twenty-two date, “Hello Again” tour
in October 2021, when six of the then unreleased songs, now heard on
‘The Boy Named If’, were performed for the very first time to incredible
audience reactions. In the OC Register, Peter Larsen wrote that “over
the course of 26 songs and nearly two-and-a-half hours, Elvis Costello
and the Imposters delivered a terrific night that time-traveled across
Costello’s songbook, past, present, and future.”
The Imposters have been Costello’s bandmates for the last twenty years
or as Costello put it recently, “Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve and I have
been spinning around like your favorite 45rpm for forty-five years and
let’s be clear, Davey Faragher isn’t anyone’s deputy. The Attractions
could have no more made ‘The Boy Named If’ than we have any desire to
time travel back to the 1970s. This is happening right now in 2022, we
are coming at you, big as life and twice as ugly.”
Select cities will include an opening set by Nick Lowe & Los
Straitjackets.
Costello first met Nick Lowe in a pub opposite The Cavern in Liverpool
in 1972 at a time when the then “D.P. MacManus” and his partner Allan
Mayes – as the duo “Rusty” – were performing many of the songs Lowe had
written for the band Brinsley Schwarz.
By 1976, Nick Lowe was house producer and recording artist at Stiff
Records – a small independent label in London. The newly named “Elvis
Costello” was their first signing.
Lowe went on to produce Elvis’ debut album, ‘My Aim Is True’, ‘This
Year’s Model’, ‘Armed Forces’, ‘Get Happy’ and ‘Trust’ in just four
years, during which Rockpile (with both Lowe and Dave Edmunds) were part
of a U.S. package tour playing between Mink Deville and Elvis Costello
and the Attractions.
Lowe returned to the studio for E.C. and the Attractions last album of
the 80s, ‘Blood & Chocolate’ before playing bass on “Hurry Down Doomsday
(The Bugs Are Taking Over)” in 1990 and then on five tracks of the 1993
album, ‘Brutal Youth.’
Nick Lowe’s songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Tommy McLain, Sir
Rod Stewart, Engelbert Humperdinck and Solomon Burke. His song “(What’s
So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love & Understanding”, first recorded by the
Brinsleys in 1974, covered by Costello in 1978 and sung by Curtis
Stigers on one of biggest selling movie soundtrack albums of all-time,
‘The Bodyguard.’
Aside from his work as producer of The Damned, Graham Parker and The
Rumour and John Hiatt, Nick Lowe’s albums range from 1978’s, ‘Jesus Of
Cool’, ‘Labour Of Lust’ and ‘Rose Of England’ through his work with
Rockpile and Little Village to his extraordinary trio of ballad albums:
‘The Impossible Bird’, ‘Dig My Mood’ and ‘The Convincer’. Recent years
have seen Nick Lowe work in the studio and on the stage with the rocking
Los Straitjackets, as well as a solo balladeer..
Following her popular guest vocalist appearance with Costello on “My
Most Beautiful Mistake”, Nicole Atkins will open the shows in Huber
Heights and Buffalo. Nicole’s latest release is “Memphis Ice” on Single
Lock Records.
‘The Boy Named If’ was released by EMI – in the U.K. (and The Rest Of
The World) and Capitol Records – in the U.S and Canada, on January 14th
to rave reviews in publications right across the globe and in the U.S.
from the New York Times to Pitchfork. The Sunday Times in London made
the album “The Record Of The Week”, declaring the record, “Worthy Of
Bowie.”
Listen to the album here: https://elviscostello.lnk.to/TBNIPR
“Songs that kick hard and deep. It’s anything but quiet … the
Imposters sound gleefully, brutally unified.” – The New York Times (Jon
Pareles Critic’s Pick)
“Electrifying…A deeply thoughtful blast of rock ‘n’
roll”- People (Jordan Runtaugh)
Tickets go on sale Friday, February 18th at 10am local time. Go
to elviscostello.com
TOUR DATES – (More dates to be announced)
August 6 – Huber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center at The Heights^
August 8 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall*
August 9 – Buffalo, NY @ Artpark Amphitheater^
August 11 – New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17*
August 12 – Bensalem, PA @ Xcite Center at Parx Casino
August 13 – Ledyard, CT @ Foxwoods Resort Casino
August 15 – Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion*
August 16 – Northampton, MA @ The Pines Theater*
August 18 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap*
August 23 – Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion*
August 25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater*
August 28 – Thousand Oaks, CA @ Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza*
August 30 – Anaheim, CA @ City National Grove of Anaheim*
September 2 – Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre*
September 3 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels*
^ = Nicole Atkins opening
* = Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets opening