12.10.2024
Elvis Costello Announces New Tour: “Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello,” Performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton
Elvis Costello has announced 2025 tour dates for “Radio Soul!: The Early
Songs of Elvis Costello.” The tour kicks off in Seattle, WA, on June
12th, and spans the United States with stops in Portland, Reno, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, before closing in Miami Beach on July
12th.
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.”
Asked about the surprising theme of this tour, Costello responded:
“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.”
Regarding the decision to sharpen the focus on a specific period of
time, Costello reminded us:
“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.”
The Imposters are Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher and they
are joined once again by guitarist, Charlie Sexton.
Recent performances of Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie
Sexton received widespread acclaim:
“Costello is proving he’s an indefatigable force of nature, and one of
the greatest showmen in the history of rock ’n’ roll. We’re lucky to
bear witness.” – Nashville Scene, 1/30/24
“Elvis Costello and the Imposters laid the crowd to waste.” – Riverfront
Times, 1/30/24
Costello concluded:
“If there is an encore and we play, “Farewell, OK”, it probably means
some of those “Early Songs” will have been performed in your city for
the very last time. I don’t want to go back, I want to bring these songs
into the present day, once more, in the event they are ever pushed out
of the way by the next number that I write.
You could say time is running out but only time will tell.
Don’t be late, the band hits at eight.”
This tour follows the recent 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.
Tickets go on sale at ElvisCostello.com:
Artist Presale: Wednesday, December 11 at 10:00am local
General On sale: Friday, December 13 at 10am local
“Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello” Tour Dates June/July 2025
June 12, 2025 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
June 13, 2025 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium
June 15, 2025 Reno, NV Venue TBA
June 17, 2025 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
June 19, 2025 Wheatland, CA Hard Rock Live Sacramento
June 21, 2025 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum
June 24, 2025 San Diego, CA Humphreys Concerts by the bay
June 26, 2025 Las Vegas, NV Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort
June 28, 2025 Beaver Creek, CO Vilar Performing Arts Center
June 29, 2025 Denver, CO Bellco Theatre
July 1, 2025 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
July 3, 2025 St. Louis, MO The Factory
July 5, 2025 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
July 7, 2025 Greenville, SC The Peace Center Concert Hall
July 9, 2025 St. Petersburg, FL Duke Energy Center for the Arts
July 10, 2025 Fort Myers, FL Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
July 12, 2025 Miami Beach, FL Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theatre