Following the announcement of a string of ‘Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello’ UK dates last year, Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton have added eight new dates across the UK and EU due to huge demand. The new dates see the band play shows in Sweden, Norway, Germany and UK including a performance at Brighton Dome Concert Hall.
Kicking off at Science Village Hall in Lund, Sweden on June 5th, the run of thirteen shows includes two dates in London at Royal Albert Hall on June 15th and a newly announced date at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on June 20th. Pre-sale tickets for the additional dates will begin February 4th at 10am local time with general sale February 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 NEW DATE
Sun 7th Stockholm, Cirkus NEW DATE
Mon 8th Oslo, Konserthus NEW DATE
Wed 10th Hamburg, Laeiszhalle NEW DATE
Fri 12th Brighton, Brighton Dome NEW DATE
Sat 13th Birmingham, Symphony Hall
Mon 15th London, Royal Albert Hall *
Sat 20th London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire NEW DATE
Fri 26th Portsmouth, Guildhall
July
Mon 6th Newcastle, O2 City Hall
Thu 9th Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle NEW DATE
Sat 11th Werchter, TW Classic **
Sun 12th Umbria, Umbria Jazz ** NEW DATE
* A limited number of choir seats now available
** 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.”
The band were also previously announced as special guests to Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts across a run of UK and European dates, as part of the ‘Love Earth World Tour’. Kicking off on June 17th in Cornwall, the summer run will include headlining concerts and festival appearances across France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and The Netherlands. Tickets are available HERE.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters play the following dates with Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts:
June
Wed 17th Cornwall, Eden Project
Fri 19th Manchester, Heaton Park
Mon 22nd Nimes, Festival de Nimes
Wed 24th Nancy, Nancy Open Air
Sat 27th Chelmsford, State Fayre, Hylands Park
Mon 29th Glasgow, Glasgow Summer Sessions, Bellahouston Park
July
Wed 1st Cork, Virgin Media Park
Fri 3rd Oxfordshire, Blenheim Palace Festival
Sun 5th Cardiff, Blackweir Fields
Wed 8th Weert, Evenemententerrein Weert-Noord
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.
