Elvis Costello & The Imposters – with their particular visitor Charlie Sexton – are proud to announce ‘We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday’ – a 23 date tour produced by Live Nation. Commencing on June 7 in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, the tour consists of stops at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and the Beacon Theatre in NYC. Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets will open the entire coast-to-coast dates.
The common on sale for We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday will start Friday March 31, 2023 at 10am Local by way of Elvis Costello’s official web site.
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Since returning to the street in the summertime of 2021, within the guise of ‘Elvis Costello & The Layabouts,’ E.C. and The Imposters – Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher and augmented by Texas guitarist Charlie Sexton – have undertaken three excursions within the United States and one within the U.Ok. and northern Europe.
Most just lately Costello performed the highly-acclaimed “100 Songs and More”, a ten-night engagement on the Gramercy Theater, NYC at which he performed greater than 230 authentic songs, repeating solely three titles. The reveals that started in solo efficiency went on to spring nightly surprises, involving every part from an ensemble together with musical noticed, fiddle and Uillean pipes to an eight-person Broadway vocal refrain led by M.D. Rob Mathes, duets with jazz bassist, Endea Owens and, from the midway level, performing with Steve Nieve on the piano earlier than including two completely different horn sections, led by trumpet participant and arranger, Michael Leonhart. The stand included visitor vocal appearances by Rebecca Lovell, La Marisol and JSWISS and concluded with a greater than three hour finale efficiency with the complete band line-up.
The ‘We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday’ dates will comply with two headlining appearances on the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia, three nights on the Sydney Opera House and a present on the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. In May, Costello and Steve Nieve will return to the live performance corridor stage collectively for the primary time in twenty years, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Further dates are deliberate for later within the 12 months and will likely be introduced shortly.
Since 2018, Costello has issued ten document releases; the newest being, The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, a 4-CD, 2-LP box-set celebrating his almost 30-year songwriting collaboration with Burt Bacharach. It was named Best New Reissue by Pitchfork. The Grammy Award-winning Elvis Costello and The Imposters album Look Now of 2018 was adopted by the companion E.P., ‘Purse’ whereas a French language E.P., ‘La Face Du Pendule à Coucou’ adopted the album, Hey Clockface – recorded in Helsinki and, Paris.
Together with co-producer, Sebastian Krys, Costello additionally accomplished work on Spanish Model – an adaptation of 1978’s album This Year’s Model with new vocals recorded in lyrical adaptation and translation with a forged of Latin music performers. In 2022, the newest Elvis Costello and The Imposters launch, The Boy Named If, was adopted into the shops by The Resurrection of Rust, – the recording debut after fifty years of Rusty – the duo of Liverpool-based singer-songwriters, D.P. MacManus and Allan Mayes, accompanied by The Imposters for brand new recordings of their 1972 repertoire together with two Nick Lowe compositions from his days within the band Brinsley Schwarz.
Preparations for a return to the stage in 2021 (and once more in the summertime of 2022) led to the discharge of The Boy Named If (Alive at Memphis Magnetic), which discovered the band operating down dwell preparations of their new songs together with the Jagger/Richards music, “Out Of Time” and Nick Lowe’s 1976 Dutch launch, “Truth Drug”. The assortment was accomplished by a model new model of “Magnificent Hurt” by the Japanese duo, chelmico.
D.P. MacManus and Lowe first met in a public home, reverse The Cavern in Liverpool in 1972. Lowe went on to supply “Elvis Costello’s” largely ignored Stiff Records debut 45rpm, “Less Than Zero” and the next failed singles releases, “Alison” and “Red Shoes”, though the identical songs obtained extra consideration upon the discharge of his debut album, My Aim Is True in July ’77 within the U.Ok. and in a Columbia Records launch late in the identical 12 months.
Between late 1977 and 1980, Nick Lowe produced the Elvis Costello and the Attractions albums, This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy and Trust. In the Spring of 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Mink Deville had been joined by Rockpile – that includes each Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds – and undertook a three-month bundle tour of the United States.
At this time, Costello’s model of a music from the final Brinsley Schwarz album, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love & Understanding” noticed its first launch because the B-Side of the Radar Records single, “American Squirm”, credited to “Nick Lowe And His Sound” with the producer seen on the image sleeve seated on the mixing board of Eden Studios in tinted horn-rims, cradling a Jazzmaster guitar with a newly inlaid fretboard studying, “Costello”. The monitor was subsequently added to the U.S. version of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, third album, Armed Forces.
In 1984, Costello took the producer’s chair for the primary and solely time at a Nick Lowe session for the Hi Records-informed single, “L.A.F.S.” which was additionally included on the F-Beat Records album, “Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit”. In the identical 12 months, the duo recorded the Burt Bacharach/Mack David/Barney Williams music, “Baby It’s You” at Lowe’s Am-Pro Studios in Shepherd’s Bush, London, additionally the situation for a Boxing Day (1979) recording session with Lowe’s then father-in-law, Johnny Cash which yielded the hit launch, “Without Love” and the Cash/Costello duet, “We Ought To Be Ashamed.”
In 1986, Nick Lowe produced the Attractions’ final full album, Blood & Chocolate at Olympic Studios, earlier than returning for a bass-playing cameo on “Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)” for the 1990 Warner Brothers album, Mighty Like A Rose. In 1993 Nick Lowe (or Costello himself) performed bass on 9 of the songs on the album, Brutal Youth, which some mistook for a full Attractions reunion. Prior to the upcoming ‘Summer Holiday’ tour, they most just lately carried out collectively final summer time on ]The Boy Named If & Other Favorites’ tour.
“We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday” Tour Dates:
Wed Jun 07 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Fri Jun 09 – Woodinville, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery
Sat Jun 10 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Sun Jun 11 – Reno, NV – Silver Legacy Casino Reno
Tue Jun 13 – San Francisco, CA – Golden Gate Theatre
Wed Jun 14 – Ventura, CA – Ventura Theatre
Fri Jun 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
Sat Jun 17 – Las Vegas, NV – Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort
Sun Jun 18 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
Tue Jun 20 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Wed Jun 21 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha
Fri Jun 23 – Hammond, IN – The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
Sat Jun 24 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest*
Sun Jun 25 – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center
Wed Jun 28 – Rochester Hills, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
Sat Jul 01 – Lenox, MA – Tanglewood*
Sun Jul 02 – Hampton Beach, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Wed Jul 05 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
Thu Jul 06 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sat Jul 08 – Syracuse, NY – Landmark Theatre
Sun Jul 09 – Baltimore, MD – The Lyric
Wed Jul 12 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
Fri Jul 14 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia.
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