Elvis Costello will be touring the Southern U.S. to start the new year. On Tuesday, Costello announced that he’ll be heading on the road with the Imposters, including blues guitarist Charlie Sexton for the run of shows.
The tour will see the group — also comprising Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher — commence their tour on Jan. 10 in Tallahassee, before making stops in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.
Artist presale tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, before opening to the general public on Friday at 10 a.
The tour will see the group — also comprising Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher — commence their tour on Jan. 10 in Tallahassee, before making stops in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.
Artist presale tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, before opening to the general public on Friday at 10 a.
- 9/26/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello & The Imposters are heading back on the road in 2024 with the “7-0-7 Tour,” a run of North American shows.
In a rare move for most touring acts, the “7-0-7 Tour” prioritizes the southern United States, with all 15 shows taking place across Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. Beginning January 10th in Tallahassee, the trek takes Costello and co. to Miami Beach, New Orleans, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, and more before wrapping up February 2nd in Wilmington.
In addition to the usual Imposters — Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher — Costello will once again be joined by Texas blues veteran Charlie Sexton.
A Live Nation pre-sale is set for Thursday, September 28th, ahead of a public on-sale on Friday, September 29th via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.
In a rare move for most touring acts, the “7-0-7 Tour” prioritizes the southern United States, with all 15 shows taking place across Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. Beginning January 10th in Tallahassee, the trek takes Costello and co. to Miami Beach, New Orleans, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, and more before wrapping up February 2nd in Wilmington.
In addition to the usual Imposters — Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher — Costello will once again be joined by Texas blues veteran Charlie Sexton.
A Live Nation pre-sale is set for Thursday, September 28th, ahead of a public on-sale on Friday, September 29th via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.
- 9/26/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Elvis Costello & The Imposters have announced “We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday,” a new 2023 North American tour taking place this June and July.
Beginning June 7th in Vancouver and wrapping up July 14th in Philadelphia, Costello’s show features regular Imposters Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher, as well as blues guitarist Charlie Sexton. Nick Lowe, Costello’s longtime collaborator, opens each of the 23 tour dates with his band Los Straitjackets. The tour comes after upcoming Costello dates in Australia and Iceland, and is followed by September shows across Europe. Check out the artist’s full 2023 itinerary below.
Tickets to “We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday” go on sale Friday, March 31st at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring one day earlier on Thursday, March 30th (use access code Opener).
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub,...
Beginning June 7th in Vancouver and wrapping up July 14th in Philadelphia, Costello’s show features regular Imposters Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher, as well as blues guitarist Charlie Sexton. Nick Lowe, Costello’s longtime collaborator, opens each of the 23 tour dates with his band Los Straitjackets. The tour comes after upcoming Costello dates in Australia and Iceland, and is followed by September shows across Europe. Check out the artist’s full 2023 itinerary below.
Tickets to “We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday” go on sale Friday, March 31st at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring one day earlier on Thursday, March 30th (use access code Opener).
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Billy Gibbons linked up with Elvis Costello to play a handful of Zz Top classics during a special charity gig in Nashville Sunday night, March 12.
Gibbons and Costello played a slew of hits, including Zz Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” “Thunderbird,” and “La Grange.” Gibbons also jammed on Sam & Dave’s “I Thank You,” Robert Johnson’s “Sweet Home Chicago,” and Costello’s regular encore song, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.”
Video of “Jesus Just Left Chicago” (via Ultimate Classic Rock) shows Gibbons,...
Gibbons and Costello played a slew of hits, including Zz Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” “Thunderbird,” and “La Grange.” Gibbons also jammed on Sam & Dave’s “I Thank You,” Robert Johnson’s “Sweet Home Chicago,” and Costello’s regular encore song, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.”
Video of “Jesus Just Left Chicago” (via Ultimate Classic Rock) shows Gibbons,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello paid tribute to his longtime friend and collaborator Burt Bacharach Thursday night following news of the legendary songwriter’s death at the age of 94.
Bacharach’s death was announced just hours before Costello took the stage for the first of a 10-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theater, and while the evening’s program was set to focus on the music he wrote in 1977 and earlier, Costello deviated from the setlist in order to remember the pop composer with whom he recorded 1998’s Painted From Memory.
“It...
Bacharach’s death was announced just hours before Costello took the stage for the first of a 10-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theater, and while the evening’s program was set to focus on the music he wrote in 1977 and earlier, Costello deviated from the setlist in order to remember the pop composer with whom he recorded 1998’s Painted From Memory.
“It...
- 2/10/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello and the Imposters are hitting the road this summer in support of their new album The Boy Named If. Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets are special opening guests at select shows; it’s the first time longtime collaborators Costello and Lowe have toured together since 1989. Nicole Atkins will serve as an opener in Huber Heights, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York. Tickets go on sale Friday.
“Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve, and I have been spinning around like your favorite 45rpm for 45 years, and let’s be clear, Davey Faragher isn’t anyone’s deputy,...
“Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve, and I have been spinning around like your favorite 45rpm for 45 years, and let’s be clear, Davey Faragher isn’t anyone’s deputy,...
- 2/15/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
A new documentary series will explore Elvis Costello’s upcoming album Spanish Model, a project in which he and producer Sebastian Krys invited artists from across the Spanish-speaking world to adapt the songs from Costello’s seminal 1978 LP This Year’s Model in an entirely new language.
The artists, who include Fito Páez, Juanes, La Marisoul, Luis Fonsi, Fuego, and Jorge Drexler, helped recreate the tracks by performing over the original master recordings — an experience they’ll discuss in the documentary.
A short trailer offers a glimpse into the series,...
The artists, who include Fito Páez, Juanes, La Marisoul, Luis Fonsi, Fuego, and Jorge Drexler, helped recreate the tracks by performing over the original master recordings — an experience they’ll discuss in the documentary.
A short trailer offers a glimpse into the series,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello has dropped La Face de Pendule à Coucou EP, which features six Francophone remix versions of three songs from his 2020 Hey Clockface LP. The EP was released digitally at midnight on Thursday, with a vinyl version arriving this summer via Concord Records. Along with the EP release, Costello has shared the lyric video for “Hetty O’Hara Confidentiel.”
One of two French renditions of Hey Clockface‘s “Hetty O’Hara Confidential,” the “Confidentiel” version features Etta Somatis and Ajuq (who plays drums on Hey Clockface) trading verses of...
One of two French renditions of Hey Clockface‘s “Hetty O’Hara Confidential,” the “Confidentiel” version features Etta Somatis and Ajuq (who plays drums on Hey Clockface) trading verses of...
- 3/26/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello enlisted actress Isabelle Adjani for a French-language rendition of his Hey Clockface song “Revolution #49.”
For “Revolution #49 (Parlé),” Adjani adds spoken word passages — penned by Muriel Teodori — to the instrumental opening track of Costello’s latest album.
“When [the Attractions’] Steve Nieve’s partner, Muriel Teodori, told me that she thought Isabelle Adjani might consider reading the French adaptation that Muriel had made of my original text, I assumed that I must be dreaming”, Costello said in a statement. “What I didn’t know was Isabelle and Muriel had been friends...
For “Revolution #49 (Parlé),” Adjani adds spoken word passages — penned by Muriel Teodori — to the instrumental opening track of Costello’s latest album.
“When [the Attractions’] Steve Nieve’s partner, Muriel Teodori, told me that she thought Isabelle Adjani might consider reading the French adaptation that Muriel had made of my original text, I assumed that I must be dreaming”, Costello said in a statement. “What I didn’t know was Isabelle and Muriel had been friends...
- 1/15/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
When Elvis Costello’s new album Hey Clockface dropped in late October, nobody noticed the sly Iggy and the Stooges reference in the song “No Flag.”
“[The title] should have been a clue right away,” Costello tells Iggy Pop in a new Rolling Stone Musicians on Musicians discussion. “It shared one word and one letter with a famous song of yours [‘No Fun’], but nobody spotted where it was drawing from because nobody expects me to take a cue from you.”
That cue is impossible to ignore now that Pop has recorded a French language rendition of “No Flag.
“[The title] should have been a clue right away,” Costello tells Iggy Pop in a new Rolling Stone Musicians on Musicians discussion. “It shared one word and one letter with a famous song of yours [‘No Fun’], but nobody spotted where it was drawing from because nobody expects me to take a cue from you.”
That cue is impossible to ignore now that Pop has recorded a French language rendition of “No Flag.
- 12/3/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello was less than 24 hours into his first American tour when he met Iggy Pop. It was November 1977, and the former Stooges frontman was playing at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco when a bleary-eyed Costello, fresh off a flight from London, wandered into the venue just in time to see Iggy sing “The Passenger.”
“My memory of it was I was slightly scared,” Costello tells Iggy. “At one point, you got this tiny chair and inserted yourself into it. It was kind of like if you took Marlene Dietrich...
“My memory of it was I was slightly scared,” Costello tells Iggy. “At one point, you got this tiny chair and inserted yourself into it. It was kind of like if you took Marlene Dietrich...
- 12/3/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
“Ouf!” – “Phew!” in French: the sigh of relief was the first word to appear in the inaugural clip at the opening ceremony of Lyon’s Lumière Festival, which kicked off on Saturday night as the city was put on maximum alert amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
- 10/11/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
After more than four decades, few artists switch musical gears as quickly and ebulliently as Elvis Costello; to this day, you never quite know what you’re getting when he announces a new project.
Two years ago, Costello resumed work with the Imposters — which included two former members of the Attractions — on the album Look Now. On his upcoming Hey Clockface, he again changes direction — but this time within the course of the same album.
The initial tracks released from Hey Clockface — the pent-up “No Flag,” the bump-in-the-night character study...
Two years ago, Costello resumed work with the Imposters — which included two former members of the Attractions — on the album Look Now. On his upcoming Hey Clockface, he again changes direction — but this time within the course of the same album.
The initial tracks released from Hey Clockface — the pent-up “No Flag,” the bump-in-the-night character study...
- 9/10/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
“History repeats the old conceits,” Elvis Costello sang thirty-six years ago on Imperial Bedroom, his finest hour of versatile pop mastery. But even back then, he was rarely interested in repeating himself – going from the angry, young almost-punk of 1978’s This Year’s Model to the literate, political New Wave of 1979’s Armed Forces to his “soul record” Get Happy! to the barbed pop of Trust and the country tribute Almost Blue. Or, more recently, following up 2010’s National Ransom (rock and country about the Great Recession), with 2013’s Wise Up Ghost,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Accidents will happen — but new albums won’t. That seems to have been Elvis Costello’s attitude in recent years, as his once-prolific recording career ground to a deliberate halt in favor of a determined focus on themed tours. But come October 12, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will return with “Look Now,” his first album of any kind in five years and first with his regular touring band, the Imposters, in a decade.
The unveiling of the 12-song collection’s contents coincides with the digital release of two preview tracks from the set: “Under Lime,” the album’s leadoff track, and “Unwanted Number,” a song he wrote for the 1996 Allison Anders movie “Grace of My Heart” but never committed to record until now. Both tracks are available immediately with pre-orders of “Look Now” or for streaming. “Unwanted Number” additionally has a lyric video (watch it below), for fans...
The unveiling of the 12-song collection’s contents coincides with the digital release of two preview tracks from the set: “Under Lime,” the album’s leadoff track, and “Unwanted Number,” a song he wrote for the 1996 Allison Anders movie “Grace of My Heart” but never committed to record until now. Both tracks are available immediately with pre-orders of “Look Now” or for streaming. “Unwanted Number” additionally has a lyric video (watch it below), for fans...
- 7/27/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Tonight: NBC’s “The Voice” coach Adam Levine talks about his heroism on the set while saving Christina Aguilera Later, Levine reveals what he and his fiancé Behati Prinsloo plan to dress up as for Halloween. Levine also shares the story of the worst date her ever had. Ali Wentworth tells Jay what her kids want her and husband George Stephanopoulos to be for Halloween. Steve Nieve with Elvis Costello performs. Jay Leno’S Monologue Monday, October 28, 2013 Are You All Ready For Halloween? This Is Interesting; They Say Trick-or-treating Is Expected To Decline This Year For The 10th Straight Year. Experts Say Kids Still Love Candy, They Just Hate The Walking. “Can’T You Bring The Candy In...
- 10/29/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Elvis Costello and the Roots, “Walk Us Uptown” Elvis Costello has always thrived in the company of a fierce backing group, and if anyone can match the slashing attack of the late, lamented Attractions, it's the Roots. The first taste of Wise Up Ghost, the E.C.-Roots album that arrives in September, folds a whole lot of history into its three-plus minutes — what else would you expect from a Costello-Questlove collaboration, a summit meeting of pop’s biggest nerd-connoisseurs? There's dub; there’s New Orleans funk (listen to the horns); there’s some wonderful Steve Cropper–style guitar playing; there are menacing organ lines that nod to garage rock, and to Costello’s old keyboard ninja, Steve Nieve; there’s some vaguely psychedelic clatter that you may as well just call hip-hop. The groove is a monster, but “Walk Us Uptown” isn’t just funky, it’s smart — a song calibrated for optimal punch,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Jody Rosen
- Vulture
Was it worth the wait for Wilco? The answer is on the way, guaranteed to arrive a lot sooner than the band's next scheduled visit to Denver.
One of America's finest and hardest-working alternative rock/country acts is back on the road this month, resuming their tour in support of their Grammy-nominated 2011 album, The Whole Love.
The first stop of the 2012 leg that began 10 consecutive sold-out dates was the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on January 19. For frontman Jeff Tweedy, it had a familiar, uh, smell to it.
With the emphasis on playing rock idol instead of making idle chatter, Tweedy (right) finally addressed the sellout crowd seven tunes into the lively, 26-song set.
"Hey! How's it going?" he asked, seemingly relaxed but reserved. "Is pot legal here? Sort of? Somewhat? It smells legal. It smells very legal."
The smoke signals were evident in a state where medical-marijuana dispensaries have flourished...
One of America's finest and hardest-working alternative rock/country acts is back on the road this month, resuming their tour in support of their Grammy-nominated 2011 album, The Whole Love.
The first stop of the 2012 leg that began 10 consecutive sold-out dates was the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on January 19. For frontman Jeff Tweedy, it had a familiar, uh, smell to it.
With the emphasis on playing rock idol instead of making idle chatter, Tweedy (right) finally addressed the sellout crowd seven tunes into the lively, 26-song set.
"Hey! How's it going?" he asked, seemingly relaxed but reserved. "Is pot legal here? Sort of? Somewhat? It smells legal. It smells very legal."
The smoke signals were evident in a state where medical-marijuana dispensaries have flourished...
- 1/27/2012
- by Michael Bialas
- Aol TV.
Color me interested in Wilco again. As we mentioned before, the band was to bow its first single during its very own Solid Sound festival in Massachusetts this weekend, and the track, "I Might," is a doozy. There's nothing stadium or over-the-top about it, but the simplicity makes it memorable. Tweedy doesn't go wild with the metaphors or with the dictionary, but pushes the easy melody through the chuh-chuh-chuh of guitars, fuzzy bass, and a cute glockenspiel. Mikael Jorgensen dialed in his inner-Steve Nieve circa 1978 with the keyboards. I could hum this thing. The limited-edition blue vinyl release was sold...
- 6/27/2011
- Hitfix
Photo by James O’Mara Talk show hosting has been good for Elvis Costello. Conversing deeply with heroes, peers, and upstarts under hot lights for Spectacle, Elvis Costello With has him looking invigorated and trim at 56. National Ransom, his second album in two years to have been recorded in Nashville with longtime cohort T-Bone Burnett, is a novelistic sprawl of jazz, both cocktail (“You Hung The Moon”) and gypsy (“Jimmie Standing In the Rain”); classic country-pop (“I Lost You”); and shadowy folk rock (“Dr. Watson I Presume”). Guests such as Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, Jim Lauderdale, Vince Gill, Leon Russell, and longtime Costello collaborators Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas have helped create what might be the first masterpiece of Costello’s golden age. “Woe betide all this hocus pocus,” he sneers on the headline-ripped title track, “They’re running us ragged at their first attempt/Around the time the killing...
- 10/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
When you look at Elvis Costello today, you mostly see a genial guy who produces stately pop music, is engaged in the sounds of New Orleans and discusses quirky cultural issues on his talk show. But back in the '70s, that dude was angry. The early Elvis Costello albums — especially 1978's This Year's Model, 1979's Armed Forces and 1981's Trust — are full of bile, cynicism, disenchantment and snotty tantrums. By logic, Costello's songs should have sounded as jagged as the Sex Pistols, but he was a brilliant enough musician to channel his rage through quirky melodies and R&B rhythms. To do that correctly, you need a good band behind you, and Costello debuted that band — the Attractions — live on this day in 1977.
Costello's 1977 debut My Aim is True is credited to him alone, but he was backed by an American country band called Clover who happened to be living in England.
Costello's 1977 debut My Aim is True is credited to him alone, but he was backed by an American country band called Clover who happened to be living in England.
- 7/14/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
By Roger Friedman
It seems like it should have already happened by now. Sting, the world renown rock star, is going to make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera.
He won’t be doing “Tosca” or “Aida,” though. Sting is going to bring himself and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra into the famed met for two nights — July 13 and 14– as part of his summer symphony tour. Those famous Chagalls in the front windows are going to get a taste of “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle,” and “Brand New Day” in bold new ways.
Well, nothing is new for Sting who has been in movies, on Broadway, led lute concerts, performed in sacred cathedrals, gone unplugged, plugged, you name it. He even performed in an opera in Paris written by Elvis Costello cohort Steve Nieve. Oh yeah, and he wrote a bestselling memoir.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
Sting – “Desert...
It seems like it should have already happened by now. Sting, the world renown rock star, is going to make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera.
He won’t be doing “Tosca” or “Aida,” though. Sting is going to bring himself and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra into the famed met for two nights — July 13 and 14– as part of his summer symphony tour. Those famous Chagalls in the front windows are going to get a taste of “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle,” and “Brand New Day” in bold new ways.
Well, nothing is new for Sting who has been in movies, on Broadway, led lute concerts, performed in sacred cathedrals, gone unplugged, plugged, you name it. He even performed in an opera in Paris written by Elvis Costello cohort Steve Nieve. Oh yeah, and he wrote a bestselling memoir.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
Sting – “Desert...
- 4/7/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
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