He’s a music legend and a writer of glorious songs – and Elvis Costello will play York this summer.
A date at the York Barbican has been added to the Elvis Costello & The Imposters tour, and tickets go on sale soon.
The evening, on Wednesday 17 June, will also feature guitarist Charlie Sexton and special guest Chris Difford, founder member of Squeeze.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 6 March. You can get them via the Barbican website here (contains affiliate links)
The Imposters are Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher and they are joined once again by guitarist Charlie Sexton.
The show will feature Costello’s early songs 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.”
