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Nick was exceptional,without equal as a songsmith and performer. 6 standing ovations with the ' Beast in me' especially requested bringing the house down ! We travelled from Manningtree in England to enjoy the show and would be thrilled to return again. Thank you open house ,the people of Northern Island and Nick Lowe . Keith and Mandi

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Nick Lowe was born 74 years ago, on Thursday, 24 March 1949 in Walton-on-Thames, UK.

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Elvis Costello & the Imposters Plot ‘We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday’ Tour

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Tour season continues for Elvis Costello and the Imposters as they plot their next stretch of shows on the road. The We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday tour is scheduled for June and July 2023, with Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets joining as special guests.

The 23-date North American tour is scheduled to begin on June 7 in Vancouver and extends through July 14 with a final show in Philadelphia. Elvis Costello and the Imposters will stop in Reno, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Omaha, Nashville, Bridgeport, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and more.

General sale for the We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday tour begins Friday, March 31 at 10 a.m. local time.

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“With Burt Bacharach, it was very different. It was predominantly music first and often one or the other of us would make the first musical statement,” Costello told Rolling Stone last year. “In some cases, I wrote a melody to which he would write the bridge. Sometimes writing every other line would come from one or the other of us once we’d got a dialogue going. But then my job would be to respond to the mood and the implication of that music, what would serve that music in a narrative. The mood of the music was very apparently melancholic and reflective, so I didn’t want to overcomplicate lyrics with lots of showy images.”

Elvis Costello & The Imposters “We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday” Tour Dates June 7 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre June 9 – Woodinville, WA @ Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery June 10 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater June 11 – Reno, NV @ Silver Legacy Casino Reno June 13 – San Francisco, CA @ Golden Gate Theatre June 14 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theatre June 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre June 17 – Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort June 18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre June 20 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion June 21 – Omaha, NE @ Steelhouse Omaha June 23 – Hammond, IN @ The Venue at Horseshoe Casino June 24 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest* June 25 – Nashville, IN @ Brown County Music Center June 28 – Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre July 1 – Lenox, MA @ Tanglewood* July 2 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom July 5 – Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater July 6 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway July 8 – Syracuse, NY @ Landmark Theatre July 9 – Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric July 12 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre July 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia

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Nick Lowe Announces November U.S. Tour Dates Featuring Los Straitjackets

In addition to their busy 2023 touring schedule, Lowe and Los Straitjackets have been recording new music this year.

Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets have announced a new string of headlining US dates kicking off November 1, 2023 in Boston, with stops in New York City, Atlanta, Franklin, TN, and more. The three-week run follows a coast-to-coast summer tour supporting Elvis Costello and the Imposters which just wrapped last month.

Reviewing those shows, The Arizona Republic called Lowe the “perfect tourmate,” adding he was “his usual charming self.” The San Diego Union Tribune concluded Lowe’s set was simply “superb.” Before the November run, Lowe will also play select solo shows in the UK and Japan. See below for a full list of newly announced dates; tickets are on sale here .

Just last week, Yep Roc released the 25th Anniversary Edition of Lowe’s acclaimed 1998 album Dig My Mood. Featuring remastered audio, the Anniversary Edition includes a limited LP pressed on blue vinyl with a bonus 10” EP on yellow vinyl.

The bonus EP includes the rare studio track, “I’ll Give You All Night to Stop,” plus four live performances recorded at Club Quattro, Tokyo, Japan over two shows in March 1998, all previously unavailable digitally or on vinyl.

The album and bonus EP are also available now at all DSPs. Featuring now-standards and live favorites such as “You Inspire Me,” and “Man That I’ve Become,” Dig My Mood is the second installment in Lowe’s acclaimed “Brentford Trilogy” (which also includes 1994’s Impossible Bird, and 2001’s The Convincer), a string of releases that came to define his “remarkable second wind” (The New York Times). AllMusic calls the songs on Dig My Mood “quietly ambitious” adding that the album “finds Lowe at his best.”

In addition to their busy 2023 touring schedule, Lowe and Los Straitjackets have been recording new music this year. Stay tuned for more news soon.

NICK LOWE TOUR DATES FEATURING LOS STRAITJACKETS

August 19 - Folk in the Park - Sutton, United Kingdom* August 26 - Open House Festival - Bangor, United Kingdom* October 4 - Billboard Live Osaka - Osaka, Japan* October 6 - Billboard Live Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan* November 1 - Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA November 2 - The Warehouse - Fairfield, CT November 4 - White Eagle Hall - Jersey City, NJ November 5 - The Bowery Ballroom - New York City, NY November 7 - The Colonial Theatre - Phoenixville, PA November 10 - Haw River Ballroom - Saxapahaw, NC November 11 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA November 12 - Franklin Theatre - Franklin, TN November 14 - Delmar Hall - St. Louis, MO November 15 - Knuckleheads - Kansas City, MO November 21 - SPACE - Evanston, IL*

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Elvis Costello and the Imposters will embark on a U.S. tour this August, joined on most of the dates by Nick Lowe , Costello’s original late ’70s/early ’80s producer and, of course, the man who knows the answer to the question “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.”

Costello and Lowe last shared a touring bill in 1989. Lowe will appear on 11 of the 15 initially announced dates, backed by Los Straitjackets, the all-instrumental band that has joined him on other recordings and live shows in recent years. At two of the concerts, the opening act will be Nicole Atkins, who sings a featured vocal part on Costello’s new album, “The Boy Named If.”

Although only 15 shows appear in the initial itinerary, a release about the tour promised “more dates to be announced.” The initial lineup of gigs is primarily concentrated on the east and west coasts with a sprinkling of Western-state dates in between. It begins Aug. 6 in Ohio at Huber Heights’ Rose Music Center at the Heights and moves on to venues including Toronto’s Massey Hall, Virginia’s Wolf Trap and New York City’s Rooftop at Pier 17.

Out west, the greater Los Angeles area will get a chance at two shows — at the Grove in Anaheim and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza — and the tour will also visit Denver, Salt Lake City and Paso Robles before concluding in Las Vegas at the Theater at Virgin Hotels on Sept. 3.

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Guitarist Charlie Sexton was announced as part of the touring lineup and seems to be at least a semi-permanent addition to Costello’s band, the Attractions. He initially joined up so Costello could have an extra instrumentalist on board when keyboard player Steve Nieve was unable to make the initial dates on a U.S. tour last year due to international COVID travel restrictions, but then he stuck around even after Nieve was in the house. Besides Nieve, the Imposters include another member of Costello’s original backing band the Attractions, drummer Pete Thomas, and a 21st century conscriptee, bassist Davey Faragher,

Lowe produced Costello’s initial five-album run that lasted from 1977’s “My Aim Is True” through 1981’s “Trust,” returning for 1986’s “Blood and Chocolate.” He also played bass on half of the 1994 album “Brutal Youth.” He is the writer of Costello’s 1979 anthem (and traditional final encore song) “Peace, Love and Understanding,” originally recorded in 1974 with Lowe’s pre-solo-career band Brinsley Schwarz, so the odds of an encore duet at these shows would seem high.

“The Boy Named If,” released in early January, has been Costello’s most widely acclaimed and embraced album of this century, in no small part due to its return to a rocking full-band sound that sometimes recalls the eras of “This Year’s Model” or “Imperial Bedroom,” after detours into other stylistic diversions like the Grammy-winning “Look Now.”

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Elvis Costello at the Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville, Wash., June 9, 2023 (Photo by Brad Auerbach, used with permission)

With the thickest, deepest, most eclectic songbook of any artist that first recorded in the 1970s, Elvis Costello rolled into Chateau Ste Michelle outside of Seattle for a return engagement on June 9, 2023. What a lovely setting for a show: very casual, intimate and comfortable.

Despite a seemingly endless choice of songs, the former computer programmer from Britain pulled heavily from his debut and sophomore albums. With Costello deftly remixing various arrangements, those who were with him from day one were rewarded with a blissful evening.

Earlier in the year, Costello commanded an epic 10 nights at New York’s Gramercy Theatre, barely repeating a song. Despite a few rusty joints, he and his crack quartet the Imposters shifted gears smoothly through the evening.

Over the decades and across 30-plus albums, Costello, born August 25, 1954, has explored myriad styles (country, string quartets, Americana, to name a few) and collaborated with master tunesmiths like Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach. He has adroitly recorded with key members of the other Elvis’ band. But at this show, Costello eschewed all that and reached into the early chapters of his songbook. Although those songs were written when he was slathered with the ‘angry young man’ label, the songs have withstood the test of time, and were delivered with a solid punch. Original members Davey Faragher (bass), Steve Nieve (keyboards) and Pete Thomas (drums) were joined by Charlie Sexton, the fierce guitarist who turbocharged Bob Dylan’s band for years.

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Costello opened with an explosive “Mystery Dance” and moved to his second album with “This Year’s Girl.” A relatively new song, 2013’s “Come the Meantimes,” slithered into a ska-inflected beat and then morphed full bore into “Rudie Can’t Fail” (pulled from the Clash’s landmark 1979 London Calling album).

Costello delivered an excellent intro about the risk of picking the “wrong” album at a record store but delicately selecting Bruce Springsteen’s first album (“a Dutch singer, right?”), then blasted into a torrid “Radio Radio.”

Costello then went back to his first album, serving up the disc-closing “Waiting For the End of the World.” He also assayed the album’s opener, “Welcome to the Working Week,” in countrified fashion. As if transporting us back to the late ’70s, he also delivered welcome versions of “Watching the Detectives,” “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea” and a blazing “Pump It Up.”

“(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace Love and Understanding” was the perfect way to complete the circle of the evening. Written by Lowe, made famous by Costello on an album produced by Lowe, the song inadvertently made Lowe very wealthy when Curtis Stigers’ version landed on The Bodyguard soundtrack.

The evening’s closing number seemed foretold, and indeed Costello delivered a tender version of “Alison.”

As only the second date on his summer tour, odds are the Costello setlist will evolve by the time it hits your town.

Nick Lowe at Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville, Wash., June 9, 2023 (Photo by Brad Auerbach, used with permission)

Opening act Lowe will likely stick to his polished set. As the ace producer behind Costello’s first five albums, Lowe is well attuned to songcraft. His evolution from scrappy new waver (“Cruel to be Kind” and “So It Goes”) to well-aged observer (“Lately I’ve Let Things Slide”) puts Lowe in rarefied territory. His enigmatic band Los Straitjackets come equipped with lucha libre masks, matching sparkly guitars and superb stage polish.

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That was the worst show I’ve ever witnessed in my entire lifetime. Worse than bad karaoke.

Elvis’s voice wasn’t great, sound mix was woeful, and Nick Lowe didn’t come back for Peace, Love and Understandin’. Greek Theater.

I stuck it out to the end of EC’s show because I knew that Nick Lowe would come back and duet on “What’s So Funny”…. then he didn’t come out. But I couldn’t blame him, because Elvis did a woeful bass-heavy version that totally downplayed the killer chord progression on guitar that MAKES the freaking song! I didn’t get EC at all this show. Here’s some advice for Elvis…..just honor the original arrangement.

Saw him in Vegas last night. The reviewer for this article must have been on crack. I’m a big Costello fan and last night I was embarrassed for him. The arrangements for his ‘classics’ were pure garbage. His solos with just piano were like cats howling. After an hour in, the aisles were steady with people leaving. We joined them. Don’t waste your money.

I would say…. When the imposters were just riffing, it was a cool vibe. But as soon as Costello joined in, the vibe was gone.

Just saw the show last night in Michigan. The 4th time I’ve seen him (three prior times were amazing) and had to leave after an hour. The Worst. Arrangements-WTF? Mix-painful and shrill with over bearing drums (and totally different mix from Nick Lowe’s whose sound was clean and crisp so EC must have had his guy working the board for him.) Performance shockingly bad (timing was off, not even in the same key at times, piano solo ended with awkward silence and then hit a single key-I think EC missed the transition). Horrific singing. And most disturbing, EC had trouble handing off the guitar to a roadie and stood there in a stupor blankly staring into the crowd motionless for what seemed an eternity and then almost fell over when handed a guitar. He is ill or was very drunk.

Elvis Costello is an artist that I’ve wanted to see for years. I attended his concert in Phoenix and was hugely disappointed. I was hesitant to see him when I looked at the setlists of some of his previous shows on this tour, and I should have followed my instincts. He could have played so many great, familiar songs like “Veronica”, “Everyday I Write the Book”, etc but the setlist left a lot to be desired. He sang a slow, dirge-like version of “Accidents Will Happen” accompanied by only a piano that was truly horrible. Vocally he sounds like he has really slipped since his heyday. Having been a fan of his for decades, seeing him in person was a big letdown.

The concert was extremely poor. Almost laughable in parts.

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