Elvis Costello unveils new round of U.S. theater dates
Elvis Costello, who has spent much of the year on the road behind his April release, “When I Was Cruel,” will embark on his second round of U.S. theater dates in late September.
Elvis Costello, who has spent much of the year on the road behind his April release, “When I Was Cruel,” will embark on his second round of U.S. theater dates in late September.
The native of Liverpool, England, toured the U.S. in May and June, and followed that with an extensive series of European dates. His new round of U.S. dates run into November.
The songs on “When I Was Cruel,” Costello’s 17th studio album, were written “with a Silvertone electric guitar, a 15–watt amplifier and a kid’s beatbox with big orange buttons,” Costello said in his record company biography. It is his first solo studio album since 1996’s “All This Useless Beauty.” Since then, he released 1998’s “Painted from Memory,” a collaboration with Burt Bacharach; and 2001’s “For the Stars,” on which he teamed with singer Anne Sofie von Otter.
“I’ve been singing so many ballads with other people recently that I was in the mood again for a rowdy rhythm record,” Costello said.
Costello--along with The Police, The Clash, Iggy Pop and Cheap Trick--will be eligible for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, according to Costello’s Island Records website. To become eligible, an artist must have first recorded 25 years ago; Costello’s debut, “My Aim is True,” was released in 1977.
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