Moody Blues Plan Third North American Concert Swing Of 2000
The Moody Blues will back the recent release of a new live album with a two-month tour of the United States that gets underway on Oct. 20. Though the Moodies' live performances are sometimes supplemented by a symphony orchestra, the band's fall concert dates will not be symphonic.
The tour will be the Moodies' third of North America in 2000: the band toured the U.S. in February and concluded a month-long summer tour early this month. A month of U.K. dates was sandwiched between.
A new public television concert special titled "The Moody Blues at Royal Albert Hall," which was filmed in London in May, began airing on PBS stations on Aug. 8. The live album culled from the special, "Hall of Fame--Recorded Live at the Royal Albert Hall" (Ark 21), hit stores the same day.
A full symphony orchestra backed the Moody Blues for the Royal Albert Hall shows. VHS and DVD versions of the concert film will be released in November, according to Ark 21 Records.
Last August, the Moodies released "Strange Times" (Universal), their first studio album in eight years.
The band specialized in R&B when it released its first album in 1964, but its line-up and sound had undergone a substantial overhaul by the time the follow-up, "Days of Future Passed," was released in 1967.
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