Elvis Costello & The Imposters have announced the Just Trust Tour for 2020 in the UK. A run of thirteen shows is set to begin on February 28 at the Eventim Olympia in Liverpool, and draw to a close in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on March 18. One date in the tour will take Costello to Sunderland for the first time in forty years. His band The Imposters will be joining him on his tour. The band are made up of keyboardist Steve Nieve, vocalist and bassist Davey Faraher and drummer Pete Thomas, as well as singers Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee.
The 13 tour dates for the tour are shown below, with tickets going live on Friday 20 at 10am, available at elviscostello.com and aegpresents.co.uk.
February
28/2/20 – Liverpool, Eventim Olympia.
March
1/3 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton.
2/3 – Royal Concert Hall – Nottingham.
3/3 – Empire Theatre – Sunderland.
5/3 – SEC Armadillo – Glasgow.
7/3 – City Hall – Sheffield.
9/3 – Opera House Theatre – Blackpool.
10/3 – The Usher Hall – Edinburgh.
12/3 – Palace Theatre – Manchester.
13/3 – Eventim Apollo – London.
15/3 – New Theatre Oxford – Oxford.
16/3 – Wales Millennium Centre – Cardiff.
18/3 – Symphony Hall – Birmingham.
Last July, Costello was forced to cancel the remainder of dates from his European tour following advice from his doctor after surgery for a malignant tumour. He was advised to “take a break from his current tour itinerary and rest”. Costello released a statement following the decision to say. “I have to thank our friends attending last night’s show in Amsterdam and those in Antwerp, Glynde and at Newcastle City Hall for bearing me up.”
He went on to say. “The spirit has been more than willing but I have to now accept that it is going to take longer than I would have wished for me to recover my full strength. Therefore, I must reluctantly cancel all the remaining engagements of this tour.”
Last year, Costello released his thirtieth studio album ‘Look Now’, which was described in a review by Pitchfork “As a collection of tunes, Look Now is a triumph for Costello, a showcase for how he can enliven a mastery of form with a dramatist’s eye.”
