Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton bring 'Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello' tour to the UK...
ELVIS COSTELLO
BRINGS RADIO SOUL!: THE EARLY SONGS OF ELVIS
COSTELLO TOUR TO THE UK
SUMMER 2026 UK DATES ANNOUNCED
PERFORMED BY ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS WITH CHARLIE SEXTON
PLAY LONDON’S ROYAL ALBERT HALL JUNE 15TH
SPECIAL GUESTS TO NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS ACROSS 2026 UK/EU TOUR
Hot off the heels of announcing a run of shows as special guests to Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts, Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton have announced they will bring their hugely successful Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello tour to the UK in summer 2026.
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers 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.”
After two triumphant runs in the US, the UK shows will kick off at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday June 13th. The run of four headline shows will also see them stop off at Portsmouth, Newcastle and a very special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday June 15th. Pre-sale for tickets begin Wednesday December 10th, with general sale at 10am GMT on Friday December 12th from HERE.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton play the following dates:
June
Sat 13th Birmingham, Symphony Hall
Mon 15th London, Royal Albert Hall
Fri 26th Portsmouth, Guildhall
July
Mon 6th Newcastle, O2 City Hall
The Imposters are Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher and they are joined once again by guitarist Charlie Sexton.
The band were also previously announced as special guests to Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts across a run of UK and European dates, as part of the Love Earth World Tour. Kicking off on June 19, 2026, in Manchester, England, the summer run will include headlining concerts and festival appearances across France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and The Netherlands. Tickets are available HERE.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters play the following dates with Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts:
June
Fri 19th Manchester, Heaton Park
Mon 22nd Nimes, Festival de Nimes
Wed 24th Nancy, Nancy Open Air
Sat 27th Chelmsford, State Fayre, Hylands Park
Mon 29th Glasgow, Glasgow Summer Sessions, Bellahouston Park
July
Wed 1st Cork, Virgin Media Park
Fri 3rd Oxfordshire, Blenheim Palace Festival
Sun 5th Cardiff, Blackweir Fields
Wed 8th Weert, Evenemententerrein Weert-Noord
These dates follow the autumn 2024 release of King Of America & Other Realms - a 6-CD anthology that tells the story of that 1986 album and the music to which it led. The King Of America songs are expected to be heard in the mid-show interlude, along with songs written as long ago as 1975 and even some of those “pretty ballads” that Costello has promised.
