Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve have announced a 15-date tour, opening in Easton, PA, on February 19, 2025. The tour includes stops at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, NJ; the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY; and two nights at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY.
The tour will also visit Wilmington, DE; Beverly, MA; Portsmouth, NH; Montclair, NJ; Ithaca and Buffalo, NY; and Ann Arbor, MI, showcasing selections from a songbook that spans fifty years and countless depths.
“Costello is one of the world's greatest songwriters, up there with McCartney. You forget how many timeless songs he actually has until he plays them.” – Irish Independent
The tour concludes with a three-night engagement at Park West in Chicago, where Costello and Nieve will be joined by Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle, Tony Garnier on double bass, Shaye Cohn on cornet, and Sean McKeon on Uilleann pipes.
“Transcendent Musical Moments” – The Scotsman
These dates follow the acclaimed Costello & Nieve tours of 2023/24, which traveled from the Palau de la Música in Barcelona to the Oslo Opera House, and from the Béla Bartók Concert Hall in Budapest to the Paris Philharmonie. These performances were augmented by trumpet, reeds, cello, and percussion before continuing to Japan, where they played three sold-out shows in Tokyo and one night in Osaka in April 2024.
Their 2024 UK and Ireland dates included a momentous show at the Liverpool Olympia, where they recruited seven horns—students, graduates, and tutors from LIPA, the performing arts school founded by Paul McCartney.
That night was described as:
“Soul music to warm the coldest of hearts.” – Liverpool Acoustic
The 2024 tour concluded with two sold-out concerts at the London Palladium and a four-night sold-out run at Vicar Street in Dublin. The second London show and the last two nights in Dublin featured the Brodsky Quartet, with whom Costello and Nieve have collaborated for over thirty years. Uilleann piper Sean McKeon also joined for the final Dublin performances.
“Elvis Costello remains the most fascinating songwriter Britain has produced in the past 50 years.” – The Spectator
On November 1, 2024, UMe released King of America & Other Realms—a 6-CD collection tracing Elvis Costello's journey from his 1986 album, recorded in Hollywood, to his work in American musical hubs such as New Orleans, LA; Oxford and Clarksdale, MS; and Nashville and Memphis, TN. The collection also includes a haunting minor-key arrangement of “Brilliant Mistake,” recorded in Cape Fear, NC.
“Costello challenges us to confront the stories we inherit and the places we inhabit. Almost 40 years later, King of America remains Costello's map of disillusionment and aspiration, both timeless and acutely of its moment—a kingdom where invisible walls define the boundaries of our dreams.” – Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Costello’s 35-page essay accompanying the King of America & Other Realms box set details his forty-year collaboration and friendship with songwriter and producer T Bone Burnett. The latest installment of this collaboration is The True Story of The Coward Brothers, an Audible Original comedic drama written by Elvis Costello and directed by Christopher Guest. In it, Burnett and Costello portray the rock-and-roll charlatans and charmingly deluded siblings Henry and Howard Coward, joined by a cast including Harry Shearer and Rhea Seehorn.
The 20-track accompanying album, The Coward Brothers, was released in November 2024 by New West Records and features full-length renditions of the songs heard in what Costello refers to as “a wireless address.”
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve have been collaborators and bandmates since 1977, appearing together on more than 25 recordings and performing on stages from Grosse Freiheit 36 in Hamburg to the Royal Albert Hall in London. They debuted songs like “Accidents Will Happen” and “Shot With His Own Gun” with only piano accompaniment, and they began their first two-man shows in 1995 before undertaking The Lonely World Tour in 2003.
“Nieve is astonishing, like the ghost of George Gershwin being watched over by Philip Glass.” – Irish Times
Steve Nieve is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions. He is also the composer of Welcome to the Voice, an opera written with Muriel Teodori, which was produced at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. Nieve has played with Elvis Costello and The Imposters since 2002.
Tickets on sale at ElvisCostello.com:
- Artist Presale: Wednesday, November 20, at 10:00 AM local time
- General Onsale: Friday, November 22, at 10:00 AM local time
“Costello and Nieve” Tour Dates – February/March 2025
- Wednesday, February 19 – Easton, PA – State Theatre Center for the Arts
- Friday, February 21 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center for the Arts
- Saturday, February 22 – Wilmington, DE – The Grand Opera House
- Monday, February 24 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre
- Tuesday, February 25 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre
- Thursday, February 27 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
- Saturday, March 1 – Beverly, MA – The Cabot
- Sunday, March 2 – Portsmouth, NH – The Music Hall
- Tuesday, March 4 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
- Wednesday, March 5 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
- Friday, March 7 – Buffalo, NY – UB Center for the Arts
- Saturday, March 8 – Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theatre
- Tuesday, March 11 – Chicago, IL – Park West
- Wednesday, March 12 – Chicago, IL – Park West
- Friday, March 14 – Chicago, IL – Park West
