
Bryan Ferry has announced the North American leg of his 2019 world tour celebrating Roxy Musicās iconic 1982 albumĀ Avalon.Ā Coinciding with the bandās induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this March, the tour will feature Ferry performing songs off of that record, as well as his solo workĀ and tunes from the Roxy Music songbook. The 73 year old sophisti-pop crooner just released his sixteenth studio LP, Bittersweet.
Avalon, released in May of 1982, was Roxy Musicās final record, and its most successful. Lead single āMore Than Thisā became a top ten hit in Britain and Australia, and the album also features a sexy title track and āTake A Chance On Me.ā Ferry explained in 1982 that he had wanted to do an album āwhere the songs are all bound together in the style of West Side Story, but it always seemed like too much bother to work that way.ā Ferry instead took 10 poems that he thought could, with a little more work, be fashioned into a novel. āAvalon is part of the King Arthur legend, and is a very romantic thing. When King Arthur dies, the Queens ferry him off to Avalon, which is sort of an enchanted island. Itās the ultimate romantic fantasy place,ā he said.
In 1995, the Spin Alternative Record Guide called the smoothĀ Avalon āone of the all-time great makeout infernos.ā Ferry will kick off the tour, appropriately enough, on Valentineās Day in South Africa, and wrap things up in Vancouver this September. A full list of dates is below.
Bryan Ferry Avalon tour 2019
2/14ĀĀāCape Town, South AfricaāGrand Arena
2/16āPretoria, South AfricaāTime Square Arena
2/21āPerth, Australia āKings Park & Botanic Garden
2/23āYarra Valley, AustraliaāRochford Wines
2/26āMelbourne, AustraliaāMargaret Court Arena
3/1āSydney, AustraliaāICC Sydney Theatre
3/3āMount Cotton, Australia āSirromet Wines
3/5āWellington, New Zealand āTSB Arena
3/7āAuckland, New ZealandāSpark Arena
3/11āOsaka, JapanāNamba Hatch
3/13āTokyo, JapanāBunkamura Orchard Hall
5/20āGroningen, NetherlandsāDe Oosterpoort
5/22āEindhoven, NetherlandsāMuziekgebouw Frits Phillips
5/24āAmsterdam, NetherlandsāRoyal Theatre Carre
5/26āFrankfurt, GermanyāAlte Oper
5/28āEssen, GermanyāTheater Und Philharmonie Essen
5/30āHamburg, GermanyāElbphilharmonie
6/1āBerlin, GermanyāTempodrom
6/3āWroclaw, PolandāNarodowe Forum Muzyki
6/5āPrague, Czech RepublicāForum Karlin
6/7āVienna, AustriaāStadthalle
6/9āLinz, AustriaāBrucknerhaus
6/11āMunich, GermanyāCircus Krone
6/13āLucerne, SwitzerlandāKKL
6/15 āBrussels, BelgiumāPalais des Beaux-Arts
6/āLondon, United KingdomāRoyal Albert Hall
6/20āVejle, DenmarkāByparken Vejle
7/30āToronto, OntarioāSony Centre
8/1āChicago, ILĀāChicago Theatre
8/3āDetroit, MIāFox Theatre
8/5āBoston, MAāBoston Opera House
8/7āPort Chester, NYāCapitol Theater
8/9āNew York, NYāUnited Palace Theater
8/11āPhiladelphia, PAāThe Met
8/13āWashington, DCāThe Anthem
8/15āAtlanta, GAāTabernacle
8/17āNashville, TNāRyman Auditorium
8/21āDallas, TXāMajestic Theatre
8/23āAustin, TXāACL Live at the Moody Theater
8/25āDenver, COāParamount Theatre
8/27āSan Diego, CAāCopley Symphony Hall
8/29āLos Angeles, CAāGreek Theatre
8/31āOakland, CAāFox Theatre
9/3āSeattle, WAāMoore Theatre
9/5āVancouver, British ColumbiaāQueen Elizabeth Theatre
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