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Jeff Lynne‘s Electrical Gentle Orchestra are going to name it quits after one closing run they’re dubbing The Over and Out Tour. The 27-date tour kicks off Aug, 24 in Palm Desert, California, and wraps up Oct, 25 in Los Angeles, California, although it’s attainable they’ll add further legs earlier than it ends. Ticket gross sales start March 22.
The unique incarnation of Electrical Gentle Orchestra ran from 1970 to 1986, touchdown timeless hits on the charts like “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Evil Girl,” “Unusual Magic,” “Don’t Carry Me Down,” and “Flip to Stone.” When frontman Jeff Lynne dissolved the group to supply different artists, together with George Harrison and Tom Petty, ELO drummer Bev Bevan carried on with new musicians beneath the moniker ELO Half II, creating bitterness between the 2 camps that lasts to at the present time.
Lynne resurrected Electrical Gentle Orchestra in 2001, however he solely invited unique keyboardist Richard Tandy again into the fold. Their new LP Zoom was a business disappointment, and an enviornment tour was canceled because of poor ticket gross sales. In the summertime of 2014, Lynne and Tandy introduced the group again to life beneath the brand new title Jeff Lynne’s Electrical Gentle Orchestra for an enormous outside live performance in London’s Hyde Park.
“I had all these unfavorable ideas earlier than agreeing to play Hyde Park,” Lynne informed Rolling Stone in 2016, “however the crowd simply went bananas all over. They liked each minute of it. It was the very best present I’d ever been concerned with up till that time.”
The response to the present impressed Lynne to convey ELO again on the street for a collection of profitable enviornment excursions between 2015 and 2019. They recorded the brand new albums Alone within the Universe in 2015 and From Out of Nowhere in 2019, although Tandy missed the previous couple of excursions for causes which have by no means been defined. A 2020 tour was canceled because of Covid. The group’s first present since 2019 came about Nov. 12, 2023, at Joe Walsh’s VetsAid live performance in Chula Vista, California.
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Jeff Lynne’s Electrical Gentle Orchestra’s Over and Out Tour Dates
Aug. 24 – Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure ArenaAug. 27 – Seattle, WA @ Local weather Pledge ArenaAug. 28 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers ArenaAug. 30 – Portland, OR @ Moda CenterSept. 1 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase CenterSept. 6 – St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise CenterSept. 7 – Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge FieldhouseSept. 9 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank ArenaSept. 10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints ArenaSept. 13 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Financial institution CenterSept. 14 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouseSept. 16 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. GardenSept. 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo CenterSept. 23 – Boston, MA @ TD GardenSept. 25 – Washington, DC @ Capital One ArenaSept. 27 – Chicago, IL @ United CenterSept. 30 – St, Paul, MN @ Xcel Power CenterOct. 2 – Denver, CO @ Ball ArenaOct. 9 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars ArenaOct. 11 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone ArenaOct. 12 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm ArenaOct. 15 – Austin, TX @ Moody CenterOct. 16 – Houston, TX @ Toyota CenterOct. 18 – Dallas, TX @ American Airways CenterOct. 21 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint CenterOct. 23 – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 CenterOct. 25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Discussion board