Billy Idol and Steve Stevens, one of rock’s most iconic and enduring duos, will hit the road this March for their first ever tour performing as a duo: Turned On, Tuned In and Unplugged.
Now their fans across North America will have an opportunity to enjoy their hits, deeper album cuts and songs that influenced them both in a new and intimate setting. Plus, hear spoken word interludes from Billy Idol adding color to the stories behind the songs and career of one of rock’s most compelling survivors.
Idol and Stevens’ undeniable chemistry and seemingly limitless energy, founded on a mutual love of punk, rockabilly and dance music, has produced decades of successful tours and iconic hits including Rebel Yell, White Wedding, Dancing With Myself, Eyes Without A Face, Flesh For Fantasy, Cradle Of Love and more.
The duo’s North American run begins on March 3 at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC and includes dates at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, Los Angeles’ Theater at The Ace Hotel and New York’s Town Hall. A full list of tour dates is below.
Watch Idol and Stevens perform “To Be A Lover” from Idol’s 1985 album Whiplash Smile, LIVE from Third Man Records on September 28, 2018 below.
Billy Idol, together with Steve Stevens at his side, was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip- curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV’s first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including “Dancing With Myself, “White Wedding,” “Rebel Yell,” “Mony Mony,” “Eyes Without A Face,” and “Flesh For Fantasy.”
Billy is responsible for some of punk rock’s most memorable, literate, and evocative moments and created a pioneering new sound by bringing the spirit of ’77 to the dance floor, going on to fashion an immediately identifiable musical blueprint that integrates club-land throb, rockabilly desperation, and rock’n’roll decadence.
Steve Stevens is one of the most versatile guitarists & songwriters to emerge from the 80s rock scene, with influences spanning from classic rock to flamenco. In addition to his legendary career with Billy Idol, Stevens has worked with some of the biggest names in music, from Michael Jackson to Robert Palmer, Joni Mitchell to Pink. Stevens won a Grammy Award for his work on “Top Gun Anthem” and his songs can be heard on countless soundtracks including “Once Upon A Time in Mexico” and “The Matrix” Trilogy.
Billy Idol, together with Steve Stevens, returned to the spotlight in the fall of 2014 with two high profile releases that marked the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention.
Idol’s New York Times bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself is an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol’s journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, and motorcycles.
Idol’s most recent record releases, which all include work with Steve Stevens, are latest Billy Idol studio album Kings & Queens Of The Underground featuring production from 2017 and 2018 Grammy Award winning producer Greg Kurstin, a 2016 vinyl-only live album entitled BFI Live and the 2018 remix collection Vital Idol: Revitalized which debuted in the top ten of the Billboard Dance Chart.
BILLY IDOL & STEVE STEVENS:
TURNED ON, TUNED IN & UNPLUGGED
March 3: Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC
March 5: Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
March 7: Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, CA
March 11: Golden State Theatre, Monterey, CA
March 13: Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA
March 15: Ace Hotel Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
March 19: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO
March 21: Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL
March 22: Firekeepers Casino, Battle Creek, MI
March 25: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON
March 27: Town Hall, New York, NY
March 30: Xcite Center/Parx Casino, Bensalem, PA
April 1: Lincoln Theatre, Washington, D.C.
April 3: The Lynn Auditorium, Lynn, MA
April 4: Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
