The simple answer is, it’s just what he does.

What keeps Dylan on the road for a hundred dates a year? (Hint: It’s not exchanging pleasantries with the crowd, something he avoids like phone calls from the Nobel Prize committee.) This year’s slate brings him back to The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday. Since the late 1980s, the 76-year-old Dylan has maintained a near-constant show schedule, dubbed by some the Never Ending Tour. The first songwriter to be bestowed the Nobel Prize in Literature did it his way, defying expectations, just as he has so many times in a six-decade career as rock’s premier poet.īob Dylan’s first public appearance following the award announcement last October occurred not at a press conference where he graciously accepted, but on a stage in Las Vegas where he stuck to what was on the setlist.ĭylan later said he would attend the Nobel ceremony “if I can” and ultimately picked up his prize three months after the gala when his tour took him to Stockholm. There were no masking requirements and only a smattering voluntarily masked attendees, no vaccination mandates or capacity restrictions.Singer Bob Dylan is seen in London on April 27, 1965. With England essentially reopened, at times it was difficult to remember there was ever a pandemic. For some fans, it was the first show “back” following an extended pandemic hiatus. Opening with the heavy, yet melodic “Teardrops,” the band would showcase just about all of its stellar Post Human: Survival Horror EP, mixing in selections spanning its catalog throughout the rest of the night. The crowd appeared ready to finally see the hometown heroes again, with chants of “York-shire, York-shire” reverberating between songs throughout the night. 24.īring Me the Horizon sold some 65,000 tickets over the course of its current U.K.

“Do you even remember who are?” frontman Oli Sykes asked the crowd of more than 13,000 packing sold-out Utilita Arena on Sept. rockers last played a show in their hometown. SHEFFIELD, England - It may have been 18 months since Bring Me the Horizon last toured, but it was a much longer six years since the U.K. Oli Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon performs at Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England on Sept.

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