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Elvis Costello is going on tour, and he's going alone.
The 61-year-old English singer-songwriter — who has endured as a troubadour long past his early days as one of the "angry young men" of the punk and new wave scenes — will bring his solo "Detour" tour to Utah for a show, Tuesday, April 12 at Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City.
It's the first time Costello has performed in Utah since 2009, when he played a summer show at Deer Valley with the Utah Symphony.
The solo show features Costello on piano and guitar, in front of a giant television set that projects "family photos, mysteries, mottos and other mischief." The playlist includes old favorites and new songs, with stories along the way.
Costello has been making waves this fall, with the release of his best-selling memoir, "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink," and an accompanying recording, "Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album." The album features 38 songs, both classics ("Watching the Detectives," "Accidents Will Happen," "Oliver's Army" and many others) as well as two new tracks: a previously unreleased 1975 recording, "I Can't Turn It Off," and a new song, "April 5th," which he wrote and recorded with Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson and John Leventhal.
Tickets for Costello's Kingsbury Hall show, priced from $30 to $60, go on sale Friday, 10 a.m., at Smith's Tix.