Last month, Status Quo announced that they would shortly be performing one last tour with the amps cranked and the guitars plugged in. Those tour dates have now surfaced, along with the fact that REO Speedwagon will be performing opening duties.
Regarding the tour, Francis Rossi said:
We’ve talked about it for some time and have decided that it’s time for us to hang up the electrics. It’s getting harder and harder for us to play those shows. It’s 30 years since we last said we were stopping but this is a final decision. It doesn’t mean we won’t do other things, perhaps the odd special, but we’re agreed that the moment has come. There’s more to come from us in the years ahead, but we won’t tour the electric set ever again.
Rick Parfitt added:
We always thought we’d see a red light when it was time to stop. The show hurts now, physically. It’s hard to maintain that level of energy and without that it’s not really a Quo show. So we don’t feel we should continue. This is definitely the end of our lives on the road with the electric set, life won’t be the same for us – or many of the fans – but we can’t go on at this pace any more.
Dates – December 2016 (all shows except Bournemouth and Brighton are fully seated):
- 8th Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
- 9th Bournemouth International Centre
- 11th London The O2
- 13th Brighton Centre
- 14th Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
- 16th Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
- 17th Leeds First Direct Arena
- 19th Manchester Arena
- 20th Glasgow The SSE Hydro
- 22nd Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
- 23rd Liverpool Echo Arena
