Vasco Rossi: “The 2026 tour lineup? With unreleased songs and rarities”
“We are preparing the lineup for the Vasco Live Tour 2026. A definition for the set list? Amazing, exciting, incredible, unimaginable. With a lot of pieces that have never been heard live. Unpublished and rarities. Lots of goodies.” Vasco, recently returned from the United States, precisely from Los Angeles, where he spends part of the year, he is in the studio in Bologna to work on next year’s show and, between stories and posts, he is giving away some spoilers about the next tour. With him is Vince Pàstanoguitarist, musical director and arranger of the band since 2014.
In addition to underlining the presence of “unreleased and rarities”, Blasco in recent days has spoiled a song that could end up in the setlist: it is “Bolle di Sapone”, a classic piece from his repertoire, originally present in the album “Cosa trova in città”, published in June 1985 and considered one of the critical turning points in his musical careercapable of describing the creative process itself with irony and poetry. The song uses the metaphor of soap bubbles to talk about how songs are born: too much zeal kills the magic, while abandonment and letting go are what allow ideas, like bubbles, to form and fly.
Vasco himself defined this piece as “a small masterpiece never performed live”, one of those songs that tell the artist’s freedom in its purest form. This year, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of “What happens in the city”, a new version called “Bulle di Sapone RPlay” was published, edited by producer Vince Pàstano and accompanied by an animated video clip which visually takes up the metaphor of bubbles as a symbol of creation and music that is released. The choice to use this song in the video dedicated to the construction of the set list tour 2026 it’s not random: “Bolle di Sapone” represents the idea of returning to the creative roots, but also an ideal bridge towards what is to come. With its lyrics that celebrate the free spirit of music and its nostalgic and reflective tone, it could actually be one of the first songs of the next setlist, if not even the intro, just as Vasco suggests.
