Vinicio Capossela: the new album on October 25th and then the tour
A repertoire and an overflowing show (in line with its protagonist), refined over twenty years of practice of concerts for the holidays, which celebrate the holiday and make it happen.
AND “Dressed up for the holidays”, the tour of Vinicio Capossela thein Italy and Europe with which the artist will present the new self-titled album out on October 25th for Warner Music Italy.
This is the calendar:
October 26, 2024 Aosta, Saison Culturelle, Teatro Splendor, 8:30 pm – national preview
November 2, 2024 Cesena, Verdi Theater, 9.15 pm
November 8, 2024 Florence, Teatro Cartiere Carrara, 9:00 p.m.
November 15, 2024 Bologna, Estragon, 9:00 p.m.
November 17, 2024 Molfetta, Hermitage, 9:00 p.m.
November 19, 2024 Naples, Casa della Musica Federico I, 9:30 p.m.
24 November 2024 Brussels, La Madeleine, 8pm
26 November 2024 London, Union Chapel, 8pm
November 28, 2024 Barcelona, La Paloma, 9:00 p.m.
29 November 2024 Madrid, Sala Villanos, 10pm
December 4, 2024 Padua, Gran Teatro Geox, 9.15 pm
8 December 2024 Berlin, Kesselhaus, 8pm
December 11, 2024 Karlsruhe, Tollhaus, 8:00 p.m.
December 13 and 14, 2024 Milan, Carroponte Sesto SG (Chapiteau of Wonders), 9:00 p.m.
December 18, 2024 Rome, Atlantic, 9:00 p.m.
December 21, 2024 Venaria Reale (To), Concordia Theater, 9:00 p.m.
December 22, 2024 Mantua, PalaUnical Theater, 9:00 p.m.
December 25th and 26th 2024 Taneto Di Gattatico (Re), After Hours, 10.00 pm
11 February 2025 Zurich, Kaufleuten Zürich, 8.00 pm
Pre-sales are open for the purchase of single tickets and for two special bundles consisting of the ticket and the new album. Tickets for the Aosta concert will be available from the end of September on Webtic.
This is the long story that Vinicio Caposselawith his unmistakable style, makes the show and the album strongly connected to each other.
The songs of “Dressed up for the holidays” are songs born live and for twenty years have seen the light only in the ephemeral live dimension of the festive celebration. For two decades their life has been closely tied to a limited, defined and cyclical period, that of the end-of-year celebrations; that period in which the darkness of the night prevails over the day and through gifts a negotiation is practiced with the spirits of darkness to ensure the return of light and the advent of life; that long period, that is, which begins with the celebrations of the dead and ends with the Easter of the Epiphany, in which horizontal and ordinary time tries to communicate with the verticality of another time.
Driven by a deep-rooted instinct, for twenty years we have played concerts for the holidays with the Pogues and Kerouac’s “On the Road” in mind, where on New Year’s Day we go from one wild jam to another with quicksilver in our bellies. The epicenter of this season in which we bounce like in a big pinball machine has always been the Fuori Orario in Gattatico (RE), our Rovaniemi, the town of Santa Claus and all his unfortunate companions – starting with Shane MacGowan, also born on December 25th.
It took the interruption of time imposed by the pandemic and the missed party of that year to close ourselves – well masked and distanced – to record these songs with the addition of the unreleased songs composed for the occasion and finally give them a lasting form and an autonomous life on media.
We had not foreseen, however, that in the meantime the world would have fallen apart leaving us stunned and dressed for the holidays. First the isolation, then the wars and the triumphant populism: reality was striking blows and imposing urgencies. Everything had become urgency, even the songs, which therefore imposed themselves in number of 13 (Thirteen urgent songs).
But now the time has come to take back the party and shift the accent from that passive and flat A to the active and slippery O. No longer dressed up for the holidays by reality, we are now ready to make an imperative invitation to everyone: get dressed up for the holidays! Get yourself dressed up, get ready, get dressed to take back the time for the party and for life!
In the Festival, in fact, everyone is a leading actor in a collective construction. The spirit that is revealed here is the spirit of a rediscovered active participation, a useful training ground to emerge from the passivity to which the spectacularized reality of ordinary time increasingly reduces us.
The party lives in a space and time separate from the ordinary and to access it one must dress appropriately, wearing a fictitious mask that allows one to free what the habitual mask represses and erases.
The Party, on the other hand, is a danger, because you enter an unplannable, unpredictable area where you give yourself the chance to meet Life. In other words, in the Party you run the greatest risk: that of meeting yourself. And then you get black eyes! Then you get really bad!
The Feast is in fact a revealer of another time, of the possibility of another life, in front of which one can turn pale, take on the faded and cadaverous color of Hamlet’s greasepaint in front of the skull.
You can leave the party feeling crazy, and we want to play them all! Getting dressed up for the holidays, indeed!
Having appeared in a limited place and time, now that these songs are recorded they offer us the opportunity to multiply times and places with a tour.
The carousel tour will start at the end of October, on the eve of the feast of the dead, from Aosta and will then try to insinuate itself into the daily life of the entire Peninsula and in various European capitals, bringing the light of the Feast and the brilliant transience of confetti everywhere.
In keeping with the multifaceted nature of the festival, Dressed for the Holidays draws on diverse sources and disparate traditions.
There is swing by Louis Prima (the most festive singer of all who ever recorded a Christmas song), the Italian-American folklore of Lou Monte and Nick Apollo Forte, Presbyterian hymns, fairytale phantasmagoria, festive and digestive pieces, bone marimbas, brass and vibraphones. There is the double reed of the saxophones, the Farfisa organ, the fat-bellied guitar, the Aristocats’ double bass, the frantic drums, the choirs, the hymns and the bells. All the holiday junk polished up for a confetti shot with the sad aftertaste that this inevitable disaster that is the holidays always leaves.
Only the risk of the Party Pooper hovers over the success of the festive game, which with its cynical contempt is always lurking to ruin the joy of the only time in which one can free oneself from the prescribed destinies. But be ready, dress up with us! Let us exorcise together the Party Pooper with all his acolytes nestled in every fold of the world!
These are the prices of concert tickets valid for all dates in Italy – except for the cities of Milan, Aosta.
Single ticket: €34.50 (€30 + €4.50 booking fee)
Two bundles available at an exclusive price:
Ticket + CD: €49.50 (€34.50 ticket + €15 CD) + shipping costs
Ticket + Vinyl: €78.50 (€34.50 ticket + €44 double vinyl) + shipping costs
Ticket prices for the Milan dates:
Single ticket: €39 (€35 + €4.00 booking fee)
Two bundles available at an exclusive price:
Ticket + CD: €54 (€39 ticket + €15 CD) + shipping costs
Ticket + Vinyl: €83 (€39 ticket + €44 double vinyl) + shipping costs
The bundles will be available for purchase exclusively for events in the cities of Florence, Mantua, Milan, Bologna, Naples, Turin, Rome, Padua, Molfetta and will be available up to 15 days before the event.
Ticket shipping will be handled by Ticketone, CDs and vinyls will be shipped by Warner, via Discoteca Laziale, after October 25, 2024, the official release date of the new album.
