{"id":973452,"date":"2019-11-12T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911179"},"modified":"2019-11-12T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:59:50","slug":"the-monkees-announce-2020-tour-dates-new-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-monkees-announce-2020-tour-dates-new-live-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkees Announce 2020 Tour Dates, New Live Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/the-monkees-2019.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/monkees\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monkees\" data-tag=\"monkees\">Monkees<\/a> are returning to the road in 2020 for a three-week tour dubbed An Evening With the Monkees. The run kicks off April 3rd in Vancouver and wraps up April 26th in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Like their tour earlier this year, it will feature surviving members Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith and spotlight songs from their entire career. Tickets go on sale November 15th.<\/p>\n<p>The group is also releasing the live album <em>The Mike &amp; Micky Show Live <\/em>on April 3rd. It was taped in March 2019 throughout the course of their The Monkees Present: The Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz Show. Fans who purchase tickets to their upcoming tour will automatically receive the album either as a digital download or a physical CD.<\/p>\n<p>If they stick to the setlist from this year, expect a mixture of big hits (\u201cI\u2019m a Believer,\u201d \u201cPleasant Valley Sunday\u201d and \u201cDaydream Believer\u201d), deep cuts (\u201cGood Clean Fun,\u201d \u201cAs We Go Along\u201d and \u201cTapioca Tundra\u201d) and tunes from their 2016 comeback LP <em>Good Times!<\/em> (\u201cMe &amp; Magdalena\u201d and \u201cBirth of an Accidental Hipster\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2JXn4AlvY6w?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their most recent shows took place in June when they brought their tour to Australia and New Zealand. It was the band\u2019s first time on the continent with Nesmith since 1968. A couple of months before it kicked off, Nesmith expressed doubts about his future in the band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI committed to an Australian tour, but I am expecting that will be it for me,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelnesmith\/posts\/10157257391430116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">he wrote on Facebook.<\/a> \u201cI start to feel curmudgeonly more and more and less and less suited for singing pop songs \u2014 clever and happy and fun to play as they are \u2014 but is a bit like singing \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 over and over. Combine that with the fact that Television Music was never my first pursuit. People who like my work have another clear window they can see through \u2014 if they choose. But \u2014 in any case \u2014 the shows wear me down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>Those words were written at the end of a long U.S. tour when he was drained by all the traveling. Thankfully for Monkees fans, he had a change of heart about more shows.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the complete dates for the 2020 An Evening With The Monkees Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">April 3rd \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom<br \/><span>April 4th \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre<br \/><\/span><span>April 7th \u2013 Sacramento, CA @ The Crest Theatre<br \/><\/span><span>April 8th \u2013 San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic<br \/><\/span><span>April 10th \u2013 Riverside, CA @ Fox Performing Arts Center<br \/><\/span><span>April 11th \u2013 El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia<br \/><\/span><span>April 14th \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre<br \/><\/span><span>April 16th \u2013 Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre<br \/><\/span><span>April 19th \u2013 San Antonio, TX @ The Tobin Center For Performing Arts<br \/><\/span><span>April 20th \u2013 Austin, TX @ ACL Live At The Moody Theatre<br \/><\/span><span>April 22nd \u2013 Birmingham, AL @ Iron City<br \/><\/span><span>April 24th \u2013 Lake Charles, LA @ Golden Nugget \u2013 Grand Event Center<br \/><\/span><span>April 25th \u2013 Biloxi, MS @ IP Casino Resort &amp; Spa<br \/><\/span><span>April 26th \u2013 Nashville, TN @ Schermerhorn Symphony Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-monkees-2020-tour-911179\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkees are returning to the road in 2020 for a three-week tour dubbed An Evening With the Monkees. The run kicks off April 3rd in Vancouver and wraps up April 26th in Nashville. Like their tour earlier this year, it will feature surviving members Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith and spotlight songs from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 09:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}