The trek will commence in Glasgow on June 4, comprising 34 dates in total and wrapping up in Barcelona on July 19
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Steve Vai has announced a European leg for his upcoming Inviolate World Tour, in support of his latest studio album, Inviolate.
Commencing June 4 at the O2 Academy in Glasgow, the 34-date tour will swing by Manchester, London and Bristol in the UK, before heading to the continent to make stops in France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and a host more. Vai will be joined by guitarist/keyboardist Dave Weiner, bassist Philip Bynoe and drummer Jeremy Colson.
The European leg of the tour will wrap up at the Teatro Tivoli in Barcelona on July 19, giving Vai two months off before he heads back out on the US segment of the tour, which begins September 28.
“It's amazing to realize that after three years of not performing our show on a stage, that it's now on the horizon, and will start to unfold in Europe this summer,” Vai says. “I can feel the road now and the enthusiastic audiences that we will be connecting with.”
Steve Vai had originally planned to commence his Inviolate World Tour in the US in January, however the stateside leg was postponed due to an injury he sustained while making pizza.
“I did something really stupid over the summer,” Vai told Eddie Trunk last month (via Blabbermouth). This is crazy. I have a pizza oven, and I was putting a pizza in the oven and the dough sticks on a little plate, and I had to jerk it really hard to pull it and I tore another [tendon].”
“I thought I could get through the tour,” he continued, “but [it's] a mega-tour that we're planning, because I've been just dying to get on tour. We've got [around] 250 shows that we wanna do around the world, and it's gonna take [about] a year and a half. Once I started to prepare, it became really obvious that there was just no way.”
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The pizza oven mishap was the latest in a series of incidents for an injury-prone Steve Vai. Back in 2021, he underwent shoulder surgery for another injury, though while recovering he wrote and released Knappsack, a song he shreds entirely with one hand.
“And I had to kind of hold this chord really for a long time – I was meditating on it. And I knew it was a hard position, and I just kept sitting there and playing it and playing and playing, and 20 minutes later, I'd kind of come out, and I [felt pain in my hand]. So I kind of sprained this, and then, all of a sudden, I developed trigger finger...”
But he's all recovered and ready to bring his shred-a-thon of a new album to stages all over Europe. Check out a full list of dates below.
June 4: Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
June 5: Manchester, UK – The Ritz
June 7: London, UK – Palladium
June 9: Bristol, UK – O2 Academy
June 10: Dublin, Ireland – Academy
June 11: Belfast, UK – The Limelight
June 13: Paris, France – Le Trianon
June 14: Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
June 16: Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
June 17: Bergen, Norway – USF Verftet
June 18: Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
June 19: Stockholm, Sweden – Fållan
June 20: Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
June 22: Lille, France – Splendid
June 23: Clisson, France – Hellfest
June 24: Bordeaux-Cenon, France – Rocher de Palmer
June 25: Nimes, France – Paloma
June 26: Lyon, France – Transbordeur
June 28: Nuremberg, Germany – Hirsch
June 29: Linz, Austria – Posthof
July 1: Udine, Italy – Castello
July 2: Macerata, Italy – Sferisterio
July 3: Bari, Italy – Teatro Petruzzelli
July 4: Firenze, Italy – Ultravox Arena
July 5: Gardone Riviera, Italy – Anfiteatro del Vittoriale
July 6: Zurich, Switzerland – Komplex
July 8: Berlin, Germany – Columbia Theatre
July 9: Weert, Netherlands – Bospop Festival
July 10: Antwerp, Belgium – OLT Rivierenhof
July 12: Toulouse, France – Le Bikini
July 14: Sancti Petri, Spain – Concert Music Festival
Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.
