Elvis Costello plays his early stuff with The Imposters @ Massey Hall, Friday

Elvis Costello will be playing his best loved tunes at Massey Hall on Friday as part of his "Radio Soul!" tour. 

Here's the scoop...

Elvis Costello has extended his “Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello” tour with 22 new East Coast and Midwest dates starting September 18th in Bethlehem, PA and running through October 22nd in Omaha, NE and he'll make a Toronto stop at Massey Hall this Friday (September 26) with special guest Charlie Sexton at 8 pm. Click for a live clip right here and another one here.

As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from “My Aim Is True” in 1977 to “Blood & Chocolate” in 1986, along with other surprises.Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Costello’s most renowned compositions from “Watching The Detectives” to “I Want You”, along with songs that have remained in The Imposters’ live repertoire over the last 20 or more years, including “Alison,” “Man Out Of Time” and “Brilliant Mistake.”

Asked about the surprising theme of this tour, Costello responded:

“For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to fifty years ago. Among them, “Radio Soul,” the first draft of what eventually became “Radio Radio.”

Here's an entertaining early theatrical version of "Radio Radio" along with the young Elvis Costello's first television interview along with his recent sit-down chat with author Peter Guralnick about the other Elvis discussed in Peter's new book "The Colonel and The King"