Bob Dylan will return to the UK and Ireland for a 13-show run later this year and the music icon has put a rule in place for those coming to watch his live performances
Bob Dylan has a strict rule for concertgoers.
The music legend is set to make his return to the UK and Ireland later this year as part of his Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, but fans will have to keep their mobile phones locked away.
The 84-year-old has announced a 13-show run with performances scheduled in cities including Dublin, Glasgow, Swansea, Brighton, Leeds, and Coventry, and Dylan is once again enforcing a strict phone-free policy at all venues.
As with his previous shows, concert-goers will be required to seal their mobile devices inside pouches that automatically lock upon entry and can only be accessed in designated areas outside the main auditorium.
Dylan’s representatives stated: “We’ve been proud to keep these shows phone-free to preserve the intimacy and connection of the live experience.”
He is not alone in his crusade to keep live music phone-free, with other artists including Nick Cave and Chrissie Hynde previously speaking out against fans filming gigs on their phones, urging them instead to focus on the music itself, reports the Mirror.
Dylan’s latest tour announcement comes at a time of renewed fascination with his career. The release of his biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as the legendary musician, shed light on his early years and the pivotal moment in the mid-1960s when he boldly “went electric.”
In recent performances across Texas, Dylan has treated audiences to a mix of timeless classics and lesser-known gems including Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, I Can Tell and Under the Red Sky.
Dylan boasts an impressive 10 Grammy Awards, 38 nominations and nine UK number one albums. Although his debut single Mixed-Up Confusion failed to chart in 1962, he soon achieved success with anthems like The Times They Are A-Changin’, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like A Rolling Stone.
In 2016, Dylan made history by becoming the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the Swedish Academy hailing him for “creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
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