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Neil Young has announced his first tour since 2019 where he will play songs he has never performed live before next month.
It comes after he launched a surprise comeback at a tree-logging protest in Canada back in February.
The singer and environmental activist, 77, announced the news to his fans on Wednesday during a live Zoom call with paid Patron subscribers to the Neil Young Archives.
His tour on the West Coast begins on July 1 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles which seats 1,200 people and finishes on July 23 at the Oxbow RiverStage in Napa, California.
Tickets will go on sale at 10am on June 14 and he is using Ticketmaster's Face Value Exchange to prevent resellers from getting hold of them and charging extortionate prices.
Young has remained out of the limelight largely since he demanded Spotify remove all of his music because it hosted Joe Rogan's podcast, which Young claims shared vaccine misinformation.
In an open letter to his manager and record label telling them to have his catalogue taken down, the Heart of Gold singer writes: 'They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.'
Neil Young has announced his first tour since 2019 where he will play songs he has never performed live before next month
It comes after he launched a surprise comeback at a tree logging protest in Canada back in February
The singer and environmental activist, 77, announced the news to his fans on Wednesday during a live Zoom call with paid Patron subscribers to the Neil Young Archives
Young has announced 13 shows in 22 days across California, Oregon and Washington.
He will only be playing old songs he has never performed live instead of his traditional hits.
'I don’t want to come back and do the same songs again,' he said.
'I’ll feel like I was on some sort of carnival ride. I’d rather be doing these others songs I haven’t done…I won’t have to compare how I’m doing ‘Heart of Gold’ to [how I played it in] 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020…'
The Grammy-winning singer has prepared a song list made up of 15 tracks and it includes 'Song X' from his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam, 'Prime of Life' from 1994 record Sleeps With Angels, and 'If You Got Love' from 1982 album Trans.
He added: 'I did a demo of [If You Got Love] a few years [after Trans] with a synclavier, a drum machine, harmonica, and some effects.
'I listened to it [recently], and it turned me on again. I’m now doing it with the organ and harmonica. It’s pretty cool.'
Young believes his hardcore fans will know 80 percent of the tunes and insisted 'they’re not new songs'.
'They’re old songs. But I wake up with them in my head every morning,' he said.
'They are songs that apply to my life right
