Robert Plant Announces European Tour With Saving Grace
Robert Plant has announced a European tour with Saving Grace.
The outing will begin on May 3 in Brussels, followed by stops in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and more over several weeks. The tour is scheduled to conclude on July 30 in Barcelona.
A complete list of show dates can be viewed below.
Who Is Saving Grace?
Plant first performed with Saving Grace, a quintet, back in 2019. It includes singer Suzy Dian, guitarists Tony Kelsey and Matt Worley and percussionist Oli Jefferson. The COVID-19 pandemic stunted the group’s plans for touring in 2020, but they finally hit the road in 2021 and have toured together every year since, in between other separate projects.
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“My whole deal is entertainment is fine so long as the person that you’re entertaining most of all is yourself,” Plant said to Rolling Stone in 2022. “I’m a little wary of repetition, and no matter where I play or what I play or how it works, I’ve got to feel really good about it, because the bird is on the wing. Time is flying by. If I’m going to do this, I’ve got to get the best out of it that I can.”
Robert Plant and Saving Grace, 2025 European Tour
May 3 – Brussels, Brussels @ Cirque Royal
May 5 – Eindhoven, The Netherlands @ Muziekgebouw Eindhoven
May 6 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Koninklijk Theater Carre
May 8 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Falkoner Salen
May 9 – Malmo, Sweden @ Malmo Live Konserthus
May 11 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Goteborg Konserthus
May 14 – Oslo, Norway @ Folketeateret
May 16 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Cirkus
May 18 – Tampere, Finland @ Tampere Talo
May 19 – Helsinki, Finland @ Finlandia Talo
May 21 – Tallinn, Estonia @ Alexela Kontserdimaja
May 23 – Vilnius, Lithuania @ Compensa Koncertų Sale
July 10 – Saint-Malo-du-Bois, France @ Festival de Poupet – Theatre De Verdure
July 13 – Lucca, Italy @ Lucca Summer Festival – Piazza Napoleone
July 17 – Vienne, France @ Theatre Antique
July 19 – Salon-de-Provence, France @ Chateau de l’Emperi
July 21 – Marciac, France @ Jazz in Marciac
July 23 – Carcassonne, France @ Festival de Carcassonne – Theatre Jean Deschamps
July 28 – Valencia, Spain @ Palau de les Arts
July 30 – Barcelona, Spain @ Teatro Liceo – Milleni Concert Series
Robert Plant Albums Ranked
Crafting a solo career has been something of a quest for Led Zeppelin’s former frontman.
15. ‘Shaken n Stirred’ (1985)
In retrospect, you can see this as the start of an experimental streak that shows up on albums that appear later on this list. But besides a handful of exceptions – like “Little by Little” (with that cool rhythm provided by Little Feat’s Richie Hayward) – ‘Shaken n Stirred’ is more dense than listenable. As with Plant’s debut, there just aren’t enough good songs
14. ‘Pictures at Eleven’ (1982)
Plant’s overly sleek solo debut gets off to a fast start with the Zeppelin-ish “Burning Down One Side,” but quickly loses focus. Too little of ‘Pictures at Eleven’ stands out. After playing the rock-god persona for so long, Plant tries to fashion another one here. But this is more jack-of-all-trades than the mastering of any particular style.
13. ‘Raise the Roof’ (2021)
Plant’s long-awaited reunion with Alison Krauss was as celebrated as the first, becoming a transatlantic Top 10 smash 14 years after ‘Raising Sand’ went platinum. With that kind of pedigree, it should be no surprise that the similarly named ‘Raise the Roof’ works in a similar fashion. Plant and Krauss trade vocals in a rootsy atmosphere of easy acquaintance, while producer T Bone Burnett imbues it all with his typical stoicism. Like most sequels, ‘Raise the Roof’ doesn’t quite live up to the original iteration – but there’s still room for plenty of smaller-scale treasures.
12. ‘The Honeydrippers: Volume One’ (1984)
Let’s just say this EP – which features nostalgic updates of early rock and R&B songs – wasn’t what most fans were expecting when they heard Robert Plant was reuniting with Jimmy Page. Still, ‘The Honeydrippers’ ended up representing a key element of Plant’s still-evolving solo career rather than a sudden detour. He wasn’t finished reanimating songs from long ago
11. ‘Raising Sand’ (2007)
Never mind the Grammy stuff, this album will always be more important than it was satisfying. T Bone Burnett’s stripped-down production made everything sound lonesome and parched, while the material itself can be cloying. But working in that quiet space clearly gave Plant a chance to reevaluate his approach at the mic, opening the door for an era of far deeper vocal complexity.
10. ‘Fate of Nations’ (1993)
Often low-key, even wistful at times, ‘Fate of Nations’ requires multiple listens. Then the album reveals much as Plant takes a determinedly serious look at loss, politics, ecology and his past. You also get the first hint of what’s to come on his next all-covers project with a take on Tim Hardin’s ‘If I Were a Carpenter.’
9. ‘Walking into Clarksdale’ (1998)
As with their earlier live collaboration, ‘No Quarter,’ this Jimmy Page reunion includes moments that aspire to – and very nearly reach – summits Led Zeppelin once conquered. Plant is clearly interested in moving past that point, however, and there seems to be only so much creative spark left between him and his old partner.
‘Carry Fire’ features basically the same band – the Sensational Space Shifters – from 2014’s ‘Lullaby and … the Ceaseless Roar,’ as the typically restless Plant continues a period of stability. They create a similar sound too, blending musical styles from England, the U.S. and the Middle East. In this way, the album doesn’t feel like any great leap forward – until you fully explore its deeply personal, determinedly topical, and yet far more hopeful themes.
This album, like many covers projects, might have been seen as nothing more than a place-keeper, a water-treading, if passionate, project like the Honeydrippers. But his new band, Strange Sensation, excitedly blend Western and world music textures – the same textures that would propel Plant to some of his very best solo work in the years to come.
6. ‘Lullaby and … the Ceaseless Roar’ (2014)
Working with an updated version of the multi-cultural band he’d been kicking around with for a decade or so, Plant continues to explore the outermost edges of his creativity. ‘Lullaby’ builds on a series of late-career triumphs, giving no quarter to his oldest fans’ built-in expectations, while pushing into a new place where textures from both West and East merge — a place of remarkable scope and delicious intrigue.
After years of building a varied, if occasionally unfocused, solo career, Plant finally seemed ready to embrace his past again. No previous solo album had so directly referenced Led Zeppelin, right down to the presence of Jimmy Page on two cuts. But the main strength of ‘Now and Zen’ is that it never sounds retro. (There’s even a Zeppelin sample!) Fans responded in turn, making this Plant’s top-selling solo project.
Led Zeppelin? Too soon. On this delightful, roots-rocking throwback, Plant goes further back, back to a world that existed before the one he created with Jimmy Page. Plant and new producer Buddy Miller are willing to scuff things up in ways the too-reserved ‘Raising Sand’ never would, and the album is better for it. Patty Griffin’s heartfelt vocal contributions are better than Alison Krauss’ too.
3. ‘The Principle of Moments’ (1983)
Plant really didn’t change his approach to things on his second solo album. As with ‘Pictures at Eleven,’ he’s all over the place creatively, and he’s still dabbling in that period’s pristine pop sounds. But with standout moments like “Big Log,” “Other Arms” and “In the Mood,” Plant had finally found material that matched his outsized desire for something new.
2. ‘Manic Nirvana’ (1990)
After hiding behind so many contemporary sounds, from keyboards to sampling, in the ’80s, Plant finally was beginning to sound comfortable in his own skin. This album has every bit of the sex, humor and boundary-defying punch of Plant’s best work, but with more determined rock focus than he had even on the popular, but deeply modern, ‘Now and Zen.’
1. ‘Mighty ReArranger’ (2005)
Working again with the Strange Sensation, ‘Mighty ReArranger’ sounded like something John Lee Hooker would have played had the bluesman discovered Malian guitar style before hightailing it to Chicago. Plant had been mixing things up for years with Zeppelin, but there’s a forward-looking attitude — buoyed in part by Plant’s darkly focused and maturely cynical lyrics — that gives ‘Mighty ReArranger’ new sizzle.
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