Hall & Oates will be presented this 2021 at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth

Hall & Oates’ John Oates, the multi-platinum soul-pop duo behind hits like “Private Eyes,” “Rich Girl,” and “Maneater,” is eager to get back on stage and ready to receive an extra-strong backlash from the crowd.

“I think there will definitely be an energy that will be unique. No one has ever experienced a time like this in the modern world, “the musician told The Associated Press. “Honestly, this is the longest period that I haven’t played live in my entire professional career.”

Hall & Oates was due to go on tour in 2020, but only managed to give a concert at Madison Square Garden in late February before restrictions due to the covid-19 pandemic closed the concert halls of the United States.

“We really had a great show planned. And since we had invested time and energy in that show, we basically put it on hiatus. Now we bring it back because no one has really seen it, ”Oates said.

The new tour begins Thursday in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and includes stops in cities such as Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Denver, Los Angeles and Honolulu, before ending with two shows, on December 3 and 4, in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Squeeze and KT Tunstall will join the duo at certain concerts.

In North Texas they will perform on Tuesday, September 28 at 7 pm at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. Tickets start from $ 39.50 + fees at Ticketmaster.com

“Every day will be a new day,” Oates said. “You know, we don’t know what the world will bring us next month. We are going to keep going and doing what we can ”.

Since the early 1970s, the Philadelphia duo have topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart six times with singles including “Kiss on My List” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).” They also went six platinum records for their high sales and ranked many other Top 10 songs, including “Sara Smile” and “She’s Gone.”

Fans can expect them to play all of these hits live. Hall & Oates are not the type of group to shrug off their previous work or distance themselves from commercial successes. He knows that thanks to them the rooms are filled.

“We have the unbelievably good problem of having a lot of hits,” Oates said. “We love those songs. Trust me, it’s not a difficult task to play those songs because they are really cool. And they obviously speak for themselves because they stood the test of time. “

When you look at the audience, he said, you see more than adults who reveled in his music decades ago. You see teens and tweens, thirties and forties, people “from all walks of life,” who come for the music.

“They are well crafted pop songs. They seem to have a connection that is not tied to a period of time. You know, they don’t sound old and nostalgic, ”he said. “They seem to evoke the same response in young children today as they did when they were new in the ’70s and’ 80s.”

And he jokingly adds that one of his melodies fits perfectly with the current mood for covid-19. “We have a song called ‘Out of Touch’ that I think is totally appropriate.”

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