Keith Urban is doing something he has never done before. The 57-year-old is heading out on his High and Alive World Tour later next month, but the show will already feel a bit familiar to Urban. When he launched his HIGH residency in Las Vegas, he utilized the production for his tour, something he has never, ever done before.
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"I think one of the areas we really benefited with this tour was, we were doing a residency in Vegas, which started in October of last year, and then we wrapped it in February of this year," Underwood tells his record label.
"We went ahead and designed a hind-live production ahead of that show," he continues. "So, we could actually utilize all that production in Vegas, and start to get a feel for what we can do with it on stage. We've never gotten that opportunity before."
For Urban, it was a chance to see how his tour will work, before ever hitting the road.
"It was almost like getting previews in front of a live audience for the tour," he says. "It was great."
Keith Urban's High and Alive World Tour
Urban's High and Alive World Tour kicks off on May 22. He will be joined by Chase Matthew, Alana Springsteen and Karley Scott Collins for the tour. The production isn't the only thing new for Urban, whose last tour was The Speed of Now in 2022. Urban is also hitting the road with new band members, after letting some of his former band members go.
"It feels really good," Urban says of his new formation (via Country Now). "I've always followed the inner voice that says it's time to make a change in any area of my life and sort of just take the leap."
"I don't always know what I'm going to do next," he adds. "And there's something exhilarating about living that way and about performing that way. So again, we've been really lucky with this band."
Urban has a Top 40 hit at radio, with "Straight Line." The song is the first single from HIGH.
"It's a song that is really about recognizing that life can sometimes just become monotonous and routine. ... I wanted a song that was like an alarm clock going off to kind of wake up all of us and reclaim our life really. That's what 'Straight Line' is about," Urban explains.
