“Rebel Yell” in an open-air shed on a summer Friday night is about as close to a sure thing as live rock gets — and Billy Idol is bringing exactly that to Scranton when his It’s A Nice Day To… Tour Again! North American run kicks off at the Pavilion at Montage Mountain on Friday, August 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM. Opening night of a tour carries its own charge, and this one starts right here.
Idol arrives in a genuine victory-lap year. In April 2026 he was named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2026 — going in on his second nomination, alongside his longtime guitarist and creative foil Steve Stevens, with the induction ceremony set for November. That recognition has been a long time coming for an artist whose sneer and platinum spikes have been MTV-era shorthand for rock-and-roll attitude for forty years.
This isn’t a nostalgia act coasting on the catalog, either. Idol released Dream Into It in April 2025 on Dark Horse Records and BMG — his ninth studio album and his first new full-length in over a decade, since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground. So expect fresh material threaded through the anthems you came for: “White Wedding,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Dancing With Myself,” and the title-borrowing “Rebel Yell” that gives the tour its name.
The support slot is no afterthought. Devo — the art-punk provocateurs behind “Whip It” and a whole visual language of energy domes and de-evolution — open the night, which makes this a doubleheader of two acts that helped define what the early MTV era looked and sounded like. Get there early; you’ll want to be in your spot before the first synth hits.
The Pavilion at Montage Mountain is a true summer amphitheater tucked into the hills outside downtown Scranton, the kind of open-air room built to let a big rock catalog breathe across both the covered seats and the lawn. It’s an easy reason to point the car south for an evening.
Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.