Bob Dylan Opens Lights of Autumn in Oslo With Two Live Debuts and a Rewritten “Tangled Up In Blue”

Bob Dylan opened his Lights of Autumn tour on October 17, 2026 at Oslo Spektrum in Norway with a 19-song set that carried two live debuts, Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” and Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues,” plus the first “Crash On The Levee” since 2005, the first “Tangled Up In Blue” since 2018, and a new guitarist on stage, reportedly Mike Seal.

Dylan, born May 24, 1941, is 85. He played the whole night from the keyboard, according to Stereogum. Oslo Spektrum ran the sold-out show as a phone-free concert with Yondr, locking every phone in a pouch at the door. The tour runs 30 dates through December 8 in London. In a room like that, the setlist is the news, and Dylan wrote plenty of it.

What did Bob Dylan play in Oslo?

The night opened with “To Be Alone With You” and “Man In The Long Black Coat” and closed with “I Shall Be Released.” The band stayed on stage while Dylan stepped off, and he returned for an encore of “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.” Tom Wilkins, reviewing for Ray Padgett’s Flagging Down the Double E’s, left whether that was his first encore in years “to others to discuss.”

The covers carried the surprises. Besides the Newman and Clark debuts, the set held “I Can Tell,” “Share Your Love With Me” and Charlie Rich’s “I’ll Make It All Up To You.” From the catalog came “Crash On The Levee,” the Basement Tapes song cut in 1967 and first played live in 1995, per Far Out, and “Tangled Up In Blue” with rewritten verses.

Who is in Bob Dylan’s band now?

Flagging Down named the lineup that walked out: Tony Garnier, Anton Fig, Joel Paterson, and a second guitarist “that some were speculating was” Mike Seal, the Nashville player known for work with John Hiatt. Neither outlet had an official confirmation as of October 2026, so treat the name as reported. Stereogum framed it plainly: “As we all know, Dylan’s been rotating his guitarists this year.” By its count Seal is the sixth of the year, after Doug Lancio, Bob Britt, Julian Lage, Joel Paterson and Jad Tariq.

At 85, Dylan still changes the words to one of his best-loved songs in front of a room that was asked not to film it.

Why does a phone-free room make the setlist the record?

Yondr nights are a bet on attention. Oslo even added lanyards for the pouches, something Wilkins said he had not seen before. Clips still surfaced (Stereogum transcribed its lyrics from uploaded video), but the fuller account came the old way: a reviewer in the room, a setlist marked “live debut” and “first since 2005,” and fans comparing notes after. It is the opposite of the industry push to film and package every show, the trend we covered as Spotify chases live concert streams. Dylan’s version of the superfan is simply the person who showed up.

“Oslo bodes very well for the rest of the tour,” Wilkins wrote. It was Dylan’s only Norway show this year and his first there since 2022, per the venue.

Where does the Lights of Autumn tour go next?

The remaining dates as listed on bobdylan.com, as of October 2026. The five London nights are Dylan’s first at the Royal Festival Hall since 1964, Padgett noted.

Gothenburg is next, on October 19. Whether Newman and Clark stay in the set, or new debuts arrive, will be decided the same way it was in Oslo: by whoever is in the room.