It’s been a long time since Robert Plant regularly performed in nightclubs. Led Zeppelin exploded in the late 1960s, and Mr. Plant, the band’s vibrant singer, has been an arena and stadium artist since then, seldom playing anything smaller than a big theater. But Mr. Plant has decided to do a midnight show on Thursday at Brooklyn Bowl, adding an extra date to a short tour to promote his new album, “lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar,” said Peter Shapiro, the club’s co-founder and impresario.
Through a publicist, Mr. Plant put out a statement saying he added the show because he “can’t get enough” of performing. “Any place, anywhere, anytime,” he said. “Just gotta get it out.” Tickets will go on sale at 3 p.m. Tuesday on the Brooklyn Bowl website. They will cost $125 each. The club holds 800 people.
Mr. Plant, 66, plays these days with a mostly English backing band he calls the Sensational Space Shifters. His current set is a mix of originals, American blues and folk songs, interspersed with Led Zeppelin hits. His band infuses its blues-rock core with African and Celtic elements.
Mr. Plant started the current tour on Sept. 25 in Port Chester, N.Y., at the Capitol Theater, another of Mr. Shapiro’s performance spaces. Then he played two nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 50th anniversary of his label, Nonesuch. It was during his two-day stay that Mr. Plant and some of his band members visited Brooklyn Bowl, the psychedelic club, which features a bowling alley next to its stage and dance floor. The backing musicians bowled while Mr. Plant, apparently unrecognized by the public, took in part of a burlesque show, Mr. Shapiro said. A few days later he agreed to play the space.
The show on Thursday will be late, with a published start time of midnight, because Mr. Plant has plans to appear on “The Colbert Report,” on Comedy Central, earlier in the day.
Mr. Plant defined arena rock stardom as the golden-haired, high-voiced, wailing and howling frontman for Led Zeppelin, but he has had a long and varied solo career since them, veering off the commercial rock path into roots music and other genres. On his evocative new album, he not only taps American, Celtic, Middle Eastern and African folk styles, but also makes use of electronic elements — loops and programmed music — to transform the sound.
The album is Mr. Plant’s first solo effort since 2005’s “Mighty ReArranger.” In 2007, he released “Raising Sand,” a collaboration with Alison Krauss that explored American country and folk elements. Then, in 2010, he put out “Band of Joy,” another Americana collaboration, with the guitarist Buddy Miller and singer-songwriter Patty Griffin. He also reunited with Led Zeppelin for a single concert in 2007 at the 02 Arena in London. “Celebration Day,” the 2012 film and album documenting the concert, won a Grammy for best rock album. In June, Led Zeppelin released remastered versions of its first three albums.
A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Monday about a concert by Robert Plant scheduled for Thursday night at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, using information from the club, referred incorrectly in some editions to ticket sales. While tickets will be available on Brooklyn Bowl’s website, they will not be available at the club’s box office.