Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I've seen a few things at the Castlefield Bowl and I think it's not a bad outdoor venue and doesn't feel like it has an 8,000 capacity. Sound has been good, easy to see the stage, plenty of good food and drink places nearby.

No comfy seats though!

From 'No particular place' onwards this was top drawer.

"Like you've all come round to my house to hear some new songs"

Well that was rather wonderful. I was slightly worried that it might end up as a 'Detour with band' night, but no, definitely no. [Don't get me wrong I loved the Detour shows] Sound was a bit echoey from where I was to start but hit the spot from 'Flutter and Wow' onward - in fact a lot of the eveni...

Absolutely wonderful, brings a smile to my face hearing these tracks and not understanding a word of them.

Erich's XTC covers are also pretty entertaining too.

This was on Sky Arts last night!

I only know as I've got Live from the Artists Den on series record, though the "series" is pretty sporadic. What I saw was good, but the bloody YouView box only managed to record half of it

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/ Elvis is referenced a few times in the latest issue of The Word (May '12). '... Finally , a review by David Quantick( p.95) of Here Comes Everybody:The Story of The Pogue s by ( Pogue member) James Fearnley notes 'There's special, and fairly critical, mention for Elvi...

All the clips seem to be at Erics in Liverpool.

If you have a talktalk YouView box you get Sky Arts for free.

Late goal for Morton today

My Elvis watching over the years has usually been when he plays Liverpool or Manchester. I was at the recent (Manchester) Bridgewater Hall gig, somewhere he has played some excellent gigs before (though I must admit the John Harle in 1996 one was er, difficult!). I think one of the factors in him pl...

Wonderful, marvellous, "The Ken Dodd of Manchester" someone said behind me (which was in the direction of Bradwellboy - good call on 3 Sons by the way) as he started yet another song. It felt like it could go on forever with great surprises (Dr Luther's Assistant I KNOW!!). That big yellow...

Very enjoyable. A 90 minutes that has seen fit to be watched again several times for me. Of course there were things missed out, you can't please all the people... But it was so good to see something that didn't just lazily concentrate on 77-82. Someone up thread remarked about it helped 'get Elvis'...

Was a little strange, it didn't quite get going for me until 'Tokyo Storm Warning' and then we were off! Plenty of highlights, loved 'Sleep of the Just' and 'She'. Almost seemed to me that he went into the Greatest Hits section too early, that there should have been another spin of the wheel. Did he...

Tis a long time since I've been to an EC gig as good as this one was. Both me and Mrs Worth have been grinning all day and eliciting memories of a wonderful 2 hours and 40 minutes! Many, many highlights, the Josephine section, the Trust/imperial Bedroom themed segment, a fantastic National Ransom, j...

Excellent cwr!

I shall be there. Really looking forward to it! I wasn't there in 2002 at the Apollo, but I had been at the Kings Dock show in Liverpool a couple of moths earlier and been disappointed for the first time at a Costello gig, he seemed tired and weary. As a consequence, despite the pleading of a fellow...

Phew! Removing lots of other commitments from the diary has meant delaying purchase of tickets until now. Have got to say am most impressed the http://www.bookingsdirect.com site mentioned on the posters and http://www.elviscostello.com found three close to the front of the circle tickets at Manches...

Excellent stuff, mucho big smiles as this was passed round my friends on a iPhone in the pub last night.

Christmas single?

Sounds like a Friday night on BBC 4 programme, if they haven't scrapped it be then. Maybe Elvis Costello night. 21.00 This doc 22.30 Elvis at the bbc :D :lol: Would be worth looking forward to - perhaps he could do a "Songwriters Circle" show as well? [Nick Lowe is doing one on 30 Sep by ...

Some great links up thread to keep me listening and watching for the last hour, thanks! Nick Lowe European Tour dates: 15 Dec 2011 Sala El Loco Valenicia 16 Dec 2011 Sala Heneiken Madrid 17 Dec 2011 Santana 27 Bilbao 09 Feb 2012 Paradiso Amsterdam 15 Feb 2012 Vicar Street Dublin 21 Feb 2012 The Stab...

Many years ago a good friend of mine found himself backstage after an EC gig and in the presence of the great man for the first time. Desperate to have more than a brief "hello" he blurted out the first thing that came into his head "What do you think of Linda Ronstadt?" He was m...

I prefer the production on SP&S, but the songs of NR. So what I really want is a studio recording of the show I saw in Liverpool. Yep, that was a good show in Liverpool! National Ransom, simply by virtue of the fact that I am happy to listen to it all the way through in the car. SP&S isn't ...

'King of America' and 'Delivery Man' are the most expansive and rich to me when listening on headphones, 'Goodbye Cruel World' is cack - ClangerWinstanley did nothing for the EC sound. Echoing comments made earlier, I find the sense of fun on 'Get Happy' and 'Momofuku' infectious. For some reason I ...

I think Elvis' studio recordings of "Step Inside Love" and "Hide Your Love Away" are pretty great. The former is an obscurity, but the latter one is about as beloved as any classic Beatles track, and yet EC manages to do a faithful cover that still sounds fresh and fun. I quite ...

I've recently seen the reformed Monochrome Set, well worth it!
Just bought tickets to see Roddy Frame (with a band) later this year.

As things go with almost any band/artiste these days there is something up on DIME within a few days of almost any gig. But, going by tales told to me by someone who has uploaded a number of his boots (none EC by the way!) to DIME, the downloads figures are not that high and often the majority are m...