Elvis Costello Fan Forum

At least Top Balcony’s fave song has reached No 1 in the Uk.

All is fine in MikeH towers, too. Working for the local authority and dealing with social care we are busier than ever and working from home. Thanks to Sulky and Top Balcony Junior for their work in these tough times. John Prine must have passed be by completely as I have not heard much by him - any...

Hi Sulky, as a song from the last century goes: “you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”

I have reduced the price of the Manchester ticket to £50 - or open to offers!!

Anyone who wants to buy a ticket for Manchester on 12/3?

Seat is Circle E32
Face value is £66.50

PM me if interested reasonable offer accepted!

Anyone going to Liverpool tonight who wants to buy a ticket for Manchester on 12/3?

Seat is Circle E32
Face value is £66.50

PM me if interested
I am sitting off soon but will check phone on arrival.

Mike H

Did Diana and the twins go? There’s usually a family photo at these events.

Could it be a classic album together with live versions from different years? So a live version of the album. Has that been done before?

Can we put the coat down to an error of judgement?

There was an instrumental during that snooker montage that has been driving me mad. Was it a Clash b side???

Great to meet up with Sulky and Sulky jr. How that young man resisted the Elvis tea towel is beyond me. Great show and the backing singers were thrilling. Funnily enough, She was a highlight for me along with Clubland and Tears.

Maybe Nick Lowe will sing Surrender to the Algorithm.

The recent death of Bruce Forsyth, the UK beloved entertainer, reminded me that when I went to the book launch of EC's autobiography at the Royal Court theatre in Liverpool, board member Top Balcony asked a question about EC's many appearances at that theatre and if he had any special memories. Elvi...

I that VB? My old pen pal?

I went to see Al Stewart last night with Tim Renwick on guitar. Tim is connected tenuously to the EC story having been in Quiver with Bruce, in Steve Nieve & the Playboys (the house band on the Jonathan Ross chat show) and he played on the Attractions album Mad About the Wrong Boy. Bruce also pl...

There is a link between Bruce's earlier books and Manchester United. I seem to remember that Cantona did a good Bruce Lee impression

I bet Sulky is just setting off now

I think he said something similar in Riot Act !!

We may now get the 1966 Italian Eurovision song!

I agree Sulky....but are you going anyway? Just hope he drops Side by Side!

Such a shame they didn't show the whole programme. It was a brave and potentially career destroying decision by Elvis but a great album. I would have liked to know what the Attractions' reaction was when he told them. Though they seemed to be enjoying the adventure.

Bizarrely, they were playing Mose Allison's Everybody's Crying Mercy in the Broadway shopping centre, Bradford at 8.30 this morning

Some thoughts on the Liverpool show - great to see some of the forum members, some I have met before and some new - thanks to Sulky for my brown envelope packed with goodies and Top Balcony for a potted history of the area! When TB said he was "off for a Jimmy", the look of bemusement of E...

The night after Liverpool Elvis has a day off, and Lucinda Williams is playing in Pocklington , near York. A good opportunity for a surprise encore appearance, perhaps?

I love all the songs that have been listed so far, but that is the great thing about Elvis, and about music in general, I suppose. Two songs I hate on an album I love, are The Big Light and Glitter Gulch, from KOA.