Elvis Costello Fan Forum

If he's singing off-key, it must be Verbal Gymnastics !!

Just got my vinyl copy (at last) with Femme Fatale and What Lewis Did. Just a minor quibble but, like Momofuku, what is the point in putting a single album out over 2 discs ? - at least with an "old-fashioned" album you got a continuity (not quite like CD admittedly) but the effect of havi...

I guess any comparison of performances and playing is always hugely subjective given that 32 years have passed since Elvis first played with a band that had Bruce on bass. I certainly agree that Davey's vocals are a bonus but if we're talking about bass playing then Bruce is the better improviser - ...

Fascinating - tell us how happy Bruce must have looked seeing EC play bass !!

Concert now up on dime courtesy of the great Mike Bodayle
Torrent #254139 Elvis Costello & the Sugarcanes - Ryman - Nashville TN - June 16, 2009

'Bold too well'.....must be a Manchester phrase.

Brilliant, Mr Foyle - I guess that puts them on a par in articulation with both Messers Gallagher

Perfectly summed up as far as I'm concerned - and I'll never forget seeing Pete Thomas look somewhat ashamed when The Imposters tried Human Hands on the second half of the UK 2005 tour and Davey didn't quite cut the mustard !

Thanks for the compliment, that was my recording. It's almost impossible to record Elvis with anything less than full soundboard equipment these days because of the incredible range of volume that he and whoever else is playing with him uses - and I'm not competent enough (or brave enough) to try an...

"Love Went Mad" turning Piccadilly into Brands Hatch"

Next word keeping this theme going of course Hammersmith - there are two but I don't want the Hammersmith Palais from London's Brilliant Parade I want a different Hammersmith

The Other End Of The Telescope "With a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin"
Next word - camptown

! another awesome night at the BEACON! 2 hours into the show, a security girl approached me saying "you're not recording right? we have security near the stage watching you. you'll be thrown out!" i shook my head "NO" and never turned SONY off. ah, the bronxapostle still got it! ...

Unlike John, I only managed 3 of the shows ( Barbican with VG, Manchester and Birmingham) but I came away from all of them with one main thought - WHY ? Over the past 4 years Elvis seems resolved to test the patience of the British fans to their limit and I think I can trace this back to the C/N tou...

I know Phil Lynott played at The Roundhouse on 15th or 16th April 1978 but I wasn't aware he played on the Portsmouth show, anyone know for sure ?

Having completed my "life's work" a couple of years ago when I finished transferring all my Costello live cassettes onto digital format, it seems the time has come to dispose of the cassettes. Rather than just pollute the planet by sending them all to landfill, I'm wondering if anyone out ...

11 hours to go and I'm listening to Picture At An Exhibition trying to record some varying EC concerts for the gathering hordes ! No sleep til Hammersmith (or Charing Cross Road at least) And I wont' be wearing the fantastic " 1/2 Years promo sweatshirt despie VG's encouragement

I would like to point out that I share the same birth date (though not birthday ) as John Lennon, whereas my Dad, a church organist, shares the same as Liberace and my brother's is August 9th which I think is the same as Pete Thomas. Of course my brother is a keyboard player and I'm a bassist - mayb...

Surely, Otis, you mean if Elvis could play the piano !!

I have two of these shows but not the Lone Star concert sadly, if anyone wants a copy - not great
quality recordings but what the hell.
I don't recall the mentioned concert ending in a medley but I've probably not listened to them for 10 years !

I'm now uploading this concert on dime. For those interested recorded at 48 kHz and 24 bit but converted down for dime to 16 bit 44.1 kHz on a Marantz PMD 620 flash recorder. Pretty good sound except for a couple of mike rustlings due to have to shift when latecomers squeezed past and a mad panic wh...

Hi, as Shanks said (apart from it's not a matter of life or death ....) I'm still trying to upload the show to dime. My problem is, I recorded it at 48 kHz, 24 bit and I can't seem to find a way to convert the recording to 16 bit 44.1 kHz. Can anyone advise how ? I've had a look on Nero, my usual wa...

Apart from some rustling as I adjusted the mike position, I can assure people my recording from last night is damn fine and is digital so please bear with me ,as I'm away on holiday for a week but it'll be up as soon as I get back.

Old question, I know, but did this (along with Kojak Variety and Painted From Memory ) ever get released on vinyl ?

I got my second vinyl copy of Get Happy in a tiny record shop in St. Austell in Cornwall when shopping with my aged great uncle and I bought From Head To toe and had the album given away for free. My father refused to go back in and buy a second single to get me a further single and free album. I bo...

It was great to see John, Misha, Colin, Nick and the lady who's name I didn't catch at the Philharmonic. John was the first person I recognised as I drove down Hope Street in the afternoon. He was looking dapper in fawn linen jacket and wasn't taking photographs as I zoomed past. Elvis seemed deligh...

Now uploading concert to dime - see you in Glasgow, John ?