Elvis Costello Fan Forum

PS Mettoy was founded in Northampton but is now based in Swansea - it's only made it more confusing !

PPS, David McCallum was born in Glasgow ( bingo and all praise to Wikipedia (sic))

I thought I knew a song from my dim and distant childhood called "I Belong To Glasgae" (the spelling meant to represent a cod- Scots accent as per BBC speak) but I couldn't find a reference anywhere on t'internet. Don't know where this ties into the Men From Uncle ( unless Elvis plans to p...

I'm sort of hoping the cancelled gigs from last year will make an appearance so this Thursday a picture of the statue of Francis Drake ( for Plymouth) please and a seagull shitting on someone's head for Southend ( sorry Sheep !! ) , thanks Elvis !

Cocktail Murderess wrote

....you loved every minute Sulky.......

I'm just glad my bladder held out after the show !

https://twitter.com/ElvisCostello/status/1161940598288347137?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Usher Hall, Edinburgh, no doubt - means a good chance to meet Spirit Of Curiosity, Cocktail Murderess, Kjell, Nicola and any other secret pervs for a rendezvous at that nightclub !! How...

When Mrs Sulky takes me to "the pictures" I end up in a darkened room but I have to wear a special jacket with my arms tied behind me and I never see any pictures on a screen

Just a quick Happy Birthday to Bruce.
Live long and prosper Bruce !

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See track on B-side !

ColinTB


Track 2 - B&C

Fantastic, well researched and pertinent review from Variety - which makes a real change to the "His Aim Is Still True" re-visits we have seen so often - well done and thanks, Chris !

Great, Rope Leash, really sorry you couldn't make Blondie/EC- I hope other opportunities come your way - but this is another mind blowing statement and much more to think about. It's a bit weird to turn Sixty and realize that most of your teenage suspicions have proven to be true. And even weirder t...

With reference to walk softly, I thought about Tread Softly instead - there is a film from 1952 about a murder in a derelict theatre starring Frances Day which has a pretty awful review on line and also the line appears in a poem by W.B. Yeates (The Cloths Of Heaven) who we all know is a favourite o...

KRM wrote [quote. Which then indicates me going to UK to hand them over.][/quote] You know I've never been to Sweden before ( Norway was such a disappointment last June, no snow !!) so maybe you've thrown the gauntlet down and Mohammed will have to come to the mountain ! I can see there's going to b...

Neil was nearly a no-show too - keeping us hanging on for a dramatic last minute entrance, no doubt. Perhaps Bruce was worried he'd have to keep us all in alcohol - though I thought most people were restrained. Like others have said, there was less Costello chat and more social interchanges but it w...

Docinwestchester wrote : EC: "If Elvis Presley had not of left us so swiftly, he would have made a huge career in the 1980's covering the songs of the '80's. I mean we could have lived without him singing the hits of Morrissey, I know, I admit that is true. But I have a long time held a theory ...

Weren't Jaguar cars built at Coventry as well ? That would tie in with the 1980 tour when they performed at Leamington Spa (only 11.6 miles away from Coventry.) I think you've missed the whole point here, the registration 709 UXU actually mean Pete Thomas was accidentally fired into space on a trip ...

Have a wonderful time, BA, what number EC is this ?!!
Hope there's at least a couple of new songs to add to your list

Interesting to see Elvis' name above Blondies and not "Down Among The Wines And Spirits" !

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Don’t worry about cameras, BA

I've seen Elvis 6 times at Nottingham over the years ( from 1996 onwards) and the strangest concert was the John Harle show when the audience was composed almost entirely of jazz fans who wanted to hear John Harle's sax playing. There were huge murmurs of discontent at the half time interval followi...

Sheeototheslaughter wrote:
[quoteI will book the tables at the pub for us early next week][/quote]
Hoorah !!
Looking forward to seeing you all !

No rare tracks from Trust then but Episode Of Blonde - a magnificent showcase for Steve's talents and probably extra special with backing singers - hope there's a recording somewhere

VG wrote

I never get decent stall seats at Hammersmith Apollo for Elvis gigs! Let's hope it's standing (big hope indeed )

If memory serve me right, the last time we saw Elvis there, you were down the front by about the 6th song

If this tour is going to be "Trust" based then maybe next year we could have a sort of countryish feel with some "Almost Blue" and "Delivery Man" tracks and these mentioned above would fit in fine with that sort of idiom.Not quite Sugarcanes but in that whole Americana ...