Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Would have been great if the whole show had been recorded - if only to see the mad fans bombarding the stage with beer cans and Elvis just playing to try and calm them down as reported by Allan Jones in the Melody Maker:
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... y_11,_1981

Great stories, BA I remember waiting outside after one show and Paddy rolling his eyes and saying "What, you again !" but he never gave me any grief and always let me meet Elvis. Never had any issues with Chris though I'm not as friendly with him as VG. And BA, surely a man of the world li...

Thanks - it’s an enjoyable read. I never had the dubious pleasure of meeting Jake, but have always found the band, Frankie (Steve’s technician), Paddy and now Chris to be great. Jill Taylor was always very nice to me, very approachable and very chatty. That’s one of the joys of having a recognisabl...

KRM wrote

I know a good place for a beer after the show.....

KRM wrote

I plan to be there

Party time in Edinburgh !!

MOOT wrote: Anyone going ?

Tickets start at $1,250, but that does include Cocktails and Dinner.

After all the tour tickets this seems quite a snip

I took my son to the Nottingham show and he thought the show was OK ( it was his fourth or fifth Elvis show - gradual indoctrination on my pat) but his clearest recollection was the awful sound - I think that's where I said to Pete all i could hear was bass and drums and he replied "What's wron...

Having failed to score decent seats at a couple of shows via the Pre-sale site, I've now scored much better ones ( ie 5 -8 rows closer ) on the Ticketmaster or ATG sites - which is rubbish isn't it ? for example London still available for Row H admittedly a bit pricey but ...............

I'll be there !

I too wondered about how many more treks around the UK Elvis ( and I ) could sustain. You could understand him maybe doing a series of nights in the RAH in London and then a night in Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow or Edinburgh in future - I just hope his health holds up and that this isn'...

verbal gymnastics wrote:Perhaps Elvis himself has put a block on it. Or the local police

It's the motorway police I'm more scared of

No - bloody Nat West blocking me on my own card - probably lost a couple of decent seats now !!

Now AEG seem to be rejecting every form of payment that i can muster - couldn't buy Manchester, or Oxford with one of two credit cards or Paypal - rubbish considering how much I've put their way

OK I've used up all my birthday and Christmas credit and so far Southampton E16, Nottingham B24, Sunderland I8, Sheffield Circle C57 ( standards dropping here !)Edinburgh - probably front row courtesy ExtremeHoney, (thanks very much), Cardiff CC32 ( I hope I manage to find the bleeding Millenium Cen...

Despite many fans advancing years, I imagine quite a few more tickets might shift if they were a bit cheaper and standing - still, it's early days and I've not entered the fray yet !!!

Beautiful and heartfelt - shame it somehow sounds a little like an obituary!

Following Fishfinger King's post about Elvis avoiding Norwich, I wonder what the support band from that night are doing now - they were all about 14 years old ( and so late twenties now) and were clearly petrified about playing in front of such a huge ( for them, presumably) crowd! I remember the wa...

There you go , I’ve always liked Elvis’s Big Band songs like That’s How You Got Killed Before and Eisenhower Blues - never seen either live as far as I can recall

Never been to Sunderland so could be one of my little haunts

Obviously Elvis knows the outcome of Brexit and won’t visit the subcontinent of Eire and also that by March £1 will be worth about 25 cents or 2% of a Euro !

That's a great comment - Wise Up Thought is pretty unlistenable for me though I do like Wise Up Ghost - it's just the remixes remind me of the 1983 Everyday remixes and re-releases - awful !

Annual leave already booked but horrible itinerary - criss-crossing the country north to south and east to west ! Still pleased all my favourite cities are covered even if not my favourite venues ( Cardiff, Sheffield, Bimingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Oxford. ) Sadly, no Southend or Pl...

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On Look Now i think is the best album Elvis has made with the Impostors by a country mile.

To my ears Delivery Man takes that particular biscuit.

Now for me that particular Custard Cream goes to Momofuku !

Could it be a reference to Sheffield as Pete is originally from Sheffield and he adopted a Bond-like pose in the photos given away with Armed Forces with the flash sports car and two blonde lovelies ? It's about the only connection I can make however tenuous
I'm struggling to be honest !!

Today;s post
https://twitter.com/ElvisCostello?ref_s ... r%5Eauthor
"Everything he touches turn to excitement" -
must be a gig at VG's house
Though to be honest, the poster looks like Goon Squad hanging onto his bottle of Stella

Recently had contact from someone selling Costello stuff - he's no longer quite as infatuated as I am, and he recalled seeing Elvis and The Attractions at the Top Rank Suite in Sheffield in 1978 on April 5th and apparently after the concert had ended, a lighting rig crashed onto the stage and wiped ...