Elvis Costello Fan Forum

The Doc wrote

When that happens, we will celebrate with a preshow gathering.

As an Evertonian, she doesn’t need acting lessons to show disappointment and emotional let downs

Thanks, BA
One day I'll be in NY for a Costello show - that's a promise not an aspiration !!

I've just discovered the rider that The Imposters wrote for the performance at John's house : No talking about Brexit and the hard border No ironing No weeding No surprise visits from other male or female inhabitants of Dublin ! An organised "mystery trip" around Dublin, visiting old haunt...

I'd have bought a ticket for a concert in John 's house and hoped for a recording but the audience chatter would be too noisy

Fishfinger King wrote Sulky, I've got both Painted From Memory and the 45X2 Get Happy!! LPs from Mobile Fidelity and enjoy them very much. Have all the old 70s and 80s albums on original vinyl - but opinion seems to vary as to whether the Mobile Fidelity remasters are any better than original UK vin...

He should have used a picture of a surly Elvis from 78 and a current one with a question mark after the Now ?
But there again, I'm a scientist so what do I know about art -" I don't know much about art but I know what I like" ( a la John Cleese as the pope in Monty Python)

My only copy of Look Now is the 12 track vinyl which I then recorded onto an audio only CD-R and it sounds great on both formats - I have always come back to vinyl as my primary source (except for a certain number of live recordings - gulp) and the reissues on mobile fidelity have been mind-boggling...

Train ticket bought, return from Plymouth to Paddington £43 !!
Might be able to stand VG and Neil a drink !!

John Foyle wrote Hmmm...prices , including postage to Europe, ranging from €95 to €130....no, thanks. I was put off buying the green vinyl double LP because of the stupid import and postage costs still we'll all be better off here in the U.K. after Brexit for imports :roll: Seems like the U.S. colle...

Hawksmoor wrote . Get Happy!! By a country mile, and clearly the greatest long-player of popular music ever recorded. Most of Elvis' other LPs are still miles better than anybody else's, but there is clear blue water between this and the rest. An astonishing achievement that thrills me to this day, ...

Get Happy!
Get Happy!
Get Happy!
Blood And Chocolate
Blood And Chocolate



Seriously though -
Get Happy!
Blood And Chocolate
Trust
Brutal Youth
Mighty Like A Rose/North/Painted From Memory
the latter really really close depending on mood/circumstances etc

I'd also point out that VG and Frankie Boyle have never been seen in the same room at the same time

Sheeptotheslaughter wrote

I saw that Goon Squad, probably James has been hanging out with VG too much

wardo68 wrote: I found it satisfactory at best, .... Am I the only one here who doesn't think Look Now is a masterpiece? I'm with Colin here too, don't get me wrong, I enjoy it quite a lot and have no issues with it compared to some others - for example I think it's quite a bit better than ATUB, bu...

Barring any disasters with my elderly father and uncle, I will be there !

I like it "Rope" - you've just put in a strong case fora screenwriter job !!

Jardine wrote lowish fidelity recordings !!! I’ll have you know this was Sounds professional microphones into 24 but digital recording my lad not a Boots the chemist cassette recorder stuffed up an anorak Like I did in the 70s :shock: :wink: I can’t quite work out why he sometimes sounds flat either...

Lovely to see Elvis looking cool and happy - stay that way a long time please !

John Foyle wrote

The performance in 2015 of I Let The Sun Go Down can heard via this -
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... 25_Cardiff

I blush at the acknowledgement of who made this recording available to you all!!!

Back in 2005 I followed Elvis and the Imposters around for a few gigs and became friendly with Welsh Dave, the sound man and used to get the occasional setlist off him and once approached him as he was taking a CD out of the mixing desk. He caught my eye and slowly shook his head, obviously knowing ...

ANCT Wrote

or will it have to wait for the eventual UK dates?

You're just winding us up aren't you, unless you've got some insider information !!

MOOT has encapsulated perfectly a response I'd been trying to put together for several weeks. Apart from a slight difference in opinion on great bootlegs ( live At The Palomino 1979 and Hope And Anchor 1980), he's absolutely spot on !!

Nice to see most of the forum members depicted in the crowd scene, though I think Ensor has over emphasised the size of my nose !!

erey wrote I'm not normally sniffy about these things, but, jeez, Amway? What's next, the Church of Scientology? My sentiments exactly - and I'll bet whatever turnover Amway make in the next millennium you'd never catch VG making the cheesey hand gesture seen in the second photo just because he's ma...