Elvis Costello Fan Forum

What with being to busy having a good time to go online and all that I'm only catching up up with things here. I've little to add to previous accounts except that it seems to have been the most thorough of the various engagements to promote the book. Elvis's comment re Cait was one of his more emph...

Well, no wonder. That's a six-letter word.

The book is up in the charts this week. From #9 to #7 and the New York Times hardcover list and #15 to #13 on the combined print and and ebook list.

I'd say we have a hit here.

Arbogast wrote:Wait...what's the "expletive deleted"? You can't print a profanity?

What are we, five years old?

I'm so out of it, I can't even figure out what the naughty 5-letter word is supposed to be.

Is there any way to listen to this if you don't subscribe to Sirius?

(hint, hint... )

I'm through about 5 chapter and finding it really enjoyable. One of many interesting things: EC quotes some lyrics from "Man Out of Time" as follows: "To murder, my love, is a crime" The addition of commas completely changes the meaning of the lyric in a way I hadn't thought of....

Well, this is just weird. People on other fora have been commenting on how good he looks these days and how unflappable he has been on the book tour stops, some of which have hit a few snags. Example: The interviewer at the NYPL appearance was pretty much a disaster (in a benign sort of way), but EC...

John, thank you for sharing that piece from the WSJ- of the many that I have read, it comes off as a balanced assessment and knowledgeable at the same time. Well, knowledgeable for a review that gets Ross's(!) name wrong and turns EC's uncle into an aunt. I thought the WSJ review was one of the lea...

charliestumpy wrote:A discography etc would have been nice too.

Maybe there's one on the internet somewhere.

COSTELLO: I don’t read exclusively about musicians, but two of my favorite books are memoirs by musicians, one by the composer Hector Berlioz and “Beneath the Underdog” by the jazz bassist Charles Mingus. I was wondering what EC considered a really first-rate memoir by a musician. Unfortunately, I'...

"No Star" gets mentioned, and quoted, in the memoir. EC says it was written around the same time as, and is of a piece with, "Poison Moon" and "Jump Up": The last in this group of songs was a more ambitious piece called “No Star,” about the absence of any lucky, guiding...

I was hoping there was a way to take the Spotify playlist and dump it out as a text list of song titles and artists. I don't feel like signing up for Spotify to get a look.

Anyone going to this one?

http://www.bookcourt.com/events/elvis-costello

**NB: Only copies of Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink purchased at the event will be signed. No other items will be signed. Two signed books guaranteed per customer. Doors open at 6:30pm.**

Can someone who has Spotify give us a list of the songs, if that's not too much of a PitA?

Hornby it is. Just officially announced on EC's Facebook page.

Tweet from Wise Up Ghost co-producer Steven Mandel: Missed a chance to hang out with @elviscostello at @ElectricLady proving once again I can oversleep for ANYTHING. @mariacscali https://twitter.com/StevenMandel/status/653334301593989120 Filming some book promo thing? The mariascali he's tweeting a...

I'm not sure the reviewer's version of the Accidents will happen story is correct, going by the way Elvis has told the story onstage in the last year. Still, I haven't read the book. I haven't read the book, either, but I think we got the family-friendly version of the story from the stage. Reminds...

So, one tiny error per 10,000 words, is it? For a homeopathic dilution of one hundred parts per million...

You're welcome to hope in your heart of hearts for a performance, BA, but the interwebs tell me this is how B&N at Union Square normally handles book signings for big name authors. For example, see these Yelp reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/barnes-and-noble-new-york-3?q=signing Excerpt of one: ...

There's no interviewer listed for this one because this is a book signing. So is the one on October 14 at Bookcourt in Brooklyn. The rest of the book promo dates, including the two in the UK, are interviews where you have the option to buy a pre-signed book.

The memoir completes its tour of the big US book trade journals, with reviews in Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Booklist gave it a starred review and put it on its list of Best Adult Nonfiction of 2015. Interestingly, they also recommend it for "young adults" (that is, teenagers, usually ...

Billingham is all excited about his upcoming date with Elvis:

http://www.purplerevolver.com/music/new ... rpool.html

The "enhanced ebook" version of the memoir sounds like it could account for both of these songs being registered now: http://www.penguin.com/book/unfaithful-music-and-disappearing-ink-deluxe-by-elvis-costello/9780399576591 Specifically: "The deluxe eBook edition of Elvis Costello’s Un...

Yeah, he specifies "he offered me the chance to come in and make some solo recordings while he twiddled the dials. I would get a demo reel out of the deal." He then mentions that Robinson "hatched a scheme to record Flip City for a one-off single of "Third Rate Romance," a ...

I was almost hoping the interviewer might be London resident, fellow recent memoirist, and EC's contemporary and sometime pal -- Chrissie Hynde. She could give him some tips on how to make internet-melting remarks to help shift copies.