Just to cap off this old thread, EC tells all to the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3 ... 4#p7746677
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- Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Accidents/Arizona/ Mexico etc.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28063
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:08 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: The Complete Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition)
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1231546
Re: The Complete Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition)
I'm just popping in to take a victory lap for figuring out a couple of years ago that the Tucson cab driver story actually recounted the origins of "Busy Bodies", not "Accidents Will Happen". :D Receipts here: http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10747&...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:05 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
more so on your side of the atlantic. we stopped recognizing royalty almost 250 years ago. this continuing practice seems quaint by our cowboy standards. not trying to step on toes. Not true. I've done as much gassing about the subject as anyone here, and I'm on the left side of the Atlantic. I'm n...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:50 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
If he keeps posting it, we'll know it must be his new signature. As in, "Arbogast: A fucking disgrace. Full stop."verbal gymnastics wrote:You’ve posted this twice now. Is there something you’d like to get off your chest?Arbogast wrote:A fucking disgrace. Full stop.
In the words of Dr Frasier Crane, I’m listening...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:58 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Remedy Robinson's podcast about Elvis's lyrics.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8969
Re: Remedy Robinson's podcast about Elvis's lyrics.
Ok, Boomers.
The author also posts blog version, for those of you who can abide the podcast: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/
The author also posts blog version, for those of you who can abide the podcast: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
Thanks, Ulster Boy. I guess the fact that some civil servants receive honors upon retirement explains why some people cursed EC for accepting "honors for doing your job" -- although that wouldn't seem to apply to him.
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
Very eloquent debate. Thanks for the kind words, Ulster Boy, although some might regret your encouraging me. :wink: This gets back to the brawl you wandered into. Consider how all this has looked from the outside: "Hey, this guy whose music we all like just got some kind of state honour for hi...
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:56 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
I expect you must be right, although it surprises me. EC is a multi-millionaire rock star with an official website containing links to his 'store' where you can buy all manner of stuff, loads of promotional and advertising sections as well as his blogs/posts. I would be surprised if he was running ...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:28 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
OK. Wouldn't dispute any of that. I would dispute the idea that EC might be 'surprised, bemused and conflicted' but simultaneously carefully calculating how best to 'make the most of his social media engagement in the wake of this newsworthy event'. I'm being open and honest here. If he was truly '...
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
Hawksmoor, Maybe you're just a guy who wandered into the bar just as the brawl was winding down and got himself pasted for his trouble. On the other hand, you did call EC "pathetic", which is a pretty obnoxious thing to say about anybody, so maybe you should have known better -- or at leas...
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:08 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
My dearest Hawksmoor, To put it nicely, you may want to consider the possibility that EC's Facebook and other communications are not intended exclusively for the consumption of the tiny subset of his fans that feel substantially conflicted or negative about his accepting the OBE. Furthermore, to put...
- Sun Jun 23, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
Reason #837 EC will never, ever move back to England.Hawksmoor wrote: ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:33 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello OBE
- Replies: 95
- Views: 346966
Re: Elvis Costello OBE
The process in its shorter form can take around 6- 9 months (there are exceptions where e.g. a sports team wins a big international tournament, then there is some fast tracking). I have an uneasy feeling that ECs (mis) reported illness last summer may have been the trigger for this. Ulster Boy wins...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:14 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Universal vault fire: Were any EC tapes lost?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14613
Re: Universal vault fire: Were any EC tapes lost?
Because Universal lied about it for years and the recent NYT article is the first widely published, comprehensive account.MOJO wrote:This happened in 2008? Why are we flashing back to this story when the whole world is ready to go up in flames with the various bozos we have leading/running our countries.
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:48 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: A Girls Girls Girls mystery
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18249
Re: A Girls Girls Girls mystery
Sort of timely, too, as "Performance" was directed by Nicholas Roeg, who recently departed this plane of existence. Here's how the song appeared in the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr76UV4sESg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr76UV4sESg
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:03 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis & Imposters, private gig in New York, NY, November 18, 2018
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9541
Re: Elvis & Imposters, private gig in New York, NY, November 18, 2018
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 m...
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:07 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis & Imposters, private gig in New York, NY, November 18, 2018
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9541
Re: Elvis & Imposters, private gig in New York, NY, November 18, 2018
I'm not normally sniffy about these things, but, jeez, Amway? What's next, the Church of Scientology?
I hope EC and his entire crew made out with as big a sack of cash as they could carry.
I hope EC and his entire crew made out with as big a sack of cash as they could carry.
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:48 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello cancels tour after surgery to remove 'aggressive' tumour
- Replies: 39
- Views: 55403
Re: Elvis Costello cancels tour after surgery to remove 'aggressive' tumour
Thank you, docinwestchester. I hadn't realized you were an actual doc, in Westchester.
- Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:24 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis on Tiswas, doing the water bucket challenge, January 1980
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16317
Re: Elvis on Tiswas, doing the water bucket challenge, January 1980
Did this get taken down already?
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:20 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Accidents/Arizona/ Mexico etc.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28063
Re: Accidents/Arizona/ Mexico etc.
I think I might have solved this mystery. Back when we had this discussion, I had the idea that EC probably was correctly remembering having an unhappy tryst with a Tucson taxi driver and then skulking back to his hotel feeling like a miserable, no-good, philandering bastard and writing a song abou...
- Sat May 12, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New Elvis/Burt Bacharach songs!!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 89698
Re: New Elvis/Burt Bacharach songs!!
I'm too lazy to go hunt for it now, but I do remember Elvis saying, in an interview that came out shortly before news of the new album broke, that he was itching to record some of the new songs he'd written with Burt.
- Mon May 07, 2018 6:59 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: EC plays corporate gig in New Jersey, May 4, 2018
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12915
Re: EC plays corporate gig in New Jersey, May 4, 2018
Good guess.stricttime81 wrote:What do you think EC pulls in for a gig like that? $100k?
http://www.eventresourcespresents.com/a ... 096/name/1
Elvis Costello; $75K-$150K; Pop / Rock / Alternative
- Thu May 03, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New Orleans JazzFest
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9850
Re: New Orleans JazzFest
Close...but, i give closest to mirroring Elvis' career to PAUL WELLER!!! I can see that POV, but I was thinking of audience size/reach as well as creative output. Paul Weller doesn't really have a career to speak of in the US. David Byrne fills the same sized, and sometimes the exact same, halls as...
- Thu May 03, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New Orleans JazzFest
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9850
Re: New Orleans JazzFest
Thanks for posting, ice nine. I was reflecting recently that Byrne was probably EC's most direct peer: "new wave" (quote-unquote) star who just kept moving creatively. I'm going to try to check out Byrne's show when it comes to my town, if I can get a decent ticket.
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:50 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: What did he say? (Royal Oak, MI 1978)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9393
Re: What did he say? (Royal Oak, MI 1978)
The supect the humor may have been largely visual. The footage doesn't capture said guy, but he may have been notably goofy-looking/acting.