Elvis Costello Fan Forum

EC, Nick Lowe and Pete Thomas

I think EC mentioned the Count John McCormack version of Mighty like a rose

Thanks! PM sent

Couple of other less positive things I picked up on:

- he ruled out releasing complete live shows, also saying he had no interest in Dicks Picks style releases
- he hinted that he knows his intonation/tuning is ‘off’ but dismissed it as an issue, citing Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday

I have booked for this. CD arrived on the Monday after the official release date.

Same date as the Q&A with Janice Long

On mine it’s a tear on the top right corner of the cd wallet (front).

My CD came today at last (whilst the vinyl is obviously absent) and I opened the card cover, pinched the sides to get out the pamphlet to have a read and the cardboard split - how cheap and nasty is that ! It means I'll have to go to the nearest HMV after lock down and shoplift an empty cover now, ...

Just some musings on the live cuts on the SDE (based on the versions that are streaming, I don’t have the vinyl!). Live at Hollywood High June 78 – all familiar stuff as these have been released before. The nine tracks (and one from the Washington Feb 78 show) are the same ones as issued on the Rhin...

The tracks from the Sydney 1978 show on the Armed Forces super deluxe edition are terrific, so.... would any kind soul out there have access to the bootleg of part if that show? PM welcome!

I did, hard to judge given the low quality of the YouTube clip. Nothing dramatic stands out.

On a couple of reviews that I read, the most noticeable effect was playing these on "lo-fi" players rather than at the high end of the spectrum. One reviewer said he noticed the difference most in his car rather than on his £22K CD player I always felt that this and SACD was a ploy for hi...

Back to topic: I just listened to the three tracks that are available on spotify, and ...wow! We get tracks by EC and the Attractions wherer they are on fire. This is exactly why I got stuck with EC in the first place. That moment I heard El Mocambo the first time and I was stuck for real. What we ...

I’m with MOOT, it’s not for me but others can spend their money how they choose. I’m sure the music will pop up on Spotify or some other streaming sites, and that will suffice for me. All a bit underwhelming though in terms of song choice, truncated concerts with some repeats (does the world really ...

“The full PinkPop set”... its 6 songs short!

Promising. I’d called the Australia and Netherlands shows a few pages back

The Dominion show, though, I seem to recall they didn’t get great reviews, Nick Kent or someone said the band was running on empty?

Apparently 2x10” vinyl with the PinkPop concert, according to Someone on Facebook who has the Mojo article

So, completely speculative of course as we don't know whether there's any "stuff" in the vaults that was previously not felt fit to release, or has only recently come to light, some thoughts about the non-live bonus aspects of the superdeluxe set. First thing to note is that EC has said ma...

6 discs disc 1 album disc 2 rhino bonus disc disc 3 live at the holywood bowl those we have disc 4: live disc 5: live probably concerts we have floating around already so disc 6 might be new? It suddenly sounds a whole lot less exciting ... :) It’s not yet clear whether it will be vinyl only or cd ...

sulky lad wrote:PM me and I'll send you a copy !!

PM sent I hope, sometimes they seem to get stuck in the Outbox

If Elvis is genuinely looking to show the progression through each song from initial conception to ultimate live performance, it seems to me he must include some of the concerts when these songs first appeared going back to 1978. However, these would appear piecemeal ( for example Sunday's best fir...

Speculating on what is currently widely available (but hoping for something new), runners and riders could be: 7th June 1978 San Francisco Winterland ("Last Foxtrot" bootleg): was previously mooted as a Japan only official release. The concert was only three days after the already released...

thanks for this...okay, here we go!!! what a shambly mess. his voice seems to have the same sort of slight flatness i've heard in some concert footage...flat in both senses, too, unsharp-edged and tone-wise??? Suspect our hero is facing the same dilemma as many of his near-contemporaries (Dylan, We...

THE WORLD OF TRAVEL was indeed WONDERFUL! though, i don't think it was titled as such. i could be wrong! :wink: I think you’re right. Certainly, in London he started the show by announcing “welcome to the world of travel” before breaking into some off Mic snippets of I got the world on a string...

First night of the residency at the Royalty Theatre London 1986. First time I’d travelled outside Ireland to see EC & the A’s. Intimate venue. Stellar set, all but one track from Blood and Chocolate played and a 1-2-3-4 encore punch, then the stroboscopic unsettling closer of Poor Napoleon/Inst...