Elvis Costello Fan Forum

verbal gymnastics wrote:The curse of Costello...

Sometimes it can take more than 40 years to kick in!

But seriously, this does seem like a shame. At least the let the Hoover Factor stand when they turned it into flats.

Hmmm - if the album's out in September, that suggests another tour this autumn. I wonder whether therefore we'll be treated to any of the new songs in the summer tour. I hope he plays loads of 'em. I wouldn't bank on (m)any new songs in the summer tour. During the late-winter tourlette, EC specific...

Upon review, it sounds like the same guy who screamed "Two Little Hitlers" about 1 second prior to the start of Almost Blue. Wildly inappropriate and not a plant IMO. The "Two Little Hitlers" guy was the balcony, or maybe way in the back on the floor. The "Welcome to the Wo...

Welcome To The Working Week was a shouted audience request. Yes, not by me, and it would be a shame if that took the place of Party Girl! :? I'm pretty sure this was semi-setup. Like, the requester probably put his request in before the show or something. The guy was a few seats over from me. He sh...

Boulevard Recording is almost surely where EC and the gang have been the past few days. It's located just a few blocks from one end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which EC has been tweeting photos of all week. I wouldn't necessarily bet on any recordings coming out the this, though. More likely it w...

Any guess why these shows are age-restricted to 16+ and 18+ respective?

Drinking age is still 21 in New York state, afaik. Does this performance feature "adult" content?

I wouldn't assume Chris's health issues had nothing to do with it. I'm hoping he got some good news today, too.

I lived in Vegas for over 30 years. I still have a lot of family and friends there. I was trying to arrange a trip to LV to attend at least one of the shows. There are some pretty serious sexual misconduct allegations against Steve Wynn. I would think that has to be the reason. There would seem to ...

I'm not sure which lines other people are reading between, but I'm reading between these: http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10753#p7733805 My guess is the past week was spent trying to figure out if they could make the Vegas run work without a little bit of Toast. And t...

The terse and nonspecific nature of the announcement suggests the venue was not the issue.

I turned up another little data point for our timeline here. To recap: We know EC considers "Hoover Factory" to be a creative breakthrough that ultimately enabled him to write the songs that made him famous. The song was partly inspired by seeing the Hoover Building on his daily commute to...

The soundtrack is credited to Josh Ralph and he was reported to be involved with the film in July 2016, while the film was being made. Elvis's involvement seems to have been prompted by the filmmakers seeing him in concert in London in May 2016. Given that Elvis has said he based his song on seeing...

Poor Deportee wrote:
There is no "case to be made" for it, apart from whatever interest we find in the question.

Well, then find some interest. Say something interesting.

Poor Deportee wrote:
He may not care much - that seems true enough - but that doesn't make the question of what his "legacy" is irrelevant.

You raised the question, so I'd say it's encumbant on you to make a case for its revelance.

A wider question concerns EC's general legacy. 30 years from now, when a good chunk of his long-term fan base is either in the earth or in dotage, how much of his work will remain widely circulated and of ongoing interest? Don't ask me. I don't think he cares much about his posthumous legacy. He's ...

It let me grab it. No paywall. Elvis Costello : « Mon écriture est instinctive » Les Mémoires du musicien britannique, auteur de plus de 400 chansons, sont publiés en français. LE MONDE | 27.10.2017 à 10h04 • Mis à jour le 27.10.2017 à 10h24 | Propos recueillis par Bruno Lesprit Abonnez vous à parti...

If there was a Whin(g)ing Olympics, we'd have some champs here.

I'm not saying EC monitors any of the fan forums dedicated to him, but I will point out that last night was the first time in a very long time (er... so I heard) that EC did NOT introduce "Accidents" with some version of the Arizona taxi driver story recently discussed here: http://www.elv...

Not a brand new act but maybe some of the songs he'd resurrected for the IB and Other Chambers tour or even some of the Face In The Crowd songs done with Larkin Poe ? Didn't seem like too much to ask for a little variation from the Detour gigs that have been running for two + years! Well, Larkin Po...

You expected him to cook up a brand new act for a one-off charity gig?

Thanks for your reportage, SoulForHire.

Do you happen to know if the Wynn holds acts to the 90-minute limit for show duration stated on the website?

docinwestchester wrote:^^Good questions and interesting answers

Fair bit of flaky translation, though. Wish we could read the original English.

I LOVE this theory. Makes quite a bit of sense. Even the "service stations" line could be fit into a driving to Mexico scenario. Yes, the whole lyric of "Busy Bodies" resonates more with the story he tells in his memoir than "Accidents" does. Including getting back to ...

Given how chaotic Elvis's life was at the time I'd tend to the theory that Elvis's memory of the time has blurred a bit. 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 d...

Excellent info! I knew I could count on you to track down the facts and birth certificates... Thanks, popey. To your point that, strictly speaking, it doesn't make a lot of sense to change the spelling of one's name from "Mc" to "Mac" in order to downplay Irish ethnicity... Goog...