Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I would like to hear his (studio)version of 'The Scarlet Tide'.

And also of 'The Girl In The Other Room' - the song, not the album. Maybe he will do his version of it with The Metropole Orchestra in The Hague or in New York.

Il Sogno is just an instrumental (orchestral) score. Expect no singing of EC. What troubles me more is that HMV only talks of a single disc. What happened to the promised bonusdisc with the orchestral songs to be recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival? And one more puzzling thing: his official webs...

Just been listening to a tape of this show, and it's incredible. Their Meltdown collaboration appeared fairly promptly, hopefully this will too. Elvis really is on fire these days. If this any indicator of things to come, the album in the autumn will be a new high. When I read the setlist, I was a ...

According to the website http://www.northseajazz.nl, EC will play two more shows at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague (Holland). Besides the Gala Concert on Thursday July 8th, he will play two more shows with The Metropole Orchestra on Friday July 9th. One show at 19.00 hrs and a second show ...

from the email sent by Universal Classics to offer pre-sale tickets to registered fans: ************************* July 17 marks the North American Premiere of Il Sogno, Costello's first full-length orchestral work. Making its Lincoln Center Festival debut, the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs this pi...

According to the fansite http://www.elvis-costello.net, Elvis has written an .....OPERA ! It's an opera to mark the 200 years since Hans Christian Andersen's birthday. The opera is written especially for the Royal Danish Theatre's new opera house at Holmden, Copenhagen, Denmark. Can anyone confirm t...

Has anyone a setlist of the Memphis shows?

Damn, have spent the weekend misssing stuff on TV! Would have liked to have seen this, especially to have a look at Pete ('brushwork on North so ethereal it almost doesn't exist') Erskine. I have seen it, and yes, Pete Erskine was great. Although I'm not a musician (or drummer), I could see that he...

Bought The Girl In The Other Room yesterday and I'm completely overwhelmed by it. I bought The Look Of Love a few months ago and I didn't liked it at all: too much slickness, no real emotion, bad choices of covers! But The Girl is something completely different: great singing, real emotion, good cho...

These are questions for those who were there in Oxford (or have heard the new songs).

Which of the new songs do you think are for 'the Deliveryman-project' ?
Do you think that the new Imposters album is the Deliveryman-album?
Or is EC working on two projects at the same time?

We may have only a few hours before the first reports from Oxford will come in, so maybe we could try to guess which songs EC&I will play there. Although he played a lot of 'Deliveryman' - songs during the last concerts of the North- American tour, I think they are not that suitable for the Impo...