Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Think selling off his back catalogue several times over the last few years may impede this great idea?

Unless he owns all his own songs again I can't see this happening.

Colin Top Balcony

maybe people i have sent it to can clarify if they are aware at the wiki. : Hi BA, can confirm that this Colin hasn't attributed anything to anyone on the Wiki ( hangs head in shame at lack of community activity - must try harder). Also wouldn't dream of sharing on Dime without the permission of th...

Looking at the currently published tour schedule on the wiki for 2011, there seems to be the usual Liverpool-gig sized gap in the calendar around his Mum's birthday in July.

Here's hoping...


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Is anyone going?

I've got a ticket for the Thursday show where there seem to be plenty of seats left.

Send me a PM if you want to meet up?

Other nights still have seats, but looks like these 3 will sell out.

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To enhance your reading pleasure, this post should be read whilst whistling :

"Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness"

My birthday came early as my copy arrived via the generosity of a Stateside board member.

Colin Top Balcony
(aged 56 and 49 weeks)

sulky lad wrote:Wish I hadn't mentioned GTTM now !

Quite the opposite Mr Lad, I'm glad that this legendary publication got a mention.

I gather that it had a forerunner, written by the same author. I've never see it though, what's it like?

Colin TB

There appear to be two threads to this thread : i) the June 1983 tour - I'm convinced the Liverpool Royal Court referrence on the Wiki is a typo. This makes me feel better as it means I didn't miss the gig. Whilst I remain interested in the truth of all this, on balance I'd prefer it not to have tak...

Some snippets from the Liverpool show have made it onto Youtube including this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FigCAokZDVY&feature=fvw

Colin Top Balcony

Will it be the roulette wheel at this venue?

Colin TB

Sorry folks. I've been asked to take down the interview from the website by Elvis' management. Thats a shame, I listened to the first 3 minutes last night and planned to come back for the rest tonight. Bit I listened to started out as him being Mr Grumps but then was mostly a bit of fun around EC b...

Jeremy Dylan wrote: The original Wheel was famously donated to the Hartlepool Museum Of Showbusiness Machinery but it has been meticulously reconstructed from the original blueprints.

The Costello imagination strikes again!

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These lines from "World and His Wife" always make me laugh :

Went for two weeks' holiday
in Taramasalata

Colin Top Balcony
(aged 56 and 10 months)

I find myself disappointed that National Ransom is apparently yesterday's news already, not even three months after its release. And me. The 'Canes show I saw in Liverpool was fantastic, and I am shocked that this band won't be touring again. As he was promoting NR, he seemed to be saying the doubl...

How spooky, I was just about to post this clip from the final gig of the first Spinning Songbook tour when it landed in Liverpool on 9th December 1986. The featured artists are Elvis. Attractions and Andrew Schofield -"Scully" as previously pictured in the Elvis/Alan Bleasedale thread . An...

FAVEHOUR wrote:[
or try this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMgOLw06nE Dave

Worked for me - lots of fun, thanks for the link

[ "Duchess of Malfi" crack link took me back to my (and Elvis''?) 1972 A level English syllabus]

Colin Top Balcony

So I had to wait a whole 3 minutes for said misrepresentation

what kept you?

Nancy

Yes sulky completely agree.

By the way I was tempted to reply "yes if you show me yours, I'll show you mine" but I was fearful of misrepresentation so I thought better of it.

Colin Top Balcony

docinwestchester wrote:On YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4t-EgVTHxs

Cheers - wonderful- to these cloth ears the songs sound best live.

Loved the guys filling in behind the whistling on Josephine.

Also the Library looked amazing too!

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There's obviously only me watching, so i'm telling myself that episode 2 was great too.

Think I'll watch it again via the BBC I-Player.

NBS

Wasn't just me thought episode 1 was great:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... tin-clunes

Nancy

Disappointingly no discernable EC content - unless the twins were making their small screen debuts as extras? Anyway I thought tonight's episode was terrific. IMO UK TV is v.poor - being mainly a triumphal procession of celebrity/soap/cooking - this drama and the McGovern series - Accussed - being v...

From the Liverpool Everyman website: THEY CALL HER NATASHA: Wed 23 Feb to Sat 26 Feb at the Everyman http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/show/THEY_CALL_HER_NATASHA/485.aspx A UNIQUE EVENING WHERE CLASSIC SONGWRITING AND STUNNING PERFORMANCE COME TOGETHER IN A SUPERB STORY. The songs of Elvis Costello l...

CraigatCoF wrote:More videos (not mine):
Winter Song - http://youtu.be/53vn2_nrdoY (with the answer to the t-shirt question)

Many thanks for the above. Elvis is right about the North West / North East divide.

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Of interest to the readers of the thread setting out the recent Chicago gig is a new torrent on Dime: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336877 Lindisfarne Christmas Concert Newcastle City Hall Newcastle upon Tyne UK 23rd December 1976 Radio Broadcast Artwork Included. It doesn't get ...

Here's Winter Song - http://youtu.be/wYAOKFVx1gA?hd=1 . Thanks again for this - what a treat. Can anyone fill in the blanks for me? At the start he's chatting to the crowd and it appears to go "...t-shirt...my family's from the north west of England.." Any ideas what this is comment is ab...