Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Thanks to Verbal and John Foyle for helping me to fill the front row at the show last night. It was a very intimate venue, and the better for it I think, not least because it meant we got a really good look at all the Elvis memorabilia that formed part of the stage set. I have a full set list which ...

Aterballetto is the Italian dance company for whom Il Sogno was written. Anyway, they are now touring a show called "Triptych" which features three pieces of music, the second of which is "Almost Blue". The others being Like a breath by Friedrich Handel, and H+ by Frederick Bigon...

Amazon.com now has cover art for the DVD release of the second season:



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The set list is good and Lou has a great voice backed by a great pianist and male narrator (who also sings some of the songs). The male narrator is Lou's husband, Michael Weston King, who is a performer in his own right: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Weston_King * http://www.michaelwestonk...

Spectacle 2 surely would be an ideal programme for the Friday evening BBC4 music slot as a contrast to the current offerings such Gordon Lightfoot In Concert from 197? Let's all get emailing the BBC. FFS they don't make it easy to contact them - if anyone can work out how we can contact BBC4 with t...

A different finger indeed. So this release is six years late if the above is to be believed. Is this a record for Costello?

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Swiss TV station TSR2 are showing 45 minutes of Elvis and the Sugarcanes recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival last year. The show airs on Sunday 20 March at 12.45am (ie the early hours of Sunday morning). Details here: http://www.programme-television.org/Pop+%26amp%3B+Rock/Elvis+Costello+%26amp%3B...

The above in (near) English via GoogleTranslate: It will be 22 years ago this autumn since Elvis Costello performed a solo in our country in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Antwerp. In recent years he entered our country with The Sugar Canes, Allen Toussaint Band, Steve Nieve, The Imposter, and even The At...

Jerry Douglas has posted his diary from the Sugarcanes' tour on his website here: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=73 Here is what he has to say about the Montreux Jazz Festival and Mumford and Sons: "July 13 Montreux Jazz Festival I have really been looking forward to thi...

Jerry Douglas has posted his diary from the Sugarcanes' tour of Europe on his website here: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=72 . Here is what he had to say about Rotterdam and North Sea Jazz: "July 11 Rotterdam was one of those times when you ride into a venue where there...

Jerry Douglas has posted his diary from the Sugarcanes' tour last year on his website here: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=72 This is what he had to say about Jazz à Vienne: "July 7 I was warned that the hotel might not be up to the usual standard of the tour. Correct. F...

Jerry Douglas has posted his tour diary from the Sugarcanes' tour last year on his website here: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=71 This is what he has to say about Copenhagen. "Copenhagen is an amazing city surrounded by water. In every direction ventured, a bridge will ...

Jerry Douglas has posted instalments of his tour diary onto his website here: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=70 . He has this to say about the Sugarcanes' concert in Glasgow: "July 2 Glasgow did not let us down. With very little advertisement time, they nearly packed the...

Jerry Douglas has posted a tour diary on his website: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=69 that includes these thoughts on the Sugarcanes' show in Dublin. "July 1 Up early this morning to fly to Dublin, which has always been one of my favorite cities. Years ago Béla Fleck a...

Jerry Douglas has posted a tour diary on his website: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=69 that includes these thoughts on the Sugarcanes' show in Gateshead. "June 30 We bused to Gateshead/New Castle to play The Sage, where I was last with Transatlantic Sessions on the Road...

Jerry Douglas has posted a tour diary on his website: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=69 that includes these thoughts on the Sugarcanes' show in Liverpool. "June 28 I found a nice little Cuban cigar shop first thing today and collected a few Monte Cristo No.4's - just to ...

Apologies if this has been posted before, but it is new to me. The official Jerry Douglas website http://www.jerrydouglas.com includes seven instalments of Jerry's tour diary from the SugarCanes tour last year. These can be found here: Part 1: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/journalDetails.cfm?journal=6...

At the risk of raining on everyone's parade, there are now US dates thru' (as our American cousins would have it) most of June and in the third week of July. The European tour seems to be solo dates only in October and November. If there are to be any UK Imposters dates, we are looking at two weeks ...

There must be something about Burt and the Irish. Ronan Keating's "comeback" album is to be a "collaboration" with Burt Bacharach. This does not involve any song writing, but Burt has worked with Ronan on the recording of the album. One of the ten tracks is "This House Is Em...

First Christchurch (where the Grass Roots Festival has been cancelled and John E's home badly damaged), then Japan. Is this some new manifestation of the "Curse of Costello". Time perhaps to write a new verse for "Tokyo Storm Warning" or maybe a cover of "Shaking all over&qu...

Does anyone else regret the fact that, unlike the songs on SP & S, unlike most of the songs in EC's canon, most of the songs from NR may never get the chance to mutate, expand, and evolve through a series of live shows centered around them? Over on Facebook, Elvis Costello has reposted the link...

Another solo date on the European tour. From http://konzerthaus.at/programm/ "Elvis Costello «Solo» Montag, 31. Oktober 2011, 20:00 Uhr Großer Saal Veranstalterinformation Elvis Costello - das ist der Künstlername des autodidaktischen Songwriters Declan MacManus. Er stand 1969 das erste Mal auf...

Liverpool Echo review by Catherine Jones published on 24 February 2011: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/in-the-mix/2011/02/24/review-they-call-her-natasha-at-the-liverpool-everyman-100252-28225091/#ixzz1G46jOgj6 Anyone due to see the show in London later this month, may want to postpon...

Some photos of the Liverpool show are available here:

http://amsi.smugmug.com/Theater/They-Ca ... 5812_UQqcn

I am not sure this hat entirely suits Lou....

For any of you out there who were worried this might not surface... From an unlikely source: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/elvis-costello/2011/marina-bay-sands-grand-theater-singapore-singapore-7bd2065c.html 1. National Ransom 2. Green Shirt 3. Either Side Of The Same Town 4. Veronica 5. A Good Year...