Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Create your own Best of EC! Pick 25 recordings from across his career. Please list in chronological order. My picks: 1. Radio Sweetheart (from My Aim Is True sessions) 2. I'm Not Angry (from My Aim Is True ) 3. Watching The Detectives (from the US pressing of My Aim Is True ) 5. Wave A White Flag (u...

Screw Europe. When is he going to bring the Sugarcanes to Australia?

36-22-36 44 STORIES A CERTAIN GIRL A DRUNK CAN'T BE A MAN A GOOD YEAR FOR THE ROSES A MATTER OF TIME A PAIR OF BROWN EYES A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS A SMILING SHORE ADRIAN AIN'T THAT PECULIAR ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT ALL I'VE GOT TO DO ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL ALL THESE THINGS MAKE YOU MINE ALL YOU ...

Found this when cleaning up my hard drive last night. EC and I backstage before the show (he is truly the man of a hundred scarves). The real kicker I noticed looking back on this photo, is that he'd changed hats by the time he came out to play... http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/3512/dscn0632shop...

Hot damn, that sounds cool.

snapyou wrote:Great to see "I WANT YOU" as the final song .
how was it?

He skipped the intro section, but otherwise pretty cool. Real wild grungy chunky tone out of the Gibson Super 400.

Spoke to EC backstage before the Enmore show last night - he confirmed that there's only 7 episodes in the upcoming season, and said he's had a ball doing it, but doesn't know how they'll be edited - said he doesn't get involved in that process. He said the Levon Helm et al episode was a special nig...

And btw, got a copy of the setlist from the sound guys: RED SHOES EITHER SIDE OF THE SAME TOWN HARRY WORTH VERONICA DOWN AMONG THE WINE AND SPIRITS BRILLIANT MISTAKE/FIVE SMALL WORDS ROSES/MOTEL MATCHES EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK BEDLAM SHE WAS NO GOOD COMPLICATED SHADOWS CONDEMNED MAN BASEMENT KISS/...

This was my first experience of EC live, and it was quite a show. I disagree with those who thought the set lent too heavily on SP&S. It is his current album after all. In fact, I thought Complicated Shadows and Sulphur to Sugarcane were the highlights of the set. Bedlam was fantastic, although ...