Here's the July 19 Berkeley setlist. Shorter setlist than Detroit or Denver but still a great sounding set. Any comments?
I Hope You're Happy Now
Lipstick Vogue
Beyond Belief
Radio Radio
Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)
Everyday I Write The Book
Everybody's Crying Mercy
Clubland
Clown Strike
My Dark Life
In The Darkest Place
Just About Glad
Pump It Up
Either Side Of The Same Town
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Uncomplicated
All The Rage
Sweet Dreams
Indoor Fireworks
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror/You Really Got A Hold On Me
Encore:
Watching The Detectives/Help Me
Honey Hush
Peace, Love And Understanding? (with a few lines from The Kids Are
Alright)
Berkeley Setlist
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Just found this while hunting around for a
review - some new `n funny comments in interview.
see
http://ae.bayarea.com/entertainment/ui/ ... iewId=9195
His aim is high
Jaan Uhelszki
Special to the Mercury News
Published: Friday, July 18, 2003
Over the past three decades, Elvis Costello has
skipped effortlessly from low-brow to high-brow
without fogging up his trademark black-rimmed
spectacles.
Ever since releasing ``My Aim Is True,'' his
critically acclaimed debut in 1977, the former New
Wave icon has shape-shifted from acerbic rocker to
fashionable collaborator, making music with an
unlikely group of people along the way, including Paul
McCartney, Burt Bacharach, the Brodsky Quartet and
mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter.
Most recently he has written the score for an Italian
dance company's adaptation of Shakespeare's ``A
Midsummer Night's Dream,'' which features Michael
Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony
Orchestra. He also recently completed work with John
Malkovich on a television script about a female rock
band.
When writing the script became too irksome, Costello
turned it into the tetchy song ``Tear off Your Own
Head (It's a Doll Revolution),'' the first single from
his latest album, ``When I Was Cruel.'' But he didn't
stop there.
``I even wrote `Spooky Girlfriend' with Destiny's
Child in mind. Don't you think they'd sound good
singing that?'' Costello asks, speaking on the phone
from a tour stop in Providence, R.I.
``I've never seen any of the things that I've done in
the last years as a side issue or a detour,'' he says.
``I've always been completely committed, and people
perceive the rock 'n' roll records as the only
authentic voice of the music that I write. I can't
subscribe to limiting yourself to one form of
expression exclusively. If you didn't really feel it,
it would be insulting to the audience to limit it to
just what you think they can understand. That's
patronizing, and I could never do that.''
Having said that, the author of such contemporary
classics as ``Pump It Up'' and the winsome ``Alison''
is not coming to Berkeley's Greek Theatre to expand
our minds. He's here to rock, despite the fact that
his next album, ``North,'' due out in September,
contains 11 intimate ballads and has less than 12 bars
of electric guitar on the entire record.
``These last group of songs I wrote predominantly
either backstage during the last tour. I just had the
music coming into my head all the time and I'd have to
turn it off long enough to do the show, and then maybe
start working on it again the minute I came offstage.
I bought a little electric keyboard that could be
turned down to really quiet volume so I could play at
night in the hotel rooms without disturbing other
guests. And as a consequence the music developed a
very intimate voice -- I tended to find the music in
keys that suited that late night. . . .
``I sing most of this record in the lowest register of
my voice -- I haven't exploited that much on a record.
So it's good after 25 years to actually make a record
where it's recognizably me but it's also recognizably
different than any other record that I've made.''
It's also much more blandly titled than any of his
previous efforts. But Costello gets a little touchy
when quizzed about ``North,'' insisting that the album
takes its title from ``a point on a compass.''
``I think that people like to put way too much store
in names. It's like you eat the corn flakes, you don't
eat the packet. I've never understood why people put
so much store by what's on the cover. You want it to
draw people's attention, you want the title to
intrigue people, and then it's the content. Well, it
is obviously a direction, literally, in which I've
spent a lot of my life moving. And in this case it
just meant what I said.''
The Diana Krall factor
But the cognoscenti insist that ``North'' is a
reference to Nanaimo, in British Columbia, the
hometown of Diana Krall, Costello's constant companion
for the past several months. The two began seeing each
after Costello filed for divorce from his wife of 16
years, former Pogues member Cait O'Riordan, in
September 2002. But no one knew how serious the
romance was until Krall's father, Jim, an accountant
in Nanaimo, inadvertently leaked their engagement to
the Victoria Times on May 2. Although he didn't
provide any details or when the nuptials will take
place, he did give the union his blessing.
Costello attended Krall's show at Yoshi's in Oakland
on May 31, sharing a table with longtime pal Tom
Waits. But Krall will be en route to a jazz festival
in Naples when Elvis steps onstage at Berkeley's Greek
Theatre.
``Just because I'm releasing `North' is not to say
that I've lost any love for rock 'n' roll,'' Costello
continues. ``I mean, that's really what we're on: a
rock 'n' roll tour. And the great thing about it is we
don't have any inhibition about where we draw the
songs from.
``I don't like to live exclusively in the distant
past, but this tour has us playing more songs from the
last 10 years than, say, last year. We tended to
initially start with a blueprint of `When I Was
Cruel,' `Blood and Chocolate' and `This Year's Model'
-- apparently being the three records that fitted
together the best -- and as the year went on we added
a lot into it and ended up with an 80-song record tour
by the end of it.''
The Imposters includes keyboardist Steve Nieve,
drummer Pete Thomas (of Costello's longtime band the
Attractions) and newcomer bassist Davey Faragher. The
last took over for Bruce Thomas, who wrote ``Big
Wheel,'' a tell-all book in 1990 about being on the
road with Costello, which many said caused Thomas'
dismissal. (``It really had nothing to do with the
book,'' Costello told Blender magazine in 2002. ``He's
bad-tempered and miserable and doesn't concentrate.'')
Costello says he and the Imposters are performing
because they have fun doing it.
``There isn't any commercial agenda other than to see
as many people in the hall as we can. We don't have a
record that's currently out. We're not making a
special case for `When I Was Cruel,' although some of
those songs obviously feature in the show. This is a
huge luxury of having a large catalog. We're pulling
songs from all over the place, and we can change the
set radically from night to night. We'll just have to
see how the mood strikes us when we reach Berkeley.''
Dressing for work
But the mood seems upbeat today. ``I usually like to
wear a gorilla suit or the pink rabbit suit onstage.
But unfortunately they haven't come back from the dry
cleaners in time for the tour,'' says Costello, until
he's reminded that he is not a member of the Flaming
Lips. ``I've always tended to just wear a suit, or a
suit jacket. It's just a personal feeling that I feel
like I'm getting dressed to go to work now. I don't
feel the need to wear a rhinestone suit, and not sure
I would really look that good in it, so I've pretty
much always dressed like a variation of that, my whole
career.''
``I had a period last year when I dressed more
casually for a while, over the last couple of years,
but I've sort of shifted back toward suits and ties
some of the time and a more casual jacket some other
times. But occasionally it gets uncomfortable to dress
like that because it's so hot onstage. But I still
feel right; I feel there's a certain rightness to just
dressing that way. For me. It's a personal thing.
review - some new `n funny comments in interview.
see
http://ae.bayarea.com/entertainment/ui/ ... iewId=9195
His aim is high
Jaan Uhelszki
Special to the Mercury News
Published: Friday, July 18, 2003
Over the past three decades, Elvis Costello has
skipped effortlessly from low-brow to high-brow
without fogging up his trademark black-rimmed
spectacles.
Ever since releasing ``My Aim Is True,'' his
critically acclaimed debut in 1977, the former New
Wave icon has shape-shifted from acerbic rocker to
fashionable collaborator, making music with an
unlikely group of people along the way, including Paul
McCartney, Burt Bacharach, the Brodsky Quartet and
mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter.
Most recently he has written the score for an Italian
dance company's adaptation of Shakespeare's ``A
Midsummer Night's Dream,'' which features Michael
Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony
Orchestra. He also recently completed work with John
Malkovich on a television script about a female rock
band.
When writing the script became too irksome, Costello
turned it into the tetchy song ``Tear off Your Own
Head (It's a Doll Revolution),'' the first single from
his latest album, ``When I Was Cruel.'' But he didn't
stop there.
``I even wrote `Spooky Girlfriend' with Destiny's
Child in mind. Don't you think they'd sound good
singing that?'' Costello asks, speaking on the phone
from a tour stop in Providence, R.I.
``I've never seen any of the things that I've done in
the last years as a side issue or a detour,'' he says.
``I've always been completely committed, and people
perceive the rock 'n' roll records as the only
authentic voice of the music that I write. I can't
subscribe to limiting yourself to one form of
expression exclusively. If you didn't really feel it,
it would be insulting to the audience to limit it to
just what you think they can understand. That's
patronizing, and I could never do that.''
Having said that, the author of such contemporary
classics as ``Pump It Up'' and the winsome ``Alison''
is not coming to Berkeley's Greek Theatre to expand
our minds. He's here to rock, despite the fact that
his next album, ``North,'' due out in September,
contains 11 intimate ballads and has less than 12 bars
of electric guitar on the entire record.
``These last group of songs I wrote predominantly
either backstage during the last tour. I just had the
music coming into my head all the time and I'd have to
turn it off long enough to do the show, and then maybe
start working on it again the minute I came offstage.
I bought a little electric keyboard that could be
turned down to really quiet volume so I could play at
night in the hotel rooms without disturbing other
guests. And as a consequence the music developed a
very intimate voice -- I tended to find the music in
keys that suited that late night. . . .
``I sing most of this record in the lowest register of
my voice -- I haven't exploited that much on a record.
So it's good after 25 years to actually make a record
where it's recognizably me but it's also recognizably
different than any other record that I've made.''
It's also much more blandly titled than any of his
previous efforts. But Costello gets a little touchy
when quizzed about ``North,'' insisting that the album
takes its title from ``a point on a compass.''
``I think that people like to put way too much store
in names. It's like you eat the corn flakes, you don't
eat the packet. I've never understood why people put
so much store by what's on the cover. You want it to
draw people's attention, you want the title to
intrigue people, and then it's the content. Well, it
is obviously a direction, literally, in which I've
spent a lot of my life moving. And in this case it
just meant what I said.''
The Diana Krall factor
But the cognoscenti insist that ``North'' is a
reference to Nanaimo, in British Columbia, the
hometown of Diana Krall, Costello's constant companion
for the past several months. The two began seeing each
after Costello filed for divorce from his wife of 16
years, former Pogues member Cait O'Riordan, in
September 2002. But no one knew how serious the
romance was until Krall's father, Jim, an accountant
in Nanaimo, inadvertently leaked their engagement to
the Victoria Times on May 2. Although he didn't
provide any details or when the nuptials will take
place, he did give the union his blessing.
Costello attended Krall's show at Yoshi's in Oakland
on May 31, sharing a table with longtime pal Tom
Waits. But Krall will be en route to a jazz festival
in Naples when Elvis steps onstage at Berkeley's Greek
Theatre.
``Just because I'm releasing `North' is not to say
that I've lost any love for rock 'n' roll,'' Costello
continues. ``I mean, that's really what we're on: a
rock 'n' roll tour. And the great thing about it is we
don't have any inhibition about where we draw the
songs from.
``I don't like to live exclusively in the distant
past, but this tour has us playing more songs from the
last 10 years than, say, last year. We tended to
initially start with a blueprint of `When I Was
Cruel,' `Blood and Chocolate' and `This Year's Model'
-- apparently being the three records that fitted
together the best -- and as the year went on we added
a lot into it and ended up with an 80-song record tour
by the end of it.''
The Imposters includes keyboardist Steve Nieve,
drummer Pete Thomas (of Costello's longtime band the
Attractions) and newcomer bassist Davey Faragher. The
last took over for Bruce Thomas, who wrote ``Big
Wheel,'' a tell-all book in 1990 about being on the
road with Costello, which many said caused Thomas'
dismissal. (``It really had nothing to do with the
book,'' Costello told Blender magazine in 2002. ``He's
bad-tempered and miserable and doesn't concentrate.'')
Costello says he and the Imposters are performing
because they have fun doing it.
``There isn't any commercial agenda other than to see
as many people in the hall as we can. We don't have a
record that's currently out. We're not making a
special case for `When I Was Cruel,' although some of
those songs obviously feature in the show. This is a
huge luxury of having a large catalog. We're pulling
songs from all over the place, and we can change the
set radically from night to night. We'll just have to
see how the mood strikes us when we reach Berkeley.''
Dressing for work
But the mood seems upbeat today. ``I usually like to
wear a gorilla suit or the pink rabbit suit onstage.
But unfortunately they haven't come back from the dry
cleaners in time for the tour,'' says Costello, until
he's reminded that he is not a member of the Flaming
Lips. ``I've always tended to just wear a suit, or a
suit jacket. It's just a personal feeling that I feel
like I'm getting dressed to go to work now. I don't
feel the need to wear a rhinestone suit, and not sure
I would really look that good in it, so I've pretty
much always dressed like a variation of that, my whole
career.''
``I had a period last year when I dressed more
casually for a while, over the last couple of years,
but I've sort of shifted back toward suits and ties
some of the time and a more casual jacket some other
times. But occasionally it gets uncomfortable to dress
like that because it's so hot onstage. But I still
feel right; I feel there's a certain rightness to just
dressing that way. For me. It's a personal thing.
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AlmostBlue
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- Joined: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:49 am
- Location: Berkeley, California
sorry to hear that - you should at least get a copy of DDTM (video) from the Hall of Fame "thanks for the memories" performance. - a kind EC fan (here also) is seeding it on easytree.org (bittorrent)SweetPear wrote:There's one comment I do have about the setlists....and damnit.....it seems that everywhere but Philly he did Deep Dark Truthful Mirror!
It would have been INCREDIBLE to hear that live!
I just wonder why he left it out of that show but did it everywhere else?