Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

[Mikeh]

The Attractions make an appearance on this new box set due for release at the end of April. Another Splash Of Colour - New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985

SLOW PATIENCE - THE ATTRACTIONS

Its on Amazon, a 3 cd set at £20

The track was the last track on side one of the album Mad About the Wrong Boy, written by Bruce and Pete.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/another-spla ... g-3cd-set/

[Man out of Time]

From: Ciaocomo.it so in Italian:

Elvis Costello da Camera al Teatro San Teodoro

C’ è l’energia del Rock e la freschezza del Pop nel suono Classico del quartetto d’archi Bakura interprete, nella serata di domenica 14 febbraio, del concerto ROMEO & JULI@. The Juliet Letters al Teatro San Teodoro di Cantù.

Il particolarissimo programma prevede la suite di brani ispirati dalle lettere che un professore di letteratura invia alla Giuletta shakespeariana composta da Elvis Costello nel 1993 ed incisa su cd nell’esecuzione del Quartetto Brodsky, che ha lavorato anche con Enya e Björk. Anche se Costello è un autore rock pop i musicisti classici e gli strumenti ad archi conferiscono al progetto un apprezzabile impianto classico.

Il quartetto Bakura, ovvero Stefano Sergeant (violino), Carmelo Emanuele Patti (violino), Matteo Lipari (viola), Valentina Sgarbossa (violoncello), proporrà l’opera di Costello con la voce di Celeste Gugliandolo.

“So there was this professor in Verona who answered letters addressed to Juliet…”

C’era una volta, tanto tempo fa….. un drammaturgo inglese di nome William Shakespeare, che scrisse una tragedia ambientata molto lontano, a Verona, la storia di due amanti divisi dalla rivalità tra le loro famiglie, il dramma Romeo and Juliet. Morì Shakespeare, morirono in scena i due personaggi ma… continuarono a vivere nella cultura occidentale. Eccoli infatti riapparire in musica nel XIX secolo, ormai diventati campioni del romanticismo grazie alle opere di Gounod, Bellini, Berlioz e Čaikovskij fra gli altri. Il tòpos letterario dell’amore contrastato era entrato prepotentemente nella cultura romantica, rendendo immortali i nomi dei due amanti e delle loro famiglie. Da allora diventarono simboli, che vivono di vita propria nell’immaginario collettivo. Passò un altro secolo e…. si scrissero delle lettere. Delle lettere indirizzate a una donna inesistente, Giulietta Capuleti di Verona. Personaggio di 13 anni con 500 anni d’età. Queste lettere vennero raccolte da un professore di Verona che iniziò a rispondere…. e si torna in Inghilterra, nel 1991. La notizia di questa assurda corrispondenza viene riportata da un giornale inglese. Elvis Costello la nota. Da qualche mese è in contatto con un quartetto d’archi classico, il Brodsky Quartet, di cui ha ascoltato alcuni concerti in città. Pensa che il tema della corrispondenza amorosa di un personaggio letterario che parla con persone reali sia una buona idea per una collaborazione. Iniziano le prove con il quartetto, vengono scritti i testi, viene scritta la musica. I testi sono le immaginarie risposte di Juliet, e toccano i temi più disparati: inganno, rabbia, poesia, malinconia… La musica rispecchia i significati dei testi, e riflette la cultura classica del quartetto e quella più moderna di Costello. Il risultato è un lavoro unitario di compostezza classica che vuole emozionare gli ascoltatori, parlando con linguaggio attuale di un tema che è attuale almeno da 500 anni.

Teatro San Teodoro via Corbetta, 7 – CANTU’

domenica 14 febbraio ore 21

Quartetto Bakura

ROMEO & JULIET. The Juliet Letters

Elvis Costello e The Brodsky Quartet

Ordine ROMEO & JULIET. The Juliet Letters

Biglietti

Intero @ €10,00
Ridotto @ €9,00

So another performance of the ever popular "The Juliet Letters" on Valentine's Day, in Cantu, which is just North of Milan in Italy. A snip at ten Euros. Here is the body of the article in "English" via Google Translate:

"Elvis Costello Chamber at the Teatro San Teodoro

It 'is the energy of the Rock and the freshness of Pop in the Classic sound of a string quartet Bakura interpreter, the evening of Sunday, February 14, the concert ROMEO & JULIET. The Juliet Letters to the Teatro San Teodoro Cantu.

The very special program includes the suite of songs inspired by the letters he sends to a literature professor Juliet Shakespeare composed by Elvis Costello in 1993 and recorded on CD in the execution of the Brodsky Quartet, who also worked with Enya and Björk. Although Costello is an author rock pop classical musicians and string instruments to give the project an appreciable classical structure.

The Bakura quartet, namely Stefano Sergeant (violin), Carmelo Emanuele Patti (violin), Matteo Lipari (purple), Valentina Sgarbossa (cello), will present the work of Costello with the voice of Celeste Gugliandolo.

"I know there was this professor in Verona who answered letters addressed to Juliet ..."

Once upon a time, long ago ... .. an English playwright William Shakespeare, who wrote a tragedy far away set, in Verona, the story of two lovers divided by the rivalry between their families, Romeo and Juliet drama. Shakespeare died, died on the scene the two characters ... but continued to live in Western culture. Here they are in fact reappear in music in the nineteenth century, now become champions of romanticism thanks to the works of Gounod, Bellini, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky, among others. The thwarted love literary topos had burst into the romantic culture, making immortal the names of the two lovers and their families. Since then they became symbols, living its own life in the collective imagination. He spent another century and .... they wrote letters. Of letters addressed to a nonexistent woman, Juliet Capulet of Verona. Character 13 years with 500 years of age. These letters were collected by a professor of Verona who began to respond .... and he goes back to England, in 1991. The news of this absurd match is reported by a British newspaper. Elvis Costello note. For some months it is in contact with a classical string quartet, the Brodsky Quartet, of which he listened to a few concerts in the city. He thinks that the theme of the love letters of a literary character who speaks with real people is a good idea for a collaboration. Rehearsals begin with the quartet, the lyrics, the music is written is written. The texts are the imaginary answers Juliet, and touch on the most diverse subjects: deception, anger, poetry, melancholy ... The music reflects the meanings of the texts, and reflects the classical culture of the quartet and the modern city of Costello. The result is a unit of classical composure job that wants to excite the audience, talking to current language of a theme that is present at least 500 years."

MOOT

[johnfoyle]

A friend tells me -

Hi John, maybe worth putting up on the wiki or the 'Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff' that at the end of and into the credits of S1 ep3 of the new Netflix series 'Love', that an EC song is played - you guessed it - Lover's Walk... Not a great show tbh.


http://www.tunefind.com/show/love/seaso ... song_event

[johnfoyle]

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/201 ... cal-family

How Randy Newman and His Family Have Shaped Movie Music for Generations

Feb. '16

(extract)


Nevertheless, Newman grants that he has led something of a charmed life, even if the albums he puts out under his own name achieve only bijou sales. “I wanted people who really were into music and stuff to think I was good—and they did,” he said. Elvis Costello, in a telephone interview, went further than merely affirming that Newman is good, acknowledging a significant artistic debt. “I had all his albums from day one, as quickly as they came out,” he said. “Before I found the songwriting voice I became known for—this is around 1975, in the shadow of Good Old Boys—the songs I was writing were very much embedded in Randy’s sensibility. I didn’t quite have the sophistication to pull it off, but he helped me get to where I was going.”

[verbal gymnastics]

Elvis writes a piece in the John Cooper Clarke Anthologia CD/DVD box set and gets Soecial Thanks.

Elvis writes

"Whenever I'm tempted in thinking how sexy everything was in the late 70s, I hear John's voice in my head saying "I'm freezing Charlie haven't you finished yet". When we toured together in 1979, I sometimes saw John have to face down a baying crowd with nothing but his wit and sad and dead-on verses like "Reader's Wives". You need only substitute the clown of your choice for the name of "Keith Joseph" for "Beasley Street" to be as tragic and true today as it ever was and sadly ever will be. Not everything is a joke. In my dream John Cooper Clarke would be the Poet Laureate but he probably doesn't need the aggravation".

This, by the way, is an excellent set and I highly recommend it.

[johnfoyle]

A cover of My Mood Swings in 2012 has been drawn to my attention.

http://rockwell-la.com/for-the-record-r ... s-musical/

For the Record: Review of a Coen Brothers Musical

"One of the best things about the show is that the producers made sure not to hew too closely to the original script, reinventing certain scenes and choosing unusual characters to perform certain songs (knockout Jackie Seiden’s rendition of Elvis Costello’s “My Mood Swings” as Bunny Lebowski was particularly noteworthy) or performing songs in a totally different style (An R&B version of “The Man in Me” sung by Rogelio Douglas Jr. provided everyone in the room, oh, what a wonderful feeling)."


4.13.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pHjvf9j-A
4.14.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFbFehI7sss
4.22.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXnvVehhalk
5.6.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2af0FgJaZXA
5.11.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUwAmzCK8LA
5.12.12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOq7k21cebE



Jackie Seiden:
https://twitter.com/jackieseiden/status ... 5586080770
http://jackieseiden.com/

[johnfoyle]

Thanks to Dennis on f/book for this curiosity from 1985.

[johnfoyle]

https://twitter.com/Karyn_Mitchell/stat ... 6881910785

Karyn Mitchell @Karyn_Mitchell

Elvis Costello presenting to our G3's about the aspects of being an effective performer.‪#‎luckykids‬ @ElvisCostello

[johnfoyle]

https://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie/statu ... 3484737536




Salman Rushdie @SalmanRushdie
Judging PEN award for Song Lyrics. Elvis Costello, Paul Muldoon, Roseanne Cash, Natasha Trethewey, Bill Flanagan, me

[Jack of All Parades]

Heady company he is keeping in that photo- the poetry editor for The New Yorker, the current poet laureate of the United States and some noted wordsmiths.......

[sulky lad]

Yeah but none of them wrote "Write Act" and" Everyday I Write The Book" ( looks like I've been spending too much time in VG's company !

[johnfoyle]

FA Cup Final 2001 - Bob Geldof, Elvis Costello & Roger Taylor


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlkZYDf ... e=youtu.be


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_FA_Cup_Final

In Cardiff , while Wembley was being redeveloped. Busy Elvis - the night before he guested in Dublin with Roger McGuinn , an appearance I didn't hear about , in those (for me ) pre-internet days, for about two weeks.

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... -11_Dublin

[johnfoyle]

Writer Tracy Chevalier picks , at about 19 minutes in to this , a relatively obscure Costello track.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03jxvpm#t=0h4m27s

[verbal gymnastics]

Not strictly Elvis but Cyndi Lauper's tour is also called the Detour Tour.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.blankgenmusic.com/#!My-Aim-I ... bdde235e1d

[johnfoyle]

Includes drawing by Elvis

https://twitter.com/MsClareJames/status ... 5211209729

http://www.llamau.org.uk/illustrating-homelessness/





Elvis writes a lyric from 'Home' (1931) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(When_Shadows_Fall)

[johnfoyle]

A cover of Girls Talk by 'Spain’s finest Surf instrumental band' is on this fundraising disc for a radio station - only $75.00....

http://michaelshelley.net/2016/notes.html

[johnfoyle]

It would seem that Elvis is in the U.K.

https://twitter.com/LesDennis/status/709689526818623489

Les Dennis @LesDennis
So thrilled that Alan Bleasdale's friend @ElvisCostello came to see Down The Dock Road @RoyalCourtLiv. Pump it up.


http://www.royalcourtliverpool.co.uk/wh ... dock-road/

[johnfoyle]

(extract)

' “We don’t have much time. We shouldn’t do this,” says Ethan Hawke, aware 15-minute interview slots at the Toronto International Film Festival hardly afford space to pause to listen to a dreamy, melancholy melody.

But he wanted me to hear Chet Baker’s haunting version of Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue” on his smart phone. Hawke listened to the 1988 recording, made six months before Baker’s death, each day in his trailer while he prepared to play the jazz trumpeter in Canadian writer-director Robert Budreau’s Born To Be Blue.'

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/mo ... baker.html

[johnfoyle]

https://twitter.com/ShitChester/status/ ... 2339469312

[Jack of All Parades]

Mr. Costello is apparently out and about in the homeland- a Chester sighting reported.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 4456,d.cGc

[johnfoyle]

Forensic examination on a f/book page of the photo from Chester has determined that Ms Krall can be seen in the background, busy using her 'phone.

[IbMePdErRoIoAmL]

Forensic examination on a f/book page of the photo from Chester has determined that Ms Krall can be seen in the background, busy using her 'phone.

That woman on the phone is not Diana Krall. The face barely visible over Elvis' left shoulder, however, appears to be Mrs Costello.

[johnfoyle]

Thanks!