Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

[Mikeh]

There was a question featuring EC on University Challenge (UK quiz programme) over Christmas. They played some Christmas songs and the teams had to guess the artist. First up was St Stephen's Day Murders!

[johnfoyle]

Anthony Quinn spots the Russell Crowe/Elvis Costello vibe in Les Mis - it may be credibile


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 46669.html

(extract)

A friend reckoned Crowe's strangulated voice sounded a bit Elvis Costello, and I spent the rest of the film trying to picture him in large black-framed spectacles. His poptastic stylings are different, at any rate, from the tremulous vibrato Jackman smothers everything in. But it's also mysterious that he wanted to play Javert, whose dedication to tormenting Valjean has no psychological interest and indeed comes to seem merely churlish. Perhaps he just liked pronouncing "monsieur" as "murh-shewer".

[Man out of Time]

Browsing YouTube, I came across Stand up comedian James Inman, who has uploaded a lot of clips of EC here: http://www.youtube.com/user/jzenman/videos .

On his My Space page at http://www.myspace.com/inman.james, in the profile section James says:

"I'm a huge Elvis Costello fan and I have at least 10 gigs of his mp3s on my hard drive".

One can only speculate whether those mp3s include any recordings that have not officially been released.

Has anyone else come across Mr Inman, or heard him talk about his appreciation for EC?

MOOT

[johnfoyle]

Any EC content/contribution, I wonder ?

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/rolling ... n/25559158




Publication date: 2/15/2013

The Editors of Rolling Stone bring you the ultimate guide for any Bob Dylan fan. The Special Collector’s Edition includes a definitive list of the 100 Greatest Dylan Songs, as chosen by a panel of artists, writers, and Dylanologists. It also features over 40 years of classic Rolling Stone interviews, along with Dylan’s aphorisms, words of wisdom, and shifting opinions on everything from religion to the Sixties to being misunderstood. Plus, tributes from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bono, Lucinda Williams and more!

[Man out of Time]

British comedian Mitch Benn has a band called "The Distractions" with whom he performs and records. This is their tribute to EC, which seems to comprise snippets of various popular EC songs, starting with "Less than Zero" then taking a familiar turn.

http://www.juzp.net/ELAMKiJHnCBBl

His website which is here:http://www.mitchbenn.com/ includes a lot of other nonsense.

MOOT

[Top balcony]

"watching the detectives" booming out in Asda, Sefton Park this morning approx 10.55am

Colin Top Balcony

[sheeptotheslaughter]

British comedian Mitch Benn has a band called "The Distractions" with whom he performs and records. This is their tribute to EC, which seems to comprise snippets of various popular EC songs, starting with "Less than Zero" then taking a familiar turn.

http://www.juzp.net/ELAMKiJHnCBBl

His website which is here:http://www.mitchbenn.com/ includes a lot of other nonsense.

MOOT

I bought of their singles 'it doesnt bother me' many years ago on white vinyl 7 inch. It ended up being a bit of a break tune for me when I was dumped by a young lady at the time. Cracking song very much of the time though.

[sheeptotheslaughter]

My daughter said Alison was on in the Queen Vic on Eastenders the other night

[Fishfinger king]

Aggers chose Oliver's Army on Desert Island Discs at the weekend.
That won't mean a lot to non-cricket fans!!

[Top balcony]

Aggers chose Oliver's Army on Desert Island Discs at the weekend.
That won't mean a lot to non-cricket fans!!

the lovely Mrs Top Balcony listened to the show and told me OA had been played, unfortunately she couldn't properly remember the story behind the choice, can you recall Mr King?

Colin Top Balcony

ps although not a cricket fan I joined the show about 20 mins from the end and a very entertaining listen it was too

[terryhurley]

Listen again below - this might not work outside the UK and might only be "live" for another couple of days.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/de ... 0#b01qkxb8

[johnfoyle]

http://sunkentreasuresmusic.com/2013/02 ... -costello/

Tears Before Bedtime – Elvis Costello
by Marco Esquandolas on February 23, 2013

[johnfoyle]

The 'i' paper (London), Feb. 25 '13

[johnfoyle]

Mojo, April '13

[johnfoyle]

From earlier today -

Pat O'Mahony ‏@patomahony1

Anyone who ever recorded in @WindmillLaneRec get in touch with them. They're redecorating and need all old masters cleared out.



Back in Nov. '11 a friend, who was interning in Windmill Lane , sent me these photos - hopefully the recordings are safe!

[johnfoyle]

Rage Records (where the late, great Road Records used to be, here in Dublin) had both formats of the Self Aid album. The Sgl has E.C.'s Many Rivers To Cross , the dbl featuring Leave My Kitten Alone.

Some information here - I'm going to do some scanning etc. tomorrow and beef up this wiki page - http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... or_Ireland

[Man out of Time]

" Harvey Price is an assistant professor of music at UD, where he has been teaching since 1979. At UD he directs the percussion and marimba ensembles and the internationally acclaimed Delaware Steel, and performs with the faculty jazz ensemble. Price keeps busy as a jazz vibist, steel drummer, and jazz drummer and most recently performed with Branford Marsalis and Elvis Costello."

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/mar/mpc ... 30113.html

When, where and why might Harvey Price have performed with EC?

MOOT?

[johnfoyle]

http://www.likepunkneverhappened.blogsp ... -1983.html

Oh Joy! From the latest Smash Hits from 1983 to be archived , here's a Elvis Costello 'Star Teaser"!

[And No Coffee Table]

Elvis' Twitter and Facebook accounts have linked to this cryptic list at the official site.

http://www.elviscostello.com/yellow-pre ... vision/394

50/50 Vision

"It's not a matter of life and death but what is?"

91. Basement Kiss
92. Sulky Girl
93. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
94. Hoover Factory
95. Clubland
96. Pills and Soap
97. Bullets For The New-Born King
98. No Star - "1975. Unrecorded"
99. No Wonder
100. Less Than Zero

[johnfoyle]

It may be a response to the Countdown project . I've only had a quick look but I don't think any of these are in it.

[edney]

"Less Than Zero" was in the Top 10 I think John, and "Clubland" was in there too. If "No Star" deserves to be in an alternative Top 100, I wanna hear it!

(Just had another look and both "Pills And Soap" and "Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head" are also in the Countdown Top 100.)

[johnfoyle]

It was, indeed, a very quick, distracted look!

[And No Coffee Table]

One of the "bumper" photos on last night's Saturday Night Live with host Justin Timberlake:



http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... tem=280705

[Natasha]

My girlfriend found this in a record shop here in Rio. I'm sure you guys know what´s this about (We don´t. :p)

[johnfoyle]

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... Soundtrack

The Courier: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Original soundtrack for the movie The Courier, which starred Elvis' then wife Cait O'Riordan.

Elvis provides eight instrumental tracks under the name Declan MacManus - his first releases of this type, which led to other soundtracks, GBH and Jake's Progress, and later to his first full classical work Il Sogno.

The album also features tracks by U2, Hothouse Flowers, and other less well known artists.

Discussed here -

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3 ... it=courier