40 years since Elvis played his second gig in Ireland , in Macroom, Co. Cork

Pretty self-explanatory
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This should be interesting. Roz was nice enough to ask to use some of my research into the 1981 festival , featuring you know who. It's due out in June .
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Roz Crowley's book is out now . She used some of my research for the 1981 festival


http://www.onstream.ie/books/mountain_dew.htm


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A enhanced, much improved version of the clip of Strict Time has appeared

https://youtu.be/YjAQeVzOqm0
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Melody Maker journalist Allan Jones in his 1981 account -

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... y_11,_1981


Elvoid, meanwhile was lurking about in the doorway of his dressing room, a wide brimmed trilby pulled downover his shades, the collar of his KGB overcoat pulled up around his ears. He looked like he might come over at any time and ask us to hand over the plans of the tractor factory.


In March 1986 , Allan interviewed Elvis ( who was promoting King Of America)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... ch_1,_1986

I remember meeting you in Ireland, the summer after Trust came out and you seemed quite seriously depressed at the time.


That was a real low point , that whole time. I was really ill. I was drinking too much and taking too many drugs. I don't think I knew my mind at all. I was very unhappy. If you constantly wake up with hangover after hangover you can't think at all in the end. I don't think I was thinking very much at all then. I just had an opinion.


Allan Jones permits me to share this, via Facebook

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MM photographer Tom Sheehan took this picture of me with Elvis that afternoon. Jake Riviera must have been elsewhere, shouting at someone.
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Re: Memories of Elvis in Macroom, Ireland in 1981 - new clip of Strict Time

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Great reading about this show and period of EC. Has any audio of this show ever surfaced? Would be interesting to hear.
Who on earth is tapping at the window?
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The clip of the full report on tv is back up

https://youtu.be/BQpMQSrat0c
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Would have been great if the whole show had been recorded - if only to see the mad fans bombarding the stage with beer cans and Elvis just playing to try and calm them down as reported by Allan Jones in the Melody Maker:
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... y_11,_1981
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10 years ago I researched this gig.

The late, much missed Aine O'Connor did a report on it for RTE's Summerhouse .

https://youtu.be/BQpMQSrat0c

Getting that clip from the archives was quite an adventure.
In the end it just took a little bit of carefully crafted wording to get it released.
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Re: 40 years since Elvis played his second gig in Ireland , in Macroom, Co. Cork

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Still seems there might have been a professional recording of the whole show made . I’m increasingly frustrated- what’s the point if keeping these pro shows under wraps ( shows such as second El Mocambo, RAH with the RPO, the second Palamino show from Feb 1979!) They’re unlikely to ever garner more interest as time goes by, as more of us who remember and care about these shows shake off this mortal coil and the commercial value must be ever diminishing ! Maybe this will never happen because of the lack of success of the reissues with the second live disc - just seems a shame really ! The finding of the excellent “Strict Time” recording at Macroom was the work of a committed fan though John and a great effort ! Thumbs up
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