Elvis/Imposters, 'Vibes', Bridgeport Ct, 23 July '11

[johnfoyle]

Win tickets -

http://www.newhavenregister.com/article ... 549642.txt.

[johnfoyle]

I guess it would have been announced by now if Elvis was not up to this show -

http://www.gatheringofthevibes.com/home






http://www.billboard.com/events/jane-s- ... 2422.story

March 14, 2011

(extract)

Costello says he's happy to be joining the Deadhead "family" for the Vibes weekend. "Any event that embraces the spirit of the Grateful Dead in the [former] home of P.T. Barnum has got my vote," Costello notes. "The Dead played the second festival I ever attended...in a field of mud outside of Wigan [England] in 1972...I've always loved the Dead's records, from 'Workingman's Dead' to 'From Mars Hotel.' That was great run of songs, many of the best of them only recorded on the 1972 tour. That turns out to be a valuable lesson, now record albums are a thing of the past. You can always take to the stage and do it again. 'St. Stephen' is my current favorite song. Maybe we'll put THAT in the set."



The local 'paper is still expecting Elvis -


http://www.ctnow.com/entertainment/musi ... 4285.story

By JACK CORAGGIO, Special to The Courant The Hartford Courant

8:22 a.m. EDT, July 23, 2011

(extract)

Though The Dead essentially set the crunchy Friday tone, it might be a different story Saturday with New Wave sensation Elvis Costello and alt-rock heroes Jane's Addiction.

[bronxapostle]

I guess it would have been announced by now if Elvis was up to this show

are you saying because we have NOT heard, that he is NOT playing????

9-10:30 listed as their playing time at daily schedule.

[johnfoyle]

Sorry BA - a very necessary 'not' will be edited in!

[bronxapostle]

cool king foyle....just wanted to be certain. please...my friends call me "ba".

[docinwestchester]

Why no live stream? Most festivals have them. It looks like they have cameras set up:

http://www.youtube.com/gatheringofthevibes

[And No Coffee Table]

Twitter:

Wavy Gravy brings on Elvis Costello. Then Elvis opens with "I Hope You're Happy Now."

Elvis Costello playing Nick Lowe's "Heart Of The City" at Gathering of The Vibes. #awesome

Elvis Costello destroying stuff. Not even stopping for breaks! Nuts

"Radio Radio" Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis Costello is in the house.

Elvis seem louder than everyone else was? #govibes #vibetribe

Cool cover of this wheels on fire #govibes #vibetribe

Only Page is allowed to sing High Time - sorry Elvis #govibes #phish #gotv

(I think that's a reference to "On Your Way Down": "It's high time that you found...")

Watching the detectives was awesome live #vibetribe #govibes

I don't want to go to Chelsea #elvis http://twitpic.com/5uuv3k

Elvis costello came off his sick bed to play for us. Now hes playin musta been the roses! #gotv

Pump it up! @vibetribe @elviscostello

Elvis Costello closes with What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love and Understanding at The Vibes. Jane's Addiction up next! @vibetribe

elvis costello just manhandled a three song encore. #musicgod

[And No Coffee Table]

Vibes 2011 – Saturday, 10:30 p.m.
July 23, 2011 at 10:57 pm by Sean Spillane

Elvis Costello was amazing. I know a lot of people that wish they were here, and all I can say is “You should’ve been.”

He’s been touring with his Spinning Song Wheel, but that obviously wouldn’t work at a festival. Instead he relied on a set filled almost entirely with his greatest hits.

His voice wasn’t as strong as it normally is, but he did make brief mention of the fact that he got “out of his sick bed” to perform. Still, he sounded fine.

He added a couple of cover songs to his set, including “This Wheel’s on Fire,” by Bob Dylan, and a couple by Nick Lowe, including “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding,” which is more associated with Costello and Lowe by this point.

More importantly, Costello, in his encore, performed the title track from his album “Sulphur to Sugarcane,” which namechecks Bridgeport, although it’s not certain if he’s talking about the host city of the Vibes.

Anyway, the lyrics say, “Down in Bridgeport, the women will kill you for sport,” so I hope it’s another city of the same name.

Either way, his mentioning Bridgeport drew a loud reaction from the concertgoers, most of which have never heard the song.

Costello even got into the spirit of the Gathering of the Vibes by performing The Grateful Dead’s “It Must Have Been the Roses,” which thrilled the crowd to no end.

[johnfoyle]

http://dinoperrucciphotography.blogspot ... 72411.html

[The imposter]

The show has been posted here:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=546969

[bronxapostle]

he looks likes he went twelve rounds in the picture above...from last night? God bless him.

[SoulForHire]

The show has been posted here:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=546969

I'm pretty sure Track 4 is not "Lizard's Dance"

[bronxapostle]

The show has been posted here:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=546969

I'm pretty sure Track 4 is not "Lizard's Dance"

God love the taper/uploader....they don't know a lot of EC song titles. i can figure every song but what came between BOOK & DETECTIVES

[filmbabble12]

Does anybody have the correct setlist for last night's show?
Thanks,
Dan

[EarlManchester]

Does anybody have the correct setlist for last night's show?

01. I Hope You're Happy Now
02. Heart Of The City
03. Mystery Dance
04. Uncomplicated - including Shotgun
05. Radio, Radio
06. Everyday I Write The Book
07. Turpentine
08. Watching The Detectives / Help Me
09. This Wheel's On Fire / The River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care Of You
10. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
11. A Slow Drag With Josephine - EC solo
12. It Must Have Been The Roses - EC solo
13. Bedlam - including Big Kick, Plain Scrap!
Encore
14. Sulphur To Sugarcane
15. Pump It Up
16. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

[docinwestchester]

Anyone listen to this yet? It sounds like a soundboard recording. The vocals sound too good to be from an audience microphone. Whatever, it's great!

[SoulForHire]

Anyone listen to this yet? It sounds like a soundboard recording. The vocals sound too good to be from an audience microphone. Whatever, it's great!

I was wondering about that myself. It is regardless an excellent recording.

ETA To be clear, according to the taper, it is certainly an aud

[verbal gymnastics]

So did everyone vote for "It must have been the roses?" then?

[scamp]

Very good sound. Too bad EC shows don't have a taper section.

[johnfoyle]

Elvis Costello, left, and Steve Nieve at the Gathering Of The Vibes Music Festival
Credits: Gary Lambert


http://www.examiner.com/local-music-in- ... val-review


Elvis Costello at Gathering Of The Vibes Music Festival

Jim Bessman
Manhattan Local Music Examiner
July 24, 2011

He had to postpone his Friday night show at the Borgata in Atlantic City due to illness, but Elvis Costello seemed none the worse for wear Saturday night when he and his band The Imposters played the penultimate set at the third day of the 2011 Gathering Of The Vibes Music Festival at Bridgeport, Conn.'s Seaside Park.

But sky high temperatures being what they were, he did wear less than his usual business attire, doffing the dark suit jacket for long-sleeved shirt and vest. Longtime keyboard ace Steve Nieve at least picked up the sartorial slack, in what appeared to be some sort of Civil War era preacher's black garb.

Of course, they (with Imposters drummer Pete Thomas and bassist/vocalist Davey Faragher) could just as well have worn shorts and tie-died t-shirts to go with the jam band nature of the Vibes fest, and the fast-paced 90-minute set would have been just as good. Although the outdoor venue's limitations forced a break from Costello's continuing Revolver Tour featuring his "Spectacular Spinning Songbook," the scorching set, ensconced between Moe and Jane's Addiction, somehow fit perfectly.

Costello rightly went with a "greatest hits" approach, though with a few surprises, including a stretched-out version of Bob Dylan's "This Wheels On Fire"--which he's smartly included in the Revolver shows--and the Grateful Dead's “It Must Have Been The Roses," not at all a false gesture to please Vibesters since he recorded it on the 2000 tribute album Stolen Roses: Songs Of The Grateful Dead.

He can't stand accused either of milking applause for first encore "Sulphur To Sugarcane," since the song really does have the lyric "Down in Bridgeport/The women will kill you for sport." No, Costello, who joked about getting out of his "sick bed" to perform, gave Bridgeport genuine and plentiful good vibes without compromising either set list or vocal chords.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.ctpost.com/vibes/slideshow/G ... to-1145780


Elvis Costello performs during The Gathering of the Vibes festival on July 23, 2011. Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Connecticut Post

[johnfoyle]

What a well paced show. Listening to it in full this afternoon it was so easy to imagine the crowd in the heat being led along. It might seem easy but it was a demonstration of how well Elvis can assess a audience, give them what they want - the 'hits' - and weave in a bit of something more demanding. Turpentine gets a great work out but the crowd gets 'Detectives as reward for that etc. And that harmonica playing during Help Me -wow! Similarly 'Sulphur - totally revitalised by some great honky-tonk piano playing by Steve-goes into Pump It Up and so on.

Hidden away in the sparse between-song banter was a interesting piece of news. After saying he had come from his sick bed Elvis introduces It Must Have Been The Roses by saying he had hoped to do a brand new song he had written with 'Roses' writer Robert Hunter . Is this the first any of us has heard of this?

[verbal gymnastics]

John - if you haven't heard then what chance the rest of us?

[johnfoyle]

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/mu ... 7688.story

Jack Coraggio

Special To the Courant

July 25, 2011

(extract)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters brought an unbelievably fantastic show that likely proselytized some New Wave converts. An energetic closer of "Pump It Up" and the fitting "What's So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding)" could not be denied brilliance. On "Watching the Detectives," a track that bobs like any anchored boat floating the Sound, Costello proved he could host brilliant jam sessions of jungle drumming, scatting and wailing guitars that could easily rival the likes of jam band princes and earlier performer moe.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Elvis has stolen my shirt.