Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

[FAVEHOUR]

[quote="johnfoyle"]http://www.ijamming.net/?p=1440

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Tony Fletcher writes -

(extract)


By one of those beautiful, unplanned coincidences that form the narrative for my life, I found myself attending the relatively new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York last week, only to discover that it is currently hosting a special exhibition on the Clash, entitled “Revolution Rock.” Coming just ten days after seeing Clash guitarist Mick Jones’ Rock’n'roll Public Library on display in London’s ChelseaSpace, it provided the perfect contrast in presentation.

For those who love their rock history, there are, indeed, some wonderful relics on display here. Pete Townshend’s Les Paul deluxe from 1972, Keith Moon’s blue platform shoes from the same era. Elvis Costello’s lyrics to “Red Shoes,” written on the timetable while taking a train from Liverpool-London. Dylan’s personal test-pressing of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, on which he crossed out two songs (the excellent “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” among them) and asked to replace them with “Girl from the North Country” and “Masters Of War.”



I remember when these lyircs were up for auction several years back....and EC pulled them out.

[johnfoyle]

A 'Dr J' kicks of a E.C. debate on The Word site -

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/i ... ello-album

[Otis Westinghouse]

Dr J! Defector! Guess this was too narrow. Although an avid Word reader, I don't really bother with their site, though the debates looks like they are written by people with brains, as befits the mag.

[johnfoyle]

So bizarre it could only be true!

http://wishboneashblog.blogspot.com/200 ... clown.html



Sunday, 3 May 2009
Frank the Clown

We bump into unusual people on our tours, as you know.

Meet Frank the Clown!

Since we had a hard time persuading SOME odd former ancient Wishbone Ash members in joining us at Shepherds Bush Empire next week, Frank said he'd do the honors. Here he is with us outside our hotel near Birkenhead.

Frank's a great guy and a wizz on the unicycle. It turns out that he used to go to school with Elvis Costello. In fact, he and Frank sat next to each other in class. Beat that! At the time, Frank was U.K. national trampoline champion and Elvis (Dec or Declan ) would accompany Frank on the guitar, as he performed all sorts of acrobatics. Frank was the first to hit stardom, you see. Declan's time was yet to come.

Nice to meet you Frank and good luck to you in your clown endeavors!

~ A.P.

Posted by Wishbone Ash Blog at 17:17

[johnfoyle]

This includes a story inspired by and featuring Oliver's Army. By Martin Lloyd Edwards , it's cleverly done; he's clearly a big fan.

http://www.authonomy.com/Profile.aspx?u ... d792b9a45a


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Punk-Fiction-An ... 319&sr=1-1


Punk Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk
6 April 2009

'£1 from this book will be donated to The Teenage Cancer Trust with every book sold.'

[johnfoyle]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090 ... dies+at+60

Music man Stephen Bruton dies at 60

Guitarist played with Kristofferson

By Peter Cooper • THE TENNESSEAN • May 10, 2009

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Stephen Bruton, the recording artist, producer, songwriter, guitarist and actor who spent nearly two decades as "the baby" of Kris Kristofferson's touring band, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 60 and had battled throat cancer for two years.


Mr. Bruton's songs were recorded by Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Patty Loveless, Martina McBride, Jimmy Buffett and numerous others. He produced albums for Hal Ketchum, Alejandro Escovedo, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Chris Smither, Marcia Ball and Storyville, and he released five acclaimed solo albums. He was also a noted session musician who performed on works by Raitt, Elvis Costello, Carly Simon, The Wallflowers, Delbert McClinton and others.

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Stephen played mandolin on "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me", the 'b-side' of the Cowards Bros. single "The People's Limousine"., now, of course , available on the extended re-issues of KOA.

[Who Shot Sam?]

Spectacle is mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in his ESPN exchange with Bill Simmons...

It actually wasn't a documentary on the Police. It was Elvis Costello interviewing the Police on "Spectacle" on Bravo (airs on Sundance channel in the U.S.), which might be the most entertaining show on television. I never was much of a Police fan, but the show reminded me of several things. First, they had way more great songs than I had remembered. Second: Stewart Copeland? Lunatic! (I'm reminded of the fact that a couple of years ago I read this great memoir from an old CIA hand. It had all kinds of completely amazing stories about his time with the CIA's precursor -- the OSS -- during World War II. So I called up this intelligence expert in England and asked him whether the stories were true. "That book?" he said, and I could literally hear him rolling his eyes. The ex-spy who wrote "that book," by the way, was Miles Copeland, father of Stewart. Nuttiness runs in that family.) And then there's Sting: Way better-looking, cooler, smarter and more charming than I had remembered. But he so obviously loathed Copeland, and Copeland so obviously loathed him, that halfway through the interview you realize that even being in the biggest and most successful rock band of your era isn't enough to make you want to stay together.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... 0513/part3

[TX_Fan]

While walking on the treadmill one morning, I happened to be watching an Episode of the sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle". Malcolm and his classmates were battling for the number 1 class ranking. While showing a sequence of scenes that has everyone studying like crazy, they played two full verses of "Pump it up"....I smiled & turned it up the volume of course.

[johnfoyle]

Spanish tribute to Stiff Records -

http://www.popandsoul.com/blog/?page_id=544



including

COOPER - ALISON (Elvis Costello)
COOL FROG - Less than zero (Elvis Costello)
STAY - Watching the detectives (Elvis Costello)

[johnfoyle]

Elvis' encounter with Gyles Brandreth on the BBC One show a few weeks ago -




...................is remembered by the great man in the May 26 issue of Womans Weekly -

[johnfoyle]

Nick Lowe must be going green with envy -

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/06/ka ... e_wor.html

6/1/09

Isabella Rossellini, Elvis Costello, and Lizzi Bracco caught Roberto Benigni in Dante's Divine Comedy at the Hammerstein Ballroom.


http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/624106

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4 days in New York during Memorial Day weekend

That nite was our one reservation at Craft, we started with drinks at the Flatiron Lounge bar. These two bartenders were super nice, one of whom used to work in Boston. Had an interesting cocktail that they promised I'd like even tho I'm not a gin drinker. I could have spent more time there and since Craft had room, we could have gotten in with no reservation. We decided to sit at the bar and that bartender was fine although not nearly as personable as some but we did have a one celebrity sighting, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall eating dinner.

[scielle]

New on CBC Entertainment (http://www.cbc.ca/entertainment/):


Music Quiz: Pump it up
Test your knowledge of Elvis Costello
http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi ... s_costello

[Who Shot Sam?]

New on CBC Entertainment (http://www.cbc.ca/entertainment/):


Music Quiz: Pump it up
Test your knowledge of Elvis Costello
http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi ... s_costello

Pretty easy. 10/10. The t-shirt question was the only one I had to think twice about.

[Fishfinger king]

9/10. The t-shirt question was the only one I got wrong.

[The imposter]

Just been watching Yusuf Islam on a BBC 4 Session. His song "The little ones" has almost the exact same melody as "Captains & The Kings" Oh and there's an instrumental bit on The Juliet Letters that is ripped directly from one of the Shostakovich string quartets can't recall which.

[johnfoyle]

Neat TYM image in this vid .-

http://www.comfortcomes.com/2009/06/17/ ... a-ya-fell/


Other Girls recently shot a video for the single “Hey Fella, You Fell” from their debut album Perfect Cities (Audio Eagle). The concept is based on Other Girls bringing to life old album covers from artists like Elvis Costello, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nirvana, Captain Beefheart, The Rolling Stones, My Bloody Valentine etc.

[E*C*RIDER]

Oh and there's an instrumental bit on The Juliet Letters that is ripped directly from one of the Shostakovich string quartets can't recall which.

Ripped?

I reckon you’re likely referring to the Shostakovich quote that occurs as the line “…and I was thinking of something you said” is sung in ‘I Thought I’d Write To Juliet’. It then it pops up again instrumentally a bit later along the same musical thread (or is at least alluded to) as part of the coda to ‘The First To Leave’.

The music comes from the middle movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s amazing 5th String Quartet Op.92 from the 1950’s. I spoke to Paul Cassidy of the Brodsky Quartet about this some years ago when they were on tour. He was a bit stunned that anyone had noticed and told me that it was buried in the score as a key marker to the Elvis/Brodskys connection first having been made over the BQt’s performance, and EC’s appreciation of this music.

As I remember, it occurs almost at the dead-centre of the slow second movement of the quartet and then recurs again, slightly changed towards the end of the movement. Chilling and thrilling stuff that is well worth getting to know.

The phrase is probably a DDS self-reference to something elsewhere in his own work – but that’s another whole kettle of DSCH.

[johnfoyle]

http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... -fame.html



Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dan Piraro, creator of the syndicated cartoon, "Bizarro" , posts -

On occasion I get mistaken for Elvis Costello by people who don't really know what Elvis Costello looks like. They see glasses and a hat and figure I must be him. But now it will be an even more frequent nuisance, because Elvis is sporting a mustache. Damn that look-stealing limey. What next? A cigar?

[johnfoyle]

http://community.livejournal.com/ourbed ... 49614.html

katariina wrote in ourbedrooms
2009-06-28


Some shoes and Elvis Costello grocery bag. Geeky.


http://scaryparent.blogspot.com/2009/06 ... lding.html



Elvis is in the Building

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Posted by Joe Schreiber

Phil Hale has been one of my favorite artists since I was in high school. He's probably best known for doing the art for Stephen King's The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, but he's also done a ton of book covers and fantasy art over the years. Most recently he painted the first and only official portrait of Tony Blair during his time as PM.

Anyhow, in the Dreams Come True Department, I received an early 40th birthday present in the form of this original Phil Hale oil painting of Elvis Costello. It was apparently commissioned for a British rock magazine but never used. It now hangs in my dining room. And my little world is a brighter place for it.

[The imposter]

Oh and there's an instrumental bit on The Juliet Letters that is ripped directly from one of the Shostakovich string quartets can't recall which.

Ripped?

I reckon you’re likely referring to the Shostakovich quote that occurs as the line “…and I was thinking of something you said” is sung in ‘I Thought I’d Write To Juliet’. It then it pops up again instrumentally a bit later along the same musical thread (or is at least alluded to) as part of the coda to ‘The First To Leave’.

The music comes from the middle movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s amazing 5th String Quartet Op.92 from the 1950’s. I spoke to Paul Cassidy of the Brodsky Quartet about this some years ago when they were on tour. He was a bit stunned that anyone had noticed and told me that it was buried in the score as a key marker to the Elvis/Brodskys connection first having been made over the BQt’s performance, and EC’s appreciation of this music.

As I remember, it occurs almost at the dead-centre of the slow second movement of the quartet and then recurs again, slightly changed towards the end of the movement. Chilling and thrilling stuff that is well worth getting to know.

The phrase is probably a DDS self-reference to something elsewhere in his own work – but that’s another whole kettle of DSCH.

I only say ripped, cos I don't see it credited anywhere, don't think old Dmitri is about to come claiming his royalties..anyway thanks for clearing that up!

[johnfoyle]

http://kristieholiday.blogspot.com/2009 ... nsell.html




Elvis Costello
Gloss Painted Dots On Aluminium
21cm x 28.5cm
Paul Normansell

http://www.paulnormansell.com/page4.htm

[johnfoyle]

http://vi.sualize.us/view/9d234ff1f8e1d ... c30e3c0be/


Elvis, Minneapolis / Kables

[scielle]

http://rogovoy.com/news1766.html

"That's just the beginning of a solid weekend of performances at Tanglewood, including Saturday's July Fourth celebration topped by jazz-pop singer/pianist Diana Krall.

The weather looks promising for a glorious day at Tanglewood, and a little bird told me that there's a good chance that Mr. Diana Krall, also known as Elvis Costello, may be making an unbilled appearance during her performance."

[And No Coffee Table]

Seems unlikely since he'll be performing 1200 miles away tomorrow night.

[verbal gymnastics]

Don't underestimate the power of love