Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

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"hat-way in Dunne's (with apologies to the Fairfield Four, Lord McCartney etc !!! :wink:
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Azmuda wrote:New on Thebox:

Name: Johnny Vegas: 18 Stone of Idiot: Unseen & Uncut (2005) [DVD (iso)]
Size: 7.25 GB
Category: Comedy
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Actors: Johnny Vegas, Laura-Beth Hill
Directors: Alex Rudzinski, Julian Smith
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 18
Studio: 4dvd
DVD Release Date: 31 Oct 2005
Run Time: 168 minutes

Voted as Britain's funniest man Johnny Vegas hosts his first ever entertainment series. Re-live the best bits of the hit show Johnny Vegas:18 Stone of Idiot as Johnny invites you into his bizarre but comical world.Vegas is joined by a host of celebrity guests Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Elvis Costello, David Soul, Huey Morgan and Rhys Ifans who he interviews in his own unique way.

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=231447
I love EC and Johnny Vegas but this show was excruciating. Wasn't Elvis pushed around in a pram?

Even completists would struggle with justifying this purchase!
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Phil Jupitus of Nevermind the Buzzcocks fame was in the 5th row in Edinburgh with actor Ewan Bremner also there (he's best known for being Spud in Trainspotting). Other than Everything but the Girl, any other well kent faces spotted attending?
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Phil Jupitus may well be at Southend Wednesday. As far as I know he still lives in Leigh on Sea just up the road. Crime writer Mark Billingham went all three nights at the RAH.
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Mark Nevin (top songwriter ex-Moz, ex-Fairground Attraction) was at one of the RAH shows.
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Costello gets a few mentions in this article on opening lyrics by some Australian dude: http://mrjeremydylan.tumblr.com/post/53 ... er-for-ten
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Jeremy Dylan wrote:Costello gets a few mentions in this article on opening lyrics by some Australian dude: http://mrjeremydylan.tumblr.com/post/53 ... er-for-ten
Nice piece- Mr. Dylan

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(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding coming from PA speakers 15 minutes before the start of Green Day show in Lodz, Poland.
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And Green Shirt played before Ron Sexsmith at The Sage, Gateshead last night
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http://www.likepunkneverhappened.blogsp ... -1983.html

P.13 of the latest issue of Smash Hits from 1983 to be archived.
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Pete Thomas is on the new Arctic Monkey's album

http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/71025
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Sunday evening 6/23/2013 with the Peter Beets/Joe Cohn Quartet at Smalls in NYC with a certain Paul Gill on bass who has worked in the past with EC and was a past bass player in Diana Krall's backing band.
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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Pretty good review of Questlove's memoirs[to date] in today's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/books ... ?ref=books

It is quite easy to see why he has hit it off so well with Mr. Costello over the years- he is basically an inner city version of the man- complete down to the eclectic, didactic and near encyclopedic immersion into and familiarity with contemporary music!! :shock:
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Some [new?] EC photos on the James O'Mara site: http://www.jamesomara.com/music.php?category=0
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From my last few gigs, Lucinda Williams' last pre-show tune before her Edinburgh gig was 'Watching the Detectives'. Had a quick word with her afterwards and mentioend that Elvis had played just along the road the week before at The Festival Theatre, and she said she was soory she missed him as everyone seems to be in the UK right now, and it would be good for them all to catch up. Suggested a big gig at mine if they needed a venue for such an event :D

Also, from Burt Bacharach's gigs, he mentioned (to many cheers) that Elvis and he are working on a stage show using 6 or 7 songs from painted from Memory Plus another 6 or 7 new songs. Much of his live shows involves medleys just to get through his amazing back catalogue, but God Give me Strength gets played in it's entirity. The singer who performs it on this tour, John Pagano, got a great reception for this at both the Glasgow and Edinburgh shows.
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Pete Thomas
has been recording today in The Square Studio, Hoxton, London , according to this photo & comments posted on Facebook by Roger Bechirian, who is producing. I asked who & got no answer. Is it time to be wildly speculative & fantasise about Elvis 'n co using the days off the road to 'bash out' a Blood & Chocolate style quickie of an album?
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A memoir piece by Steve Nieve's daughter

http://www.vsadesigns.com/blog/sister-act/
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Mention of Roger Bechirian is spooky... two of The Undertones were interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday and talked about how they met Elvis Costello on Top of The Pops and he recommended RB to produce their first album (which he did):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0368nk8

(1 hour 16 mins 56 secs in)
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johnfoyle wrote:Image

Pete Thomas
has been recording today in The Square Studio, Hoxton, London , according to this photo & comments posted on Facebook by Roger Bechirian, who is producing. I asked who & got no answer. Is it time to be wildly speculative & fantasise about Elvis 'n co using the days off the road to 'bash out' a Blood & Chocolate style quickie of an album?
Blanket of Secrecy posts on FB:
"PR in place, bootleg under much scrutiny, Roger finished Pete Thomas sessions. Things are looking good. soon they cried very soon....Pete Thomas appears on some tracks from the second Blankets album and he is BRILIANT!!! Listen out for Mr Munsen and Baby Don't you Change. We are certain that no one can boot leg this album. Pure pop taken to another level."
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johnfoyle wrote:A memoir piece by Steve Nieve's daughter

http://www.vsadesigns.com/blog/sister-act/
Photo (on right) from there pretty funny, "Sorry... This attraction is not in operation today"...

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SteveL wrote:
johnfoyle wrote:A memoir piece by Steve Nieve's daughter

http://www.vsadesigns.com/blog/sister-act/
Photo (on right) from there pretty funny, "Sorry... This attraction is not in operation today"...

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That pic of Steve is from the original UK vinyl release of Armed Forces. I'm lucky enough to own this and somehow managed to not lose the cool inside art, along with the Hollywood High 45.

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From Uncut (Aug.'13) - proper order!
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Just got around to watching the much-overlooked and highly entertaining "Cloud Atlas" from last year. At one point, Jim Broadbent's character is being introduced to a small group of fellow residents at an old-folks home, and the lady in the group is introduced as "Veronica Costello." Given the subject matter of the song, and the fact that this character in the film suffers from Alzheimer's or some related disorder, I'm sure this was no coincidence.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j1r9

MUSIC: Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s
On: BBC Radio Two
Date: Sunday 30th June 2013
Time: 15:00 to 17:00

"Also on the show, the anniversary of Elvis Costello quitting his day job to take up music is celebrated with sounds from the archive, and the lid gets lifted on Johnnie's Jukebox to add another classic single."

Elvis Costello Alison The Man, Imp Records, 4

Elvis Costello Less Than Zero DEMON

Elvis Costello Pump It Up (Live from Glastonbury 2013)


Good to see the BBC using ancient cd editions to source tracks !
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... tello.html


A teenager in New York: Sightseeing by speedboat and bumping into Elvis Costello

By Miles Ellingham

PUBLISHED:14 July 2013

(extract)

Our second choice was more sedate - a night at a famous jazz club called the Blue Note, where we watched pianist McCoy Tyner (a veteran of John Coltrane's group) do his thing. On the way out, I accidentally bumped into a man and realised that it was Elvis Costello. Dad decided this gave his choice of night out a bit more credibility.

It's difficult to verify this. Most of McCoy's recent show's at the Blue Note , that I can find details of, clash with Elvis being out of New York. In February he was in Australia and June he was in England.

Gosh - The Mail getting their facts wrong - now there's a surprise!

http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedul ... i?id=10824

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/163255 ... -jazz-club
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