Elvis & The Imposters, Tokyo , Dec 13 '13

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Anyone going?
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It seems that this concert will be broadcast live on TV: http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000097252

Google translation: http://translate.google.be/translate?sl ... 52&act=url

The live broadcast attracted attention all over the world, live Elvis Costello to determine the song played at roulette

It is broadcast live on WOWOW live Elvis Costello attracted attention all over the world by it that determine the musical performance at roulette <Elvis Costello & The imported Stars Live in Japan 2013 The Spinning Wheel Songbook>.

Japan live Elvis Costello & The imported Stars performed in Tokyo · EX Roppongi theater between December 11 to 13. I live this point is unique Nanoha, that will decide at roulette mounted on the stage to play a song.

Masterpieces and hidden hits Costello, medley and cover songs are 40 songs listed in this roulette, audience chosen by lot is turning the roulette, it's that play themselves Costello presided a song that came out So, anything thrilling.

He started from 2011 already, is one crowd of Anglo-American, live of the topics that were praised by influential media New York Times and the U.S. Rolling Stone magazine, such as the British Guardian's arrive in Japan at last.

The songs come up the configuration to play that and soon, roulette, that seems to Costello's habit. It seems to taste the entertainment Quirky and lock live normal.

"Live! Elvis Costello & The imported Stars Live in Japan 2013 The Spinning Wheel Songbook"
Air date: December 13 (Friday) night 7:30 [WOWOW Live]
From Location: Tokyo EX Theater Roppongi
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Elvis Costello and The Imported Stars, I like that!

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Ian on Facebook posts:

Set list:

I Hope You're Happy Now
Heart of the City
Uncomplicated
Mystery Dance
Radio Radio

Spin 1: so Like Candy

Come the Meantimes

Double Spin
Spin 2: Tokyo Storm Warning (played after Girl jackpot)
Spin 3: Girl jackpot
Party Girl
Girls Talk
This Year's Girl? (can't remember, didn't write it down)

Tokyo Storm Warning

Spin 4: She (ended in the crowd)

God Give Me Strength (sung entirely off stage)

Spin 5: I Want You

Chelsea
Walk us UpTown
Pump it Up

Encore 1:
I Still Have That Other Girl
Smile
Shot With his Own Gun
Accidents Will Happen
Less Than Zero
Cinco Minutos Con Vos
Shipbuilding
Bedlam
Tripwire > Peace Love & Understanding (Slow)
My New Haunt

Encore 2:
Hammer of Song:
Every Day I Write The Book
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
High Fidelity
Watching the Detectives
Sugar Won't Work
Peace Love & Understanding (fast)
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six songs from the new album. must have been a great evening.
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Can't wait to hear/see the Imposters' version of WUG material.
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And Smile too :shock:
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verbal gymnastics wrote:And Smile too :shock:
Popular tune in Japan?

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

EDIT: "The theme song of Japanese drama "Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi (One Million Stars Falling from the Sky)".
(I did not know this.)
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It was a big hit in Japan because of the TV show, think it was released as a single there prior to inclusion in Cruel Smile.
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This is the setlist from EC's website: http://www.elviscostello.com/homepage#/ ... esults/556

"Spinning Wheel Tour - Tokyo, Japan - The Results"

Elvis Costello & The Imposters
Tokyo, Japan
December 13th, 2013

Overture

I Hope You're Happy Now
Heart Of The City
Uncomplicated
Mystery Dance
Radio Radio

The Spectacular Spinning Songbook

So Like Candy - Spin 1

Come The Meantimes - IMPROMPTU

"Girl" Jackpot - Spin 2

This Year's Girl
Party Girl
Girls Talk

Tokyo Storm Warning - Spin 3

She - Spin 4

God Give Me Strength - IMPROMPTU

I Want You - Spin 5

Chelsea - IMPROMPTU

Walk Us Uptown - IMPROMPTU

Pump It Up - IMPROMPTU

Interlude

I Still Have That Other Girl
Smile
Shot With His Own Gun

Encore One

Oliver's Army
Less Than Zero
Cinco Minutos Con Vos
Shipbuilding
Bedlam
Tripwire/Peace Love and Understanding (Ballad)
My New Haunt

Encore Two

Hammer Of Songs - Joker Selected!!!

Everyday I Write the Book

Alison
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
High Fidelity
Watching The Detectives
Sugar Won't Work
Peace, Love and Understanding
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Pics: http://www.smashingmag.com/en/archives/13743

if I'm reading correctly, there's a new "Ghost" jackpot, which I assume means songs from Wise Up Ghost. (Or maybe Ghost Train? Ghost Town? Mischievous Ghost?).

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Ian Hughes on Facebook -

The draft off my take on last night...

Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Ex Theatre, Roppongi, Tokyo
13 December 2013 Spinning Songbook Show


A glance down the set list from the third show in the Tokyo run has to suggest one of three things. Or two, with a proviso for a third. Perhaps we'll get a little additional light cast on these things at the fourth show, when the venue changes to Osaka's Zepp Namba.
It's hard, having seen all three shows, to avoid the conclusion that the Spinning Songbook concept hasn't played out as well as it was supposed to in these parts. With no Wheel action between the end of the first set and the Hammer of Song segment that opened the second encore, that's a fairly obvious conclusion.
Last night, on the other hand, was going out live to air on Japanese pay TV, so it's just possible the decision was made to keep the rest of the show within what you might tag normal parameters rather than bring in the risk factors that come into play where the Wheel and the selection of audience members to spin it are concerned. Don't want to upstage the star of the show, do we?
There was a degree of what might have been with the couple Josephine hauled up on stage for the Hammer of Song. Where just about everybody else, either singly or jointly, had been female, here we had a bloke who looked like a character. Pork pie hat, white coat, spinning Songbook T-shirt, girlfriend sporting the same shirt. You'd look at him and label him obvious fan with possible oddball tendencies.
After the jokey preliminaries with the girlfriend and the fake hammer, the guy gets the real one, hits the bell and, given his choice from the Wheel, selects the joker. The selection turns out to be Every Day I Write the Book, and through the track the two off them end in the Go Go Cage, encouraged into Philly Soul/Motown moves by Josephine and Dixie de La Fontaine (name check).
Then they spend the rest of the set with visible applause and reaction from Fan boy, in a fairly stark contrast to just about everyone else who had been hauled up on stage over the three days.
Actually, all the Hammer of Song people have had a bit of character about them.
Unlike the previous two nights, we actually ended up with four segments: the main Spinning Songbook set following the full five song Overture, where the highlights was an impromptu God Give Me Strength called from middle of the audience (Mr Nieve. God Give Me Strength, if you please). It wasn't much visually if you were up in the balcony, but the vocal was belted out with appropriate intensity, and the whole thing must have looked fantastic on television. But even in the balcony, you still wanted to be there as the heart and soul got poured into the performance.
Almost as good was an impassioned I Want You, delivered as the result of the final spin.
Chelsea, Walk Us Uptown and Pump It Up rounded the set off, and it's starting to look like Elvis has found another default show closer.
Otherwise he'd have saved PIU for the end of the third encore wouldn't he?
Or maybe not. The idea may have been to get the punters, who tended ( as previously noted) to be rather reserved in the yelling and foot stomping departments, delivering an appropriate response in the Encore Stakes.
While I'd reckoned on what followed as the First Encore, the Costello site divides the Elvis and Steve mini-set off as an Interlude, with the full band selection from Accidents to My New Haunt as the Encore. same horse, different jockey. What was interesting, in this regard, was the absence of the semi-acoustic bracket with Slow Drag for Josephine and Jimmie standing In the Rain, which
In turn raises the question of the TV broadcast! and what it was supposed to achieve.
It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall when these matters were being sorted.
In any case, regardless of whether the Wheel did what it was supposed to, and the policies involved with selecting the spinners, it was obvious from the start that the band was on last night. There was just that little bit of extra oomph, the sort of thing you expect when there's an occasion that needs to be risen to.
The set list, which you'd have to reckon had been deliberately shaped managed to present most of the facets of the Elvis back catalogue, though the Americana element was conspicuous by its absence, and the current album got a substantial work over! though, of course! it's not an Imposters project.
What will be most interesting is the question of whether the show ends up appearing in DVD or some other form. There's already a Spinning Songbook package out in the market, there's no certainty the market can handle two of 'em, but one thing's certain.
If and when it does appear, I'll be in for a copy.
The show rocked mightily when it needed to rock, rolled through a fair selection of the Costello style palette and underlined the notion that the Wise Up Ghost material isn't as far removed from the rest of the man's catalogue as some might think.
So, with a show to go, we'll see what happens in Osaka, where we'll be away from the need to sort things out for theTV special.

I Hope You're Happy Now
Heart of the City
Uncomplicated
Mystery Dance
Radio Radio

Spin 1: so Like Candy

Come the Meantimes

Double Spin
Spin 2: Tokyo Storm Warning (played after Girl jackpot)
Spin 3: Girl jackpot
This Year's Girl
Party Girl
Girls Talk

Tokyo Storm Warning

Spin 4: She (ended in the crowd)

God Give Me Strength (sung entirely off stage)

Spin 5: I Want You

Chelsea
Walk us UpTown
Pump it Up

Encore 1:
I Still Have That Other Girl
Smile
Shot With his Own Gun

Accidents Will Happen
Less Than Zero
Cinco Minutos Con Vos
Shipbuilding
Bedlam
Tripwire > Peace Love & Understanding (Slow)
My New Haunt

Encore 2:
Hammer of Song:
Every Day I Write The Book
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
High Fidelity
Watching the Detectives
Sugar Won't Work
Peace Love & Understanding (fast)


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There's no doubt that Josephine and Jimmie were dropped for the benefit of TV.

And I think it's fair to say that the songs from Wise Up Ghost weren't learned just for the sake of "selling product" (ugh!).

Still at least the curse of Costello appears to have been lifted.
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No You Tube videos from any of these shows? In Japan of all places??!! WTF?
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Indeed. Dying to hear them, esp. Walk Us Uptown.
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Still no sign of a DVD ? :shock:
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Good news! I just got a copy of a DVD of the whole broadcast, with menus and all that. Will watch at least part today. I plan to send to Doc so he can upload it somewhere, though I'm told Dime is off limits because it was pay per view.

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FAVEHOUR wrote:Good news! I just got a copy of a DVD of the whole broadcast, with menus and all that. Will watch at least part today. I plan to send to Doc so he can upload it somewhere, though I'm told Dime is off limits because it was pay per view.

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krm wrote:
FAVEHOUR wrote:Good news! I just got a copy of a DVD of the whole broadcast, with menus and all that. Will watch at least part today. I plan to send to Doc so he can upload it somewhere, though I'm told Dime is off limits because it was pay per view.

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docinwestchester wrote:
krm wrote:
FAVEHOUR wrote:Good news! I just got a copy of a DVD of the whole broadcast, with menus and all that. Will watch at least part today. I plan to send to Doc so he can upload it somewhere, though I'm told Dime is off limits because it was pay per view.

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Well the quality is excellent, nearly 3 hours of show including pre-show interview. Will get this to you all as soon as I can!

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I know Zombtracker has a few shows that were broadcast on Wowow (Police and Radiohead), so I would think that the moderators would be cool with uploading this show on that trackers.
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Excellent news, thanks FaveDave and Doc. ! :D
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sulky lad wrote:Excellent news, thanks FaveDave and Doc. ! :D
Should be uploaded soon.
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