Elvis (solo), Osaka, Japan , September 5 2016

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Elvis (solo), Osaka, Japan , September 5 2016

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Interesting new venue for the two Tokyo shows - Showa Women's University:

http://hall.swu.ac.jp/

DK played here in February 2016.

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Short promo video for these concerts in Japan. Footage taken from the Detour: Live at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool DVD.



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Anyone here going ?
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/201 ... 8yoWZgrLIV


Elvis Costello: ‘Don’t just stick to one way of doing things’

BY SHAUN CURRAN
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES

SEP 4, 2016

LONDON – I’ve just mentioned to Elvis Costello the publicity stunt he pulled on his first trip to Japan in 1978.

“Ah, our attempt to get ourselves in the papers,” Costello recalls over the phone from his Vancouver home. It had seemed like such a fiendishly provocative idea: dress like Japanese schoolboys in Nehru jackets and brass buttons (“we thought we looked like the Beatles at Shea Stadium”), hire a truck, drive it through Tokyo’s ritzy Ginza district playing as loud as amplification would allow, and throw your records at the growing crowds. What could go wrong?

“Nobody took any notice,” he laughs. “It just goes to show what would make the papers in England wouldn’t make a ripple in Japan. Too unprecedented I guess! We thought we’d be hauled away and it would be a fantastic scandal and that’s how we’d make our name. But it didn’t work out that way.”

The man born Declan MacManus, now 62, says he “never did reach the level of recognition or fame that became an inhibition” but the intervening years between his botched stunt and his latest Japanese trip have seen him become one of music’s great polymaths. After an imperial phase as New Wave’s late-1970s intellectual tunesmith, Costello took a diverse path that has seen him embrace country, classical and funk, collaborate with Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and The Roots, host his own TV show and, thanks to his recent autobiography, “Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink,” become a best-selling author.

“For some people that’s all evidence you’ve lost your mind and got above station for not sticking with three chords of rock ‘n’ roll. But they are my genuine curiosities.”

The Costello of today — family man to jazz singer wife Diana Krall and their twin sons, respected elder statesman — is an understandably more adjusted version of the agitated upstart that surfed the new wave scene with, as he put it at the time, “guilt and revenge.” Today he is forthcoming and affable and like his lyrics, in conversation he can command an eye-catching turn of phrase.

“If you take the back off your television set it’s a bit of a mystery, but we stare at the front of it quite happily” is how he analyzes his “mystifying” constant reinterpretation of his songs, demonstrated once again on his current solo, anecdotal Detour shows.

“You don’t want to stick to just one way of doing things. There’s lots of different ways to tell a story. And I’m more surprised that people are still curious to hear songs that have a few years on them now, so I owe it to the people who have paid me that compliment to try and find something in them other than just to rely on their familiarity.

“What I do is write songs, which is a very solitary thing, and then I go on stage. I don’t have a beautiful voice and I don’t have matinee idol looks, and somehow I’ve managed to hold people’s attention and tell them a story.”
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Some preshow images from tonight's show in Osaka , via Twitter. Nothing seems to have appeared from during the show - it seems posting from shows isn't really done in Japan.


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Ayako Sasamoto posts to f/book -

I'll write more later but here is the rough set list - lots of unreleased songs!

Red Shoes
???
Accidents Will Happen
Ascension Day
Veronica
???
Everyday I Write The Book
Shipbuilding
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
A Face In The Cloud
???
Ghost Train
Walking My Baby Back Home
She
Watching The Detectives
Alison (off mic)
Pads, Paws and
Love Fields
Clown Strike
Burn The Paper Down To Ash
Vitajax
That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
Blame It On Cain
Down On The Bottom
Side By Side
Almost Blue
Jimmie Standing In The Rain
Good Year For The Roses
PLU



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johnfoyle wrote:Image
It's hard to read, but the stage setlist appears to include "They're Not Laughing At Me Now" (noted on the Mystery songs on ASCAP site thread but otherwise unknown) and "What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have" (described in EC's book).
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Are these clips from Osaka?
I Threw It All Away: https://youtu.be/GTzYHUuZyew
Almost Blue: https://youtu.be/smiQfaigUIQ
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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sweetest punch wrote:Are these clips from Osaka?
I Threw It All Away: https://youtu.be/GTzYHUuZyew
Almost Blue: https://youtu.be/smiQfaigUIQ
Could be, but could also be from this Detour show : http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... 5-23_Turin in Turin on 23 May this year. The YouTube poster has uploaded a number of other shows with Italian artists and none by Asian/Japanese artists.

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OK, Thanks!
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Photos from the Instagram account of hiromyan06apr
https://www.instagram.com/hiromyan06apr/

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The unidentified songs in the setlist have been identified, thanks to a friend. The existence of these songs had been noted in the Mystery songs on ASCAP site thread, but as far as I know this was the first time any of them were performed in public.

01. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

02. They're Not Laughing At Me Now
03. Accidents Will Happen

04. Ascension Day

05. Veronica

06. What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have?
07. Everyday I Write The Book
08. Shipbuilding

09. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

10. A Face In The Crowd

11. This Uneasy Hour
12. Ghost Train

13. Walkin' My Baby Back Home

14. She
15. Watching The Detectives

16. Alison - off-mic
17. Pads, Paws And Claws - with Larkin Poe

18. Love Field - with Larkin Poe

19. Clown Strike - with Larkin Poe

20. Burn The Paper Down To Ash - with Larkin Poe

21. Vitajex - with Larkin Poe

22. That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving - with Larkin Poe

23. Blame It On Cain - with Larkin Poe

24. Down On The Bottom - with Larkin Poe
25. Side By Side

26. Almost Blue
27. Jimmie Standing In The Rain

28. Good Year For The Roses - with Larkin Poe
29. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding? - with Larkin Poe
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Now that would have been a show to attend. Wonderful set list. Thank you for the update.
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... Nice to hear 'This uneasy hour' and 'They're not laughing at me now' at last appear for hearing till we can buy them ...
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