https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-e ... /liverpool
An Evening With Elvis Costello!
Monday 26th October 19:30 at Royal Court Theatre, 1 Roe Street, Liverpool , L1 1HL
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink: Notes for a Memoir (Hardback)
Waterstones Liverpool are delighted and honoured to welcome musical legend Elvis Costello back to his home town to discuss his much anticipated memoir Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four. Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. Unfaithful Music describes how Costello's career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom. This memoir, written with the same inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.
Elvis will be in conversation with crime writer and lifelong Elvis Costello fan Mark Billingham. There will also be an audience Q&A and the chance to have your books signed. Books will be available to buy on the evening.
Tickets will be £10 (£8 for Loyalty Card holders) or there will be a number of £30 tickets which include admission to the event and a copy of the book, priced at £25. Please note - this offer will only be available on line.
Join us for what we are sure will be an unforgettable and very special evening, in a venue very close to Elvis' heart.
Further details: 0151 709 9820