Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Doh! I'll set em up..you knock em down!

Britain = the following smells, which aren't replicated anywhere else on Earth.

Freshly cut grass
A Bomfire
Beer Garden on a sunny day
Fish and Chip shops at night

Maybe, as long as it was all done tastefully..wouldn't want to lose my credibility.

Glitter Gulch

worst.
episode.
ever.

Probably not.
Neck.
During.

Hello to all...hope I haven't been forgotten yet. I am still alive, as you can read, still living in sunny Partick, still a bookmonger...however thinking about getting a better job soon. Any ideas? I have got the week off, as twas the annual celebration of my uterine deliverance on the 4th of July.....

I liked it....scary enough to frighten children, effects were decent, stories were mostly good...the world war 2 ones were the best, with the spooky kid. Not too sure about the sex references, especially with the Captain Jack character...

Yep, that was rubbish....

This Years Model ***** Trust *** Blood and Chocolate ****.5 Armed Forces **** Get Happy ***** King of America **** The Delivery Man *** Imperial Bedroom ***** When I was Cruel *** Brutal Youth **** My Aim is True *** Taking Liberties*** Costello/Nieve **** El Macambo*** Girls Girls Girls ** All this...

It's pretty good fun...........the Independant publishes 4 a day in the week, a commuters one on the back, then an 'easy' (which means quite difficult if you are me), an 'medium' and an 'hard' one.

For the dead easy ones...try the tabloids, it's laughable.

Back To Basics is a collection of the best recordings from the early albums, so these 4 will have all the songs from B2B, and more!

Good news I 'spose...but will it have any direct effect on any of us....not unless we happen to run sporting facilities/hotels/shops/taxis/another business in London...............the Olympics would be more fun if they made more of an issue of the teams, rather than individuals (certainly in the UK ...

I have just discovered Josef K, 70s/80s Edinburgh punk band on the same label as Orange Juice - sound like FranzFerdinand...and thanks to a pal, have everything they ever recorded and a few live CDs....brilliant! Check them out! Beechwood Sparks are great...equally good are Blanche, their debut albu...

Wow, good to see this thread has survived...I can't participate now though...I have bought a kitten since we spoke last, dutifully called youknowwhat. My hands are testament to his 'playful exuberance' and look like a pockmarked teenager's face! He is a beautiful little animal though, comes to his n...

Brilliant news!

Completely out of the blue, I was there as well...great gig! Highlights were King Horse, the alt. version of Human Hands and the additional bit on TDM.
The banter was spot on as well...with some proper sweary words and all! Ace!

I would assume the bonus on TJL would be mostly along the lines of the album...so maybe a version of Tom Thumb (which I have anyway thanks to a splendid board member), or the My Mood Swings which is on that Brodsky album I can't bring myself to pay £13 for! The missing MANUS is intriguing...wasn't t...

Bob Hunter, the Canadian journalist who helped found Greenpeace and became its first president in 1973, died of cancer at just 63 this week. This bloke championed ecology and environmentalism at the highest levels, he started a revolution which I hope will one day conquer the polluter society we liv...

I have a 4ft high double-sided Marvin cutout from the bookshop Hitchikers guide promotion!

Anyone read Charlie Brooker's Screenburn ....I reccomend it highly. It is a colection of his TV reviews for the Guardian (in a similar vein to the equally brilliant, but out of print Tapehead by Jim Shelley) and is the funniest book I have ever read, and most probably that you will ever read. You do...

Hello. I'm back at the old folks so I can play my bit in the general election...am enjoying the live DVD in Memphis (apart from the bit where the people buying tickets sing the hits...I hope the board CD doesn't sound like that :? ) Brendan Benson was great, and he was supported by an Irish band cal...

War outstanding - Nice smile, decent haircut, way too big for his boots, but I'd like to (and do) think he believes he's working in Britain's best interests.

Bomb attack on GB embassy in NY? Parallels with Madrid...?

Don't Look Now is a good call...anything with unexplained strange violence, like a dwarf with a razor, does it for me on the disturbance front. Anyone seen Threads, a British film about a nuclear bomb hittting Sheffield..that is almost as worrying as those 1970s Protect and Survive films. I always f...

I haven't seen it yet, but am assuming it's like Harry Potter...if you like the books, you'll like the film, but ultimately nothing can beat the books.
They're showing the TV series again on BBC2 at around midnight on Tuesdays.