Elvis Costello Fan Forum

You always hope your favourite singers will sing your favourite obscure songs, but you resign yourself to only hearing the most popular. Sounds like pretty serious fandom...I can imagine the same withering looks towards the 'MY WAY!!!' shouters that a lot of people here might aim at the 'OLIVERS AR...

I'm listening to a Billy Bragg bootleg from 1987 of excellent quality, which I'm currently downloading from a fine site I just found....

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisti ... tion=etree

... no EC sadly, but if there isn't something there you like, there's something wrong....

woohoo

Sounds awesome...please let there be a bootleg.....

She gets a mention in the middle of 'Gods Comic' on a bootleg I've got... He says he's written a song for her, but he can't play it because " I don't know all of the chords....", and he can't be mean about her because she's pregnant now, which is a shame because the song was called 'Couldn...

EC name-checked in Doonesbury today...

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/

I can only think that he survived 10 rounds because our predominantly American members aren't familiar with him....If so, good for you, but let me do you a favour anyway.. LIAM GALLAGHER BOOOOOM!!!! Christopher Hitchens The Pope Katie Holmes Victoria 'ex Spice girl' Beckham Keith Allen (... a probab...

In an attempt to shed light on this matter, I googled

"Elvis Costello has sold"

...only to find this odd page...

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/16/234206.php

...that Bruce Thomas played bass on Workers' Playtime by Billy Bragg...(I just found out after reading the 'not too shabby' thread and following Wiki links..a good way to waste a few hours..) However, having discovered that, I've also just realised that if you stick some piano over the intro to 'She...

johnfoyle wrote:Costello had taken a cortisone injection in his throat that day just so he could perform.

Good Lord...

I think I'd just pull a sicky...

A similar thought crossed my mind about the "Every 3 seconds..(click) " statistic that they kept mentioning at Live8...

They sound incomplete. Like he got it to a point and then said, "Oh, hell with it, just go with it then." Interesting point...it reminds me of an interview I read years ago when Spike was released, and he was talking about Satellite, saying something like if he'd followed the full implica...

I'm a long way (300 miles) from London, but I'm travelling down there tomorrow morning, visiting Dulwich, Fulham and Ealing, coming back Saturday night ; I was just in the middle of trying to co-ordinate with Verbal G. about the London meet-up on Saturday..have we heard from him yet..?

johnfoyle wrote:...internal Endorphin provoked laughter cramp death...

...Isn't that the new Alanis Morissette album...?

What area are we talking, cos I might be in West London on the 9th...?

I actually did catch the end of it...Alison,Hurry down doomsday and I want you...Very good quality stream, excellent production (camera-wise) and The Professor was going MENTAL on the theremin...maybe there were some Kraftwerk fans down the front getting rowdy or something...soothe them with electro...

I've been checking it for a couple of hours, and all I've seen is 'No Concert at the moment...please come back later'

I'd never thought of it as a 'Bluff/ double bluff' thing before....I always thought it sounded like he was trying to start a fight with some dickheads...

No, But I had an embarrassing mandolin moment a few weeks ago... I was checking out a pawn shop in Edinburgh that often has musical instruments in the window, and I saw a scruffy looking mandolin with a tiny hand-written price tag of 1950 on it...knowing nothing about mandolins, I couldn't decide wh...

Here's a rather scary before and after, with 4 stones difference between the two..


http://www.geocities.com/anjabro/b4afterr.jpg

...I think my whole head has actually shrunk...

mood swung wrote:anjabro, you need your lungs. I seem to remember you own a very angry guinea pig who might want to exact his revenge...

Wow, good memory....Yes he's still around, and I don't think he's forgotten or forgiven...(who could..?)

Thanks for the kind words, guys... As to Cop. Fan's question, what diet I'm on, I've been asked a similar question, in as much as a few people have said...'what's the secret..?' Of course there isn't a secret, everyone knows how to lose weight...Eat less and exercise more...The 'secret' people want ...

After a gradual ten year decline culminating in a rather frightening top weight of 19st 8lb (274 lb) at the age of 38, I have recently been on a drastic crash diet...After buying a Cross Trainer from Ebay,and doing two 30 minute sessions a day on it, I would like to announce that this morning, day 7...

.... (although she was disappointed not to hear Red Shoes). True enough...no matter how good it is, you always walk home going...'aah, he didn't play this, I wanted him to play that...' P.S.I remember a bit of a Blues Brothers instrumental at the end of 'I can't stand up...', But I don't know the n...

Also... An extra verse on the end of TDM, which I've just googled, from a song called 'The Railroad Boy'... Her father he came home from work saying "where’s my daughter? She seems so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope and found her hanging by the end of a rope He took a knife and he ...