Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Not EC, Not Steve Martin because I've heard nothing but bad stories from people who meet him.

I'll go with Hugh Grant, because airports with the waiting etc, can mean you can really get to know your celebrity well.

DrJ

Those mp3's are great. FavHour is a bit seeeeeerious, maaan, but Watching The Dets. is a riot. "SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!" Good work that guy...

I have a few little illicit mp3's I took at gigs last year, I should host them somewhere. Here's Radiohead's No Surprises: Linkylink

DrJ

This is true, aerlingus.com have dropped their prices, but as someone who has been going back and forth between Dublin and London I have to recommend British Midland/bmi (http://www.flybmi.com) cheaper than Aer Lingus on the Dublin Heathrow route and they give you a sandwich. Ryanair did charge me £...

In fairness, I don't know any airline who refunds ticket money. Last week I booked Ryanair flights to Stansted and on to Venice and back for two for under a hundred Euro. Seemed like a deal to me. Although I recently flew to Bristol with 'em and the pilots seemed to be enjoying the turbulence. You g...

Martin, you weren't the guy who told my girlfriend how great Wilco were and that Jeff was "just out of rehab". I was dead centre, just behind the line against the barrier... Yeah, I couldn';t hang around for BJaxx, which is a pity coz they looked great at Glasonbury. I forgot to mention th...

Just to say, the festival was a blast. Got down at 3 on Saturday just in time to only see the Scissor Sisters do one song, which was a pity. Then the brill FranzF, for the Divine Comedy it rained really bad so we ran around not getting shelter. Went to se Snow Patrol who the crowd liked but I found ...

Phil Spector?
Billy Joel?
Ozzy?
Don Kirshner?
Rick Wakeman?
Al Jolson?
Richard Nixon?
Bill Grundy?


DrJ

Yeah, I'd have though Bowie, didn't he hire an exorcist when he moved to Switzerland after living in Berlin..?

DrJ

Correct.

Myth: Choked on a sandwich
Fact: Heart Attack

DrJ

Bowie has emergency angioplasty...

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainmen ... _2989.html

...so the shoulder pain was probably a slightly atypical presentation of angina. Don't mind him cancelling. He now has to stop smoking, and avoid cocaine, in case he does an "entwistle"

DrJ

You people don't know your Monkees. The line "never mind the furthermore-the plea is self-defense" appears in two tracks on their Pieces, Capricorn, Aquarius and Jones Ltd.: "Peter percival patterson's pet pig porky" and "No Time" More trivia: Del Tha' Funkee Homosapien...

Thanks. I've been listening to the new They Might Be Giants album this past week and there's a lyric on the track Memo To Human Resources which is lifted from not one, but two Monkees songs (yes, another Monkees question). What's the line, what are the songs? To make it "easy", here are th...

Kevin Kennedy aka Curly Watts off Corrie.

Can't name the band, I don't have my copy of The Severed Alliance to hand...

DrJ

The new Cure video for their single "The End of The World" is excellent, and very Sledgehammery. And the new Beastie Boys vid is great. Ch-check It Out. Plus all time great Sabotage. White Stripes have made some good 'uns: Seven Nation Army, Fell In Love With A Girl and Hardest Button to B...

Yup, Golden Smog, simple as that.

It's trivia tennis: back to the Foyles...

DrJ

Glad you're enjoying it LTZ (and glad you got it working).

Is there anyone out there who hates their iPod..?

DrJ

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Big Star's Jody Stephens played together in what band...

DrJ

Genuine pix...

http://www.neptuners.com/davidbowie-wit ... is-eye.htm

DrJ

From Russia With Love then...

DrJ

I think it was Thunderball.

Thunderrrbaaaaaaaalllllllllll!

DrJ

It happens if you use iTunes, I see it as a conciliatory gesture by Apple that makes it a little more difficult to steal music/take your friend collection.

But you can use xplay (see above link) instead.

DrJ

You mean, is there some kind of program which bypasses iTunes where I can just drag and drop the music I want onto any iPod?

Why yes, there is!

http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

DrJ

Problem is that Sony are sticking to the ATRAC sound format which is (1) Very protected and limits what you can do with the file and (2) isn't compatible with any online music store. As with Sony's other players, the NW-HD1 plays songs in the company's proprietary ATRAC format only, meaning it is no...

I'm quite pissed off about that too. I'll be there both days and Saturday looks like a real treat: Strokes, Cure, Franz, Scissor Sisters, PJ Harvey, NERD with new kids the Killers and Razorlight. Sunday seemed like a bit of a waste of time and I was looking forward to seeing Wilco only and relaxing ...

Zappa? I know FZ said "Art is knowing where to put the frame", which I might make my new signature...

DrJ