Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Very convivial evening. Great chat, even if he steered away from answering a lot of Nick's questions. The audience questions prompted some very good humoured replies and exchanges, not least the one about King Horse. I had no idea the song title came from XXXXXXX XXXXX (expletives deleted). The thre...

Rusty Set List please!

I'm reading slowly to savour it, then listening to the audio roughly in tandem. Thoughts from a third of the way in...As well as being manna from heaven for the likes of us, his book is damn good and, no surprises, superbly written. The thematic structure, darting around chronologically, makes for f...

And no doubt wait to see what the book sales look like after Christmas...

Postby verbal gymnastics » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:25 pm

Oh yes it was!

Blmey I walked in that one - in a wishee washee kind of way

I hope the kids' Christmas wasn't the only reason he turned down the panto!

Not a bad top ten of songs that have stuck by him, I wouldn't have too much to argue in it and anyway he's the boss in this situation. I can't say I listen for pleasure much to High Fidelity of When I Was Cruel #2 but I did like the Roots LP so that's more than a token recent number.

So I'm a little confused - the deluxe edition, is its audio component all just cribbed from the separately available audio edition or are these 'bonus tracks' not on the audio edition - and is this just a ploy to get us to buy as many editions as possible? Secondly, for discussion, should none of us...

Nick Hornby, that'll make an interesting erudite evening. So relieved it's not Wossy.

Yes, have to say (if I'm being hyper critical) I thought his reading was a little too self conscious, similar to how he delivers lines when he's acting or doing Simpson's voices or whatever (there I go being hyper critical again and ready to tell Elvis just how he should best do things, so I'd best ...

So booked RFH (scene of many a memorable EC gig) for what I'm guessing will be an evening of extended between song banter...with no songs. That'll be odd.

Interesting that Wendy seems to be the only face on display. Better looking than Elvis? Surely not!

Lovely photos - looks like the old gents enjoyed reminiscing then.

'You can't park that thing here Sir'. Actually not all Steve's wheels look to be locked, which if they don't look out might provide some mid set action on one of these dates.

I've always thought these songs were a mini rock opera, echoing and mocking the song cycle form that Ziggy Stardust exemplifies - whilst also being very sincere and revealing in their own right. EC did say he was giving Wendy James an acting job with these songs tracing the Rise and Fall of a Pop Pr...

Hope we'll make it early to the bar and say hellos. If not, self and friend Patrick will be sitting centre front row. Disclosure: many years before I knew him he wrote that review of The Juliet Letters in Vox Magazine, though all's long been forgiven by both sides, peace accords signed, prisoners ex...

Great turn out already to see the great man back off home. Looking forward to seeing everyone. I treated getting the tickets as a Glastonbury like endeavour to the extent that I ended up being the first person and got centre front row. Dangerous I know as EC does spit when he sings sometimes.

Placing all my faith in you VG

Thought I should start a thread about the concert in this place comprising a thrilling series of roundabouts that we used to call Basingstoke. Last night of the tour so expecting some demob happy bonhomie from the man as well as a few treats in the set list and guest list - that's if his voice is ri...

Sounds like a great night and a cracking set list including rarer ones (to me at least) like White Flag and After The Fall. I'm not able to get out until Basingstoke..I know I know, last night of the tour, his voice will probably be shot and he'll have one leg in the departure lounge back to Vancouv...

C'est superbe. I'll hum it if you sing it.

My penny's worth: As he said in Mark Kidel's pretty excellent doc ' when I need some money I go out and tour'. And with record sales not being what they were...whatever the reason it's great to have him playing, though he's always punished his vocal chords too much on tours. A veritable little throa...

I must admit I'm very tempted

Oh my god this sounds like a fantastic show. I've nothing more intelligent to say than: jealous or what!

new to youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxOwSEVX34&feature=youtu.be Elvis Costello & Georgie Fame - Everybody Crying Mercy Thanks John. Thrilling to see this lovely intimate duo clip. Was expecting it on the night after seeing from set lists Elvis had been doing the song solo a fe...