Elvis Costello - 1983-11-01 Sheffield

<<   1983-11-01 Sheffield

Elvis Costello And The Attractions, with the TKO Horns and Afrodiziak
Sheffield City Polytechnic
Sheffield, England
1 November 1983


01. Pills And Soap - EC & Steve Nieve
02. Let Them All Talk *#
03. Possession *#
04. Watching The Detectives *#
05. Watch Your Step *
06. The Greatest Thing *
07. High Fidelity *
08. Kid About It
09. Mystery Dance
10. Shabby Doll
11. From Head To Toe #
12. Charm School #
13. Oliver's Army
14. Shipbuilding
15. Big Sister's Clothes
16. Stand Down Margaret
17. Beyond Belief
18. Clubland *
19. The World And His Wife *#
20. Alison - including Living A Little, Laughing A Little *
21. Backstabbers - King Horse *
22. Everyday I Write the Book *#
23. TKO (Boxing Day) *#
24. Clowntime Is Over (Version Two) *
25. Moods For Moderns (Riff Riff Riff instrumental) *
26. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down *#
27. Pump It Up - including Ain't That A Lot Of Love *#


* with The TKO Horns
# with Afrodiziak


Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Bruce Thomas - bass
Pete Thomas - drums


The TKO Horns:
Dave Plews - trumpet
Paul Speare - tenor saxophone
Jeff Blythe - alto saxophone
Jim Paterson - trombone

Afrodiziak:
Caron Wheeler - backing vocals
Naomi Thompson - backing vocals


Recorder: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown


Comments by area51GM:

40 years on ..................

The penultimate concert of the U.K. tour, captured here unusually in the polytechnic of the steel city rather than the more usual City hall, where I've witnessed many fine gigs. This is rather an ordinary concert with no outstanding performances or any surprises and one feels the band are about to take a massive metaphoric breath before the final gig the next night at Bradford University. There are two main recording anomalies, "Shipbuilding" lacks a bit of the start and it almost feels like the person recording left the hall and was making their way back in and "Pump It Up" cuts at the very end. At the start of the first encores it also has a change in the recording in that one channel becomes much more dominant and I needed to address that to make a difference to the overall sound. "Beyond Belief" also has a change in the start with a variation of the rhythmic aspect which might have been Pete messing around for his home city. It's nothing either startling or original but is noticeable.

I have a vague memory of being told that this cassette was handed over by Pete to someone at an aftershow party and this was how it came into the "public domain" but I very much doubt the veracity of this especially given that the recording is pretty obviously an audience recording rather than a professional one.

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