Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Somewhere in the Greater New York/New Jersey area right now, there's a man in an expensive straw hat looking at his smartphone and chuckling...

Apparently, Bruce also goes by "John Cooper".

This appears to be self-published. Uh oh, indeed.

I wouldn't necessarily assume the Imposers are pining to make another album with EC, either. It's not like any of them sit home by the phone waiting for him to call. Hmm - I wouldn't necessarily agree with that! Well, two of them learned the folly of that model the hard way about 30 years ago, and ...

After "National Ransom", EC said he wouldn't make another album "at least for another 5 or 10 years", to much derision around here, but he has largely stuck to that. "Wise Up Ghost" was, to hear Questlove and Steve Mandel tell it, the result of an elaborate seduction of...

It seems kind of silly to disqualify the three albums (plus) he's done since Momofuku just because the weren't recorded with the Imposters, as a band. He's only ever done three albums with them, in that sense. One more than he did with the Sugarcanes. Anyway, it's entirely possible that EC isn't a &...

EC has been doing a song or two form he musical(s) he's working on with Burt Bacharach, just not at these Steely Dan summer shed shows. I'm pretty sure I did some unreleased songs from the New Basement Tapes project at the solo shows I saw this Spring. (I didn't follow that project closely, so I'm n...

According to the publisher's website, the memoir has mysteriously gained another 50 pages since the last time I looked. 672 pages, and counting...

Any bets on the final page count?

Both Amazon and Penguin say now that the...audiobook lasts 720 minutes. No wonder Elvis was complaining :lol: He'll be complaining even more -- 720 minutes was for when it was 352 pages. (For comparison: Patti Smith's "Just Kids", 320 pages = 10 hours; Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band&qu...

Chalkie Davies said something to me about Elvis envying Chalkie for having to record only a few minutes for a short film for his photo exhibition where as he , Elvis, was going to have to take hours to record his book. Excellent news, John -- and ANCT. I figured it was pretty likely that EC would d...

Kind of related. Here's a cutting from Hot Press, January 1979. It indicates that Elvis visited his Irish relatives in Galway in late 1978. The photo looks like one from a Stiff promo session in 1977. I haven't noticed it anywhere else - it's a bit awkward! This has to be January 1980, not 1979, as...

Thanks, sweetest punch.

The price is certainly attention-getting.

Maybe EC will turn up at Allan's gig that night. Now that would be something.

sulky lad wrote: good advice from a wise man, thanks

So what am I, chopped liver?

Thanks, stricttime81. Most of these songs seem pretty rhymey to me -- "Beyond Belief", for example, rhymes all the heck over the place -- so I don't know what the reviewer was complaining about.

Given the content of the performance and the timing of the recording, I'd say the pro-shot footage of this show is almost surely going to be used for a tie-in with the memoir, if it gets released at all. The memoir is coming out in October, so why not sit on the fan audio recording until then. If th...

I'm pretty confident that I've got about 95% of the numbers played but as for the order....well, although i took a pen, for Elvis to sign stuff with, it wasn't suitable for actually writing, so I tried to commit them to a memory palace The first four are easy as I thought there was a theme of "...

EC and Taylor Swift, BFF:

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http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/BWW-Reviews-Offering-Her-Take-on-the-Elvis-Costello-Songbook-KAREN-OBERLIN-Reinvents-Herself-20150619# BWW Reviews: Offering Her Take on the Elvis Costello Songbook, KAREN OBERLIN Reinvents Herself [...] Elvis Costello is an acquired taste. His dense, po...

Chalkie said something in this documentary about there being a chance that this exhibition might travel. JohnF -- do you know any more about that, that you're at liberty to share? I have to echo John's sentiment that this documentary is worth seeking out, even if you need to do a little IP-address s...

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Judging by the setlist I'd say it was the best show of the show so far (although I really enjoyed Brighton). I'm not altogether surprised that there won't be a London show this year. Elvis has confined himself pretty much playing the RAH in recent years and whilst this work...

Jon Batiste seems like the kind of person/musician EC would hit it off with, which bodes well for likely guest appearances on Colbert's show.

BTW, if you want to feel old: Mr. Batiste was born the year King of America came out.

An explanation for Elvis high ticket prices - this tweeted photo claims to show how much transport is needed for his stage set https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11148404_10152920283342957_8659011974478923044_n.jpg?oh=5b6b3525c6946cc41fed6475820e5634&oe=55FAC3EB I assume...

EC seems to have put in a personal appearance at the booksellers' conference that sweetest punch mentions above.

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