Elvis Costello Fan Forum

EC's official site has this:

'Get Elvis Costello’s The Delivery Man Deluxe Edition for $11.99 at itunes and receive a .pdf download of the album art for free.'

Belgian radiostation 'Radio 1' is giving away 5 DVD's of 'I Love Your Work', with EC as an actor. See http://www.radio1.be .

I guess, this means that this DVD will become available, allthough I didn't find it on amazon in the UK and the USA.

This means that EC&I problably will be playing the big festivals, like Roskilde, Glastonbury,...

What would the young kids think of EC???

VonOfterdingen wrote: On top of this he is now playing an expensive concert at the music theatre in Vejle the fourth of June.
I feel lucky indeed

Do you know if he is playing with the Imposters? Or could this been the try-out for his new Andersen opera?

Rhino's releasedate is april 26, could this mean that we will see the Demon version a few weeks earlier?

Using the riaa database I get these stats. for Elvis - http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp Title Cert. Date Label Award MY AIM IS TRUE 09/05/91 COLUMBIA P BEST OF 10/12/01 COLUMBIA P ARMED FORCES 02/23/79 COLUMBIA G MY AIM IS TRUE 09/04/81 COLUMBIA G SPIKE 06/27/89 WARNER G BEST OF 1...

EC has added two albums of his backcatalogue to the iTunes store in the USA. Spike and Mighty Like A Rose are available for 9,99 $. Only the original album tracks are available (no bonustracks from the reissues). So Rhino is problably going to put his whole backcatogue up for legal download, I think...

No setlist so far??

From the programme: Another upcoming release is the Rhino/Demon records re-issue of "King of America". This album which is a close musical relative of "The Delivery Man" was first released in 1985 and is now presented in a definitive edition including a number of previously unrel...

As was expected, EC won nothing. See this from the BBC news: Grammy Awards 2005: Late soul star Ray Charles swept the board with eight awards at the Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday. R&B singer Alicia Keys got four while U2, Usher and Kanye West won three each. But British stars such as ...

This website has april 30 as a release date. Just a few days after the release of the 'Live in Memphis' DVD!

http://www.101cd.com/basket/viewbasket. ... sptnr=2960

The seven Clarksdale tracks are available as an individual download or as a special edition album (with The Delivery Man) on iTunes in the UK. You can hear 30 second audioclips as well.

(Also available in Belgium as well).

This website has 30 second audioclips from the seven Clarksdale songs:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 86-0027228

They sound really good!

Since EC&I return to Europe after their tour in the USA, would there be a chance that they will play the big outdoor festivals?

I'm thinking at Pinkpop in Holland, Glastonbury in the UK, Roskilde in Denmark, Werchter (Classic?) in Belgium, Montreux in Switserland,...

This is the setlist from the second TV broadcast on Dutch TV channel NEDERLAND 3. Aired this wednesdaynight.


EC and Metropole Orchestra on July 9, 2004
1. Still
2. Deep Dark Truthfull Mirror
3. Dust/Dust2
4. My Flame Burns Blue
5. Hora Decubitus
6. God Give Me Strenght

The US version of this limited edition album is now available:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music

I think that only we - the hardcore fans - buy everything. I'm convinced that this limited edition is more aimed at new buyers to buy this (now special) album, than that it is aimed at EC fans to buy it twice. Each new impulse will convince some more people who are considering to purchase this album...

This was released as a video years ago. It's recorded in 1986 (!) and it features EC in three numbers: The very thought of you, You don't know what love is and I'm a fool to want you.

Van Morrison sings on one track (Send in the clowns).

EC's performance is not that spectacular.

The above one is an import from the UK.

See http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 82-8286033

That's why it has "She's pulling out the pin" on it.

Hurray, we get the limited edition also in Europe, and sooner than in the USA!

I attended the concert with the Metropole Orchestra on July 8, 2004 and after listening to the bootleg a lot and after seeing this TV footage, I have to conclude that this could be a very exciting project for EC. He experimented before with chamberorchestra's and complete orchestra's and the results...

This is the setlist for the TV airing of the North Sea Jazz concert:

1. Interview + rehearselfootage (Almost Ideal Eyes/Almost blue) (*)
2. Watching The Detectives
3. Speak Darkly, My Angel (*)
4. Almost Ideal Eyes (*)
5. Can You Be True

(*) has been in previous TV broadcast in July 2004.

For all you people in Belgium and Holland: EC is on TV tonight. His concert at North Sea Jazz Festival 2004 with The Metropole Orchestra will be aired on Dutch TV channel 'Nederland 3' on January 5th, with a second part to be aired on January 12th. The TV program is called 'NPS Output' and it will a...

Just bought the Futurama Sessions EP at the Belgian iTunes store. It was very easy: just gave my email adress and creditcard number and within a few minutes the EP was downloaded.

I'm now listening to it and it's great!

I have heard the 30 second audioclips of the Futurama Sessions on iTunes and I like what I have heard so far.

Is there anyone who has purchased this? Could he review the iTunes sessions?

When listening to recordings of the FM broadcasts of North Sea Jazz and the Cactus Festival, it strucked me that EC still improves as a singer and a entertainer. His voice gets better and better and even his vibrato doesn't irritate me anymore. Isn't it about time that 'the world' knows about this? ...