Elvis Costello Fan Forum

So the Australian tour kicks off on Thursday in Byron Bay.

Also appearing at the Bluesfest festival, are Larkin Poe, Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle. Will any of them join Elvis on stage, or will he join them?

Anyone going?

MOOT

So Liverpool is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year, in lieu of last year's winners, Ukraine. The Grand Final will take place in the Liverpool Arena next to the River Mersey on Saturday 13 May with Semi-Finals on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May. Intriguingly, Elvis has been in Liverpool this...

Costello & Nieve in Concert will be at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on Thursday, September 7th. TIckets go on sale to the public on Friday 24 March at 10:00am. Prices are €85 or €70. Link is below: www.nch.ie This is Elvis' first show in Ireland since 2018 and his first show in Ireland with...

Preview by Piet Levy in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on March 13, 2023. " Summerfest 2023: Elvis Costello, Cypress Hill coming to Milwaukee festival’s BMO Pavilion Hip-hop veterans Cypress Hill, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Elvis Costello with his band the Imposters, are coming to Summerfe...

So, the last night of this tour has come around today.

Judging by the venue website, this show may be sold out.

Anyone going to be there?

MOOT

Arbogast wrote:Is there a code for this and the Brussels pre-sales?

You can access the presale through the links on this page.

https://tour.elviscostello.com/

The links will prepopulate the code for you. The code for Bruxelles is 230927COSTELLO_PREV.

Presale is now on... Good luck

MOOT

Stage setlist:
Anyone know what was actually played?

MOOT

The release date for the 2 x LP and 4 x CD Box Set Super Deluxe Edition has been put back to 23 March. This applies both to orders via Elviscostello.com and orders through Amazon.co.uk. This appears to be due to production delays. The full album is available digitally through Spotify and I-Tunes. Di...

A couple of YouTube clips have been shared


- Radio, Radio and Toledo


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Setlist.fm now lists these 20 songs - albeit one "unknown". 1. This Year’s Girl 2. Mystery Dance 3. Either Side Of The Same Town 4. Hetty O’Hara Confidential 5. I Don’t Want Your Lyndon Johnson 6. Radio, Radio 7. When I Was Cruel No. 2 8. Watching The Detectives 9. Everyday I Write The Bo...

Presale is tomorrow, 1 March, starting at 10:00 Central European Time.

Link is here. Password is ELVIS2023.

Good luck !

MOOT

Around the time of the Grammy Awards ceremony, Elvis did a radio interview with Jackie Brambles for Greatest Hits Radio, UK. You can listen either here or on YouTube here . The first link (if it works) takes you to the full show with songs, the YouTube link is just the conversation, with only the st...

Jon Friedman, writing for the West Side Spirit on 23 February reviews Night #6 of the ten-night run at the Gramercy Theatre. " Ultimate Entertainer Elvis Costello Wows Sold Out Gramercy for Ten Nights The ticket price inflation aside, the ten night gig in an intimate theater brought out best in...

I just came across this review by "Symon" from Providence, Rhode Island, there is no date shown on the site, but definitely this show... " MADE IT THROUGH TEN SONGS This may be an unfair review because I did not see the entire performance. I was excited to see Elvis after about 20 yea...

Poster:
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Can I post iPhone photos directly to this board? You would need to save them to your phone, they upload them as attachments to a new post. There is a limit on the maximum file size for images that can be saved as attachments. If the files are too big (>circa 400kb) they will not upload. Good luck! ...

Connor Ratliff reviews the first night in an article at Spin.com published on February 10, 2023. 2023-02-09 New York photo 01 cr.jpeg Elvis Costello, Night One: Honoring Burt Bacharach, Pre-1978 Deep Cuts, And ‘Alison’ Costello will perform 200+ songs from his catalog over the course of 10 consecuti...

The fact that EC and the Imps are there means they likely were already advised they had won. Sadly not. On February 5, Spanish newspaper " La Vanguardia " reported on Juanes performing with Elvis at the Pre-Grammys Gala: " Juanes cantó con Elvis Costello en la gala previa a los Gramm...

Elvis and the Imposters (certainly Steve and Pete) played the Pre-Grammy Gala at the Beverley Hilton Hotel, in Los Angeles CA, last night. They were joined onstage by Juanes (pictured below) and Charlie Sexton. The event is hosted by music business boss, Clive Davis, and attracts musicians, music bu...

More "friends" have been added to the bill, which now includes Dobro and lap steel guitar player Jerry Douglas (of the Sugarcanes) and guitarist Mike Seal (of the Jerry Douglas Band). This might point to Elvis playing a few songs from either Secret, Profane & Sugarcane or National Rans...

Following the conclusion of their US tour dates in Charlottesville on March 10, Elvis, The Imposters and Charlie Sexton will play a benefit concert for Music Treatment Foundation at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, TN on Sunday, March 12, 2023. They will be joined by Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Bill Evans, K...

Great to see everyone who could make it on Saturday - and particularly krm who had the furthest to travel. Thanks as ever to VG for organising this and for ordering the Elfises and thanks to Sulky for the music and supporting materials. This is one of many pictures from the day, before Sulky left an...

So I guess we will indeed need ten separate threads for each evening. I am certain it's the right approach but I trust the moderators if they think there is a better tact. Sounds like the right approach to me BA. Thanks for doing this. Hopefully we will get full setlists, photos, reports for each a...

johnfoyle wrote:Ayako writes to listserv -

Video excerpts from SXSW interview with Bill Flanagan can be found at the following link:

http://2005.sxsw.com/coverage/

That now appears to be a dead link, but six minutes of the interview are archived here:

http://www.SXSW.com - Iconic moments

MOOT

An extract from an article by Robert Sproul, published in No Depression (The Journal of Roots Music) on October 11, 2012: " Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012: A First Class Tribute To Fading and Fallen Legends When my wife and I arrived at the Great American Music Hall Friday night on October 5th,...