Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I'm contemplating going to Italy in May to catch a handful of his Detour shows. Part of why I'm considering it: Based on concert clips I've seen of him there--and the fact that he's doing SEVEN shows there this year, compared to three in Spain and only one each in Germany, France, Scandinavia and Sw...

I'm tempted to do the week in Italy.....

STILL no East Coast U.S. dates? What gives?

Anyone heard anything?

Wish list for 2016? That's a no-brainer, innit?....an album (and tour to follow) with the Imposters! Fer Chrissakes, it's been over eight years!!

I, for one, could happily do without any musicals or further Bachrach/McCartney collabs, at least for the near future

Surely with the London Elvis-geek contingent present there's a video record of this, yes?

Yes?

Wait...what's the "expletive deleted"? You can't print a profanity?

What are we, five years old?

Awful venue...and did EC shave his head??

Fair enough, and I love the Sugarcanes' records, but I think it's fair to say that the Imposters are his main band....in which case it's odd (and, yeah, a bummer) that he seems to have stopped recording new material with them. That's all I'm saying.

I know he's done a handful of tunes in the solo shows, I went to a bunch of them. And I know he's been working on the Bachrach project for a while. Still, eight years since he's released "a collection of songs," with his primary band?? Whether it's something uploaded to iTunes and/or relea...

I realize that album sales are not a credible profit center for artists anymore. Still...presumably, EC is still writing songs. Wouldn't you think that, as an artist, he'd see the inherent value in recording them just to have a definitive version to be part of his body of work? You know, as a kind o...

God, these ampitheaters are such depressing looking venues! I'd really like to see this tour, but I'm in NY and can't stomach the PNC Arts Center. It doesn't help that Steely Dan are extortionists when it comes to their ticket prices. I'd feel like a sucker buying a ticket. Here's hoping EC/Imposter...

Heh...."Balls"

C'mon people...where's all the video from these first three shows? And why is it that people continually record/upload the most obvious, least interesting, heard-'em-a-million-times numbers (Detectives, Pump It Up, PLU, Alison) over and OVER again? It's hard to understand, given that one assumes tha...

1) Anyone know if EC plans to record any more albums with the Imposters, or are they just a sort of touring band now?

2) Wasn't EC's autobiography/memoir from Viking/Penguin (at least here in the USA) supposed to come out this year? Does anyone know the status of this?

Thanks

Is there no video from EITHER of the Cali shows this week?

Dying to hear this show...can someone direct me to where I can find audio?

So....BA, give me a list of five EC songs you can confidently say you DON'T like....

BA... I think that's one of those throwaway songs he's done occasionally over the years, often in collaboration with someone ("Seven Day Weekend") or for a movie soundtrack ("Crawling to the USA" and, yeah, "Party, Party"). The latter two sound like Elvis Costello doing...

bronxapostle wrote:

Arbogast wrote:BA, please tell me you're being sarcastic....

in what regard...naming three songs i LOVE and would dig seeing LIVE???? NOPE, not a drop of sarcasm.

"Party, Party"???

BA, please tell me you're being sarcastic....

Many, many thanks, Doc!!

Sorry for the impatience. I really want to share that night with some people who can't make it. I'm a little surprised to hear the love for My Three Sons. There aren't many EC songs I can't abide, but that's one of them. Treacly, sentimental slush. Heresy to say in these parts, I know, but there you...

Where's the rest of the video(s)?

I think that reference to "gonna write some songs and see you real soon" has to do with the project he's working on with Burt Bachrach, a musical for Broadway.

OR (and this is my real hope), he's FINALLY going to record a new album with the Imposters. It's been 7 years, after all!

Last night was good...but tonight was, just, WOW. One of the best times I've ever seen him. Blown away!