Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

[johnfoyle]

http://lastingtribute.blogspot.com/2010 ... asses.html


Collaborator with pop legends passes away

Posted by Alex at Friday, April 30, 2010

A composer and session musician who worked with the likes of Genesis, Paul McCartney, Mike Oldfield, Kate Bush and other musical legends, has died.

Morris Pert spent the later years of his life in a small studio in the extremes of Sutherland experimenting in composing and recording techniques, but in the 1970s and ’80s he was a prominent figure as both a pop percussionist and classical composer.

His classical pieces were commissioned by the BBC, the London Symphony Orchestra and several theatre and ballet companies.

Meanwhile he was doing studio work on albums like Bush’s Hounds of Love (1985), Wings’ Back to the Egg (1979), Bryan Ferry’s Let’s Stick Together (1976) and Elvis Costello’s Punch the Clock (1983).

[And No Coffee Table]

I've never been sure which tracks feature Morris Pert. Same deal with Luis Jardim, the percussionist on Goodbye Cruel World. In Jardim's case, maybe "Room With No Number"?

[johnfoyle]

Any subscribers here? Probably the same old same old , anyway.

http://asia.businesstraveller.com/asia- ... s-costello

May '10

Elvis Costello

Christened Declan McManus, London-born Elvis Costello took his adopted name from his favourite singer and his paternal grandmother’s maiden name. He’s since established himself as one of the greatest singer-songwriters in the world. Kenny Coyle caught up with him before his performance at the Sun Festival in Singapore last year.

'Articles in the latest issue of Business Traveller are available for subscribers of the Asia Pacific edition to read online. '

[johnfoyle]

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/arc ... php?page=3

May. 6 2010

Interview: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants On Turning 50

(extract)

I would say Elvis Costello is a good example of somebody who has kept his mojo working in a pretty real way. I was working with Dave Robinson, the guy who started Stiff Records, about 10 years ago in England. He was briefly our A&R guy. And I was a huge Stiff fan, and saw Elvis Costello's first performance in London at the Nashville Room. I think he'd done some secret shows the night before, but basically it was the first time anybody had really laid eyes on him. And it was the Summer of Hate. It was like 1977. It was a big year for punk rock. I was a big Nick Lowe fan, a fan of a lot of the stuff that Dave was involved in--Lene Lovich and Rachel Sweet and all this stuff--so it was very exciting for me to have a chance to talk to him about Stiff Records in the early days. And he said this thing kind of off the cuff, which I always thought was hilarious.

I should preface it by saying I think Dave has got total respect for Elvis Costello on every level. Needless to say, he's like his big discovery. But he said that if a young Elvis Costello was given the ability to travel through time, he had no doubt that he would travel forward to find the old Elvis Costello and kill him. Because, you know, he really was that guy. He really was an angry young man. In some ways, Elvis Costello was the thinking man's Johnny Rotten. He obviously was more emotionally complex and working from a richer set of ideas musically but, you know, the intensity of his performance when he started was unbelievable, and the fact that he's found a way to kind of step down and away from that and still be musically successful is kind of fantastic, because that's a very hard thing to do.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36376


May 8, 2010

I'll Get Around to It
Carrie Wicks | OA2 Records (2010)


By Dan McClenaghan


In the crowded and talent-filled lady jazz vocalist field, standing apart is no small feat. Some natural vocal chops, combined with a bunch of hard work and a good backing band, can make for a very viable artistic effort, and there are a lot of those around. But a very workable artistic effort is not enough. The singer has to connect on a personal level by telling the stories of her songs in a convincing fashion—in her own vulnerable or tough and world-weary, or sweet, or rough-and-tumble way. That's what Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Blossom Dearie and Anita O'Day did. On her debut release, I'll Get Around to It, Seattle-based jazz vocalist Carrie Wicks proves herself a very convincing storyteller.

With a wonderful feel for the beat, adept phrasing and a bit of a Tony Bennett hush in her voice, Wicks can make you fall for her on "I'm Old Fashioned," or she can, sweet-voiced on the Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers gem "Everything I've Got," give a grown man a good scare and make him check the room for an escape route. She can also exude a laidback, no-nonsense, Carmen McCrae toughness on "Baby, Get Lost," or sing with a beautiful, horn-like delivery on Elvis Costello's hauntingly surreal "Almost Blue."

The songs come mostly from yesteryear, way back from the thirties and forties, and for the most part are not from the overly-covered side of the old fashioned tunes. Exceptions are Costello's "Almost Blue" (1982) and the Ken Nottingham/Carrie Wicks-penned title cut, both of which slip smoothly into mix.

The first-rate backing band—headed by pianist/composer Bill Anschell, who produced and arranged the disc—sets a vibrant background for Wicks' storytelling, featuring Jeff Johnson's big bass bounce on "I'm Old Fashioned," Hans Teuber's tangy New Orleans-esque clarinet on the title tune, drummer Byron Vannoy's shuffling caresses with the brushes on "Everything I've Got," and Anschell's always exquisite accompaniment and deft embellishments.

Everything I've Got is an extraordinary debut, a first-rate jazz vocal effort.


http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Get-Around-Ca ... 440&sr=8-1

April 20, 2010

[Jeremy Dylan]

For anyone interested, Patchwork River, the excellent new record from Jim Lauderdale (co-written by Robert Hunter), came out yesterday. It's Jim's 18th album in 19 years - perhaps the only artist that can make EC seem like he's resting on his laurels.

[SteveL]

The character Jim Keats (as played by Daniel Mays), in Series 3 Episode 2 of Ashes to Ashes, said one of his favorite musicians is Elvis Costello.

I didn't hear him say that. Although his glasses make him look a bit of a Elvis fan. Im sure Elvis used to wear glasses like that at one stage. I seem to remember Rayban's coming in that style.
The programme is turning into a Costello love fest. The playout track last week was Shipbuilding albeit the Robert Wyatt version and Watching the Detectives was the playout track last night.

Well actually said he "likes Elvis Costello"

Look at 5:03 here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhOnKMD ... re=related

Somebody there also seems to like Tom Robinson. He's also featured (both in song and in "person") in a couple of episodes .

[sheeptotheslaughter]

The character Jim Keats (as played by Daniel Mays), in Series 3 Episode 2 of Ashes to Ashes, said one of his favorite musicians is Elvis Costello.

I didn't hear him say that. Although his glasses make him look a bit of a Elvis fan. Im sure Elvis used to wear glasses like that at one stage. I seem to remember Rayban's coming in that style.
The programme is turning into a Costello love fest. The playout track last week was Shipbuilding albeit the Robert Wyatt version and Watching the Detectives was the playout track last night.

Well actually said he "likes Elvis Costello"

Look at 5:03 here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhOnKMD ... re=related

Somebody there also seems to like Tom Robinson. He's also featured (both in song and in "person") in a couple of episodes .

Thanks for that saves me looking through the whole episode. It's one of those programmes my missis seems to always talk all the way through


I used to work and live in the area Ashes To Ashes is set in the 80's. (not Fenchurch, but Bermondsey) Haven't seen myself delivering the post or drinking in any of the pubs yet.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.rollingstone.com/cms/op/edit ... ner_150144

May 12, 2010

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards revisit the making of the Rolling Stones' gritty masterpiece Exile on Main Street in the new issue of Rolling Stone , available now. As the band prepares for the May 18th reissue of its classic 1972 album, artists share their favorite epic Exile moments.

(extract)


Elvis Costello:
"I know every track. 'Shake Your Hips.' I also like 'All Down the Line,' I like 'Rip This Joint.' 'Tumbling Dice,' one of the great guitar parts. 'Loving Cup' is great. See, I can't even choose, that's how great this record is! 'Shake Your Hips,' it's Slim Harpo. The Rolling Stones always loved rhythm & blues, and what's not to love about that song? I remember the Rolling Stones came to Liverpool in 1972 when that record came out, and my entire school queued up to get tickets. And you know what I said? I said, 'Rolling Stones, they're over. You go on, I'll go use the money to buy a record.' And I bought a Jefferson Airplane record instead, so that shows you how much I knew! I didn't buy Exile on Main Street back then, I discovered it about a year later. I couldn't have afforded it at first because it was a double album."

[martinfoyle]

Elvis gets on Tracey Thorns tits

http://twitpic.com/1nhs6j/full

She'll be wearing it at this

http://www.walkthewalk.org/Home

[johnfoyle]

http://www.oedipus1.com/home/?p=1122



From the Archives: Peace Together

Posted by oedipus in Song of the Day on 05 15th, 2010

Of late I’ve been combing through my 20,000+ CDs, filing and re-filing and weeding and searching and discovering what lies hidden in this treasure trove. I happened upon a disc entitled Peace Together, a benefit album for the youth of Northern Ireland that was released in 1993. Chances are you may never have heard of this disc. I didn’t remember it. But it features bands from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. Listen here to U2 with Lou Reed, Blur covering Elvis Costello and a beautiful version of the obscure song “Be Still”, by Peace Together, an illustrious combination of British and Irish musicians including Peter Gabriel, Sinead O’Connor, Feargal Sharkey, Jah Wobble, mixed by Robin Guthrie and featuring Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins. Peace!

Blur-”Oliver’s Army”

[johnfoyle]

http://www.amazon.com/Two-Different-Wor ... 61&sr=8-16

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/adele3

A Stranger in Town
Adele Zane

Release Date: 2009

Includes -

In the Darkest Place

[johnfoyle]

Cool!

http://www.wesh.com/spacenews/23617545/detail.html

Astronauts Prep For Final Spacewalk

Space Station Visible Thursday Evening

May 20, 2010

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Shuttle Atlantis crew woke up to "Welcome to the Working Week" by Elvis Costello Thursday at 1:50 a.m. aboard the International Space Station.

They will open the hatch to the newly installed Mini Research Module and install an air filter Thursday.

The rest of the day they will be free to prepare for Friday's final spacewalk.

Meanwhile, At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, sky watchers in Orlando will get a good view of the space station for about three minutes.

The view will come a few minutes later for people on the coast.

[johnfoyle]

Ricky Gervais blogs from LA , c. May 18th '10 -

http://rickygervais.com/thissideofthetruth.php

Flying back to London today, if that fucking volcano behaves itself.

Just had a quick workout in the hotel gym... with Elvis Costello. Normal.

Both dressed completely in black (it's slimming), sweating like bastards.

[johnfoyle]

Robyn in Vancouver gets obsessed with a song she hears in a boutique -

http://bcrobyn.blogspot.com/2010/05/bey ... tello.html


Monday, May 24, 2010

Beyond Belief: Musical Mysteries on Main Street

[johnfoyle]

Elvis in Smash Hits ; great archive !

http://likepunkneverhappened.blogspot.com/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N ... 317138044/

[johnfoyle]

http://www.bivinteractive.com/index.php ... &Itemid=32

Cohen’s Face The World raises $1.2 million

Tuesday, 08 June 2010

Army and Navy owner Jacqui Cohen’s Face The World Foundation raised $1.2 million at a glitzy party at Cohen’s Point Grey home June 5.

The money will be distributed to various charities around the Lower Mainland.

Celebrities such as Diana Krall, Elvis Costello and Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger were among the 240 attendees who wined, dined and paid at least $1,500 apiece for the soiree at Cohen’s waterfront home.

“It was the only nice night we’ve had in the last two weeks,” Cohen told Business in Vancouver June 7. “That was special. It means that I must have done something right in my life. The angels are watching over me.”

Cohen sent invitations to guests that asked them to consider being what she called an “angel” by donating either $25,000, $10,000 or $5,000 in addition to the entry fee.

“We had $450,000 in our bank before the party. That was just from ticket sales and the angels,” she said.

An auction raised nearly $500,000. The biggest ticket item? A yacht that sold for $260,000.

Cohen said former B.C. NDP leader Joy MacPhail led a drive to have people offer to donate money and get nothing in return except for a tax receipt.

That initiative raised $220,000.

“[Il Giardino owner] Umberto Menghi donated the food, and Charlton Hobbs Canada donated all the liquor,” Cohen said. “When you get donations like that, it allows you to raise a lot of money. Our expenses were minimal.”

gkorstrom@biv.com

[Mikeh]

Madness have (has?) reissued some albums with bonus discs, and Rise & Fall has the Elvis vocal version of Tomorrow's Just Another Day, which I believe was on the 12" version of the Madness single.

Waiting for Mad Not Mad myself!

[johnfoyle]

Neat review of Elvis' career ( to date!) here -

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/bl ... ok-of-song

[johnfoyle]

Moody Elvis -

http://www.jamesomara.com/portfolio/music/music8.html

[johnfoyle]

http://www.kbdrecords.com/2010/07/18/th ... my-hand-7/

Back of my Hand: Simply one of the best Elvis Costello songs Costello didn´t write.

[krm]

I found some chewing gum cards recently while cleaning the drawers and the boxes under the bed. Seems to be from late 70ies/early 80ies. .....and I have no idea where I got them!

[Jeremy Dylan]

Woah! That looks like a Gretsch acoustic on the right!

[krm]

This is the opening page for the Swedish girlie magazine Starlet from January 1983 (!).
The picture is from the first Swedish visit in September 1977.

[Ypsilanti]

I found some chewing gum cards recently while cleaning the drawers and the boxes under the bed. Seems to be from late 70ies/early 80ies. .....and I have no idea where I got them!

Castello?