Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I thought his voice was fine, didn't notice any problems on Friday.

DrJ

Now that's funny.

DrJ

Ahhhh, the Berlin show... Made it to the venue by 8.05 to find that there was no support and EC was already rattling through Doll Revolution. According to the person sitting beside my pal Matt there had been a song played before DR but she didn't know what it was, so there might have been a Blue Cha...

Off plane... going to work... will post later... yes, it was great... Berlin is also great...


DrJ

Here's the official Carson DVD's...
https://www.johnnycarson.com/carson/sho ... ection.jsp

And there's a torrent of Leno's Tonight Show Tribute I got off here...
http://www.isohunt.com/torrents.php
...do a torrent search for 'Johnny Carson'

DrJ

Back to 1990's Squeeze for a mo'... Play and Some Fantastic Place are definitely worth it, Ridiculous has it's moments but it's where the rot set in. A lot of lyrics are Chris writing directy about himself (Electric Trains, Walk Away) and the production lacks some of the subtlety of the previous two...

Carson's funnier than Conan. Steve Allen's funnier than Conan. Heck, I'm funnier than Conan (on a good day). Carson never hit the airwaves on this side of the Atlantic, but to see him back-to-back with Letterman when on holidays to the US as a teen was a real treat. Only just this weekend my brother...

Flood by They Might Be Giants "Lincoln" was the album that made them famous, but "Flood" is the album that revealed their genius. Songs like "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Whistling in the Dark" and "Dead" sound delightfully goofy, but the lyrics hold a...

Interesting to find out that The Rats have a track called Up All Night because to me hot new band Razorlight (their album's called Up All Night) sound just like the Rats, or at least the singer sounds like Geldof. My 2c.

DrJ

U2 wont be at Glastonbury as they're playing Dublin on the same weekend. I'd also be surprised if EC went back as he has no fond memories of his 1994 performance or his mid-afternoon V2002 festival appearance.

DrJ

I'll be travelling to see this one, Berlin's a great spot. Anyone else going to this?

DrJ

I just got this copy of word and it's excellent. There's a lot of Costello and Friends in it... even John Foyle has a letter printed on, surprisingly, the letters page... VonOfterdingen: Buy the three FoW albums in order, they're all great, particularly the first two which are on Amazon US together ...

I shall be there, with A.N.Other (tbc)...

DrJ

In the theme of Costello where you least expect him, myself and the lady were walking by a jazz bar in Venice last year and saw Costello's big head on a plasma screen as they showed this dvd... which was nice... Here it is... http://www.bacarojazz.com Thanks Google! In fact I was there for the relea...

I worked a 4-12 shift today, after flying in from a Dublin weekend. 4-12 is nice... nothing interesting happened...

DrJ

EC loves clowns, doesn't he? I've cited my fandom for Ron elsewhere on the board, but I do also love the Fountains of Wayne. Oh yes. Anyone..? Otis, I'm surprised you still bother with Q, it's been appaling for about 5 years although I bought it religiously every month until the naked Courtney Love ...

That back page of Uncut is always an unpleasant experience and half the time involves some member of the Stiff fraternity doing drugs with Allan Jones. I used to like Uncut, but it's getting awful samey...

DrJ

I guess so... until digital music downloads become replaced by Electronic Brain Enhancer (Go Easy On Your EBE's)...

ATTENTION IRISH PEOPLE: The iTMS opened in Ireland today, and it has the EC thing...

DrJ

Play.com have it for only £13.99 sterling, including delivery. they also say it's a region free, NTSC disc, which I don't know whether to believe.

DrJ

The iTunes Music Store is an online music store for paying for legitimate music downloads and is part of the iTunes program (http://www.apple.com/itunes/). Run iTunes, click on the music store logo and you're in. Sign up once (with credit card) and download single tracks or whole albums, burn 'em to...

The subject is the message. Hooray, more things to buy. Of note after less than 24hours on sale it's at number 46 on the iTunes UK album chart. DrJ PS I scanned through a few of the European stores and it seems to be for sale on all of them. Curiously in Finland iTunes EC's She is at number 6 with S...

I saw Glenn with his band, The Fluffers, play in Islington on the week before Christmas and they were fantastic. Squeeze/Solo stuff plus a walk though the audience on acoustic instruments singing "Goodbye Girl". Met him afterwards and he signed stuff, great gig. His solo shows are usually ...

I worked NYE for the first time. I enjoyed it, people stabbing each other...

DrJ

(Thank God the board's back)

Great setlist and great story.

To veer off topic for a moment... Have any of us figured how we're going to get a copy of the board's tribute record to the man on this tour?

DrJ

Saturday, 7.45pm: Just out of bed following a nasty Friday night of explosive gastroenteritis. So sorry for giving tonight a pass, I hope that's not too much information...

DrJ