Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Hi there - that's a great shout - I'd certainly welcome the opportunity to have this on vinyl.

Man out of Time wrote:Sadly no reference to the late Queen Mother's love of the songs of Leadbelly. MOOT

Top marks for this MooT, perhaps he'll do Rock Island Line in tribute?

When Apocalypse Now! was released Francis Ford Coppola said that the NME review of the movie (I think by Paul Du Noyer) was the only critique that truly grasped his vision. One of many examples of the standard at the time. A shame that some turned out to have feet of clay PdN is indeed a great stor...

The winners have been contacted.Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!! 8) and have asked VG to join me: Wow - fantastic, congratulations. Hope one of you is seriously stellar at shorthand. VG is...........that’s the only reason I invited him! :wink: ...should his proper name then be 'Verbatim Gymnastics'? :oops: :o...

Goon Squad wrote:The winners have been contacted.Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!
and have asked VG to join me:

Wow - fantastic, congratulations. Hope one of you is seriously both stellar at shorthand.

We were likely in that group. Great - hope my 'singing' didn't put you off too much! Our suitcases had all sort of LFC kit packed in on the way back. Oh dear - you could have got much better souveniers than that tat - next time you're in town, which I hope will be soon, make sure you head for Evert...

I actually made it to the Liverpool show last year just before lockdown. Great room and a great concert. Hi G - where in the venue were you ? I was second row centre front, loads of Americans around me, were you one of them? He played "Turning the Town Red" for the scouser crowd.. It was ...

hi intrigued how Charlie affected the band's sound ?

Well there is a saying "never meet your heros..." I think my primary relationship with the professional musician Elvis Costello is as a consumer of his wonderful product which has been marketed via interviews etc over the years. Somehow the post-gig wait - fruitless on occasions - at the s...

oh and Elvis called me " Sir" :oops: He didn’t know you were an Evertonian, obviously !! :lol: :lol: :lol: were you there? During my spell working in Mudchester I wore my EFC bobble hat every day as an act of defiance (childish I know) but as the signing session was indoors I was bare hea...

I was initially interested in going to the 'signing' event in Manchester, but when it turned out that you would be paying a fortune for a wristband, which would entitle you to queue for ages, and then there were all kinds of restrictions on how long you'd be with Elvis, no selfies, no dialogue, all...

Hi H this is a great idea, unfortunately I am existing in the land of Caution Beyond Caution so won't be able to partake myself for the foreseeable.However judging from past gatherings in the margins of ECs shows here in Liverpool, and it's satellites, EC has plenty of Friends in't. North. Hope this...

Hawksmoor wrote:In terms of playing an expensive event for the rich and powerful....

... I thought that Sulky and Neil had decided to eschew ?

A career low point, I think. What next? Celebrity Masterchef? Dancing on Ice? I admit I shared this view, however a quick decco at the website tells a different tale and perhaps one which explains our ( previously loudly anti-Royalist ) hero's participation : The Royal Variety Charity stems from 19...

Could call this Unexpected!

The Beloved Entertainer stepping into his pa's shoes from 1963.

Glad I was sitting down to read this news.

I disagree with great swathes of your post above A R L , much of your worldview does not accord with mine, but firmly agree with this bit :

A rope leash wrote: I hope there remains room in this world for all of us

Admittedly just on a level below BA/VG/JF and SL (aka Glyn Johns) , I recall Jo Brand saying that avidly following EC has lead her to spend a small fortune on multiple purchases of the same music, suckered in via the myriad coloured vinyl editions and endless re-issues. Clearly one of us. Also Maria...

My question is…how did Elvis come up with perfect songs for a dystopian lockdown before the boot actually fell? Is he psychic, or did his elite friends clue him in on what was about to happen? Hmmm? Viva Van Morrison. We are of course each welcome to our own opinion. Welcome to mine : this post is ...

Therefore, the best and only option is to re-list them for sale is of course absolute *ollocks , surely to try to sell tickets for something which doesn't exist is attempting fraud? Wikipedia lists several examples of such : In February 2018, Viagogo was found to have been marketing tickets for a n...

Hey Elvis

What do you think of the new ABBA album?

- wait over VG

ice nine wrote:there is a YouTube video out there with Sandra dancing up on stage while Elvis plays during his Spinning Wheel concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZc9IT7h-3U

Cheers ice nine

Enjoy yourselves one and all, v.sorry I cant be there. I wonder what you'll all think of EC's latest non-English language wheeze? What's next -
Juliet Letters in Latin?

Few of us from this Board saw Steve open Liverpool Philharmonic's Music Room in October 2015 with an Elvis-heavy show including imput from AJUQ. This looks a similar event but perhaps with less EC. I would recommend attendance wholeheartedly for anyone who can get there!!!

Yep
Anyone in any doubt should look up 'professional musician' in Webster's.Tangentially I can remember EC answering a question in a Guardian Q&A (ie promo) :-

Q :What book changed your life?

A : Chord Dictionary.

One for everyone who's ever picked up a six string...

An excuse to play again Six Months in Kansas City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aPgxFjQwI

Enjoy you lucky Kansas folks!