Elvis Costello Fan Forum

For me, it depends on the artist. For EC, he will have a core set of songs that he will play, but he will always throw in a surprise or two or three-- no two shows are really alike. So I do look at set lists before an EC show. For someone else, like Peter Gabriel, who does substantially the same sho...

Midgg, not I. The Ticketmaster pre-sales usually stink. Ticketmaster in general stinks, I rarely get good seats to a show through Ticketmaster. I am stuck in a corner of the loge for the upcoming Beacon show, and I was logged on to the website the instant the general public sale opened. I have had b...

Presale for Atlanta concert (from an e-mail from EC's Lost Highway website): Elvis Costello & The Imposters tickets pre-sale Get you tickets for the July 17th show at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA available at: http://click.myreg.net/r/n_602274364/t_eksx/u_ticketing.concertmaps.com/e...

Anyone have any ideas on when the tickets go on sale?

Elvicos01 (or anyone else), does the NYC Summer Stage have seating, or is it a beach blanket venue?

Here's a neat website with trivia about a whole bunch of songs. Here is a listing of EC songs.

http://songfacts.com/additionalSearches ... 20Costello

Thanks for the link, Spookys. I have ordered it through the site. Now I have to think to whom I should bequeth my old copy.

So, how will this work? Everyone will throw in a grand or two and get to pick one song for him to play? Oh, for $2000 what song would I pick? Maybe Riot Act or maybe I'll Wear It Proudly. Maybe I'll let others pick those favorites. I'll throw in my two grand and ask for either Still or Impatience.

Woo hoo. It is up! Thanks mods!

I'm buying. Anyone else?

Hmmm. I'm saving up my money right now.

Listen, with my luck, I'd hire him and he STILL wouldn't play Riot Act!

How much for Bruce Thomas?

I clicked on it and searched, but I didn't find the pre-sale. Maybe I'm inadept at this, though. I'll wait for the direct link.

*Bump* Does anyone know the answer to my question?

HAH!

I suppose you'd have to post them on this board!

OK. I won't tell Dr. Spooky. Shhh.

No one else has reported him sitting in the audience for Almost Blue (or any other song). Can anyone who has seen EC & the Imps during the TDM tour say he has (or has not) done this? Sounds fun. Oh, and what happens to the poor schmuck (or lucky bastard) who has to get out of his or her seat -- ...

If I order from the link given by Sweetie, will proceeds go to this website? I will buy it (and give my Ryko version to a needy EC fan), but if I do, I would like to do it through this site.

Blue Chair, could you give me a little guidance?

From a Lost Highway e-mail I received: " *Also do not miss Elvis Costello's live interview with Bill Flannigan on March 16th from 4:30-5:45 at the Austin Convention Center, Rm 18 ABC (500 West Caesar Chavez St.) " For info on the South by South West Convention, see here: http://2005.sxsw.c...

Elviscos1, it could be the Beacon. He seems to like to play there, though, and there are plenty of venues in NYC for him to choose. And of course, there's the problem of getting good seats at the Beacon too (that's in another thread). We can compare notes about the sound in April. Frankly, I'd be wi...

I'll see them at the Beacon in NYC in April. I saw the Imposters there on the WIWC/Cruel Smile Tour. Although there were some incredible highspots (like EC's off mike version of Still Too Soon To Know and his cathartic version of I Want You), the louder songs sounded terrible. He played too loud for...

That's a pretty solid album of pop tunes.
Love Went Mad and TKO (the two lowest ranked songs) are by no means a shoddy songs!

PTC is a very underrated album, in my opinion. And the Greatest Thing is a very good song. If you don't have PTC, pick it up; if you do have it but haven't heard it in awhile, give it another listen. Alexv, it isn't sacrilege (at least to me) to criticize EC's lyrics. I think some of his songs could...

I'm sorry I said anything. In any event, this is much more cordial board.

Oh, and so I am not misinterpreted, I was pretty certain that neither EC nor BB were actually posting. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

I missed the presale, as I said above. The on-line sale on Sunday was sold out as soon as I logged on at 10:00. I bought tix over the phone at around 10:05. I am stuck against the wall in the back of the loge. I have yet to get decent seats at the Beacon, though I usually get good seats at other EC ...

The elviscostello.com board was, to say the least, quite lively. It was a lot more gossipy than this board, with quite a few paranoid delusions that both EC and Bebe Buel were posting. And there was quite a bit of speculation about which poster(s) were the REAL EC and BB. I liked the Ask Elvis featu...

I completely missed it. However, I have never managed to get decent seats through the EC website pre-sales.

Does anyone have an opinion on how good are the seats made available for the EC website presales? I recall getting some not-so-good seats from these presales for the Beacon WIWC shows and (I think) the North show at Town Hall. (On the other hand, I scored two sets of first row center seats for the f...