Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Eugene OR. 1978
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Lane County Civic Center February 9, 1978 Eugene OR. FM/soundboard @flac
source: Very good quality - believed to be KZEL Radio FM recording
Thanks to the unknown taper.
A SILENT WAY SPECIAL
Tracklist
01. Mystery Dance 02. This Year's Girl 03. Waiting For The End Of The World 04. No Action 05. Less Than Zero 06. The Beat 07. Roadette Song 08. Stranger In The House 09. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 10. Radio, Radio 11. You Belong To Me 12. Lipstick Vogue 13. Watching The Detectives 14. Pump It Up 15. Miracle Man 16. I'm Not Angry
Total duration 59:55
We have had this before but you know what?
I don’t care - different version I reckons!
Maybe not Boss it was back in '22 when you and Brother Jobe
This is really good, being BBC sourced the quality is fine and the performance of course exceptional . . . . . . enjoy! I did!
SPEEDY Says : 2002 - #6: In April 2002, Elvis Costello released his 19th studio album, entitled When I Was Cruel. The disc climbed all the way to #20 on the US Billboard album charts. The disc also was the first to showcase Costello's new backing band, The Impostors. This FM broadcast captures Elvis and The Impostors at the BBC Studios playing a set to promote new album, on April 28, 2002, 22 years ago today.
If you tried out the early set of this from The Boss at Floppy Boot Stomp you know it is well worth having. It is a tad’ hot’ for me but nothing a bit of knob twiddle twaddling ( technical term!) won’t hurt
Highly listenable and FLAC format to boot!
FBS Says
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Old Waldorf Theatre November 15, 1977 San Francisco, California Late show FM Source @flac
Setlist: 01. intro 02. No Action 03. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 04. No Dancing 05. I'm Not Angry 06. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 07. Radio, Radio 08. Less Than Zero 09. Living In Paradise 10. Alison 11. Miracle Man 12. You Belong To Me 13. Lipstick Vogue 14. Watching The Detectives 15. Pump It Up
Duration : 50:04
Musigny23 notes: In Sept '89 I was able to make DAT copies of about 20 items from KSAN reels. In the early '90s I did some DAT trades and since then they appear to have circulated far and wide. I've seen these items pop up here a number of times and the uploader had gotten them in trade and did not know the original lineage. I thought I would get busy and upload them myself since I put these in circulation to begin with and I have the original DATs that they all come from.
Have at it! Avail yourself, go on pop on over, you won’t regret it!
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Old Waldorf Theatre San Francisco, California November 15, 1977 FM @flac
early show
Setlist:
01. Pump It Up 02. Welcome To The Working Week 03. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 04. Blame It On Cain 05. Waiting For The End Of The World 06. The Beat 07. Less Than Zero 08. Alison 09. Miracle Man 10. You Belong To Me 11. Lipstick Vogue 12. Watching The Detectives 13. Mystery Dance 14. Bonnie Simmons outro
check it out and the notes too at the link above in the title
a veritable smorgasbord of Costello here from the Boss over at Voodoo Wagon
Ess-Dubya says:
Elvis Costello at the BBC FM Sources @320
Vol. 1
01 Less than zero 02 Red shoes 03 Watching the detectives 04 (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea 05 Pump it up 06 Radio radio 07 Peace love and understanding 08 High Fidelity 09 B Movie 10 Watch your step 11 Sweet dreams 12 Man out of time 13 Head to toe 14 Pills and soap 15 Shipbuilding 16 Every day I write the book 17 Jack of all parades 18 I want you
Tracks sourced from radio and television broadcasts and re-broadcasts. Some tracks have been edited from different sources in order to provide as complete a performance as possible and in the best quality sound.
Tracks 1-2 John Peel show BBC Radio One 25 July 1977 Track 3 Top of the Pops BBC TV 2nd November 1977 Track 4 John Peel show BBC Radio One 13th March 1978 Track 5 Top of the Pops BBC TV 14th June 1978 Track 6 Top of the Pops BBC TV 25th October 1978 Tracks 7-8 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Hope and Anchor, London 21st May 1980 Track 9 John Peel show BBC Radio One 25th February 1980 Tracks 10,12,13,15,16 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Hammersmith, London 17th October 1983 Track 11 Top of the Pops BBC TV 24th December 1981 Track 14 Kid Jensen show BBC Radio One 9th June 1983 Tracks 17-18 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Royalty Theatre, London 23rd November 1986
Vol. 2
Elvis Costello at the BBC Volume 2 01 God's comic 02 Tramp the dirt down 03 Sulky girl 04 Thirteen steps lead down 05 London's brilliant parade 06 I've been wrong before 07 Leave my kitten alone 08 Toledo 09 Painted from memory 10 You'll never walk alone 11 That day is done 12 She 13 When I was cruel 14 Who do you think you are 15 45 16 Tear off your own head 17 Spooky girlfriend 18 Radio silence 19 Why can't a man stand alone? 20 It's time
Tracks sourced from radio and television broadcasts and re-broadcasts. Some tracks have been edited from different sources in order to provide as complete a performance as possible and in the best quality sound.
Tracks 1-2 Everything you wanted to know about Spike BBC TV 20th February 1989 Tracks 3-4 Kevin Greening show BBC Radio One 20th April 1994 Track 5 Danny Baker show BBC TV 25th November 1994 Tracks 6-7 Jools Holland Later... BBC TV 16th May 1995 Tracks 8-9 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Royal Festival Hall, London 29th October 1998 Track 10 Comic Relief BBC TV 12th March 1999 Track 11 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Royal Albert Hall, London 10th April 1999 Track 12 Top of the Pops BBC TV 15th July 1999 Track 13 BBC TV concert broadcast 4th May 2001 Track 14 BBC Radio Three broadcast24th January 2002 Tracks 15-16 BBC Radio concert broadcast London 29th April 2002 Track 17 Jonathan Ross show BBC Radio Two 27th April 2002 Track 18 Janice Long BBC Radio show 19th September 2002
BONUS Tracks (only came to light recently) Track 19-20 Jools Holland Later... Special BBC TV 1996-06-18
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Vol. 3
Elvis Costello at the BBC Volume 3
01 My mood swings 02 Still 03 The judgement 04 The delivery man 05 Monkey to man 06 Who's gonna help brother get further 07 Ascension day 08 A slow drag with Josephine 09 National ransom 10 I'm a mess 11 Jimmie standing in the rain 12 Stella hurt 13 Tripwire/Peace, love and understanding 14 When I write the book 15 Unwanted number 16 Under lime 17 I can't stand up 18 Red shoes 19 Paint the red rose blue
Tracks sourced from radio and television broadcasts and re-broadcasts. Some tracks have been edited from different sources in order to provide as complete a performance as possible and in the best quality sound.
Tracks 1-2 Sold on Song BBC Radio Two 15th September 2003 Track 3 Janice Long BBC Radio Two 19th September 2002 Tracks 4-5 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Glasgow 22nd November 2004 Tracks 6-7 Jools Holland Later... BBC TV 26th May 2006 Tracks 8 Jools Holland Later... BBC TV 26th October 2010 Tracks 9-10 Simon Mayo BBC Radio Two 27th October 2010 Track 11 Janice Long BBC Radio Two 27th October 2010 Track 12 BBC Radio concert broadcast from Cornbury 30th June 2012 Track 13 BBC TV concert broadcast 10th April 2014 Track 14 The One Show BBC TV 29th May 2015 Track 15-16 Mastertapes BBC Radio Two 10th September 2018 Track 17 Jools Holland BBC Radio Two 15th October 2018 Track 18 House Music BBC Radio Two 29th November 2021 Track 19 Graham Norton BBC TV 14th January 2022
A work of genius IMHO but read on from retropopcult
this is fascinating . . . found in the ex-jukebox bins when it came out ( I couldn’t afford to get it anywhere else! but it was a picture sleeve, as was my I Don’t Want to Go To Chelsea) still playable today!
It peaked at #28 on the UK Singles Chart and was their first top 40 hit single in the US, peaking at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Costello said "Everyday I Write the Book" was "a song I wrote in ten minutes almost as a challenge to myself. I thought, maybe I could write just a simple, almost formula song and make it mean something. I was quite happy with it and tried to do it in a kind of lovers-rock type arrangement and I wasn't happy with it and then ended up putting this other kind of rhythm to the song, which was written originally as a kind of Merseybeat knock off...I invested less emotionally in it than any other songs from that time yet it's the one that everyone warmed to."
The music video was directed byDon Letts and has been called a "classic MTV hit" and features footage of Elvis Costello and the Attractions performing in a studio with female backup singers Claudia Fontaine and Caron Wheeler dressed in African clothing. Their performance is mingled with footage showing celebrity lookalikes of Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Wales, Charles incongruously doing household chores and Diana watching television in a middle class home. Costello later commented he had "no idea" of the reason for the interspersed royalty scenes, which were, he says, the director's idea.
I think the guys at headquarters are on a Elvis Costello kick of late and nothing wrong with that so here’s another set that intrigues from draftervoi. Here his band consists of the brains behind Squeeze and like many I have wondered at the why’s and wherefores to this without really checking. Both Tilbrook and Difford are masters of their own songwriting craft but also fine musicians in their own right, there seems to be nothing in the texts connected to this appearance as to Squeeze playing their own set. So make of that what you will. I am sure it is documented somehwere and I will check the boys website and update when I know more but meantime . . . . . . .
Early break to the USA for Elvis and the boys - (he had clearly just written Alison!) Bear with the opening quality as it improves, bit shaky start but balances out later through the first track and becomes highly listenable
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Jed's November 23, 1977 New Orleans, Louisiana
[2:41] 01. No Dancing [4:42] 02. Waiting For The End Of The World [1:58] 03. No Action [3:40] 04. Stranger In The House [3:19] 05. Roadette Song [3:17] 06. Alison [3:11] 07. Blame It On Cain [3:47] 08. The Beat [3:27] 09. Less Than Zero
After the brilliant 40 track Get Happy session t’other day Jobe from HQ follows it up with this, even more (count ‘em) tracks from the sessions and rehearsals for Imperial Bedroom. Stirling stuff people from the only Elvis who wrote anything meaningful (fight, Fight, FIGHT!) Ha ha ha ha . . . enjoy, I am!
