Elvis Costello - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-12-2013 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Elvis Costello - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-12-2013

Paul says: Here's another concert from the April 2026 leak of dozens of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. This is an Elvis Costello solo acoustic concert.

In September 2013, Costello released his latest studio album, "Wake Up Ghost," supported by the band the Roots. So one would think this concert just two months later would promote that. But no, you would wrong. Even this concert was over two hours long, only two of the songs were from that album ("Cinco Minutos con Vos" and "Tripwire"). Instead, it seemed he played whatever he felt like playing from all points in his career, including some obscurities. Then, in early 2014, he returned to this venue backed by the Roots, and performed a more typical concert promoting the "Wake Up Ghost" album. A recording of that concert has been leaked as well, and I'd like to post it eventually.

Some improvements were made by this recording by my musical associate Lil Panda. I made some additional minor changes on top of that, such as boosting the volume of the cheering at the ends of some songs, since that usually was quite low, as is the case for many soundboard bootlegs. I also boosted the volume of most of the banter between songs.

If you're a big Elvis Costello fan, this is a good concert for you, because he only played a few of his hits and made a lot of unexpected but interesting selections instead. And the sound quality can't be beat.

By the way, when this appeared in the leak I mentioned above, it was labeled as a 2012 concert. But I found out it definitely was a 2013 concert instead. The proof is from this page from an Elvis Costello fan site:

Elvis Costello info here . . .

It links to a newspaper review of the concert, which removes all doubt about the date. It also has some other interesting things related to this concert. For instance, that's where I got the photo for the cover. 

This album is two hours and 12 minutes long. 

01 King Horse 
02 Either Side of the Same Town
03 Little Triggers 
04 talk 
05 Sneaky Feelings 
06 talk 
07 Crimes of Paris 
08 talk 
09 Town Cryer 
10 talk 
11 Starting to Come to Me 
12 After the Fall 
13 Watching the Detectives 
14 The Long Honeymoon 
15 The Delivery Man 
16 talk 
17 Walkin' My Baby Back Home 
18 Beyond Belief 
19 Human Hands 
20 Party Girl 
21 talk 
22 Almost Blue 
23 talk
24 The Flirting Kind 
25 talk 
26 Shipbuilding 
27 Cinco Minutos con Vos 
28 Alison
29 In Another Room 
30 A Slow Drag with Josephine 
31 Blue Chair 
32 talk 
33 Dirty Rotten Shame [Edit]
34 Jimmie Standing in the Rain 
35 I Want You 
36 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding 
37 Tripwire - [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding 

(all tracks Elvis Costello)