Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

[Jeremy Dylan]

This is probably more than just "Relatively" Insignificant...but a friend's sister-in-law saw EC on a plane to Vancouver. She was on the way to the olympics

Well, that's.... slightly creepy.

[Jack of All Parades]

I have been thinking about this over the past day and for me it borders on more than creepy-it is just over board. Way too voyeuristic for me. Let the man have his space. It is such a waste of time on this thread this obsession with photos of him in his private life- on the beach, walking with his kids, being a private person on the street, dining in a restaurant, flying on a plane.

[Ypsilanti]

Totally agree!!!--reinforces my belief that it must be terrible to be famous. Seems like a few years of having one's privacy constantly invaded would make almost anyone psychotic.

If I were Elvis and wanted to move around incognito--fly on planes and shop for groceries, etc, without being harassed, I'd make use of the perfect disguise--contact lenses (and maybe a less-flamboyant hat, like a regular baseball cap, for example). He'd be totally invisible in any crowd--just part of the vast sea of tired-looking, middle-aged guys, slogging through life. I wonder why he doesn't do that...or maybe he does...

[johnfoyle]

This blogger likes this (new to me) 1970s' photo of Elvis -

http://inspirational-imagery.blogspot.c ... ilors.html

[Riddler]

yes, cool pix. But of Joe Strummer not EC.

[johnfoyle]

Correct - Joe always had such great hair. Thanks for the correction!

[Riddler]

and come to think of it, isn't there a photo of Joe on stage with the 101'ers where he has Buddy Holly style glasses? I don't think EC has ever owned up to that inspiration although I do recall he credited Danny Adler (of Roogalator) who also wore those frames (plus played a Jazzmaster).

[johnfoyle]

http://new.music.yahoo.com/programs/pep ... ongwriter/

Nov 16, 2009

Michael Weatherly: NCISinger/NCISongwriter!


(extract)

Michael Weatherly has serious singer/songwriter chops. Did you know so, about DiNozzo? He'd pursued a career in music long before he got sidetracked by acting and ended up on NCIS, which now, suddenly, in its seventh season, is the No. 1 show on television.


The overwhelming success of NCIS—the first dramatic show in years to be averaging over 20 million viewers a week—has prompted two soundtrack albums, the second of which features Weatherly's official debut as a recording artist. In this Q&A, the TV star talks about trying to seduce girls with Police songs as a teenager, his nearly lifelong idolization of Elvis Costello, and the sad personal circumstances that brought him to write "Bitter and Blue," his wry contribution to the NCIS CD.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 6&v=452845

Under the Influence of Alice: Music Inspired by the Classic Tale

Various Artists

Release Date Mar 2, 2010

Under the Influence of Alice: Music Inspired by the Classic Tale collects 12 disparate cuts inspired in one way or another by Lewis Carroll’s iconic 1865 fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Includes -

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello

Hmmm...........tenuous, at best.

[And No Coffee Table]

You're spellbound baby, there's no doubting that
Did you ever see a grin like a Cheshire cat?

Wait, that's not it.

[johnfoyle]

Elvis in Spice Girls movie finally on YouTube

About 5.10 seconds in to this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDcrmp2Z ... re=related


after the line 'fame is such a fickle thing'

[johnfoyle]

A new photo , b&w & colour -

http://www.shorefire.com/clients/ecostello/

[johnfoyle]

Neat!.

http://cbaillustration.blogspot.com/201 ... er-of.html


Caitlin Alexander

[johnfoyle]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisur ... Newcastle/

Lucy Wainwright Roche

Alana Hot Club@Cluny 2, Newcastle

15th March 2010

Maurice Hope

THE daughter of Suzzy Roche and Loudon Wainwright III, singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche was born and raised in New York’s Greenwich Village and has inherited many of the area’s longstanding folk tradition virtues.

Wainwright Roche impressed with her relaxed stage manner that included some fine, and often funny, anecdotes. It was as if we had all been invited into her living room to hear her perform.

With a healthy selection from her new album, Lucy, she performed a beautiful, delicately-woven tapestry of work that covered marching bands, a night in A&E, Coney Island and, when she spoke of lost love, The Worst Part.

Likewise, Open Season had a wonderful, calming effect as the unassuming artist hit all the right notes. The warm timbre to her voice when she let herself go and natural melodic flow gave the feel she genuinely loves what she does and is in for the long haul.

Lucy’s choice of Richard Shindell’s Next Best Western, coupled with Elvis Costello’s Sleep For the Just as an encore, plus Bruce Springsteen’s Hungry Heart were, like the remainder of her show, performed in a simple and graceful fashion.

Canadian singer-songwriter Alana Levandoski also brought much to the show, only she had to work harder to convince the audience. Although the superb As The Crow Flies, Song For A Cougar and impassioned gospel-tinged finale Before I Go not only sent away her followers happy, but also made her one or two new ones.

[johnfoyle]

Provocative stuff from Mr Fowley -

http://larecord.com/interviews/2010/03/ ... -art-form/

KIM FOWLEY: STUPIDITY IS AN ART FORM

March 17th, 2010


(extract)


Listening to such an enormous amount of your music today put me in mind of something Neil Innes told me last year on the death of melody and the three-minute song.

Kim Fowley: The Bonzo Dog Band guy. I recorded with them.

They did a hilarious cover of ‘Alley Oop.’

Kim Fowley: They recorded on my Good Clean Fun album too. You know what Leon Russell said when I played him Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello records? He said, ‘It’s not gonna last because it’s not Jewish and it’s not black.’ So therefore it doesn’t count.


Zappa is like Nick Drake or that other Nick, the Australia poet—Nick Cave—and Elvis Costello. They’re easily digestible to the peripheral quasi-intellectuals who always name-check them. They look at Lou Reed, who was pretty original, and call that ‘alternative’ and don’t go any deeper. Those people have interesting moments, but they aren’t astounding.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... -days.html

April 17 is Record Store Day, meaning signings, in-store performances and exclusive releases in independent record stores all over the country. It’s a reason to celebrate. This year, Record Store Day will be pre-empted by Record Store Days, a new book from Go Music president Gary Calamar and music journalist Phil Gallo.

Record Store Days is out April 6 from Sterling Publishing. The book explores what makes great record stores tick, from the ways they set and influence trends to the personalities of the fanatical collectors behind the country’s best stores, as well as delving into the tricky question of how record stores are to compete in an increasingly digital world.

Featuring over 150 photographs, the book also includes interviews from musicians, industry insiders, fans and record store owners, and relives legendary in-store performances from the likes of Nirvana, Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello.

http://www.amazon.com/Record-Store-Days ... 1402772327

http://www.booksoup.com/Details.asp?ProductID=1799

[scielle]

http://twitter.com/TheBwayLeague/statuses/10695766543
TheBwayLeague: Hello Possums! We're at opening of All About Me. We caught Elvis Costello & Diana Krall arriving.http://twitpic.com/19f4ns

[johnfoyle]

Crikey!

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies ... -feinstein

'All About Me’ co-stars Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein '

"All About Me" continues an open-end run at Henry Miller's Theatre, 124 W. 43rd St., New York. Call (212) 239-6200


missmyriad blogs -

http://missmyriad.wordpress.com/2010/03 ... h-18-2010/




How do you measure a year?

March 18, 2010

This entry is part of my year-in-pictures project.

Tonight I attended opening night of All About Me, the new Broadway show starring Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein at the lovely Henry Miller’s Theatre.

Here’s Elvis Costello chatting it up with reporters as he entered the theater. Others in attendance included Barbara Walters, Liza Minnelli, Elaine Stritch and, of course, me

[scielle]

Lots more pictures at Wireimage -

[johnfoyle]

[the_platypus]

[johnfoyle]

http://www.nashvillescene.com/events/ma ... te-414529/

Mayhem: Elvis Costello Tribute

Date/Time:Sat., March 27, 9:00pm
Price: $5
Venue
The 5 Spot
1006 Forrest Ave.
Nashville, TN

650-9333

http://www.myspace.com/the5spotnashville



Paying Lip Service
Adam Gold

As file sharing and diminished attention spans have seen the Internet push record sales off a cliff, artists of the old guard have recently discovered playing albums in their entirety live, as a lucrative way to rest on their laurels. Meanwhile, local musicians here in Nashville have found covering these albums to be a surefire way of attracting warm bodies to their shows. Whether it’s Local tributary masters The Long Players packing out every show they play or local indie faves How I Became the Bomb and KinderCastle — now defunct — combining forces to take on E.L.O’s masterstroke Out of the Blue, Nashville’s penchant for classic rock appreciation is clear. While, no band could ever interpret Elvis Costello’s music better than his unmatched confederates The Attractions, and no singer-songwriter could ever deliver spiteful love songs disguised as hate songs better than the bespectacled one himself, local musicians such as Joel J. Dahl (De Novo Dahl), Matt Hungate, Jerry Pentecost and American Bang’s Kelby will combine their efforts to tackle his indelible 1978 classic This Year’s Model. His first to feature The Attractions, Costello’s acerbic anger was never more palpable than it was on this record, which includes new wave staples like “Radio, Radio,” “The Beat” and “Pump It Up.”

[johnfoyle]

Red Shoes gets discussed -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -red-shoes

[Jeremy Dylan]

I met a woman with red shoes at a gig the other day, and proceeded to quote the first verse to her.

[martinfoyle]

'Thanks for the expert advice and patient suggestions to Tony Dimitriades, Elvis Costello, and Robin Hitchcock.'
Most interesting credit in the acknowledgements of Bill Flanagans 'Evening's Empire'. Hugely readable, anyone who's been reading Rock music magazines or books over the ears will love the way Bill weaves together all the various myths and, amazingly, true stories together. One of those books I'm sorry it's over.

http://www.amazon.com/Evenings-Empire-N ... 1439148457