Holy Jesus Mary and Joseph, check out this lineup:
EC & THE IMPOSTERS, BB KING, BOB DYLAN, BEN HARPER, DEREK TRUCKS.
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Fingers crossed for an Enmore sideshow too. If possible, I will do Sydney, Melbourne and Byron Bay. My first Imposters shows!!!
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I'M REALLY BLOODY EXCITED!
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EC&I will plaly on April 25th: http://www.bluesfest.com.au/pages/?Pare ... &PageID=81
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hope 2011 brings us more than the TWO IMPOSTERS dates we got in '10!!! enjoy Aussies!!!
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looks promising! Enjoy it down there!!!!
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Besides Jeremy , is anyone else here going to these shows?
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Elvis Costello has the needle in the groove
Noel Mengel
The Courier-Mail
April 09, 2011
WHILE he laments the loss of vinyl, Elvis Costello is optimistic about the music business.
Elvis Costello has been making records for a long time now, since 1977's five-star introduction My Aim Is True.
In interviews I have always found him to be the same erudite music fan he lately revealed to a wider audience with his 'excellent pectacle' television show, in which he interviewed artists from Bruce Springsteen to Elton John, Lou Reed and Smokey Robinson.
Despite his early persona as the angry young man, Costello is an optimist. So I'm taken aback a little when we start discussing his most recent album, National Ransom.
"Nobody's paying any attention to what's on records these days anyway,'' he says. "I don't think there are going to be any records pretty soon and probably good riddance. They are cluttering up the shelves. But what there will always be is songs.''
He's being facetious when he says four people bought National Ransom. But you get the drift. He quickly points out that he's a record guy and he likes listening to records, and in the format where he believes they sound best, on vinyl.
"I've really enjoyed making records and I'm sure we'll find ways to keep making recordings. However, what purpose they will have in our lives, I don't know what that will be. It's all changing but it's always been changing. I had some records that came out on eight-track. I'm not so sure that some of them didn't come out on wax cylinder.''
He's laughing as he says this.
National Ransom strikes a blow for the record as something the listener can hold in their hands, with its generous 16 tracks and beautiful cover booklet with lyrics and sub-titles suggesting a time and place for the setting of each of the songs.
It is only after the interview that I notice the possible meaning of a song called I Lost You, where Costello sings: "You slipped from your costume like an actress in this tragedy/You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery/I fear that you've passed over me/And there's nothing I can do because I lost you.''
It is possible he's talking about the record business. Like many businesses that rely on bricks and mortar for retail and warehouses, record companies are still battling to find a way forward in the digital age.
"I started out when the 45 single was still a really crucial thing,'' Costello says. "Sure the single is still important now but I don't really go by that. I like to make compendiums of songs, and they have changed shape because you have more duration possible on CD than an album.
"National Ransom was very consciously a double vinyl album and if I had my way it would only have come out on vinyl. Although that's just sacrificing winning the ears of people who want it in a more convenient form even at the expense of it not sounding as good . . . I know what does sound good and that's a needle in a groove.''
But in whatever form Costello fans find National Ransom, it's certainly a rollicking set that references a century of song, from romantic parlour ballads (You Hung The Moon) to '30s swing-jazz (A Voice In The Dark) to R&B charged rock 'n' roll (see My Lovely Jezebel and the title tune).
Like its predecessor, Secret, Profane and Sugarcane, the album was recorded with producer T-Bone Burnett, and the cast this time includes Costello's long-time touring band The Imposters, which includes drummer Pete Thomas and keys player Steve Nieve. That's the band he's about to tour Australia with, including two appearances at Byron Bay's Bluesfest.
My Lovely Jezebel is a co-write between Costello, Burnett and Leon Russell, who is also heading for Bluesfest and is the author of classic songs such as Superstar and A Song for You.
"That was really just an excuse for us to play with Leon. It doesn't have the same narrative as some of the other songs but he's such a wonderful musician and the opportunity to play together was something I didn't want to pass up,'' Costello says.
"We wrote it very swiftly one night and he was good enough to come in and lead the band for the sessions.
"That's the great thing with a double record, you can have some things which are there just for the joy of playing.''
That joy has always been central to Costello's career, whether it was in the matchless one-hour rush of adrenalin when I saw him play Festival Hall in 1978 (Nieve and Thomas were there too) or in explorations of opera, jazz and country.
Music is certainly in the blood. Costello's grandfather and father were musicians and his mother ran a record section in a London department store. Did he ever tread any of the same stages?
"A lot of the stages my grandfather was on aren't there any more. He was in the army and after that on the White Star Line and those ships are all broken up now. I've shared the same stage with my father a couple of times, and in the early '80s I played some shows in the Hammersmith Palais which was like my dad's office when I was a kid. That's where he went to work every night.''
Music could loom as the chosen profession in the next generation, too, given that he is the father to twin four-year-old sons with his wife, Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall.
Costello's passion for his subject helped make Spectacle one of the best music shows on television for many years.
"The good thing about the show was that music was the subject and whether what people were saying was serious or light-hearted it was often expressed with a lot of affection.''
Costello thinks the music business is as healthy as ever, even if the record business is stuttering.
"I have great optimism because that's putting tremendous store by what I enjoy doing most and that's performing.
Records are well and good but you still have to take them out there and play them.
"The thing that went on for hundreds of years before any of this paraphernalia was invented will still be there. What's there to be depressed about?''
National Ransom (Universal) is out now. Elvis Costello plays Byron Bay Bluesfest on Monday, April 25 (sold out) and April 26 (tickets still available). Tickets are also still available for April 21.
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Elvis Costello has the needle in the groove
Noel Mengel
The Courier-Mail
April 09, 2011
WHILE he laments the loss of vinyl, Elvis Costello is optimistic about the music business.
Elvis Costello has been making records for a long time now, since 1977's five-star introduction My Aim Is True.
In interviews I have always found him to be the same erudite music fan he lately revealed to a wider audience with his 'excellent pectacle' television show, in which he interviewed artists from Bruce Springsteen to Elton John, Lou Reed and Smokey Robinson.
Despite his early persona as the angry young man, Costello is an optimist. So I'm taken aback a little when we start discussing his most recent album, National Ransom.
"Nobody's paying any attention to what's on records these days anyway,'' he says. "I don't think there are going to be any records pretty soon and probably good riddance. They are cluttering up the shelves. But what there will always be is songs.''
He's being facetious when he says four people bought National Ransom. But you get the drift. He quickly points out that he's a record guy and he likes listening to records, and in the format where he believes they sound best, on vinyl.
"I've really enjoyed making records and I'm sure we'll find ways to keep making recordings. However, what purpose they will have in our lives, I don't know what that will be. It's all changing but it's always been changing. I had some records that came out on eight-track. I'm not so sure that some of them didn't come out on wax cylinder.''
He's laughing as he says this.
National Ransom strikes a blow for the record as something the listener can hold in their hands, with its generous 16 tracks and beautiful cover booklet with lyrics and sub-titles suggesting a time and place for the setting of each of the songs.
It is only after the interview that I notice the possible meaning of a song called I Lost You, where Costello sings: "You slipped from your costume like an actress in this tragedy/You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery/I fear that you've passed over me/And there's nothing I can do because I lost you.''
It is possible he's talking about the record business. Like many businesses that rely on bricks and mortar for retail and warehouses, record companies are still battling to find a way forward in the digital age.
"I started out when the 45 single was still a really crucial thing,'' Costello says. "Sure the single is still important now but I don't really go by that. I like to make compendiums of songs, and they have changed shape because you have more duration possible on CD than an album.
"National Ransom was very consciously a double vinyl album and if I had my way it would only have come out on vinyl. Although that's just sacrificing winning the ears of people who want it in a more convenient form even at the expense of it not sounding as good . . . I know what does sound good and that's a needle in a groove.''
But in whatever form Costello fans find National Ransom, it's certainly a rollicking set that references a century of song, from romantic parlour ballads (You Hung The Moon) to '30s swing-jazz (A Voice In The Dark) to R&B charged rock 'n' roll (see My Lovely Jezebel and the title tune).
Like its predecessor, Secret, Profane and Sugarcane, the album was recorded with producer T-Bone Burnett, and the cast this time includes Costello's long-time touring band The Imposters, which includes drummer Pete Thomas and keys player Steve Nieve. That's the band he's about to tour Australia with, including two appearances at Byron Bay's Bluesfest.
My Lovely Jezebel is a co-write between Costello, Burnett and Leon Russell, who is also heading for Bluesfest and is the author of classic songs such as Superstar and A Song for You.
"That was really just an excuse for us to play with Leon. It doesn't have the same narrative as some of the other songs but he's such a wonderful musician and the opportunity to play together was something I didn't want to pass up,'' Costello says.
"We wrote it very swiftly one night and he was good enough to come in and lead the band for the sessions.
"That's the great thing with a double record, you can have some things which are there just for the joy of playing.''
That joy has always been central to Costello's career, whether it was in the matchless one-hour rush of adrenalin when I saw him play Festival Hall in 1978 (Nieve and Thomas were there too) or in explorations of opera, jazz and country.
Music is certainly in the blood. Costello's grandfather and father were musicians and his mother ran a record section in a London department store. Did he ever tread any of the same stages?
"A lot of the stages my grandfather was on aren't there any more. He was in the army and after that on the White Star Line and those ships are all broken up now. I've shared the same stage with my father a couple of times, and in the early '80s I played some shows in the Hammersmith Palais which was like my dad's office when I was a kid. That's where he went to work every night.''
Music could loom as the chosen profession in the next generation, too, given that he is the father to twin four-year-old sons with his wife, Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall.
Costello's passion for his subject helped make Spectacle one of the best music shows on television for many years.
"The good thing about the show was that music was the subject and whether what people were saying was serious or light-hearted it was often expressed with a lot of affection.''
Costello thinks the music business is as healthy as ever, even if the record business is stuttering.
"I have great optimism because that's putting tremendous store by what I enjoy doing most and that's performing.
Records are well and good but you still have to take them out there and play them.
"The thing that went on for hundreds of years before any of this paraphernalia was invented will still be there. What's there to be depressed about?''
National Ransom (Universal) is out now. Elvis Costello plays Byron Bay Bluesfest on Monday, April 25 (sold out) and April 26 (tickets still available). Tickets are also still available for April 21.
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Elvis to hang his hat at Bluesfest
British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, who will be performing at Bluesfest with The Imposters on Monday and Tuesday, is renowned for jumping from one genre to another over his long career in the music industry.
With Bluesfest kicking off in two days, the who’s who of the music business are rolling into the Northern Rivers.
While artists like Grace Jones and Elvis Costello are touring other parts of the country, some acts are already making their way into Byron Bay.
Michael Franti heads in tomorrow for his benefit concert at The Great Northern, while others are already here. Luciano and Ernest Ranglin are here, ready for their slots on Thursday’s schedule.
Elvis Costello won’t touch down in Byron Bay until Sunday, though he spoke to The Northern Star a few weeks back from his home in New York.
Although he has gained a younger legion of fans, Costello said others needn’t fear he’d lost his skills on guitar.
“Of course people who want you to do rock and roll – and only do that – get kind of nervous when you do anything different, like you’re changing some kind of religion,” Costello said.
“But it’s just having a bit of fun with something quite different. It doesn’t impair my ability to play electric guitar or any kind of guitar.”
Jumping from one genre to another is something Costello has become renowned for throughout his 30-album career. But that’s not all he can lay claim to.
He has written articles on music for Vanity Fair and hosted a music interview-based television show, Spectacle, which aired in Australia on the ABC network.
His list of collaborations with musical greats ranges from Paul McCartney to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
Last year he released National Ransom, where his mash of rock, country and folk was both panned and applauded by critics.
Costello admitted there was a time when he cared if his records sold enough copies, but it’s not something he strives for now. Instead he’s happy doing his own thing.
“I don’t care what the record company wants,” he said.
“They can ring me up and ask me for something and I’ll see if I’ve got it– but right now all I do is play. I’ve made a lot of records, I don’t especially want to make any more.”
Costello admits he doesn’t have any “hits”, but his set with The Imposters will be a good show nonetheless.
“We don’t have any hits so to speak, it’s not like we wrote Tie A Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree, so really the songs they’re as strong as we play ’em,” he said.
Elvis Costello and The Imposters perform at Bluesfest on Mondayand Tuesday. Tickets for Tuesday are still available from www.bluesfest.com.au
Elvis to hang his hat at Bluesfest
British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, who will be performing at Bluesfest with The Imposters on Monday and Tuesday, is renowned for jumping from one genre to another over his long career in the music industry.
With Bluesfest kicking off in two days, the who’s who of the music business are rolling into the Northern Rivers.
While artists like Grace Jones and Elvis Costello are touring other parts of the country, some acts are already making their way into Byron Bay.
Michael Franti heads in tomorrow for his benefit concert at The Great Northern, while others are already here. Luciano and Ernest Ranglin are here, ready for their slots on Thursday’s schedule.
Elvis Costello won’t touch down in Byron Bay until Sunday, though he spoke to The Northern Star a few weeks back from his home in New York.
Although he has gained a younger legion of fans, Costello said others needn’t fear he’d lost his skills on guitar.
“Of course people who want you to do rock and roll – and only do that – get kind of nervous when you do anything different, like you’re changing some kind of religion,” Costello said.
“But it’s just having a bit of fun with something quite different. It doesn’t impair my ability to play electric guitar or any kind of guitar.”
Jumping from one genre to another is something Costello has become renowned for throughout his 30-album career. But that’s not all he can lay claim to.
He has written articles on music for Vanity Fair and hosted a music interview-based television show, Spectacle, which aired in Australia on the ABC network.
His list of collaborations with musical greats ranges from Paul McCartney to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
Last year he released National Ransom, where his mash of rock, country and folk was both panned and applauded by critics.
Costello admitted there was a time when he cared if his records sold enough copies, but it’s not something he strives for now. Instead he’s happy doing his own thing.
“I don’t care what the record company wants,” he said.
“They can ring me up and ask me for something and I’ll see if I’ve got it– but right now all I do is play. I’ve made a lot of records, I don’t especially want to make any more.”
Costello admits he doesn’t have any “hits”, but his set with The Imposters will be a good show nonetheless.
“We don’t have any hits so to speak, it’s not like we wrote Tie A Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree, so really the songs they’re as strong as we play ’em,” he said.
Elvis Costello and The Imposters perform at Bluesfest on Mondayand Tuesday. Tickets for Tuesday are still available from www.bluesfest.com.au
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Bob and Elvis take a sneak peek
Dominic Feain | 25th April 2011
BOB Dylan and Elvis Costello arrived in Byron Bay yesterday, a day ahead of their scheduled performances, and were both spotted around the festival site.
“They’re not even playing today but both have been hanging out checking out the other acts,” Bluesfest director Peter Noble said. “They love the bill so much they’re here to hear some music.”
Unlike earlier Bluesfests when international artists would stay on the Gold Coast and shuttle in for their own gigs, Mr Noble believes more and more are taking a leaf out of Ben Harper’s book and immersing themselves in what has become one of the world’s great blues festivals.
Bob and Elvis take a sneak peek
Dominic Feain | 25th April 2011
BOB Dylan and Elvis Costello arrived in Byron Bay yesterday, a day ahead of their scheduled performances, and were both spotted around the festival site.
“They’re not even playing today but both have been hanging out checking out the other acts,” Bluesfest director Peter Noble said. “They love the bill so much they’re here to hear some music.”
Unlike earlier Bluesfests when international artists would stay on the Gold Coast and shuttle in for their own gigs, Mr Noble believes more and more are taking a leaf out of Ben Harper’s book and immersing themselves in what has become one of the world’s great blues festivals.
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roof leaking all over elvis costello at #bluesfest - he is not happy about it.
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Elvis Costello is an amazing guitarist - that was one hell of a scorching solo!
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Elvis Costello sings a few lines from subterranean homesick blues in "pump it up" - nice segue!
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Bob Dylan on stage now Elvis Costello to finish the night!
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roof leaking all over elvis costello at #bluesfest - he is not happy about it.
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Elvis Costello is an amazing guitarist - that was one hell of a scorching solo!
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Elvis Costello sings a few lines from subterranean homesick blues in "pump it up" - nice segue!
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Bob Dylan on stage now Elvis Costello to finish the night!
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Bob Dylan's magic captivates fans
(26th April 2011)
History was made at Bluesfest yesterday when the weather held for the fifth straight day and Bob Dylan finally got to play in the Byron Shire.
The mood of expectancy was palpable as fans of every age poured on to a sun-soaked site from early afternoon and set up their chairs in the Mojo tent.
They weren't disappointed by either of the two headline acts.
Despite having a 70th birthday looming, Dylan moves with the times. While old favourites provided its backbone, his set was sprinkled with highlights from his most recent highly acclaimed albums.
Confounding the expectations of the benighted few who were hoping for acoustic protest songs or stage banter, the Bobcat turned in a solid rock-blues performance.
The dazzling work by his backing band, especially long-serving guitarist Charlie Sexton, was a bonus.
Punters were torn between seeing Dylan on the Mojo stage and '60s eccentrics Jethro Tull at the Crossroads.
The majority opted for Mojo, and stayed there to have their hair blown back by an in-form Elvis Costello and the Impostors.
He too mined the rich vein of his back catalogue, including plenty of the short sharp shock numbers from the 1970s, as well as some from the later, mellower periods.
Earlier in the day, the mood was set by a laidback Michelle Shocked and the swampy sounds of Tony Joe White, who pulled a huge crowd at Jambalaya.
The fans weren't the only ones happy with events.
Police reported model behaviour from the record crowd.
“It's been really good,” said Inspector Gary Cowan.
“There have been no dramas.”
(...)
Bob Dylan's magic captivates fans
(26th April 2011)
History was made at Bluesfest yesterday when the weather held for the fifth straight day and Bob Dylan finally got to play in the Byron Shire.
The mood of expectancy was palpable as fans of every age poured on to a sun-soaked site from early afternoon and set up their chairs in the Mojo tent.
They weren't disappointed by either of the two headline acts.
Despite having a 70th birthday looming, Dylan moves with the times. While old favourites provided its backbone, his set was sprinkled with highlights from his most recent highly acclaimed albums.
Confounding the expectations of the benighted few who were hoping for acoustic protest songs or stage banter, the Bobcat turned in a solid rock-blues performance.
The dazzling work by his backing band, especially long-serving guitarist Charlie Sexton, was a bonus.
Punters were torn between seeing Dylan on the Mojo stage and '60s eccentrics Jethro Tull at the Crossroads.
The majority opted for Mojo, and stayed there to have their hair blown back by an in-form Elvis Costello and the Impostors.
He too mined the rich vein of his back catalogue, including plenty of the short sharp shock numbers from the 1970s, as well as some from the later, mellower periods.
Earlier in the day, the mood was set by a laidback Michelle Shocked and the swampy sounds of Tony Joe White, who pulled a huge crowd at Jambalaya.
The fans weren't the only ones happy with events.
Police reported model behaviour from the record crowd.
“It's been really good,” said Inspector Gary Cowan.
“There have been no dramas.”
(...)
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Dylan delivers, Elvis excels at Bluesfest
By Tony Moore
April 26, 2011 - 8:51AM
Two performing legends proved they can still tell the musical stories their generations of fans want to hear last night.
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello both delivered powerhouse shows at the Byron Bay Bluesfest proving their advancing years had in no way diminished their extraordinary abilities.
Dylan, nearing 70, and Costello, 56, have sold million of records during long, glittering careers that have seen them pass from young upstarts to icons of the music industry.
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Both are now in a position to make the music they want to, regardless of whether it sells or not, or whether it is fashionable or otherwise.
Dylan rarely speaks publicly these days, while Costello interviews musicians as host of his own television show.
But last night both singer-songwriters demonstrated why live shows are the best way for them to keep their stories alive.
Bob Dylan's America is a mix of tangled loves and lovers, of small towns, cars and trains, small cafe jazz and blues, with rockabilly tossed on top as the main dressing.
The folk pioneer has always written rockabilly and early rock and roll songs, fused with the beat-poet lyrics.
Diehard Dylan fans, who had seen him play in Melbourne and Adelaide, said the Byron show was his best yet.
The performance began with the stage going black and Bob, resplendent in stylish white hat, started at the organ, pumping out a new roadtrip rockabilly piece Gonna Change My Way of Thinking before delving back to Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.
The rockabilly returned with The Levee's Gonna Break ahead of an eerie, almost spiritual version of Tangled Up in Blue.
The set list was like a car journey through America's rock and roll heartland, with several different stops and changes in direction.
The rollicking Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum opened the door to the infamous Hard Rain, delivered as a clipped sea shanty like Nick Cave's The Ship Song.
Slap bass heralded the driving Summer Days, again with Bob on organ, before the highlight of the night, a heartfelt rendering of Simple Twist of Fate, one of Dylan's most poignant songs from the Blood on the Tracks album.
Guitarist Charlie Sexton played a gorgeous repeated guitar figure, while the band played the song strongly, but sympathetically.
It was a wonderful moment, with Bob telling how two lovers "would sit together in the park", until "their eyes grew dim and the lights got dark".
It drew a massive response, before Dylan and band pushed on the rockabilly accelerator and delivered a stinging Highway 61.
A note-perfect version of Ballad of Thin Man followed, which stunned and electrified the audience.
"Something is happening, but you don't know what it is," Bob barked.
The encores were Like a Rolling Stone, where the Mojo Tent crowd bellowed the chorus in deafening volume.
Finally, Bob staked his claim and stood his ground with the declarative, gospel piece, Forever Young.
His voice is not as flexible as it was 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago, but Dylan was passionate and engaged, something he hasn't always been on previous visits to Australia.
He received a massive reception before Elvis Costello walked straight on stage and immediately hit the crowd between the eyes with a surging version of Pump It Up.
Elvis never let the pressure ease, pumping out a string of hits including Watching the Detectives, Good Year for the Roses, I Don't Want to Go To Chelsea and Clubland.
The achingly-pretty Alison, morphed into his famous namesake's Suspicious Minds.
He sang some old-style country songs with the Secret Sisters, including an old Hank Williams number, before scorching through encores Oliver's Army and (What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding.
Mr Costello was in red-hot form and his band, which included regular members, Pete Thomas on drums and Steve Nieve on keyboards also delivered and then some.
A great show closer from one of the best songwriters of the past two decades.
Dylan proves magical in Byron
By Suzanne Simonot | April 26th, 2011
HE'S renowned for his hit or miss live shows but Bob Dylan, 69, was on song when he finally played the 22nd annual Byron Bay Bluesfest on Monday night.
It was just a shame he wouldn't let the crowd see him as well as hear him.
The sense of relief was palpable as a large, licorice-allsorts audience waited with baited breath to see if Dylan could live up to not so much expectation, as hope.
And he did.
While his vocals aren't nearly as crisp as those of Elvis Costello, who followed his rousing set on the Mojo stage to close Day 5 night's delights, Dylan was indeed present and accounted for.
Opening with Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking before peeling off favourites from Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (with Dylan on guitar) to The Levee's Gonna Break, Tangled Up In Blue, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (which it did for a few minutes); Highway 61 Revisited (greeted with an enormous roar); Ballad of a Thin Man; Like A Rolling Stone and Forever Young, his beaut band carried his cataolgue to comforting heights and more than made up for any clairty his vocals lacked.
The big criticism was that he didn't screen his performance on the large screens either side of the stage or in front of the Mojo tent as every artist before and after him has done during the festival.
We don't care what you look like, Mr Dylan. We want to watch you believe what you're singing. We hear it. Indulge us by letting us see it.
Dylan appreciated the crowd's warmth and applause enough to utter a rare ''thank you''.
Turn on the telly today, if you really want to thank us Bob.
Elvis Costello is one of few artists capable of rising to the challenge of following an act of Dylan's iconic status. And as grand as Costello's set was last night, smart money is on an even bigger blinder tonight!
His razor-sharp band The Imposters, including super sideways guitarist Charlie Sexton, built the crowd up and brought them gently back down with a wonderful mix of favourites and treats.
''How many of you have been here since Thursday?'' Costello asked as he launched into A Slow Drag With Josephine.
It was a rocking affair from there, from Every Day I Write The Book to Watching the Detective -- no one could complain.
Also among Monday's highlights were Osibisa's standout set on the Crossroads stage from the joyous Everybody Do What You're Doing to a magical cover of George Harrison's My Sweet Lord and Wolmfother's Andrew Stockdale closing the night on the APRA stage by gate-crashing the Resin Dogs' set for for a blinding Led Zep cover.
Today offers the chance to see both Bob and Elvis play again.
Can Bob bounce back on the big screen?
No dramas if he doesn't you can always Pump it Up with Elvis or funk it up with George Clinton. All hail Day 6!
By Tony Moore
April 26, 2011 - 8:51AM
Two performing legends proved they can still tell the musical stories their generations of fans want to hear last night.
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello both delivered powerhouse shows at the Byron Bay Bluesfest proving their advancing years had in no way diminished their extraordinary abilities.
Dylan, nearing 70, and Costello, 56, have sold million of records during long, glittering careers that have seen them pass from young upstarts to icons of the music industry.
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Both are now in a position to make the music they want to, regardless of whether it sells or not, or whether it is fashionable or otherwise.
Dylan rarely speaks publicly these days, while Costello interviews musicians as host of his own television show.
But last night both singer-songwriters demonstrated why live shows are the best way for them to keep their stories alive.
Bob Dylan's America is a mix of tangled loves and lovers, of small towns, cars and trains, small cafe jazz and blues, with rockabilly tossed on top as the main dressing.
The folk pioneer has always written rockabilly and early rock and roll songs, fused with the beat-poet lyrics.
Diehard Dylan fans, who had seen him play in Melbourne and Adelaide, said the Byron show was his best yet.
The performance began with the stage going black and Bob, resplendent in stylish white hat, started at the organ, pumping out a new roadtrip rockabilly piece Gonna Change My Way of Thinking before delving back to Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.
The rockabilly returned with The Levee's Gonna Break ahead of an eerie, almost spiritual version of Tangled Up in Blue.
The set list was like a car journey through America's rock and roll heartland, with several different stops and changes in direction.
The rollicking Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum opened the door to the infamous Hard Rain, delivered as a clipped sea shanty like Nick Cave's The Ship Song.
Slap bass heralded the driving Summer Days, again with Bob on organ, before the highlight of the night, a heartfelt rendering of Simple Twist of Fate, one of Dylan's most poignant songs from the Blood on the Tracks album.
Guitarist Charlie Sexton played a gorgeous repeated guitar figure, while the band played the song strongly, but sympathetically.
It was a wonderful moment, with Bob telling how two lovers "would sit together in the park", until "their eyes grew dim and the lights got dark".
It drew a massive response, before Dylan and band pushed on the rockabilly accelerator and delivered a stinging Highway 61.
A note-perfect version of Ballad of Thin Man followed, which stunned and electrified the audience.
"Something is happening, but you don't know what it is," Bob barked.
The encores were Like a Rolling Stone, where the Mojo Tent crowd bellowed the chorus in deafening volume.
Finally, Bob staked his claim and stood his ground with the declarative, gospel piece, Forever Young.
His voice is not as flexible as it was 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago, but Dylan was passionate and engaged, something he hasn't always been on previous visits to Australia.
He received a massive reception before Elvis Costello walked straight on stage and immediately hit the crowd between the eyes with a surging version of Pump It Up.
Elvis never let the pressure ease, pumping out a string of hits including Watching the Detectives, Good Year for the Roses, I Don't Want to Go To Chelsea and Clubland.
The achingly-pretty Alison, morphed into his famous namesake's Suspicious Minds.
He sang some old-style country songs with the Secret Sisters, including an old Hank Williams number, before scorching through encores Oliver's Army and (What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding.
Mr Costello was in red-hot form and his band, which included regular members, Pete Thomas on drums and Steve Nieve on keyboards also delivered and then some.
A great show closer from one of the best songwriters of the past two decades.
Dylan proves magical in Byron
By Suzanne Simonot | April 26th, 2011
HE'S renowned for his hit or miss live shows but Bob Dylan, 69, was on song when he finally played the 22nd annual Byron Bay Bluesfest on Monday night.
It was just a shame he wouldn't let the crowd see him as well as hear him.
The sense of relief was palpable as a large, licorice-allsorts audience waited with baited breath to see if Dylan could live up to not so much expectation, as hope.
And he did.
While his vocals aren't nearly as crisp as those of Elvis Costello, who followed his rousing set on the Mojo stage to close Day 5 night's delights, Dylan was indeed present and accounted for.
Opening with Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking before peeling off favourites from Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (with Dylan on guitar) to The Levee's Gonna Break, Tangled Up In Blue, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (which it did for a few minutes); Highway 61 Revisited (greeted with an enormous roar); Ballad of a Thin Man; Like A Rolling Stone and Forever Young, his beaut band carried his cataolgue to comforting heights and more than made up for any clairty his vocals lacked.
The big criticism was that he didn't screen his performance on the large screens either side of the stage or in front of the Mojo tent as every artist before and after him has done during the festival.
We don't care what you look like, Mr Dylan. We want to watch you believe what you're singing. We hear it. Indulge us by letting us see it.
Dylan appreciated the crowd's warmth and applause enough to utter a rare ''thank you''.
Turn on the telly today, if you really want to thank us Bob.
Elvis Costello is one of few artists capable of rising to the challenge of following an act of Dylan's iconic status. And as grand as Costello's set was last night, smart money is on an even bigger blinder tonight!
His razor-sharp band The Imposters, including super sideways guitarist Charlie Sexton, built the crowd up and brought them gently back down with a wonderful mix of favourites and treats.
''How many of you have been here since Thursday?'' Costello asked as he launched into A Slow Drag With Josephine.
It was a rocking affair from there, from Every Day I Write The Book to Watching the Detective -- no one could complain.
Also among Monday's highlights were Osibisa's standout set on the Crossroads stage from the joyous Everybody Do What You're Doing to a magical cover of George Harrison's My Sweet Lord and Wolmfother's Andrew Stockdale closing the night on the APRA stage by gate-crashing the Resin Dogs' set for for a blinding Led Zep cover.
Today offers the chance to see both Bob and Elvis play again.
Can Bob bounce back on the big screen?
No dramas if he doesn't you can always Pump it Up with Elvis or funk it up with George Clinton. All hail Day 6!
Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertain ... 678?page=1
Elvis Costello & The Imposters perform on stage during day five of the Bluesfest Music Festival at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm on April 25, 2011 in Byron Bay, Australia. (Photos by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters perform on stage during day five of the Bluesfest Music Festival at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm on April 25, 2011 in Byron Bay, Australia. (Photos by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
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Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
man...no pens in australia??? that's TWO setlists this bluesfest owes us!!!
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We are waiting for Jeremy's report!!bronxapostle wrote:man...no pens in australia??? that's TWO setlists this bluesfest owes us!!!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
bloomin' great photos
Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
A little of this on YouTube:krm wrote:http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/c ... /tpod.html
elvis joined mavis staples on stage! see photo on link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VTJLzdjlQs
Dave
Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ar ... 6045836811
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Accompanied by the rock-solid Imposters, Costello appears to be going through a guitar-hero phase. Both of his lengthy (he'd play forever if they'd let him, you feel) performances at Bluesfest on Monday and Tuesday were peppered with guitar wig-outs from a variety of glossy six-strings, adding menace to the already abrasive pop of Pump It Up, I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea and Oliver's Army.
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Accompanied by the rock-solid Imposters, Costello appears to be going through a guitar-hero phase. Both of his lengthy (he'd play forever if they'd let him, you feel) performances at Bluesfest on Monday and Tuesday were peppered with guitar wig-outs from a variety of glossy six-strings, adding menace to the already abrasive pop of Pump It Up, I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea and Oliver's Army.
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Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
Pump It Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a17A9KI-pE
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
Re: Elvis & The Imposters playing Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
I wonder is this account of the second Byron show correct?
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/201 ... -news.html
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Elvis Costello and The Imposters played a very different set for their second show on Tuesday night, rewarding fans who had made the trek to both with Every Day I Write the Book and Mirror in The Bathroom.
Musician Oteil Burbridge blogs -
http://oteilburbridge.blogspot.com/2011 ... aland.html
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Australian and New Zealanders are some of the friendliest I've ever met. So far I found the people of Italy to have the friendliest general attitude. But I think Sydney, Byron Bay and Auckland may have surpassed it! The Byron Bay festival might have been my favorite festival I've ever played. The line up was sick ( thats 'good', I gather! -JF), (Our dressing room was next door to Mavis Staples' and I had a meal quite randomly right next to Elvis Costello.)
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/201 ... -news.html
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Elvis Costello and The Imposters played a very different set for their second show on Tuesday night, rewarding fans who had made the trek to both with Every Day I Write the Book and Mirror in The Bathroom.
Musician Oteil Burbridge blogs -
http://oteilburbridge.blogspot.com/2011 ... aland.html
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Australian and New Zealanders are some of the friendliest I've ever met. So far I found the people of Italy to have the friendliest general attitude. But I think Sydney, Byron Bay and Auckland may have surpassed it! The Byron Bay festival might have been my favorite festival I've ever played. The line up was sick ( thats 'good', I gather! -JF), (Our dressing room was next door to Mavis Staples' and I had a meal quite randomly right next to Elvis Costello.)
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once again...the RARE setlist.fm trumping us...and this was there days ago!
4-25-2011
Pump It Up
Mystery Dance
Uncomplicated
Either Side of the Same Town
Everyday I Write the Book
Turpentine
Watching the Detectives
Good Year for the Roses
Slow Drag with Josephine
Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)?
(Hank Williams cover)
Bedlam
Shipbuilding
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
Less Than Zero
Beyond Belief
Clubland
Alison / Suspicious Minds / Somewhere Over the Rainbow / There's a Place For Us
Oliver's Army
(What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love & Understanding?
4-25-2011
Pump It Up
Mystery Dance
Uncomplicated
Either Side of the Same Town
Everyday I Write the Book
Turpentine
Watching the Detectives
Good Year for the Roses
Slow Drag with Josephine
Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)?
(Hank Williams cover)
Bedlam
Shipbuilding
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
Less Than Zero
Beyond Belief
Clubland
Alison / Suspicious Minds / Somewhere Over the Rainbow / There's a Place For Us
Oliver's Army
(What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love & Understanding?