Elvis Costello - 1978-03-29 Brighton

<<   1978-03-29 Brighton

Elvis Costello & the Attractions
March 29, 1978
Top Rank Suite
Brighton, England

source: audience
tapers: Gary and Andy
lineage: master cassette > CoolEdit2000 > flac

This was first posted on Dime by Andyh in February 2007.  Today's its anniversary, 
so here it is again for anyone who missed it. These are the original files, except 
I fixed the SBEs (as reported by TLH), renamed the files and added flac tags.

Editing lineage: TLH > WAV > TLH (align on sector boundaryies) > FLAC > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

01. Waiting For The End Of The World (fades in)
02. No Action
03. This Year's Girl
04. Moods For Moderns
05. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
06. Two Little Hitlers
07. Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
08. The Beat
09. Hand In Hand
10. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
11. Pump It Up
12. Lipstick Vogue
13. Watching The Detectives
14. You Belong To Me  >  encore break
15. Miracle Man       >  encore break
16. Mystery Dance     >  encore break
17. I'm Not Angry

Duration : 65:01

Notes - 
- includes first known performances of - 
--- "Two Little Hitlers"
--- "Moods For Moderns" - with lyrics (an instumental version was played a few weeks earlier).
- "Waiting For The End Of The World" fades in at the beginning of the 3rd line, and has a brief noise at 0:59.
- "Watching The Detectives" has a couple dropouts between 0:50 and 0:55.
- band intro during "Miracle Man".
- new art by Colin included in torrent

Torrent history -
- first posted on Dime by andyh in February 2007
- SBE-corrected, flac tags added, and reposted by john234, March 29, 2009.


Andy's original notes -

If you’re a Costello fan, this is one that really is worth getting excited about.  Honestly.  Here’s one I’ve been meaning to get round to doing for ages.  It’s another from Gary and Andy’s box of old recordings left to gather dust in the loft. This has always been one of our big favourites, a recording we made of Elvis and the Attractions at the Top Rank in Brighton, on the “This Year’s Model” tour.  It was recorded directly opposite the stage in stereo with two mics, each one pointing at a speaker stack.  I can’t remember the machine we used, but it was nothing fancy, believe me.

I transferred the recording directly from the master cassette to PC with CoolEdit2000, with no added after-effects. You may notice a slight change in quality for “Mystery Dance”. The original tape became damaged halfway through this song, so I’ve used a copy I made years ago as a back-up and hardly played since.  The tape machine wouldn’t start at the start of the show, so the first few seconds of track 1 are missing, hence the fade-in.

It’s a great gig that gets better and better as it rolls along, with the whole band having a ball, and a raucous crowd out for a great time.  Pete Thomas comes from Brighton, so it’s a bit of a hometown gig and everyone seems determined to give their very best for friends and family.  Points of interest are “Moods for Moderns” and “Two Little Hitlers”, neither of which was released at the time.  Both ended up on the third album, but this show took place less than a fortnight after the release of the second album. That’s how Elvis was in those days.  Also, “Less Than Zero” is the US version with lyrics about Lee Harvey Oswald. “I’m Not Angry” is just plain fantastic. The sound is pretty damned good for a 29-year-old recording, even though it has aged just a little.  The mix and general auditorium sound that night was gorgeous. Please don’t leave a comment saying “this sounds like sh**” or something. It’s never been heard, it’s 1978, it’s even in stereo. What more could you want?