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I know she loves me so I'm all fired up. (She's 16 and has a punk rock homemade t-shirt and she just smiled big at me.) How can I ignore such a potent sign?? I run to the front where the energy source is gushing: Costello and his Ace Disposable Band, jerking and punching out music and ideas that haven't been seen in years! This stuff is so old it's ''new'': "Watching The Detectives" is ten minutes of tight frenzy — the band almost fades into psychedelic hysteria before snapping me back into the song so hard my bones crunch.
I know she loves me so I'm all fired up. (She's 16 and has a punk rock homemade t-shirt and she just smiled big at me.) How can I ignore such a potent sign?? I run to the front where the energy source is gushing: Costello and his Ace Disposable Band, jerking and punching out music and ideas that haven't been seen in years! This stuff is so old it's ''new'': "Watching The Detectives" is ten minutes of tight frenzy — the band almost fades into psychedelic hysteria before snapping me back into the song so hard my bones crunch.

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Elvis Costello / Nick Lowe

Municipal Auditorium

Nick West

I KNOW SHE LOVES ME so I'm all fired up. (She's 16 and has a punk rock homemade t-shirt and she just smiled big at me.) How can I ignore such a potent sign?? I run to the front where the energy source is gushing: COSTELLO and his Ace Disposable Band, jerking and punching out music and ideas that haven't been seen in years! This stuff is so old it's NEW: "Watching The Detectives" is 10 minutes of tight frenzy — the band almost fades into psychedelic hysteria before snapping me back into the song so hard my bones crunch. I'm surrounded by leaping crazies — AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT — when suddenly (WHAT THE FUCK?!?!) the goddam cops start pushing us out of the aisles! Elvis screams "This looks like a fucking POLICE CAMP in here!" BUT: the energy keeps coming! After 10 minutes of electroshock screaming me and 100 other maniacs single-handedly bring him back for an encore. "YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS YOU CAN TO KEEP US PLAYING!" Elvis yells and launches into "Chelsea" and "Miracle Man." This is great but the second encore is incredible: a breakneck "Lipstick Vogue" that leaves me beating my fists in the air and then "I'm Not Angry": at the end Elvis shouts "I'M NOT..." and the crowd shouts "ANGRY!" and THAT is fucking music to my ears, friends!

I'M LEAVING DRIPPING sweat and my anonymous high-school lover zips up and sez "I like your t-shirt!" and melts into the crowd before I'm able to say anything intelligent like "I love you insanely!"...goddam, goddam, GODDAM, I'm kicking myself for letting her go...

 SOMETIMES I ALMOST FEEL
 JUST LIKE A HUMAN BEING


Tags: Municipal AuditoriumAustinThe AttractionsNick LoweWatching The Detectives(I Don't Want To Go To) ChelseaMiracle ManLipstick VogueI'm Not Angry

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Austin Vanguard, No. 1, June 1978


Nick West reviews Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Tuesday, May 23, 1978, Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas.


West talks to Nick Lowe and EC after the show.

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New wave mastermind
to build secret lab in CenTex?


Nick West






Remaining text and scanner-error corrections to come...


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