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Monday, July 07, 2003 |
Elvis Costello News after July 1, 2003 can now be found at our new URL. Try it Here or Here. The full 'Trainspotters' Guide To Elvis Costello' is also back online here.
RSS readers should visit the new site and grab the new RSS/XML URL.
This site will remain here with the archives prior to July 2003. Hopefully these will also be accessible via a search at the new site, but maybe not :-)
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Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
Notorious misanthrope Neil LaBute adapts his own play for the big screen, a kind of curdled parable of sexual cruelty, a gender-reversed variation of LaBute's most searing film "In The Company of Men."
Rachel Weisz stars as a college student and aspiring artist >who uses the timid and insecure Paul Rudd as an experiment in man-molding. There is very little here that's recognizably human.
Elvis Costello, whose songs provide relief from LaBute's dialogue, has managed more corrosive insight in a single verse than LaBute has in entire plays, and more compassion as well. Verdict: C- . (A.O. Scott, The New York Times).
(Submitted by Kelly Hale)
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters
1. Everybody's Crying Mercy
2. My Dark Life
3. In The Darkest Place
4. Clubland
5. So Like Candy
6. Clown Strike
7. Toledo
8. Dust 2...
9. Pump It Up
10. Either Side Of The Same Town
11. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
12. Man Out Of Time
13. Indoor Fireworks
14. Sweet Dreams
15. Tart
16. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / You Really Got A Hold On Me
Encore 1
17. Everyday I Write The Book
18. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
19. I Hope You're Happy Now
Encore 2
20. Watching The Detectives
21. Almost Blue
22. (What's So Funny, 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
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Toronto Review - Thu, July 3, 2003
Elvis pumps it up - Superb artist presents old songs in brand new ways - By
JANE STEVENSON
Elvis Costello may have a classic songbook that stretches back 26 years but
he wanted to make one thing perfectly clear last night at the Hummingbird
Centre: "We don't do requests." This clarification came after some audience
members had clumsily spent the first part of his two-hour concert shouting
out song titles during some of the show's more delicate pauses despite the
fact that the British singer-songwriter was doing just fine without their
guidance.
In fact, last night was probably the most vocally strong I've ever heard
Costello -- or maybe it was just that I could hear him so well in the
intimate and acoustically perfect surroundings -- as he expertly crooned his
way through both more obscure songs and familiar hits, the latter for the
most part dramatically rearranged.
Thus you had a strangely slowed down version of the normally blistering Pump
It Up , a more playful and sped-up rendition of Everyday I Write The Book
and a downright jazzy, finger-snapping run-through of Watching The
Detectives.
In between, Costello and The Imposters -- Attractions keyboardist Steve
Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas, along with new bassist Davey Faragher
(Cracker) -- never failed to entertain.
COSTELLO SEDUCED THE CROWD
It was more like a complete and utter seduction really as Costello --
dressed in head-to-toe black save for red cowboy boots -- coerced the crowd
into singalongs on tunes ranging from Tart -- from 2002's When I Was Cruel -
- to the Beatles' You Really Got A Hold On Me.
Costello was equally at his intoxicating best on both pretty and caustic pop
ballads like My Dark Life, In The Darkest Place, So Like Candy, Toledo and
Indoor Fireworks, and the more uptempo Dust 2, I Can't Stand Up (For Falling
Down) and I Hope You're Happy Now.
Since Costello played here a little over a year ago at the Molson
Amphitheatre, he's become engaged to Canadian jazz-pop pianist Diana Krall
and he'll follow up When I Was Cruel with North, an album said to be
influenced by her since it features 11 piano-based ballads.
All I care about is that he returns to perform again, and soon, because,
frankly, there are few showmen like him as he so capably demonstrated during
the show-ending (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding.
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 |
A tale about Elvis and John Martyn
Irish singer/songwriter Mark Geary (see Mahttp://www.markgeary.com/html/)
tells the following
story in a Dublin Event Guide feature on music festivals :
What`s been your best festival experience?
Well I`m sorry to say that I`ve been to a few festivals , `cause I`m usually
broke and playing gigs meself , but me fave experience was in New York at
The Guinness Festival a few years back ( 1999). I had a little room beside
Elvis Costello and after I came off stage and was hiding in me little room
there was a knock on the door and there Elvis was with John Martyn. They
asked if they could come in and borrow me guitar for a few mins as their
gear was already on stage , so I sat there and listened to them rehearse
their sets and drink all me beer. Lovely.
(Submitted by John Foyle)
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Friday, June 27, 2003 |
Reuters: Costello Heads 'North' on New Album
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID)92233
Costello Heads 'North' on New Album
Thu June 26, 2003 04:10 AM ET
By Barry A. Jeckell
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Elvis Costello has dubbed his upcoming album "North."
Due Sept. 23 via Deutsche Grammophon, the album is comprised solely of
ballads.
"The record begins with a song called 'You Left Me In the Dark' and ends
with a track called 'I'm In the Mood Again,"' Costello explained in a
statement. "You have to listen to what goes on in between to find out why."
The collection will feature instrumentation ranging from a solo piano to an
enormous ensemble.
Along with frequent collaborator and Attractions/Imposters keyboardist Steve
Nieve, "North" features drummer Peter Erskine and double-bassist Mike
Formanek, as well as Costello's own piano work on the songs "Let Me Tell You
About Her" and "I'm In the Mood Again."
Written over the final months of 2002 and recorded in New York in April and
May, the album reunites Costello with the Brodksy Quartet. He last worked
with the string ensemble on 1993's "Juliet Letters" (Warner Bros.). On
"North," the group performs parts co-written by Nieve on the track "Still."
Costello and the Imposters begin a summer North American tour July 2 in
Toronto. It comes in support of the group's 2002 Island album "When I Was
Cruel," which debuted at No. 20 on The Billboard 200.
Reuters/Billboard
(Submitted by David Caplan)
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Sunday, June 22, 2003 |
Ad of Sirius satellite radio.
It Says "Pete Thomas / drummer/percussionist - stream presets_alt nation/organic rock/pure jazz/universo latino
Hometown: Sheffield, England. Has played in Elvis Costello's bands since 1977. Fueled the Punk and Post Punk eras for nearly a decade. Session collaborations include: The Vines, Los Lobos, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt and his Alt Country band Jack Sh*t. Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame inductee."
(Submitted by Greg Odegaard)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2003
NEW ELVIS COSTELLO ALBUM 'NORTH' SET FOR SEPTEMBER 23 RELEASE BY DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
The new Elvis Costello album 'North' is to be released on September 23rd by Deutsche Grammophon. The record presents eleven new compositions written at the piano by Costello between Autumn 2002 and New Year's Day 2003. The album, which features Steve Nieve on piano, Peter Erskine on drums and Mike Formanek on double bass, displays a tender and intimate vocal side never before showcased on record as the eleven ballads are sung predominately in his baritone register.
The instrumentation on the album ranges from solo piano to a forty-eight piece ensemble, composed of a rhythm section, horn nonet and twenty-eight string players. All the orchestrations were arranged and conducted by Costello. The horn nonet consists of alto flute, Bb flat clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, Flugel Horn, two French Horns and trombone.
The featured soloists include Lee Konitz on alto saxophone ('Someone Took The Words Away') and Lew Soloff on Harmon-muted trumpet ('Let Me Tell You About Her'). Elvis is reunited with The Brodsky Quartet on 'Still,' the string parts for which were co-written with Steve Nieve. Elvis plays piano on 'Let Me Tell You AboutHer' and 'I'm In The Mood Again' but there are less than 12 bars of electric guitar on the entire record.
The album was recorded at Avatar Studios and Nola Recording in New York City between April and May and produced by Elvis Costello and Kevin Killen, who engineered and mixed the record. Describing the contents of the album, Costello said "The record begins with a song called 'You Left Me In The Dark' and ends with a track called 'I'm In The Mood Again.' You have to listen to what goes on in between to find out why." Asked about the significance of the title 'North,' Costello replied "That's Where I'm Headed."
In May, at the 20th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles, Elvis received the Founders Award, which honors pioneering songwriters who have made exceptional contributions to music. Past Founders Award recipients include James Taylor, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Stevie Wonder, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Leiber & Stoller, Quincy Jones and Walter Becker and Donald Fagen to name a few.
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Saturday, June 21, 2003 |
The website of HMV Japan now has some information about EC's new album, which is titled 'North'. Due in Japan Sept 10, 2003. The page has titles of all songs in the album, but unfortunately they are all written in the Japanese letters. I'm translating the information into English here, so there may be some mistakes.
1) Prelude/ You left me in the dark
2) Someone took the words away
3) When did I stop dreaming
4) You turned to me
5) Fallen
6) When it sings
7) Still
8) Let me tell you about her
9) Can you be true?
10) When green eyes turn blue
11) I'm in the mood again
12) Impatience
13) Too Blue (bonus track to Japanese edition)
14) North (special track available from the Internet)
The artists who play in this album are; Brodsky Quartet, Lee Connits (I don't know how to spell) (sax), Steve Nieve (p), Pete Thomas (ds), Marc Ribot (g), Mingus Big Band, and Jazz Passengers. The album will be released 10th September in Japan from Universal Records. (in Japanese)
(Submitted by Ayako Sasamoto)
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