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TORONTO — When Elvis Costello toured Canada with Battered Wives last November, some concert-goers expressed resentment over Costello's short sets. One hour of performance for eight bucks, went the reasoning, wasn't such great value for money. This column's Australian spies now confirm that when Costello appeared at Sydney's Regent Theatre in early December, the audience reaction was apparently the same. But the young diggers from Down Under chose to express their sentiments more directly than their Canadian counterparts. A crowd of 1200 fans, who had paid 5½ Aussie pounds for their seats, felt that our El' should deliver more than an hour. So, about 300 of the assembled faithful began tearing up seats and chucking them onstage, along with beer bottles and various other trash. The police arrived as the fans, who didn't get an encore out of El', decided to split, yelling "Costello is a capitalist." We, however, don't sympathize too much with the punters. After all, some acts play for three hours and only do three songs. Elvis may only play for an hour, but that's about 20 Costello-length tunes.
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