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<center><h3> All hail Elvis, king of the crooners </h3></center> | <center><h3> All hail Elvis, king of the crooners </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Keith Bruce </center> | <center> Keith Bruce </center> | ||
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''' Elvis Costello <br> | |||
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall | |||
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Around 20 years ago, Ross MacManus, a former big band singer with the Joe Loss Orchestra, brought his cabaret act to the British Telecom club in Edinburgh. | Around 20 years ago, Ross MacManus, a former big band singer with the Joe Loss Orchestra, brought his cabaret act to the British Telecom club in Edinburgh. | ||
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Although structured around his recent collaborative disc with Burt Bacharach, ''Painted from Memory'', the concert spanned his writing history and it is either astonishing value for money or desperately indulgent, depending on your point of view. Speaking as one of the committed, it was reassuring to talk to someone else, whose knowledge of Costello was limited to his few chart hits, and hear that this concert immediately claimed a spot in the top 10 of a lifetime's gig-going. No dissent from this quarter on that assessment. | Although structured around his recent collaborative disc with Burt Bacharach, ''Painted from Memory'', the concert spanned his writing history and it is either astonishing value for money or desperately indulgent, depending on your point of view. Speaking as one of the committed, it was reassuring to talk to someone else, whose knowledge of Costello was limited to his few chart hits, and hear that this concert immediately claimed a spot in the top 10 of a lifetime's gig-going. No dissent from this quarter on that assessment. | ||
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'''The Herald, April 26, 1999 | |||
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[[Keith Bruce]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[Steve Nieve]], Friday, [[Concert 1999-04-23 Glasgow|April 23, 1999]], Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland. | [[Keith Bruce]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[Steve Nieve]], Friday, [[Concert 1999-04-23 Glasgow|April 23, 1999]], Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland. |