Elvis Costello - 1983-10-18 London
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Elvis Costello And The Attractions, with The TKO Horns And Afrodiziak Cat's Whiskers Streatham, London, England 18 October 1983 01. Pills And Soap - EC & Steve Nieve 02. Let Them All Talk - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 03. Possession - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 04. Watching The Detectives - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 05. The Greatest Thing - with the TKO Horns 06. Secondary Modern - with the TKO Horns 07. High Fidelity - with the TKO Horns 08. Man Out Of Time - with the TKO Horns 09. Kid About It 10. Mystery Dance 11. Shabby Doll 12. The Bells 13. From Head To Toe - with Afrodiziak 14. Charm School - with Afrodiziak 15. Temptation 16. New Lace Sleeves 17. Oliver's Army 18. Shipbuilding 19. Big Sister's Clothes 20. Stand Down Margaret 21. Beyond Belief 22. Clubland - with the TKO Horns 23. The World And His Wife - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 24. Alison - including Living A Little, Laughing A Little - with the TKO Horns 25. Watch Your Step - with the TKO Horns 26. Back Stabbers - King Horse - with the TKO Horns 27. Clowntime Is Over - with the TKO Horns 28. Everyday I Write The Book - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 29. TKO (Boxing Day) - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 30. Moods For Moderns (Riff Riff Riff instrumental) - with the TKO Horns 31. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak 32. Pump It Up - including Ain't That A Lot Of Love - with the TKO Horns & Afrodiziak With The TKO Horns on tracks 2-8 and 22-32. With Afrodiziak on tracks 2-4, 13-14, 23, 28-29 and 31-32. Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums The TKO Horns: Dave Plews - trumpet Paul Speare - tenor saxophone Jeff Blythe - alto saxophone Jim Paterson - trombone Afrodiziak: Caron Wheeler - backing vocals Naomi Thompson - backing vocals Recorder: Unknown Lineage: Unknown Comments by area51GM:
40 years on .................................................. Not a lot of breathing space for Elvis and the band but just a short trip to South London (near to the spiritual home of Squeeze) for the second of three nights in London. One wouldn't expect too much variation in the setlist and we only get an arrangement of "Secondary Modern" in the initial band plus horn segment followed by another great arrangement of "High Fidelity" which Elvis comments was a single bought by a couple of people at the bar! There is a little electronic interference at the start of this incidentally. "Oliver's Army" is introduced as a "wartime lament" and sounds a little muffled to begin with but becomes clearer as the song nears its end. "The World And His Wife" is about "festering family life" and from then on the concert follows a very familiar pattern. Interestingly, Claudia Fontaine doesn't appear with Afrodiziak after her appearance the previous night in Hammersmith, at least according to Elvis' band introductions in "Pump It Up". This came from the previously mentioned "Terry" and I have no reason to doubt he made the original recordings. Lineage: TDK SA 90 Chrome cassette > Nakamichi DR3 (no dolby) > Marantz DR 6000 CD Recorder > EAC > Nero Platinum for track separation and pitch checking > TLH > FLAC > you