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'''Elvis Costello is known as impossible to pigeonhole, but the two sold out performances, the bespectacled singer / songwriter in recent days and polishes at the Ancienne Belgique and the Royal Circus could not be more different.''' | '''Elvis Costello is known as impossible to pigeonhole, but the two sold out performances, the bespectacled singer / songwriter in recent days and polishes at the Ancienne Belgique and the Royal Circus could not be more different.''' | ||
Elvis Costello has over thirty CDs to his name and just about every genre practiced. He began his career in the mid seventies | Elvis Costello has over thirty CDs to his name and just about every genre practiced. He began his career in the mid-seventies London pub-scene, was later one of the most prominent figures from the British punk, and subsequently built a repertoire from which both country, soul, jazz, opera and classic were dealt with. | ||
In addition, | In addition to his acting, whose actual name is Declan MacManus, in the last few years he has become a supreme talk show host. That latest show Wednesday evening in the Ancienne Belgique fitted well, where he, together with [[The Imposters]] put on a show of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook, a concept where Costello traveled through the USA last year. The idea is simple: there is a big wheel on the stage on which song titles and topics are listed. Costello's assistant, a hormone-disruptive mirrored Russian type picks random people in the audience that it may move, and thus determine the setlist of the evening. Then they are often under a little persuasion led into a cage for a dance to entertain us all, aided by a lascivious professional whose bones seem almost elastic. | ||
Meanwhile crept Costello Wednesday in the skin of his sardonic alter ego [[Napoleon Dynamite]] and he emerged as a circus director with high-hat and stick the crowd entertained. To be honest: in essence, the set is not much different from a regular gig with [[The Imposters]], but hold the new packaging made sure the show right from the first note was a party. The band played tight and raged against a fierce pace classics like "[[I Hope You're Happy Now]]", "[[Radio, Radio|Radio Radio]]" and "[[Mystery Dance]]". | Meanwhile crept Costello Wednesday in the skin of his sardonic alter ego [[Napoleon Dynamite]] and he emerged as a circus director with high-hat and stick the crowd entertained. To be honest: in essence, the set is not much different from a regular gig with [[The Imposters]], but hold the new packaging made sure the show right from the first note was a party. The band played tight and raged against a fierce pace classics like "[[I Hope You're Happy Now]]", "[[Radio, Radio|Radio Radio]]" and "[[Mystery Dance]]". |
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