ElvisCostello.info, April 16, 2002

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Elvis Costello & the Imposters

Paradiso, Amsterdam

Joyce Slavik

First of all :-D.

Just a quickie before a brief nap and heading to the airport. Great show tonight. It seemed short but did go for 90 minutes. The lister crowd headed up the line in the cold for a two-hour wait. We hardly needed to since most people seemed to rush for the seats up in the balcony.

Amsterdam played for about one half hour and Elvis started a few minutes before 8:30pm. Looked good — all black, shirt untucked. I liked his shoe boots. I think Alfonso will be typing up the setlist so I'll give my highlights.

The band sounded very tight on the old stuff. Davey Faragher on bass — great! I love bass and he was doing some good work along with the occasional backup vocal. Steve sounded good but a bit restrained. Where I was standing (directly in spittle range underneath Elvis) I couldn't see him at all. Just the occasional flopping of wild hair. I could see Pete directly behind Elvis but he wasn't looking around too much. He was very focused on what Elvis was doing.

Funnily enough, the pre-show music was mainly the other Elvis. Funny. Alfonso, Robin, Nick, Wouter and I were up front.

Highlights in a nutshell: "Waiting For The End Of The World," "15 Petals," "When I Was Cruel No. 2," "I Hope You're Happy Now," "Doll Revolution," "You Belong To Me."

Big huge highlights: "Episode of Blonde" (I love this song anyway but it was truly outstanding live. Elvis seemed to be having sooo much fun with it), "I Want You" (a wonderful version). I really liked the live version of "15 Petals." He started out by saying he was about to sing a love song, sang a little bit of "She" and then said something like "I'm kidding. I'm through with that shit!" Big applause. Very funny.

"45" was good but he screwed up the lyrics and combined perhaps three verses into a few lines. I always enjoy seeing how he works his way out of that sort of thing ;-).

"Dust 2" and "Dust" were combined and were listed on the setlist as "Dust 2 Dust." Funny. The setlist was all typed and had EC's guitar listed next to each song.

"My Little Blue Window" was played at the soundcheck (shades of listening at the door with Patsy and Dweil at the Tabernacle in Atlanta ;-)) but we didn't get that today.

Another highlight: "Lipstick Vogue." We were dancing about but the couple next to us kept giving us stoic looks. I think Elvis preferred people to be having fun! "Spooky Girlfriend" was good but a little fast I thought.

"When I Was Cruel" (not listed as 2 on the setlist) was weird because Elvis was playing with his new techno gadgety toy and the band didn't seem to know what to do. "Doll Revolution" went over fantastic live. "Pump It Up" — good but yawn.

Guitars mentioned on setlist: Jazzmaster, Magnatone (I think this is the one that still has the pricetag), Gibson 160E, Baritone.

I know nothing about guitars so there ya have it. I think he quit after one hour and came back for two encores. The crowd was insane for a long time in between encores (aforementioned stoic couple didn't appreciate my loud wolf whistles but then I didn't appreciate them smoking). It was a great rocking show.

I'm expecting tomorrow to be pretty similar with probably a different set of encores. Please don't take out "Episode of Blonde" though!

Elvis did his usually scoping out and grinning at the audience. I just love that :-). Great hanging out with Alfonso, Robin and Nick.


Tags: ParadisoAmsterdamNetherlandsThe ImpostersDavey FaragherSteve NievePete ThomasAmsterdam (band)Waiting For The End Of The World15 PetalsWhen I Was Cruel No. 2I Hope You're Happy NowTear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)You Belong To MeEpisode Of BlondeI Want YouShe45Dust 2DustMy Little Blue WindowLipstick VogueSpooky GirlfriendPump It Up

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Joyce Slavik reviews Elvis Costello & The Imposters and opening act Amsterdam, Monday, April 15, 2002, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands.


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