Elvis Costello - 1978-02-18 Brockport

<<   1978-02-18 Brockport

Elvis Costello & The Attractions
State University of New York, 
Brockport, NY
18 February 1978


01. Mystery Dance
02. Waiting For The End Of The World
03. No Action
04. Welcome To The Working Week
05. Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
06. Big Tears
07. The Beat
08. Stranger In The House
09. Lipstick Vogue
10. This Year's Girl
11. Watching The Detectives
12. Radio, Radio
13. Pump It Up
14. You Belong To Me

Total Time 47:34

source: audience recording 
taper and equipment: unknown 
lineage: unknown -- cd received in trade 

Thanks to the unknown taper.

I carried out minor re-tracking throughout. 

- There is a small cluster of pops at around 1:41 into "Waiting For The End Of The World"
- There are tape flips / pauses between "This Year's Girl" and "Watching The Detectives" and between "Radio, Radio" and "Pump It Up". I applied fades.



Editing lineage: EAC > Audacity (fades, re-tracking) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

Artwork included in the torrent


Uploaded to Dime during January 2010 by colinb9.


40 years on .... 
An extended set from the Attractions, with the inclusion of Stranger In The House and a somewhat strange running order going from Lipstick Vogue to This Year's Girl and then Watching The Detectives and also ending with You Belong To Me. There seems to be a distinct jump at the end of Vogue into TYG and I suspect the order may have been tampered with either on recording or, if it's from an FM recording, to suit the broadcasters. It certainly seems unlikely that the normal segue of Vogue to WTD would be eschewed on this one occasion compared to any other time. 
The FLAC files that I've used are from the Elvis Costello wiki again, but I can't help feeling that this is probably a lo-fi recording of an FM broadcast as audience noise is pretty much non-existent and the clarity of bass and vocals in quite impressive. The wiki doesn't have the information of the actual radio station but I'm fairly confident this is from an FM source albeit with a pretty poor quality recording set-up. I've had to adjust pitch slightly and remove some of the more discernible gaps between songs which again suggest that Disc Jockey /advertising one liners have been deleted from the original recording. Again probably more for completists than for anyone searching for the definitive EC Spring 1978 performance. Also of interest is the fact that for many decades, this had been listed as amongst traders as Brockport 25 February 1978 rather than 18 February - not sure where the confirmatory information has come from but Richard G.'s Going Through The Motions book definitely lists this gig as taking place in Brockport on 25th February and a date at Albany taking place on 25th of February 1979 I might just change my dates to 25th after all in the light of this ! 
Lineage : FLAC file from Elvis Costello wiki >TLH to convert to wav files > Nero 8 for pitch and song separation/tidying > TLH for FLAC