Elvis Costello - 1983-10-18 London

<<   1983-10-18 London

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.

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