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<center><h3> Elvis Costello and the Attractions </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis Costello and the Attractions </h3></center> | ||
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For what it's worth I thought he was as good as ever. I have seen and heard him over the past eight years, my notes bearing witness to this, becoming increasingly illegible and ending after the first 10 songs with the words "primal vamp" (which, whatever they mean, pretty well sum things up). | For what it's worth I thought he was as good as ever. I have seen and heard him over the past eight years, my notes bearing witness to this, becoming increasingly illegible and ending after the first 10 songs with the words "primal vamp" (which, whatever they mean, pretty well sum things up). | ||
Although this short UK tour has been billed as a kind of Elvis Costello retrospective exhibition, the most reassuring thing on Friday night was the strength of the songs from his most recent LP, the angry and psychedelic ''Blood | Although this short UK tour has been billed as a kind of Elvis Costello retrospective exhibition, the most reassuring thing on Friday night was the strength of the songs from his most recent LP, the angry and psychedelic ''Blood & Chocolate'', when played against the older classic tracks. | ||
That and the extreme wonderfulness of the Attractions, demonstrated time and again as old songs were taken apart and reassembled in new and arcane ways before our very ears. | That and the extreme wonderfulness of the Attractions, demonstrated time and again as old songs were taken apart and reassembled in new and arcane ways before our very ears. | ||
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For the final song out went the main stage lights, on came two strobes, and on came the new Mrs Costello, Cait, playing droning feed-back guitar, in her musical guise as John Cale. The song they were doing was "Poor Napoleon." | For the final song out went the main stage lights, on came two strobes, and on came the new Mrs Costello, Cait, playing droning feed-back guitar, in her musical guise as John Cale. The song they were doing was "Poor Napoleon." | ||
"That was instant karma," said the man from the Sunday Post on my left, his notes obviously having attained a higher plane. No-one could have disagreed with him. | "That was instant karma," said the man from the ''Sunday Post'' on my left, his notes obviously having attained a higher plane. No-one could have disagreed with him. | ||
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