MILAN - When you name Elvis Costello, is immediately who pulls out the name of another rebel, that Frank Zappa's taste for provocation and the wisdom of musical quotations is certainly the guru of messed up. Costello Zappa into something really looks like, but only as an Englishman may look like an American, with a style more content, a measure more Victorian, a taste of the most sadistic malice and sarcasm.
Costello hear him tonight in Milan, the renovated Teatro Cristallo, in a show not to be missed with his band The Attractions, gentlemen Steve Nieve on keyboards, Bruce Thomas on bass and sax, and Pete Thomas on drums. The concert is part of an ambitious tour began a month ago in the U.S., and that will arrive for Christmas in Liverpool after passing for Sweden , France, Holland and Ireland. Not bad. And so far, everywhere I've played, from the Beverly Theatre in Los Angeles at the Olympia in Paris, has always preceded the "sold out" .
Fame rock , of course, hungry for good music and strong, but also about the extravagance of the character. This round of Costello in fact as the theme song featuring the return to the scene of the crime only ever a concert, but in every city at least two or three evenings , each with different subject. In Milan for example (and then the same story in Rome, on Wednesday ), the program says tonight Costello & The Attractions, Costello In tomorrow only with guitar; Monday finally: Costello's Wheel of Fortune.
This Wheel is a trovatimi worth an Oscar. Costello and 1 wont stand on the stage next to a big wheel like those of peach or charitable lotteries of Mike Bongiorno , the spokes of the wheel are the titles of 40 songs, and remind you not only Costello's songs, but as a genie and Gershwin, Muddy Waters, Nat King Cole, Little Richard. One of the audience onto the stage and turns the marchingeno : where the luck stops and the arrow indicates a song, Costello & Band read and execute. And if a song is found twice, that's Musicians will provide the Gentile Audience two different versions of the song.
Brilliant, no doubt about it. But ingenious as those who are not only smart but also one hell of a skill, and Costello, who is 12 albums was already indicated as the enfant terrible of a rock panting, as a cunning and devilish music is a master. That many are perhaps on the stomach, but that plays and sings gioiellinl three minutes slow (that was the time when the songs of the rock era dawn) with a perfection of joints that real rockers admire spellbound.
Mr. Napoleon Dynamite, which is the pseudonym of Mr. Elvis Costello, who is the pseudonym of Mr. Declan McManus (and that's enough), goes even further: In his concerts these promises the surprise arrival of distinguished guests, who will sing with him mixing styles different pleasure and risky improvisation. In America they had the desire and the courage to metterglisi next : Tom Waits, Tom Petty and the Bangles. Not bad. Here in Milan we verderne of beautiful names that run from these ports do not miss them. And do not miss even in Rome, where in the days of the concert thing is for passing Tom Waits, waiting to leave for the Tenco Sanremo. All three nights, Rome will close the quick tour: Teatro Tenda Planet Wednesday 19, then at the Olympic Theatre on 20 and 21. E ' was to choose and impose Costello concert theater: it says that is the right size for a good listening to his music. Seeing is believing .
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