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'''Allan Jones goes Irish for a lost weekend. Tom Sheehan keeps an eye open | |||
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Sheehan and I headed for the bar and an immediate collision with Jake Riviera, who'd just arrived with his boy Elvis. Jake came whistling through the crowd like an impatient hurricane coming down from a weekend on dodgy speed. The Costello roadcrew lined up to be jabbed in the chest; loudly berated, but clearly used to it; they trooped off to the bar. I asked Jake how he was feeling. | Followed by the failing chords of "Driver's Seat," Sheehan and I headed for the bar and an immediate collision with Jake Riviera, who'd just arrived with his boy Elvis. Jake came whistling through the crowd like an impatient hurricane coming down from a weekend on dodgy speed. The Costello roadcrew lined up to be jabbed in the chest; loudly berated, but clearly used to it; they trooped off to the bar. I asked Jake how he was feeling. | ||
''"Angry,"'' he snapped, his jaws clamping together with a force that might've left him in need of dental treatment. He went off to sit on the wall overlooking the river to cool down. | |||
"Nice to see Jake in such a good mood for a change," Sheehan remarked, cautiously lowering his voice. | |||
Elvoid, meanwhile was lurking about in the doorway of his dressing room, a wide-brimmed trilby pulled down over his shades, the collar of his KGB overcoat pulled up around his ears. He looked like he might come over at any moment and ask us to hand over the plans of the tractor factory. Eventually he did come over; shook hands, beaming, appearing the very definition of friendliness. | |||
A year ago, Costello had fought a running battle with me all over [[ | A year ago, Costello had fought a running battle with me all over [[Melody Maker, July 19, 1980|Montreux]], the very definition of suspicion. Macroom clearly suited Elvis's temperament. Later that night (in fact, early the next morning), he ambushed me at the bar of the Metropole Hotel and held me spellbound for over an hour; his conversation was by turns fleetingly revealing, sometimes hilarious; I tell you, we lost a ''great'' interviewee when Elvis and Jake Riviera decided to lock the door on the hacks, but somehow, considering some hacks with tape recorders strapped to their chests, who can blame them? | ||
Vibing off the set with a rogue assault on James Brown's "I Got You," Costello and the Attractions were five numbers into their set, raging full-tilt with no hands on the throttle through a mighty version of "Clubland" before I caught my first breath. | Vibing off the set with a rogue assault on James Brown's "I Got You," Costello and the Attractions were five numbers into their set, raging full-tilt with no hands on the throttle through a mighty version of "Clubland" before I caught my first breath. |
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