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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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<center> Allan Jones </center> | <center> Allan Jones </center> | ||
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For a while back there, it looked like the old crown was slipping drastically askew. Elvis had reached a pretty sublime kind of peak with ''Get Happy!!'', nearly topped even that triumph with ''Trust'' and provided a thoroughly diverting entertainment with ''Almost Blue''; but virtually everything since has been a roll down the slope. ''Imperial Bedroom'' was full of glossy formalities but few songs that actually sucked you inside out in the grand manner. "Head To Toe" was emptily gruff; "Party Party" was simply wretched, especially set against Elvis' lyric for "Shipbuilding," which was among the most poignant and incisive pieces he'd ever written. | For a while back there, it looked like the old crown was slipping drastically askew. Elvis had reached a pretty sublime kind of peak with ''Get Happy!!'', nearly topped even that triumph with ''Trust'' and provided a thoroughly diverting entertainment with ''Almost Blue''; but virtually everything since has been a roll down the slope. ''Imperial Bedroom'' was full of glossy formalities but few songs that actually sucked you inside out in the grand manner. "Head To Toe" was emptily gruff; "Party Party" was simply wretched, especially set against Elvis' lyric for "Shipbuilding," which was among the most poignant and incisive pieces he'd ever written. | ||
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No little wonder, then, that his return to Dingwalls was the hottest ticket in town last week. At £12.50 those tickets were hardly a cut-price snip, but what the hell? Six years ago, Costello and the Attractions made their official [[Concert 1977-07-26 London|debut]] here and played the kind of set that engraved itself indelibly upon the imagination. And, after the extravagances of the Albert Hall [[Concert 1982-12-27 London|shows]], and the inevitable graduation to concert halls that followed a brief apprenticeship in the clubs and bars, the opportunity of checking out the man and his band in the sort of atmosphere and environment that had originally nurtured their music was obviously irresistible; a potential thrill that surely couldn't be overlooked. | No little wonder, then, that his return to Dingwalls was the hottest ticket in town last week. At £12.50 those tickets were hardly a cut-price snip, but what the hell? Six years ago, Costello and the Attractions made their official [[Concert 1977-07-26 London|debut]] here and played the kind of set that engraved itself indelibly upon the imagination. And, after the extravagances of the Albert Hall [[Concert 1982-12-27 London|shows]], and the inevitable graduation to concert halls that followed a brief apprenticeship in the clubs and bars, the opportunity of checking out the man and his band in the sort of atmosphere and environment that had originally nurtured their music was obviously irresistible; a potential thrill that surely couldn't be overlooked. | ||
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The evening rather clambered off the deck with a version of "Let Them All Talk" from the forthcoming ''Punch The Clock'' set. With the TKO Horns pushing and shoving against the Attractions' characteristically pugnacious bounce, the effect was scrappy, confused, ill-defined. A brusque, punchy "Possession" and a sensationally desolate "Secondary Modern" put the set back on the rails, set up the avalanche of horns and percussion (Pete Thomas giving it maximum stick behind the kit) that threatened to lift "The Greatest Thing" (another cut from the new LP) into surreal orbit. | The evening rather clambered off the deck with a version of "Let Them All Talk" from the forthcoming ''Punch The Clock'' set. With the TKO Horns pushing and shoving against the Attractions' characteristically pugnacious bounce, the effect was scrappy, confused, ill-defined. A brusque, punchy "Possession" and a sensationally desolate "Secondary Modern" put the set back on the rails, set up the avalanche of horns and percussion (Pete Thomas giving it maximum stick behind the kit) that threatened to lift "The Greatest Thing" (another cut from the new LP) into surreal orbit. | ||
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When Costello is in this kind of form the opposition just doesn't exist. | When Costello is in this kind of form the opposition just doesn't exist. | ||
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{{tags}}[[Concert 1983-06-28 London|Dingwalls]] {{-}} [[London]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[The TKO Horns]] {{-}} [[Let Them All Talk]] {{-}} [[Punch The Clock]] {{-}} [[Get Happy!!]] {{-}} [[Trust]] {{-}} [[Almost Blue]] {{-}} [[Imperial Bedroom]] {{-}} [[From Head To Toe]] {{-}} [[Party Party]] {{-}} [[Shipbuilding]] {{-}} [[Pills And Soap]] {{-}} [[Stiff Records]] {{-}} [[Concert 1982-12-27 London|Albert Hall]] {{-}} [[Possession]] {{-}} [[Secondary Modern]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[The Greatest Thing]] {{-}} [[Town Cryer]] {{-}} [[Everyday I Write The Book]] {{-}} [[The World And His Wife]] {{-}} [[TKO (Boxing Day)]] {{-}} [[Q-Tips: Live At Last|The Q-Tips]] {{-}} [[Clowntime Is Over]] {{-}} [[Big Sister's Clothes]] {{-}} [[The Beat (band)]] {{-}} [[Stand Down Margaret]] {{-}} [[Shipbuilding]] {{-}} [[Oliver's Army]] {{-}} [[John Cale]] | |||
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<center><h3> Elvis to play 'Tube'? </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis to play 'Tube'? </h3></center> | ||
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Elvis Costello and The Pretenders are among artists who've offered to appear on the second series of ''The Tube'', following the "phenomenal" success of the programme's one-off Midsummer special. | Elvis Costello and The Pretenders are among artists who've offered to appear on the second series of ''The Tube'', following the "phenomenal" success of the programme's one-off Midsummer special. | ||
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