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<center> '''Elvis Costello </center> | <center> '''Elvis Costello & The Attractions </center> | ||
<center><h3> 2½ Years </h3></center> | <center><h3> 2½ Years </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Andy Kershaw </center> | <center> Andy Kershaw </center> | ||
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Stimulation was in short supply in late-'70s Rochdale. There were no music clubs. Gigs took place when a local progressive band booked itself into Whitworth Civic Hall. 'Going out' was something more confident lads did with disco-dancing trainee typists. To look cool, trainee bohemians needed only to linger at the bus-stop with a Rory Gallagher album tucked inside their great-coats. | Stimulation was in short supply in late-'70s Rochdale. There were no music clubs. Gigs took place when a local progressive band booked itself into Whitworth Civic Hall. 'Going out' was something more confident lads did with disco-dancing trainee typists. To look cool, trainee bohemians needed only to linger at the bus-stop with a Rory Gallagher album tucked inside their great-coats. | ||
For a shy youth with no money or transport, few friends, a heavy Dylan and Loudon Wainwright habit and a bewilderment with most punk ''arrivistes'', you might say I had it rough when I was a lad. There was the Peel programme and ... er ... that was it. We'd stay up all night, ferchrissakes, if they were showing a Spyro Gyra concert on Rock Goes To College. | For a shy youth with no money or transport, few friends, a heavy Dylan and Loudon Wainwright habit and a bewilderment with most punk ''arrivistes'', you might say I had it rough when I was a lad. There was the Peel programme and ... er ... that was it. We'd stay up all night, ferchrissakes, if they were showing a Spyro Gyra concert on ''Rock Goes To College''. | ||
Ten miles down the road, though it might have been a thousand, punk was shaking the cellars of Manchester. And here it was, like a hand-grenade coming through the screen, on the regional TV show, Granada Reports. | Ten miles down the road, though it might have been a thousand, punk was shaking the cellars of Manchester. And here it was, like a hand-grenade coming through the screen, on the regional TV show, ''Granada Reports''. | ||
Embodied in this bug-eyed little bloke in the baggy black suit ripping through "Lip Service" in a Manchester nightclub was something that sailed above the heads of the spit-and-cider brigade. There were depths to this geek not apparent in, say, The Adverts. He had all the attitude, and the tunes besides. Elvis Costello was clever, cool, wordy and, from that moment on ''mine''. My dad lowered his newspaper and locked his headmaster's frown on the TV set: "He looks like he goes to a special school," was Kershaw Snr's memorable judgement. | Embodied in this bug-eyed little bloke in the baggy black suit ripping through "Lip Service" in a Manchester nightclub was something that sailed above the heads of the spit-and-cider brigade. There were depths to this geek not apparent in, say, The Adverts. He had all the attitude, and the tunes besides. Elvis Costello was clever, cool, wordy and, from that moment on ''mine''. My dad lowered his newspaper and locked his headmaster's frown on the TV set: "He looks like he goes to a special school," was Kershaw Snr's memorable judgement. | ||
Elvis had visited Rochdale one year earlier as part of the first Stiff tour, though, typically, I managed to miss it. The publicity machine at the Champness Hall, better geared to pulling them in for lunchtime cello recitals, somehow failed to speak to Rochdale's Costello and Wreckless Eric market. Consequently the most inspired package tour of the age played to a thin audience of disorientated old ladies sucking Mint Imperials. | Elvis had visited [[Concert 1977-10-24 Rochdale|Rochdale]] one year earlier as part of the first Stiff tour, though, typically, I managed to miss it. The publicity machine at the Champness Hall, better geared to pulling them in for lunchtime cello recitals, somehow failed to speak to Rochdale's Costello and Wreckless Eric market. Consequently the most inspired package tour of the age played to a thin audience of disorientated old ladies sucking Mint Imperials. | ||
A year later, and I was a fresher making undignified and unsuccessful attempts to shag the girl in the flat next to mine at Leeds University. She had a copy of ''This Year's Model'', I had learned to play my first tune on the guitar so that I was able to bore the arse off her in the hallway with an acoustic reading of "You Belong To Me," whilst she, no doubt, dreamed of rugby players. | A year later, and I was a fresher making undignified and unsuccessful attempts to shag the girl in the flat next to mine at Leeds University. She had a copy of ''This Year's Model'', I had learned to play my first tune on the guitar so that I was able to bore the arse off her in the hallway with an acoustic reading of "You Belong To Me," whilst she, no doubt, dreamed of rugby players. | ||
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