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A crowd of ageing hipsters sat for-ward on the plush velvet seats of Toronto's Massey Hall last Wednesday as Elvis Costello, once the angry little darling of New Wave, walked to centre stage.
He last played Massey Hall 21 years earlier. His 1978 concert was a blistering hour of enraged rock and roll, a fierce rendering of perfectly honed three-minute pop songs performed by a slight, awkward Englishman who looked like Buddy Holly on lighter fluid.
In the intervening two decades, Elvis Costello shifted styles many times, from country and western (on Almost Blue) to classical (The Juliet Letters), to his most recent album, Painted from Memory, a collaboration released last year with venerable '60s songwriter Burt Bacharach.
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