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<center><h3> Elvis Costello </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis Costello </h3></center> | ||
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Flourescent flashes in a slow neon dazzle distract sufficiently for Boy Wonder to sneak onstage at leisure. By the end of the last date of his German tour he stands accused of sure-footed scrappiness. | Flourescent flashes in a slow neon dazzle distract sufficiently for Boy Wonder to sneak onstage at leisure. By the end of the last date of his German tour he stands accused of sure-footed scrappiness. | ||
Never cutting it like he does on record, a second guitarist has been | Never cutting it like he does on record, a second guitarist has been essential for some time now. Only typically it's by accident rather than design. [[Steve Nieve|Steve Naive]]'s, actually. The organist's involvement in a LA car crash caused him to climb down, his replacement at a day's notice being The Rumour's [[Martin Belmont]]. | ||
Which means there's two axemen hitting bum note after bum chord and it's all quite amusing. For having missed the preliminary primal assault of the new wave, Costello appears to be re-writing his roots. Elvis is a punk rocker now-ow-ow! | Which means there's two axemen hitting bum note after bum chord and it's all quite amusing. For having missed the preliminary primal assault of the new wave, Costello appears to be re-writing his roots. Elvis is a punk rocker now-ow-ow! | ||
Obviously we should predict the unpredictable. In the same way as each album has turned a sudden new corner, stage experiments are on the menu, too. He rattled the keys for [[Sonny Boy Williamson]]'s "[[Help Me]]" early on, showing a penchant for unearthing some of the more obscure R&B items. | |||
Other key minutes included the dual guitar isometrics halfway through "[[Watching The Detectives]]," which at last realised some of the song's more melodramatic potential. | Other key minutes included the dual guitar isometrics halfway through "[[Watching The Detectives]]," which at last realised some of the song's more melodramatic potential. | ||
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