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Elvis Costello ran into problems prior to the release of the new LP and single: He pulled the same stunts at the Dominion in Tottenham Court Road as he had in [[Concert 1978-12-03 Sydney|Sydney]], refusing all encores and generally giving the audience short shrift, while the band sounded tired and bored: It seemed for a couple of weeks as though the inevitable media reaction was to overtake him, but the new LP and another round of concerts in the last couple of weeks have revived his career. Only the older numbers sound tired now: "Detectives" was delivered as though he was sleepwalking. Either he's following managerial decrees for enigmatic behavior too closely or he's just sick of playing the same thing for two years now. Anyway, he's still in a pretty healthy position. | |||
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'''Roadrunner, March 1979 | |||
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[[Sue Denim]] reviews ''[[Armed Forces]]'' | |||
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[[Joe Camilleri]] reviews the [[Single: American Squirm|single]] for Nick Lowe's "[[American Squirm]]." | |||
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Keith Shadwick reports on EC's [[Dominion Theatre]] stand. | |||
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Also includes part 2 of [[Stuart Matchett]]'s interview with [[Dave Robinson]]. | |||
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'''Last issue Dave Robinson described the... | '''Last issue, Dave Robinson described the circumstances that lead to the formation of Stiff Records in London — the rise of the pub rock circuits, and the dissatisfaction with the Establishment record companies, etc etc. In part two of the interview, Robinson goes on to recall the early days and growth of Stiff, the self-styled "undertakers to the industry"...... | ||
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We had a tiny office and most of the room was taken up by these boxes of eight-track tapes which were the demos we had from the Hope and Anchor studio days. I've still got millions of them. If I had the time, I'd love to put together a 10-record set in a box. You'd sell about 2000 copies but the people who bought them would have everything there on record. Once it's on vinyl it becomes something special — well, to me, anyway. | |||
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We made a list, actually...a very quick list. Micky Jupp was the final person on it and we signed him recently, so we've actually completed our list of signings. It was run on a co-operative basis, like the pub rock thing, and we try to keep that in the record label. People who were doing well co-operated to help people who weren't doing so well — play on their records or give them a song — and it's worked out very well like that. | |||
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