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SPECIAL DELIVERY | |||
Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Usher Hall, Edinburgh | |||
Elvis hits all the right notes. | |||
Byline: Tracey Martini | |||
DECLAN McManus has always been provocative. In 1977 he controversially adopted his idol (Elvis) and mother's maiden name (Costello). | |||
Two years later he allegedly said some racist things about Ray Charles. And in 1981 he was criticised for audaciously taking on Nashville with a country album, Almost Blue.Today he's still provoking people. | |||
Playing two-and-a-half hours of old standards and new favourites, Costello always looked like he was going to do, or say, something out of turn. | |||
Early number The Delivery Man is 'a number I wrote for Johnny Cash', he says, before Watching The Detectives flows into a cool-as-mince rendition of Suspicious Minds. At one point Costello sings into the pickups of a cheap guitar he bought in Mississippi. He even backchats the audience when they fail to clap loudly enough after an upbeat number: 'I thought you'd lost your gift of song, Edinburgh?' | |||
There's no flashy stage backdrop, no pretentious showboating. Every song is given special attention - apart from (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea, played so fast it could have been a speed metal number. But everyone came to hear Oliver's Army. And they got it, played with lung-bursting venom.The audience danced their hearts out before Elvis (in true Elvis style) left the building without returning for an encore. | |||
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MASTER OF HIS TRADE: Elvis Costello treated the fans to hit after hit | |||
COPYRIGHT 2005 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday | |||
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