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"Let's start again," Costello suggests. There follows about 45 minutes of painful mugging by the pair and I think we're all a bit relieved when show time announces itself and I head for the stalls and T Bone's opening set. He'd been great at the Festival Hall, but tonight fails spectacularly to connect with the crowd. I sneak out to the bar, where I find Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve from The Attractions, both of them drunk and surly. It turns out they've just heard The Attractions have been dropped from the line-up for [[Concert 1985-07-13 London|Live Aid]], which Elvis will now play on his own. Steve's especially furious, as he's simultaneously discovered that Elvis and T Bone will soon be working together on an album, on which The Attractions are not from what he's heard scheduled to appear. | "Let's start again," Costello suggests. There follows about 45 minutes of painful mugging by the pair and I think we're all a bit relieved when show time announces itself and I head for the stalls and T Bone's opening set. He'd been great at the Festival Hall, but tonight fails spectacularly to connect with the crowd. I sneak out to the bar, where I find Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve from The Attractions, both of them drunk and surly. It turns out they've just heard The Attractions have been dropped from the line-up for [[Concert 1985-07-13 London|Live Aid]], which Elvis will now play on his own. Steve's especially furious, as he's simultaneously discovered that Elvis and T Bone will soon be working together on an album, on which The Attractions are not from what he's heard scheduled to appear. | ||
Steve becomes increasingly irate, eventually, very drunkenly, bursting into Costello's dressing room where Elvis and T Bone and a bunch of people are having a few post-show drinks, loudly accusing Costello of betraying the band and T Bone of trying to split them up. It gets very fractious, very quickly, Steve and Elvis squaring up to each other, Nieve screaming and Elvis shouting to make himself heard over Steve's angry squawking. There's some pushing and shoving and I'm waiting for | Steve becomes increasingly irate, eventually, very drunkenly, bursting into Costello's dressing room where Elvis and T Bone and a bunch of people are having a few post-show drinks, loudly accusing Costello of betraying the band and T Bone of trying to split them up. It gets very fractious, very quickly, Steve and Elvis squaring up to each other, Nieve screaming and Elvis shouting to make himself heard over Steve's angry squawking. There's some pushing and shoving and I'm waiting for someone to throw a punch when the fiery Jake Riviera weighs in with some colourful advice to Nieve, who's bundled out the door, still cursing T Bone, evidently the anti-Christ in Steve's opinion. It's an ugly couple of minutes, for which Elvis now apologises to T Bone. ‘Actually," T Bone says, a tower of calm, "I thought he took the news quite well, everything considered." | ||
At which point, the dressing room door flies open, nearly coming off its hinges, Nieve trying to storm back in, before Pete Thomas picks him up and carries him out in a headlock, less than flattering things being said about T Bone as drummer and keyboard player quit the premises. | At which point, the dressing room door flies open, nearly coming off its hinges, Nieve trying to storm back in, before Pete Thomas picks him up and carries him out in a headlock, less than flattering things being said about T Bone as drummer and keyboard player quit the premises. |
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