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<center> Nick Horn </center> | <center> Nick Horn </center> | ||
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''' Elvis Costello & The Attractions <br> | |||
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Well, folks, this was the night of the famous Elvis Costello Riot Of '78. You know, when Elvis and his band ran off again into the sunset, at which point the audience rioted. Elvis was shat off, so we are told, by the lack of audience enthusiasm, and by the crummy sound mix. Well, we were shat off too, Elvis old pal. You call standing up and screaming for more for ten minutes ''en masse'' 'lack of audience enthusiasm'? And why make an already unsatisfactory concert (due to poor sound quality) more unsatisfactory by playing for even less than the bare minimum of one hour specified in the contract? Elvis, mate, you've got a lot to answer for in the opinions of all of those people who paid $9.50 to see you in the flesh that Sunday night. This was clear from the twenty violent, angry minutes after we all realised that 58 minutes were all the minutes we were going to hear. Memories of the riot certainly swamp my memories of the concert itself. A disquieting experience. | Well, folks, this was the night of the famous Elvis Costello Riot Of '78. You know, when Elvis and his band ran off again into the sunset, at which point the audience rioted. Elvis was shat off, so we are told, by the lack of audience enthusiasm, and by the crummy sound mix. Well, we were shat off too, Elvis old pal. You call standing up and screaming for more for ten minutes ''en masse'' 'lack of audience enthusiasm'? And why make an already unsatisfactory concert (due to poor sound quality) more unsatisfactory by playing for even less than the bare minimum of one hour specified in the contract? Elvis, mate, you've got a lot to answer for in the opinions of all of those people who paid $9.50 to see you in the flesh that Sunday night. This was clear from the twenty violent, angry minutes after we all realised that 58 minutes were all the minutes we were going to hear. Memories of the riot certainly swamp my memories of the concert itself. A disquieting experience. | ||
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