Elvis Costello - 1983-06-28 London

<<   1983-06-28 London

Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Dingwalls
London, England
28 June 1983


01. Let Them All Talk
02. Possession
03. Secondary Modern
04. The Greatest Thing
05. High Fidelity
06. Town Cryer
07. Everyday I Write The Book
08. Shabby Doll
09. Pidgin English
10. Hand In Hand
11. Back Stabbers - King Horse
12. Kid About It
13. Watching The Detectives
14. From Head To Toe
15. Temptation
16. New Lace Sleeves
17. Clubland
18. Watch Your Step
19. The World And His Wife
20. Man Out Of Time
21. TKO (Boxing Day)
22. Clowntime Is Over
23. Big Sister's Clothes - Stand Down Margaret
24. Shipbuilding
25. Oliver's Army
26. Pump It Up
27. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down


Dingwalls 10th Anniversary Show benefitting Capitol Radio's "Help A London Child".


With The T.K.O. Horns - tracks 1-7, 18-22 and 26-27.


Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Bruce Thomas - bass guitar
Pete Thomas - drums

TKO Horns:
Dave Plews - trumpet
Paul Speare - tenor saxophone
Jeff Blythe - alto saxophone
Jim Paterson - trombone


Recorder: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown

Comments by area51GM:


40 years (and a bit on)

At the end of the strange mini tour of the U.K. taking in places like Loughborough, Hanley near Stoke, Norwich, Belfast, Dublin, Canterbury and his "sort of" native Liverpool, Elvis returns to London and performs at the 10th anniversary celebration at Dingwalls in Camden in North London benefitting Capitol Radio's "Help A London Child" with expensive (for that time) tickets but you were rewarded, besides seeing an amazing band, with a lovely card ticket with a brilliant Edward Barker cartoon of the band as crows! Perfect.

This audience recording is again a fine quality recording, purloined by me from a trip to Camden market on an away day in London that included a guided tour of Abbey Road studios in August 1983 when Elvis was everywhere in the media following the release of "Punch The Clock". I think I bought a copy of "The Face" with Elvis on the cover and read it on the coach home.

The gig starts with 7 songs performed with the T.K.O. Horns including a brave start with "Let Them All Talk", the opener of the new album. After the upcoming single of "Everyday I Write The Book" one of Elvis' most re-interpreted by himself songs, the horns leave the stage and we get essentially a setlist which mirrors the 1982 tour fairly accurately. "Watching The Detectives" is played with no segues or snippets to other songs and feels all the better for being played in its most basic format. "Beyond Belief" is strangely absent and the main set ends with a sprightly "Clubland". The horns return for five songs including an ardent and slow "Clowntime Is Over" and here there's a slight glitch and pitch change that needed addressing from the original cassette recording. "Big Sister's Clothes" starts the final phase and has The (English) Beat's "Stand Down Margaret" tacked on the end which had already been played at the sessions for BBC Radio One's "The Evening Show" with DJ David Jensen in a more ominous and threatening performance. Again the horns join for the last two songs to give an upbeat end to a pretty fine display.

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