Lyon Progrès, July 27, 2007

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Costello Elvis, soul in the night

Yesterday evening in Fourvière. With Allen All Saints' day and coppers enchanters, elegant Costello succeeded in making swinguer the Roman stones The Nights of Fourvière placed the bar rather high this year. And it is a little as if Costello Elvis had chosen to take up the challenge. In Odéon filled of 1200 fans, boiling it guitarist proposed an absolutely perfect review soul and swing, with the assistance of legendary Allen All Saints' day and of a copper époustouflante section.

Strapped in a black suit, its eternal glasses screwed at the end of the nose, Elvis Costello arrives towards 9 p.m. 30, seizure ancient Telecaster and launches “Wonder woman”. The piano swingue as at the edge of Mississippi, coppers underline the rhythmic one and the organ of Steve Nieve blows like a thrown into a panic heart. Without letting breathe the public nor his group, Costello connects with “I don' T want to go to Chelsea” pushed by a rageuse guitar and a battery in syncope. Homage to Beatles “A the other century, there was a box in Liverpool, which resembled catacombs like here. The group which played there was a certain success They was called Beatles and played this song, written by Allen All Saints' day” explains Costello before attacking “A unquestionable girl”, which is sung by its author.

It is “Tears, tears and more tears” which follows, on an almost slow rate/rhythm, very swamp. As if one walked on a muddy ground of Louisiana. Costello explains then that it did not remember to have come in 1984 (on February 19 with the Palate of Winter), as one has just recalled him. The concert was not unforgettable it is true. But Elvis Costello found the formula and connects with “Universal echo”, the only song which I wrote on the music explains his author. With final, after their respective tubes (“Watching the detectives”, “Pump it up” for Costello, “Teller Fortune” for All Saints' day), this concert with two heads and ten musicians in the form of review soul are completed in an intense enthusiasm. The south would be said. T.M.