elvis
yesterday elvis costello live in the paradiso. after many years, costello gave his first concert with nearly the original line-up. His band, The Imposters with Steve Nieve on keyboards, bassist Davey Faragher and drummer Pete Thomas was almost the same as The Attractions from the early eighties. concert was the first of a world tour, starting in May in the USA. (There is a chance to win tickets to see Elvis Costello in New York!)
It’s almost 21 years ago that I saw Costello for the first time ( april 19, 1980: Paradiso in an early show ). I’m getting old… Since then, I saw elvis several times with the Attractions. Later with T-Bone Burnett in Carre and once during his ‘classical period’ with the Brodsky Quartet in Het Concertgebouw. This time we were lucky to stand 2 meter from Costello away, excellent spot!
Now he went back on stage with and played some oldies, like Chelsea or Pump it up. With some new tracks from his coming album like ” Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s a Doll Revolution) ” and ” 45 “.
Most exciting moment of the concert must have been the performance of ‘I want you’. Whole musichall came silent during most of the song, giving goose bumps to every one.