Elvis Costello, with guest T Bone Burnett as the Coward Brothers
Edinburgh Playhouse
Edinburgh, Scotland
10 November 1984


01. Strict Time
02. Stranger In The House
03. Men Called Uncle
04. The Only Flame In Town - slow version
05. Mouth Almighty
06. High Fidelity
07. Shot With His Own Gun
08. Just A Memory - including Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
09. Almost Blue
10. Green Shirt
11. Kid About It
12. Luxembourg
13. New Amsterdam
14. The World And His Wife - slow version
15. Girls Talk
16. I Hope You're Happy Now
17. Worthless Thing
18. Suffering Face
19. Motel Matches
20. Love Field
21. End Of The Rainbow
22. Riot Act
23. I Threw It All Away
24. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
25. Image Of Me
26. Home Truth
27. Alison - including You Win Again
28. Ragged But Right - The Coward Brothers
29. Baby's In Black - The Coward Brothers
30. I Left My Heart In San Francisco - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - The Coward Brothers
31. She Thinks I Still Care - The Coward Brothers
32. Inch By Inch
33. I'll Make It All Up To You
34. A Smiling Shore
35. Shipbuilding
36. Peace In Our Time - including The Bells


Elvis Costello
The Coward Brothers:
- Howard Coward (Elvis Costello)
- Henry Coward (T Bone Burnett)


Recorder: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown


Comments by area51GM:
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40 years on .....................................

North of the border the next day for Elvis and the beautiful capital’s great Playhouse theatre plays host to an altogether more boisterous audience who seem more excited about engaging with Elvis and there’s a fair amount of shouting if not heckling during this show. Before “The Only Flame In Town” someone shouts “I Want You” and Elvis retorts (somewhat obscurely “Must be a Rangers fan” (one of the two major footballing teams from Glasgow rather than either Hearts or Hibs from Edinburgh!). The reaction to this song does suggest the fans there are familiar with “Goodbye Cruel World” and enjoy the slowed up version. Once established at the piano Elvis prefaces “Just A Memory” again with a snippet of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”. “Luxembourg” is described as having a setting in an inner city and Elvis then says he’s keeping up the geographical reference by moving onto a “(new) Amsterdam”. After “Inch By Inch” and the Coward Brothers set there is a shout out for “Good Year For The Roses” and Elvis says he’s got a better song than that and then reflects that the audience is like The Krankies, a Scottish comedy duo where a middle aged short Scots lady acts as a naughty schoolboy (if memory serves me correctly!). Again the show climaxes with the anti-war trilogy of moving strong songs, “A Smiling Shore”, “Shipbuilding” and “Peace In Our Time”.

I received this in trade very soon after the concert but it needed to be taken down by a semitone during this review process.

Lineage: TDK SA chrome cassette > Nakamichi DR3 ( no Dolby) > Marantz DR6000 > EAC > Nero Platinum for track separation and pitch adjustment > TLH > FLAC


Update by JohnE on 27 Jan 2025:
Lineage: FLACs supplied by Unknown > Mp3tag (added tags). Added artwork.

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