Elvis Costello - solo as "The Pope of Pop"
April 25, 1985
Choka Doobie Club at Portlands,
Great Portland St,
London, England

source: audience recording.
taper and equipment: unknown
lineage: unknown -- cd received in trade

This is a very noisy crowd and unfortunately the recording is spoiled through the constant chatter. However, this gig is unusual and I'm grateful for fellow Elvis fans who sent me some info about this gig. Elvis was billed as The Pope of Pop and played a short set on opening night for a night club venture in the basement of 'Portlands' in central London. Apparently he took to the stage around midnight and it certainly sounds like the crowd had made several visits to the bar before Elvis' set.


My thanks to the unknown taper.

I carried out retracking throughout, added fades in / out where encore break had been edited out and also to smooth the cuts on Shoes Without Heels and I'll Wear It Proudly.

Editing lineage: Audacity (retracking, fades) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).


01. Next Time 'Round
02. Indoor Fireworks
03. Betrayal
04. I Hope You're Happy Now
05. Why Don't We Try Anymore
06. Sleep Of The Just
07. The Big Light
08. Shoes Without Heels (cuts in)
09. Blue Chair
- encore -
10. I'll Wear It Proudly (cuts out)
11. Poisoned Rose
12. Deportee
13. Brilliant Mistake


Duration 40:21

Notes:

First performances of
- "Next Time 'Round"
- "Indoor fireworks"
- "Poisoned Rose"
- "Shoes Without Heels" (one of 5 known performances)
- "Deportee" (though this song had been performed in its previous life as The Deportees Club)

Rare performances of:
- "Why Don't We Try Anymore" (one of 2 known performances)
- "Betrayal" (one of 6 known performances)


Artwork included in torrent

Uploaded to Dime a Dozen by colinb9 on 4 April 2009