Elvis Costello & the Attractions
March 29, 1978
Top Rank Suite
Brighton, England

anniversary repost

source: audience
tapers: Gary & Andy
lineage: master cassette > CoolEdit2000 > flac
sound: very good

This was first posted on Dime by Andyh in February 2007. Today's its anniversary, so here it is again for anyone who missed it. I fixed SBEs with TLH and added flac tags with Foobar2000.


01. [3:19] Waiting For The End Of The World (fades in)
02. [2:04] No Action
03. [3:30] This Year's Girl
04. [2:33] Moods For Moderns
05. [2:44] (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
06. [3:24] Two Little Hitlers
07. [3:49] Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
08. [3:29] The Beat
09. [2:41] Hand In Hand
10. [3:34] (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
11. [3:01] Pump It Up
12. [5:12] Lipstick Vogue
13. [6:17] Watching The Detectives
14. [3:47] You Belong To Me > encore break
15. [5:20] Miracle Man > encore break
16. [3:58] Mystery Dance > encore break
17. [6:13] I'm Not Angry

Duration : 65:01

Notes:
- "Waiting For The End Of The World" fades in at the beginning of the 3rd line, and has a brief noise at 0:59.
- "Watching The Detectives" has a couple dropouts between 0:50 and 0:55.
- first known performance of "Two Little Hitlers"
- first known performance of "Moods For Moderns" (not counting an instrumental version played a few weeks earlier)
- band intro during "Miracle Man".

Andy's original notes:
If you�re a Costello fan, this is one that really is worth getting excited about. Honestly. Here�s one I�ve been meaning to get round to doing for ages. It�s another from Gary and Andy�s box of old recordings left to gather dust in the loft. This has always been one of our big favourites, a recording we made of Elvis and the Attractions at the Top Rank in Brighton, on the �This Year�s Model� tour. It was recorded directly opposite the stage in stereo with two mics, each one pointing at a speaker stack. I can�t remember the machine we used, but it was nothing fancy, believe me.

I transferred the recording directly from the master cassette to PC with CoolEdit2000, with no added after-effects. You may notice a slight change in quality for �Mystery Dance�. The original tape became damaged halfway through this song, so I�ve used a copy I made years ago as a back-up and hardly played since. The tape machine wouldn�t start at the start of the show, so the first few seconds of track 1 are missing, hence the fade-in.

It�s a great gig that gets better and better as it rolls along, with the whole band having a ball, and a raucous crowd out for a great time. Pete Thomas comes from Brighton, so it�s a bit of a hometown gig and everyone seems determined to give their very best for friends and family. Points of interest are �Moods for Moderns� and �Two Little Hitlers�, neither of which was released at the time. Both ended up on the third album, but this show took place less than a fortnight after the release of the second album. That�s how Elvis was in those days. Also, �Less Than Zero� is the US version with lyrics about Lee Harvey Oswald. �I�m Not Angry� is just plain fantastic. The sound is pretty damned good for a 29-year-old recording, even though it has aged just a little. The mix and general auditorium sound that night was gorgeous. Please don�t leave a comment saying �this sounds like sh**� or something. It�s never been heard, it�s 1978, it�s even in stereo. What more could you want?


Torrent history -
- first posted on Dime in 2007 by andyh
- reposted in March 2009 by john234
- reposted in March 2013 by john234
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