Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Starlight Theatre
Kansas City, MO
1 August 1982


01. Accidents Will Happen
02. Green Shirt
03. Pidgin English
04. Hand In Hand
05. Shabby Doll
06. Watch Your Step
07. Toight The Bottle Let Me Down
08. Backstabbers - King Horse
09. ...And In Every Home
10. Watching The Detectives - Help Me
11. The Long Honeymoon
12. Kid About It
13. Temptation
14. From Head To Toe
15. You Belong To Me
16. New Lace Sleeves
17. Alison - One Day I Shall Be Smiling Again
18. Beyond Belief
19. Clubland
20. Imperial Bedroom
21. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
22. Two Steps From The Blues
23. Mystery Dance
24. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)?
25. Almost Blue
26. Pump It Up
27. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
28. Shipbuilding
29. Radio, Radio
30. Big Sister's Clothes


Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Bruce Thomas - bass guitar
Pete Thomas - drums


Recorder: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown


Comments by area51GM:
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40 years on ...........................................
After the excitement of three Texan gigs, I wondered whether the Attractions would take their collective feet off the pedals but this rather fine recording seems to show them at their collective best. there are a lot of highlights on this particular recording and I've enjoyed working on this most of all the shows I've covered so far. It doesn't appear on the Dime database ( thanks to Jeff who helped me find my way to this precious resource!) which seems really surprising to me having found it such a delight. Of course, you'll probably all disagree with me but here goes .
The first opening has a glitch in it ("Accidents Will Happen") but the clarity of the recording helps make this a delight particularly if you're a Steve Nieve fan as his playing sparkles throughout the gig, ranging from the Honky Tonk tinkling in "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down" through to the grandiose operatic statements in "And In Every Home", the smoky atmospherics of "The Long Honeymoon" and the soul stomp on "From Head To Toe". There's a tape flip I would suppose at the end of "Kid About It" and a glitch in the following "Temptation" Elvis also parades his fine singing, as noticed in the reviews available from the Elvis Costello wiki for this gig at _
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Concert_1982-08-01_Kansas_City
and his singing is particularly fine in the slower numbers and in his improvised "skat" vocals in the end of "Alison - One Day I Shall be Singing" piece.
The first encore starts with Elvis introducing "Red Shoes" as a song written about 1903 -" -a random date - and his singing reaches similar peaks in "Almost Blue" where Bruce's bass sounds perfectly balanced and complimentary to the gentle brushwork of Pete and Steve's sophisticated accompaniment. There is a further jump at the start of "Peace, Love And Understanding" and Steve plays a strange misplaced chord (surely not) at the start of "Shipbuilding" . "Big Sister's Clothes" wraps up the gig but there is a play out of programmed music from Steve's synthesiser which would be increasingly used during the following gigs. I really like this recording, many thanks to whoever first recorded this - I salute you!
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