03.10.2020
ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS AT SHEFFIELD CITY HALL
Elvis Costello and The Imposters at Sheffield City Hall – review, setlist and more
An army of fans loved his performance on Saturday evening
Yorkshire Live: Andrew Steel: 9th March 2020
‘It’s Saturday night in Sheffield, what do you say?’ Declan MacManus cries out a handful of chords into his show in the heart of South Yorkshire on a drizzle-flecked weekend evening.
Outside, the wind is starting to get up, but nestled in the Grade II-listed City Hall, the man best known as Elvis Costello is holding court in rambling, intermittently baggy but mostly engaged fashion.
“We’ve been backstage with the holy water and burning sage,” he quips, “because there were a few scenes back there in 1978, I can tell you!”