03.14.2020
ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS / IAN PROWSE – USHER HALL, EDINBURGH, 10/03/2020
God Is In The TV: Ed Jupp: March 12th 2020.
Q: What’s the definition of an awesome gig?
Well, there’s probably lots of answers to that, but going home afterwards in a state of air-punching euphoria, and waking up with a nice glow the morning after are pretty good answers.
What can you say about Elvis Costello? As someone who emerged in the punk explosion of the second half of the seventies, he’s never stopped evolving and indeed still leaves many of his then-contemporaries standing (not for him flogging butter, making lute albums or death). He’s made over thirty albums, produced the likes of the Specials and the Pogues, collaborated with artists as diverse as the Brodsky Quartet, Roots and Allen Toussaint, and written songs with Carole King and Burt Bacharach. Not too shabby.
He and the Imposters deliver a setlist that is truly career-spanning, and little short of amazing.