As I mentioned in my write-up to the first album from this rock festival (the Teenage Head set), the Clash were billed as the headline act, but they cancelled at the last minute for some reason. Elvis Costello became the headliner instead. (However, one more act did come after, as I will explain in the next post.) Costello must have been aware of the problem with the Clash, because after playing the first song he jokingly introduced himself by saying, "Hello, we're the Clash!"
At the time of this concert, Costello's most recent album was "Get Happy!!," released in early 1980. It was his fourth. His next album would be "Trust," released in 1981. Not surprisingly, most of the songs here are from his first four albums. But he did four songs from his still to be released "Trust" album: "Shot with His Own Gun," "You'll Never Be a Man," "Lovers Walk," and "Clubland."
Like the other sets from this rock festival, this is professionally recorded, though still unreleased. However, the others generally had no problems. This one did have a few. For one thing, I couldn't find a single complete version, so I put this together from two different versions. But luckily both sources are soundboards (and probably ultimately different parts of the same recording). Additionally, there were some glitches. I didn't mark them with "[Edit]" as I usually do, so I don't remember the details. But I do remember there was a bad section of a chorus of "Alison" that I patched up by using another portion from a different chorus. And there was another problem like that with at least one other song.
This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.
093 Shot with His Own Gun (Elvis Costello)
094 talk (Elvis Costello)
095 Accidents Will Happen (Elvis Costello)
096 The Beat (Elvis Costello)
097 talk (Elvis Costello)
098 Temptation (Elvis Costello)
099 Green Shirt (Elvis Costello)
100 talk (Elvis Costello)
101 You'll Never Be a Man (Elvis Costello)
102 [I Don't Want to Go To] Chelsea (Elvis Costello)
103 Secondary Modern (Elvis Costello)
104 Lovers Walk (Elvis Costello)
105 Less than Zero (Elvis Costello)
106 Big Tears (Elvis Costello)
107 talk (Elvis Costello)
108 High Fidelity (Elvis Costello)
109 talk (Elvis Costello)
110 Alison (Elvis Costello)
111 Lipstick Vogue (Elvis Costello)
112 talk (Elvis Costello)
113 Clubland (Elvis Costello)
114 Oliver's Army (Elvis Costello)
115 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
116 You Belong to Me (Elvis Costello)
117 talk (Elvis Costello)
118 Radio Radio (Elvis Costello)
119 Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)
120 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Elvis Costello)
121 Mystery Dance (Elvis Costello)
122 talk (Elvis Costello)
123 I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Elvis Costello)
The cover photo comes from this exact concert.
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