Saturday, May 17, 2025

Elvis Costello - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, London, Britain, 10-17-1983

Here's another album I'm posting due to the BBC poll. It's Elvis Costello in concert for the BBC in 1983.

In August 1983, Costello released the studio album "Punch the Clock." This is from the concert tour to support that. So it naturally included a bunch of songs from that album: "Let Them All Talk," "Charm School," "Everyday I Write the Book," "Shipbuilding," "TKO (Boxing Day)," "The Greatest Thing" and "The World and His Wife."

Unfortunately, this was not the complete concert, as the BBC edited it down to fit a certain time slot. You can see the entire set list here:

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Concert Setlist at Hammersmith Palais, London on October 17, 1983 | setlist.fm 

The sound quality is excellent, even though everything here is unreleased. Someone named EN already remastered it and made some fixes, so I just went with that person's work.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Let Them All Talk (Elvis Costello)
02 talk (Elvis Costello)
03 Possession (Elvis Costello)
04 Watch Your Step (Elvis Costello)
05 The Greatest Thing (Elvis Costello)
06 talk (Elvis Costello)
07 Man Out of Time (Elvis Costello)
08 Shabby Doll (Elvis Costello)
09 From Head to Toe (Elvis Costello)
10 Charm School (Elvis Costello)
11 Oliver's Army (Elvis Costello)
12 Shipbuilding (Elvis Costello)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 The World and His Wife (Elvis Costello)
15 Alison (Elvis Costello)
16 Clowntime Is Over (Elvis Costello)
17 talk (Elvis Costello)
18 Everyday I Write the Book (Elvis Costello)
19 TKO [Boxing Day] (Elvis Costello)
20 talk (Elvis Costello)
21 Pump It Up (Elvis Costello) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DPvRnTN1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/HDutL6pGwOhWLao/file

The only thing I know about the cover image is it was taken in New York City at some point in 1983.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you. This is a warm up for seeing Elvis Costello next month here in Vegas. I'll be sure to record that show...

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  2. Small historical side note - the backing vocals are from Afrodiziak, one of whom (Karen Wheeler?) was the singer on Soul II Soul's massive hit Back 2 Life. I saw one of his UK gigs that tour. Superb.

    An excellent UK TV appearance -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC6T7wxkvfY

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