Anybody out there? Elvis Costello's Spinning Songbook
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miss_emelmahaaeey
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06.07.2005 18:33
Likewise, just been busy, not much news. But I did happen upon
an interesting piece of information that at least Alli, being a big
Elvis Costello fan, will likely already know. Recently acquired the
excellent Blood and Chocolate album, and by jove there's a Tom
Waits connection. Knew EC was a fan, but that was about it, didn't
know that on his Spinning Songbook tour (ages ago, eighties I
think), Tom Waits guested as an MC, to spin this kind of wheel of
fortune thing with song titles, determining the playlist for the
night. Anyway, for anyone interested in such nuggets of TW trivia,
Elvis writes: 'We were assisted in this endeavour [spinning the
songbook wheel] by a series of guest M.C.s, the finest of which by
far was Tom Waits. He had both the animal magnetism and the
lion-tamer's charm to entice and corral our most outstanding
contestants. Others, including Buster Poindexter, Penn & teller,
and members of the Chicago Bears football team tried gamely to
match the opening night mayhem, but it was not until the final
night of the tour in Rome that the proceedings approached that
same surreal edge. Our guest M.C. that evening was the actor
Roberto Benigni, who deliberately translated my announcements
into utter nonsense. In a few other European countries the idea of
the show lost a little in translation, but on no other did it gain
quite so much.'
So there you go. Sounds fun, doesn't it, and no surprise to hear of
the involvement of the usual talented suspects. The booklet with
the album (rereleased version) also has a photo of Tom MCing
beside the wheel - typical KitKat style cabaret/carnival.
Hope everyone's doing alright.ReplyBack to forum
