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Elvis Costello And U2 — "Pump It Up"/"Get On Your Boots"  

Here's Bono, taking the steam out of all the "Pump It Up" jokes everyone was making on first hearing about U2's overstuffed bag of sexy boots. This comes from last Wednesday's Season 2 premiere of Costello's excellent Spectacle With... show. As per custom, host Elvis runs an engaging Q segment with the band and couches it with a bunch of jam sessions in which he joins on their material ("Stuck In A Moment"), occasionally taking one over...  

In celebration of the 2nd season of Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., we're giving away a copy of Season One on DVD. To enter for your chance to win, just tell us what music artist you'd most love to see sit down with Elvis Costello (alive or dead) in the comments section below. Enter by Friday, December 18 at noon (PST) and we'll choose an entry at random. Besides the DVD, there's also a plethora of Sundance branded items we're throwing in...  

I always thought "Get On Your Boots" sounded awfully close to "Pump It Up," and here's the proof...Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Bono, The Edge mash 'em together on Spectacle,...  

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With..." 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Sundance Channel There is a moment in the Season 2 premiere of "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With..." where the camera catches a look on the faces of a few people in the audience who...  

Elvis Costello [ tickets ] and The Attractions' legendary 1978 show at Hollywood High will surface on CD next month, marking the first time the performance has been available in its entirety.Titled "Live at Hollywood High," the 20-song set is scheduled for a Jan. 12 release, and will include 11 previously unreleased recordings, according to Universal Music Enterprises.The album features a then-23-year-old Costello performing in front of a sold...  

Elvis Costello and the Attractions live from Hollywood High School from 1978 will be given a CD release.  

Her voice is so sexy and sultry. I love that she's married to Elvis Costello, because he's a favorite, too. She's a wonderful pianist, and so evocative when she sings, wistful and masterful. I don't get why my parents haven't discovered her, too, ...  

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Elvis Costello was 23 years old when he performed a sold-out concert at the auditorium of Hollywood High School. It was June 4, 1978 and he had been introduced to America with a controversial appearance on "Saturday Night Live" and two alb...  

(Spacelab Music News) Back for you with season deux: Elvis Costello returns tonight with the launch of the second season of his TV show on the Sundance Channel.  

BONO, ALLEN TOUSSAINT, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AMONG GUESTS IN SEASON TWO OF SUNDANCE CHANNEL'S "SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH..." Elvis Costello Sundance Channel will launch the second season of its critically acclaimed music/talk original series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. et/pt with an episode featuring U2's Bono and The Edge. "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." combines the best elements...  

"Elvis Costello With..." Bono, Toussaint, the Boss, MoreAll About JazzCostello is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee; a Grammy and Ivor Novello Award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) songwriter and performer comfortable in ...and more »  

Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… returns for its second season on the Sundance Channel this Wednesday, December 9th with U2’s Bono and the Edge joining the My Aim is True singer-songwriter for an intimate conversation about the recording of some of the band’s biggest hits, a performance of some obscure U2 tracks and a show-ending “mash-up” [...]  

The second season of Elvis Costello’s ‘rock-talk show’ series “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” premieres Wednesday, December 9, with U2’s Bono and The Edge as special guests. Episodes air on Sundance Channel each Wednesday at 10pm ET. Guests for future episodes will include Sheryl Crow, Levon Helm, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, Larry Campbell, Allen Toussaint, Lyle [...] Related posts:Schedule Released for Austin City Limits’ 35th...  

Independent Film Channel's popular music and talk series, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., kicks off its second season tonight. The first season - which included  guests such as Elton John, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Bill Clinton and The Police - proved to viewers that in addition to a singer-songwriter, Costello is a more-than-competent host. Tonight, Costello brings two well-known musical icons to the show: Bono and The Edge. The...  

Upping the ante on any TV show that got off to as auspicious a start as the first season of the Sundance Channel's music interview-performance series " Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” is a tall order. After all, the first episode featured a ...  

A Christmas tree in downtown Vancouver is now shining a little brighter, with some high-profile help. Musical couple Elvis Costello and Diana Krall took part in a lighting ceremony Tuesday, hitting the button to illuminate a tree outside the city's art gallery.  

'Live At Hollywood High' to be released in January  

Elvis Costello is opening the second season of his interview show with a bang or, more accurately, a Bono.  

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected "Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane," arrived June 9 on Hear Music.  

Spectacle with Elvis Costello: Bono & Edge talk Paul McCartney  

Spectacle with Elvis Costello: Bono & Edge talk Paul McCartney  

Highly Recommended THE SHOW: The concept behind Elvis Costello's Spectacle series is so simple, I can't believe no one has thought of it before, and so smart, you almost have to marvel that anyone is putting it on TV. The Sundance Channel series consists of fifty-minute programs with Costello and special guests sitting around and discussing music interrupted by marvelous performances with Elvis...  

Read the YouTube notes to this pre-Internet, pre-broadband classic warning about the Powers-that-Be:Elvis Costello's famous appearance on Saturday Night Live. He was warned not to play this song as it is a negative commentary of broadcasting. He began playing "Less Than Zero" then launched into 'Radio Radio', prompting Lorne Michaels to cut off the live television feed and banning Elvis from the show forever. This is what they cut. NOTE...  

Bruce Springsteen, members of U2 and Sheryl Crow will be among the guests for season two of "Spectacle: Elvis Costello [ tickets ] With...," which airs on the Sundance Channel, according to a press release.The second season of the critically acclaimed music/talk series will debut Dec. 9 with special guests Bono and The Edge. Additional confirmed guests for the seven-part season include Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Ron Sexsmith, Neko Case, Ray...  

U2 frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge enjoyed themselves while taping a segment of Elvis Costello's Spectacle — actually the Season 2 premiere which airs Friday on CTV — at the Masonic Temple in Toronto back in mid-September.[...]  

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career ...  

At 2:15 of this brief clip, the interviewer asks Elvis Costello if he wants to defend what he'd said in Newsweek about Boston (the band, I'm pretty sure, given her exchange with Nick Lowe starting at 1:58). I've been unable to figure out on the Google just what was said about Boston; can you tell me?  

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons @ Studio at Webster Hall If you are in the mood for quirky indie rock reminiscent of early Elvis Costello then this is the performer to see. He is the new geeky heart breaker of this day and age. Should be a glorious show. @The Studio at Webster Hall Location: 125 E llth St (map) Starts: 11 pm Cost: $10a/$12d  

This live album, recorded in 1978 at the Toronto venue, was originally a much sought-after bootleg that was first released as a promotional disc. It was later released properly in 1993 as part of the 2 ½ Years box set and has now been reissued. While the sound quality isn't great and doesn't seem to have been improved, that doesn't really matter. What's important is that Costello and The Attractions play an absolutely blistering 49-minute set...  

Elvis Costello will take over Sirius XM’s all-Springsteen, all-the-time E Street Radio station next Friday to spin a few of his favorite Boss-related tunes. A rep for the satellite radio service has provided the Music Mix with a list of the songs ...  

Elvis Costello performs live! He’ll also talk about his long career in music and about hosting the second season of the critically acclaimed music/talk show "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." on the Sundance Channel. The season premieres Wednesday, December 9, and includes one-on-one interviews, pairings, group discussions, and performances. Guests for the seven-part season include: Bono, The Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett...  

Michael J. Fox joined Elvis Costello, Steven Tyler, and Blues Traveler’s John Popper onstage at the “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s” benefit in New York. Wait, that’s seriously what it’s called? It’s super inconvenient to say, plus the event has nothing to do with Broadway musicals or comedy – who [...]  

The Roots and Elvis Costello are two tireless acts who are so in love with collaborating. These days you see Elvis join in jams on his Spectacle interview/performance show. Questo et al do it all the time at their Late Night digs, and if you were lucky enough to have a ticket to Dirty Projectors' tour-closing show at Bowery last night, you saw Ahmir, Captain Kirk, and another Root join the band on "Stillness Is The Move" (Byrne showed up too...  

BillboardU2 makes a 'Spectacle' for CostelloToronto SunBono and Elvis Costello in a special holiday sneak peek of Season 2 of Spectacle. (Handout) Music fans fantasize that all the biggest rock stars know each other. And they live together in a big house. “Or Help! ...Elvis Costello enjoys TV role as "carnival barker"Reuters Canadaall 24 news articles »  

One of the surprise debuts of last year had to be Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., a talk show featuring Costello pulling off the rare triple threat: host, performer and bandleader. Equal parts interview and jam session, the Sundance series relies upon Costello putting the artists at ease, getting even the prickliest of artists to open up and speak warmly about their influences.But, as Martin Mull once famously quipped, "talking about music...  

Rocker ELVIS COSTELLO is to end his run as a chat show host after just two seasons because his "side project" takes up too much of his time.The Brit fronts music...  

Elvis Costello is in a philosophical mood on this sombre, wet, late fall afternoon. Spectacle: Elvis Costello with . . . Bono & The Edge, the next instalment in Costello's open-ended series of conversations about music, with the people who make music ...  

"Sundance Channel will premiere the second season of its critically acclaimed music/talk original series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00pm et/pt. "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." combines the best elements of talk and music television and...  

The music/talk show "Spectacle," whose second season premieres Wednesday at 10 on Sundance, has Elvis Costello talking and playing with guests from U2 and Bruce Springsteen, and more.  

All About Jazz is celebrating Diana Krall's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Diana KrallIt had only been a few days since singer and pianist Diana Krall publicly announced that she and husband Elvis Costello were expecting their first child. Her remarks may have primarily focused on her upcoming album... more...  

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Elvis Costello is a first-rate talk show host. The critically beloved British singer-songwriter has been churning out literate and clever songs in an array of genres - from rock to classical - for more than 30 years. After talking with him by phone from New York about the upcoming second season ...  

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The critic's darling talk (and rock) show Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... is back for its second season this Wednesday, starting out the gates strong with U2's Bono and the Edge. Costello, who likens his role on the series to that of "a carnival barker," works his charms to both shrink Bono's ego and turn the Edge into a comedian (sort of)."I remember the first time I ever heard you in person... and I heard this sound -- I mean, I have to...  

Stephen Colbert Channels Elvis CostelloAmerican SongwriterStephen Colbert has never been shy about horning in on his musical guests on the Colbert Report. ...Watch: Stephen Colbert Sings "Cheap Reward" w/ Elvis CostelloTwentyFourBit (blog)all 2 news articles »  

NEW YORK (AP) - Elvis Costello is going to jam and chat with U2 and Bruce Springsteen for the second season of his TV show. “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” will premiere on the Sundance Channel on December 9. Costello’s guests this season include Bono and The Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Ray LaMontagne, [...]  

Attended the Elvis Costello show with my daughter, at the Royal Theatre last night. Amazing show – the man is such a talent – he played the whole show solo, just him and a range of his favourite guitars. The warm up act, Shelley Harland wowed the audiance also – a great future for this [...]  

DVD Review - Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... Season 1Film.comBut, as Martin Mull once famously quipped, "talking about music is like dancing about architecture," and so it's the tremendous musical performances ...and more »  

Sundance Channel's "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … ," which commences its new season Dec. 9, has lined up some big-name guests, according to Multichannel News.The Elton John-produced talk show with music has set U2's Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow and Lyle Lovett for the sophomore season.-- Allison J. Waldman  

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' Elvis Costello: Spectacle Season 1 ' comes out on BD today. To promote the release, the London-born singer/songwriter turned TV host will be appearing today at Barnes & Noble Tribeca (97 Warren Street, New York). Fans will have the opportunity to ...  

The Roots joined Elvis Costello for a performance of Get Happy! on Fallon, where he was promoting the second season of the Sundance Channel's...  

Singer and songwriter Elvis Costello spoke to Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez about his hit TV show "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...," his family and his music.  

New episodes start 12/9 on Sundance Channel. This second season at the Apollo will feature Elvis' Q/performances with Bono and the Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Neko Case, Nick Lowe, Levon Helm, Ray LaMontagne, Richard Thompson, and others. Tivo!  

Singer and songwriter Elvis Costello spoke to Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez about his hit TV show "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...," his family and his music.  

Legendary music icon, British rocker Elvis Costello's songs have topped the music charts for more than three decades. Costello discusses his Sundance Channel Special Series and...  

Legendary music icon, British rocker Elvis Costello's songs have topped the music charts for more than three decades. Costello discusses his Sundance Channel Special Series and...  

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Elvis Costello performs his song "My Three Sons" from his album "Momofuku" released in 2008.  

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Elvis Costello performs his song “My Three Sons” from his album “Momofuku” released in 2008. 29 Vote(s)  

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Elvis Costello performs his song "My Three Sons" from his album "Momofuku" released in 2008.  

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Elvis Costello performs his song "My Three Sons" from his album "Momofuku" released in 2008.  

Join Elvis Costello and a variety of special guests for an intimate music experience in high-def next month. Music Video Distribution will box up all thirteen one-hour episodes of 'Elvis Costello: Spectacle...  

Lime Wire (blog)Elvis Costello's 'Spectacle' Announces Star-Studded Second SeasonLime Wire (blog)And yet, it looks like the new round of Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… shows is going to very high-wattage indeed. This year's marquee names are two of the ...Elvis Costello hosts second season of "Spectacle"CDInsightBono, Neko Case Join Elvis Costello On His TV ShowBeatCrave.comBono, Boss Join Costello On Sundance Channel's SpectacleMultichannel...  

BeatCrave.comBono, Neko Case Join Elvis Costello On His TV ShowBeatCrave.comBy most accounts last year's debut season of Sundance Channel's music/interview show Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… was pretty damn good. ...Bono and The Edge on Elvis Costello's TV Show “Spectacle”U2log.com (blog)Springsteen, U2, Neko Case to Hit Elvis Costello's TV Show "Spectacle"Pitchfork Mediaall 11 news articles »  

Any Bluegrass fans out there? Merlefest has announced its 2010 line-up, featuring classic Bluegrass and “Traditional-plus” music from the likes of Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, the recently ‘Bluegrassified’ Elvis Costello, and a number of other heavy-hitters in the broader Bluegrass realm. The Wilkesboro, North Carolina festival will take place April 29 – May 2, 2010, and [...] Related posts:Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Sheryl...  

The 2010 Songwriter Hall of Fame nominations have been announced with Lou Reed, U2 and Elvis Costello up for the award. About Elvis Costello, the Songwriter Hall of Fame said, “One of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the modern rock era ...  

October 13, 2009 - New York - Sundance Channel will premiere the second season of its critically acclaimed music/talk original series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00pm et/pt. "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with ...  

Shelf Talk: With its strong roster of guests and renowned singer-songwriter host, Spectacle will receive significant interest from music fans who missed its surprisingly low-key Sundance Channel broadcast run earlier this year. A second season is ...  

SINGAPORE - No band and no back-up singers - just Elvis Costello with his guitar, singing to a sell-out audience at the Esplanade Concert Hall on October 5. The one-night gig was one of the several international acts performing at this year's ...  

News Roundup: The White Stripes, Johnny Marr, Weezer, Elvis CostelloAmerican SongwriterElvis Costello has announced the upcoming guests for the second season of his brilliant TV show, Spectacle. Filmed at Harlem's Apollo Theater, ...and more »  

Highlights from the 2009 televised awards show. (CBS) Grammy-winner Elvis Costello has been topping the Billboard charts for more than three decades. His rich lyrics and diverse musical style make him one of the most innovative and influential ...  

Elvis Costello's claim to greatness enhancedThe AustralianBUTTONED up against a winter-like chill delivered by the Fremantle Doctor from the nearby coast, a very healthy looking Elvis Costello gave a 100-minute ...  

Elvis Costello & The AttractionsWinterland (San Francisco, CA)06.07.1978  

Elvis Costello & The AttractionsWinterland (San Francisco, CA)06.07.1978  

The second season of Elvis Costello critically acclaimed seven-part TV series, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, premieres on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 9....  

REVIEW: Elvis Costello, Palais Melbourne, October 13, 2009Undercover Music NewsElvis Costello is doing it all alone on his current Australian tour. It is just Elvis and half a dozen of his guitars. ...  

Rocker Elvis Costello is to end his run as a chat show host after just two seasons because his "side project" takes up too much of his time.  

Songwriters Hall Of Fame Unveils 2010 NomineesAmerican Songwriter... The Songwriters Hall of Fame have announced their list of nominees for 2010, a list which includes John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, and Elvis Costello. ...  

Herald & ReviewJohn Fogerty's memoriesHerald & ReviewDavid Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello - they've all recorded “covers” albums of varying quality. Rosanne Cash has just put one out ...and more »  

DrunkDial101's Halloween episode trailer on-line nowDane101Guests include director of "Incest Death Squad" Cory Ulder, The Kisser's own Sean Michael Dargan as Elvis Costello, and the almighty one himself, God. ...  

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Triple Elvis: How does Stojko rank against Presley and Costello? Thursday, November 5, 2009 | 04:24 PM ET Elvis Costello, left and Elvis Presley, right, ...  

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The Scoop with Courtney Hazlettmsnbc.comScarlett Johansson is wild about Mango, George Clooney makes a Foxy arrival at his premiere, Elvis Costello sings for his supper and more. ...  

November 9, 2009 -- Campaign Features SERVE4 - A Limited-Edition Digital Album of Previously Unreleased & Rare Tracks from O.A.R., Elvis Costello, Brett Dennen, Eric...