Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve

Name: Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
Start: 2025-02-27T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Capitol Theatre

Schedule

Thu, 27 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Capitol Theatre | Port Chester, NY

Elvis Costello:
Elvis Costello arrived as a sneering spitfire, the smartest and meanest X singer/songwriter in the first wave of 1970s British punk backed by the Attractions, a band who could match his ferocity. Soon, Costello galloped away from the loud, fast rules of punk, demonstrating his musical and verbal facility with Armed Forces, a 1979 album that contained "Oliver's Army" "Accidents Will Happen," and his cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding." a trio of singles that turned into new wave standards. Such rapid musical evolution and switches in style became the rule in Costello's career, as he amassed a catalog that seemed to touch upon every conceivable genre of popular music. Many of his more esoteric projects arrived in his middle age and beyond, after he'd cultivated a loyal audience in the '80s through a series of rapid-fire masterpieces, most backed by the Attractions. He later reconvened the band --and later still, retains most of the players for his latter-day backing group the Imposters -- but starting with 1989's Spike, Costello seized the freewheeling opportunities that came with being a solo act, bouncing from dense pop to classical compositions to collaborations with '60s icons Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach. This sense of adventure increased in the 2000s as he toured with the Imposters, cut Americana albums with his old cohort T-Bone Burnett, and collaborated with both New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussaint and the venerated hip-hop group the Roots. His eclecticism never seemed forced: the one constant in his career was an insatiable appetite for music, a hunger evidenced by such adventurous albums as the jazz- inflected Hey Clockface and Spanish Model, where he reworked This Year's Model with contemporary Latino singers. Alongside his left- turns, stripped-down albums like 2022's The Boy Named If showed that the fire that inspired him to pick up a quitar in the first place hasn't dimmed even a little

Steve Nieve:
I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
In 2002 and 2004 at the occasion of the 45th and 47th Grammy Awards Ceremony, as a member of Elvis Costello and the Imposters I was nominated for a total of three Grammy awards, Best Alternative Music Album “Cruel Smile”, Best Rock Album “Delivery Man” and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal “Monkey to a Man”
In 2019 at the occasion of the 62nd Grammy Awards Ceremony, I was awarded a Grammy for my participation to Elvis Costello and the Imposter’s album Look Now
In 2007, the opera I composed with my partner Muriel Teodori, ʻWelcome to the Voiceʼ, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios for the Deutsche Grammophon label. We gave six performances of Welcome to the Voice at the Chatelet Theater in Paris with Sting, Sylvia Schwartz, Elvis Costello, Anna Gabler, Joe Sumner, directed by Muriel Teodori, who
wrote the book and lyrics.