Elvis Costello & the Imposters Tickets

As I expected. Always a little different, and never a disappointment. Elvis always puts it on and leaves you feeling as though you spent your money wisely.

As a long time fan I was really excited for this show. Elvis' notes were flat much of the time, and he played mostly deep cuts. Finally the last 30 minutes were full of hits.

The dive into early Elvis Costello was truly lovely. Initially the sound balance overwhelmed his voice. His onstage banter was delightful. Nice stories and great talk about his life. The highlights of the early years were hit appropriately. Some songs I wish were played weren’t but enjoyable overall.

Elvis Costello sure knows how to put on a show! What a versatile musician spanning the years. I’ve never seen a group play for two solid hours with no intermission/break. Make sure not to miss the opportunity to see this sow!

You won’t ever hear me saying a bad thing about Elvis Costello. He’s one of my favorites and I try and see him every time he comes through town. The venue, however, is in desperate need of refurbishment. The sound quality is terrible, to the point where I avoid performances there if at all possible. At this particular show, the sound was so uneven we could barely hear Elvis over his band for most of the set. The seats are small, worn and uncomfortable and the two directly in front of me were missing their arm rests entirely. But they had bolts and wood poking out ready to stab whoever sat there. The paint is peeling and it’s just looking so sad in there. The Murat Theatre is a piece of Indianapolis history and deserves a little love. Please consider renovating the space so that it’s enjoyable for years to come.

Sat at the front of the balcony & the sound, particularly the vocals, were very muddy, took a while to figure out what each song was. Elvis did 5 songs less than other recent shows. I did like the theme of early hits, haven’t heard Radio Radio or Less Than Zero live for some time.

Costello, did a nice job and played for a solid two hours, unlike others. Sound was not great. It was difficult to hear the words of the songs. I thought for sure they would turn up costello's mic or treble, but they never did. Oh well we enjoyed the show. Thk u.

This is the forth time seeing Elvis Costello. He is one of my old time favs! The band sounded great and loved that Elvis played from his early day albums with some great hits like "Pump it up", :Allison"and "Watching the detectives". I will have to say it seems like it's getting harder for him to hit the notes and stay in tune sometimes but he is getting older and voices don't stay the same as in you youth. Also sound mixer could have done a better job as well. Sounded unclear a few times. Overall he's fun and entertaining and the band was fantastic.

I've seen Elvis about 6 times over the years, once around 19months ago in Clearwater. The Clearwater show was spectacular. 2.5 hrs of great singing and musicianship. Unfortunately Thursday night's show fell flat. Elvis's voice was very weak and the mix was terrible with the music swallowing the vocals whole. I had great seats but that didn't make up for the performance. Im very disappointed after all of the stellar shows I've seen in the past.

Costello was out of tune most of the show. Bad selection of songs and no dynamics on the stage. Disappointing.

I really love Elvis Costello and was so looking forward to his concert. However, it was terrible. I've probably seen over 100 concerts in my lifetime and this was as bad as it gets. The sound mix was way off so the drums and bass were much too loud to the point where sometime you couldn't even hear Charlie Sexton's guitar. But, the worst part was the Elvis sang off key the entire show. It was so bad that at times I couldn't tell what song they were singing. He should be embarrassed by this performance and should feel bad about taking people's money and delivering such a dreadful performance.

When I heard that Elvis was revisiting the early years of his career I was excited to see him play his old hits. What a dissappointment! Early in the show He played "Watching the Detectives". I would say that he sang it but that was not the case. It was as if he were reading from a novel on his book tour. Not a book of poetry because the way he spoke the "song", wasn't on beat with the music (as were most of the songs in the set) and elide the words so that you could not understand what he was "singing"(more like talking). As for the setlist it was self indulgent slow/sad songs up until the last 30 minutes of the show. The middle part of the show he moved over to stage left (where that side of the audience in the upper level couldn't see the band )and played piano as they did an accoustic set. Of MORE slow songs after announcing right before that "That's the end of the slow/sad songs"Up until the last 30 minutes he had the audience glued to their seats. For the last 30 minutes he finally played what the audience paid to see. He played six more songs that were his hits back in the day, but left out several of his hits he could have played in place of the slow, coma inducing songs he chose. (ie. Veronica, I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes, Oliver's Army) The crowd was on their feet only for this part of the show

Elvis Costello's show was marred by a poor sound system that muddied the vocals and led to an imbalance of the instruments, especially an over-emphasis on the drums. I was familiar with almost all of the songs and was able to follow most lyrics, but my companion was not as familiar with the setlist, and he said he couldn't follow most of the vocals due to the poor clarity. I don't know how much of the sound problem was due to the band or the venue, but I will probably not go to another concert at this venue.

Nice show at the Roxy. He played all older stuff. Really spot on Voice was hard to hear at time but mostly because the band was so loud and the venue is small. But he seemed on top of it. 2 hours of solid playing. No banter of any kind.

The crew at the venue did a great job - the sound, especially the vocals, were terrible. Really ruined the show - could not understand a lyric.

Elvis & the band were great, but the MGM Fenway might have had the worst, most tone deaf mixer of all time! He made Elvis's electric guitars sound screechy and horrible and his voice a mumble. And it was also a crime not to be able to hear Charlie Sexton's guitar either. But I will say that the acoustic numbers were better. MGM needs to take lessons from the folks across the street at the House of Blues. Now there's a place where I can hear the music and appreciate the sound as it should be.

My Wife and I saw Elvis on Sept 30. We had seen him 3 years ago and he was outstanding, so we were especially looking forward to him doing a show focused on his earlier work. As the set proceeded, our concern turned to disappointment. In fact, during the second song my wife asked (jokingly) if Elvis had been drinking. The songs were completely redone (and not in an interesting or inventive way like some performers do). It was like each member of the band was doing a different song. There was no cohesion. Elvis was half signing, half mumbling lyrics in almost a free form improvisational way. The band was grossly out of time, and the songs began to represent 5 kids playing out of tune instruments loudly, and poorly in a garage somewhere. Some of the “extended” “jams” was pretty much Elvis banging on one chord or noodling around for a painfully long time. It’s one thing to play with angst and attitude, it’s another to just make noise for the sake of noise. Also, the mixing was atrocious. It’s one thing for the songs to be painful, but it’s even worse when the mix is so muddled and poor that the unpleasantness was further amplified. I am a huge Elvis fan. I waited to be sure I was not rushing to judgment in how the concert was going, with the hope it would turn around. By the 8th or so song it was apparent that this was going to be how the entire show would be and we decided to leave. I was on the way out of the theater but could still hear Accidents Will Happen, and Radio Radio being butchered. My wife and I just couldn’t fathom at how Elvis, and his band, could have been thinking what they were playing sounded good or was what they were trying to achieve. I understand artists like to rework certain songs and that they may be restless playing songs they’ve done many times before in the same way. But these interpretations lacked a new form of presentation that was the least bit creative or interesting. A real disappointment as far as failed expectations, a long night of driving to and from the event, a lot of $ for tickets, and just an overall negative experience.

Kind of a disappointing show. The drum sound from the beginning was just.... bizarre. This seemed to get better as the show went on, so maybe the sound crew at the panel tweaked something. I understand artists get bored over time, but there were changes to some of the arrangements that weren't for the better, IMO. This tour was billed as "the early songs". I, like most people I think, assumed this would be a "greatest hits"sort of show, like giving his older fans what they want to hear. OK, technically it didn't say anything about greatest hits and I assumed wrong. Some big hits of course, but probably at least half the songs were deep dives into relatively obscure territory, at least to all but the most die hard fans who have heard literally every song on every album. I certainly didn't recognize a lot of it, and even some that I did, I didn't care for the changes he made. There was a long-ish acoustic style set in the middle that kind of dragged. It rocked out the last 3 or 4 songs, but even then it was kind of a muddy mix. If you didn't already know the words by heart, you would have had a hard time hearing his words since he was a little drowned out and unclear. For me, this was really a 2 star show. I've seen him once before and I enjoyed that far more, and that was even in a less acoustically good venue. For those who want something a little different and will appreciate a "deep cuts"show with some lesser known early songs, and don't mind the arrangement changes (I didn't even recognize "Mystery Dance"until half way through), and don't need crystal clear sound mix, this might be a 4 star show for you. I took that into account and averaged this to 3 stars :)

The concert, in Durham, was a painful event for me. Featuring a faltering musical icon surrounded by a dedicated entourage determined to cover his failing voice and attention with a wall of sound that frequently degenerated into high energy noise. Elvis' lyrics were repeatedly out of time with the music and his voice wavered from classic Elvis Costello to, 'what is that horrible sound?' We left after an hour. Hopefully it was just a terrible mistake, but I fear that this is rather one tour too many. It pains me to write these things as I'd prefer to thank him for decades of soul-satisfying, mind-stimulating musical sarcasm. And I do.

I love EC. Have most of his albums. Loved reading his autobiography, watching EC's Spectacle TV talk show. He is one of the great songwriting and vocal legends with an encyclopedic knowledge of music genres. But... He could not sing. He could not carry a tune; couldn't find the key. He could not keep the beat. The band flailed away like a freight train dragging EC to the tempo, to no avail. He could not solo. Charlie Sexton, no doubt brought in to manage the heavy lifting, should have played ALL the solos. He did not. The sound had EC's vocals buried in the mix, perhaps to hide the aforementioned shortcomings. The band was great. The slow, quiet numbers came across far better than the uptempo ones. EC's piano playing was quite good. I am sad to say, I will never see Elvis Costello again.