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Thread #119914   Message #2614053
Posted By: Helen
18-Apr-09 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: CTV TV Spectacle with Elvis Costello
Subject: RE: CTV TV Spectacle with Elvis Costello
In Oz we have had this show on ABC-TV for the last couple of weeks. The first one I saw was Lou Reed, and this week it was Sting and The Police. It's interesting when Elvis and the artist discuss a song and either or both get the guitar and sing a few phrases to illustrate what they are talking about.

On this week's show Elvis & Sting sang an Elizabethan song by John Dowland, with Sting playing the lute, à la Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth project. At the end of the show the band, Police, and Sting and Elvis sang a medley version of Elvis's song Watching the Detectives and one of the Police songs - title escapes me - and at one stage one of them was singing the chorus of one song while the band was playing the other song. Worked well.

In Oz the show is on ABC2 at 8.30pm Fridays and repeated on ABC1 at 11.30pm Thursdays.

Helen