Name: Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
Start: 2025-03-01T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Cabot

Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve have been cohorts and bandmates since 1977.
“Costello is one of the world’s greatest songwriters, up there with McCartney. You forget how many timeless songs he actually has until he plays them.” – Irish Independent
“Nieve is astonishing, like the ghost of George Gershwin being watched over by Philip Glass” – Irish Times
Costello and Nieve have appeared together on more than twenty-five recordings and performing on stages from the Grosse Freiheit 36 in Hamburg to the Royal Albert Hall in London, debuting songs such as “Accidents Will Happen” and “Shot With His Own Gun” with only piano accompaniment and playing their first two-man shows in 1995, then undertaking “The Lonely World Tour” together in 2003.
Steve Nieve is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions and the composer of “Welcome To The Voice,” an opera written with Muriel Teodori, which was produced at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris and later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. He has played with Elvis Costello and The Imposters since 2002.
On November 1, 2024, UMe released, ‘King Of America & Other Realms’ – a 6-CD collection tracing Elvis Costello’s travels from his 1986 album recorded in Hollywood through his work in the American musical cities and towns of New Orleans, LA; Oxford and Clarksdale, MS; and Nashville and Memphis, TN and brought up to the present day with a haunting minor key arrangement of “Brilliant Mistake” recorded in Cape Fear, NC.
“Costello challenges us to confront the stories we inherit and the places we inhabit. Almost 40 years later, “King of America” remains Costello’s map of disillusionment and aspiration, both timeless and acutely of its moment, a kingdom where invisible walls define the boundaries of our dreams” – Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Costello’s 35-page accompanying essay for the ‘King Of America & Other Realms’ box-set traces the forty year collaboration and friendship with songwriter and producer, T Bone Burnett, the latest installment which is “The True Story of The Coward Brothers” an Audible Original comedic drama, written by Elvis Costello and directed by Christopher Guest in which Burnett and Costello take the roles of the rock and roll charlatans and charmingly deluded siblings “Henry and Howard Coward” in a cast which includes Harry Shearer and Rhea Seehorn.
The 20-track accompanying album, ‘The Coward Brothers’ was released in November 2024 by New West Records and features the full-length renditions of the songs heard in the course of what the author refers to as “a wireless address”.