Elvis Costello has turned the Madrid public into a confidant at his concert this Monday at the Lope de Vega theaterwhere he has exhibited a wide repertoire that has ranged from electronics to jazz adorned with extensive anecdotes of his intimate life and his musical career.
After an unsuccessful stop in Granada last Saturday, where the rain forced him to interrupt the concert, singer-songwriter and pianist have made up for their bad start on Spanish soil in a recital in which the public has shown their admiration and complicity, celebrating the classics and supporting him in his most experimental creations, some of them improvised at the time.
“We had heard that it never rained in Madrid, so we will have to celebrate it with a party,” the musician joked as soon as he stepped on the stage, referring to the storm that is shaking the country these days: two minutes past eight thirty and a capacity complete, including his friend Jorge Drexler, he was cheering Costello to the rooftops as he said goodbye to his iconic hat between bars of swing.
The Londoner’s arrival in the capital is part of his European tour, which began at the end of August in Italy, where he shared the stage with the singer Carmen Consoli, and in which it is accompanied exclusively by pianist Steve Snowcomponent of the band The Attractions with which he achieved worldwide fame.
The first attack has been one of the most experimental: When I was cruel No. 2 has made Costello unpack his entire electronic arsenal when he began to control a drum machine while playing his distorted guitar, making it clear that the show that had just begun was like those concerts in the eighties that proclaimed him the king of music. pub rock British.