Attractive Line Up Nowlan Park

Local hero Stephen Murphy, Revelino, The Alice Band, Juliet Turner and Glen Hansard all brought something to the Nowlan Park party but it's fair to say that things went into overdrive from the moment The Blind Boys Of Alabama (right) entered with an impossibly soulful and gospel-drenched ‘Danny Boy’. The proverbial tough act to follow, the world's greatest ’80s group were followed by a man intent on revisiting his own ’80s as, backed by a band featuring star Attractions Steve Naieve and Pete Thomas, Elvis Costello (above) tore into his most rockin' show in years revisiting ‘Less Than Zero’, ‘You Belong To Me’, ‘Oliver's Army’ and, in a perfect nod to the mainman, quoting ‘Subterranean Homesick Blows’ in the course of an absolutely pulsating ‘Pump It Up’.