Nick Lowe

(Live Stiffs Tour)

Heart Of The City

(all-hands-on-deck finale!)

1977

"Live Stiffs": Heart Of The City: Nick Lowe's 'Last Chicken In The Shop' (Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Larry Wallis, Penny Tobin, Pete Thomas AND Terry Williams on drums--October, 1977: Lyceum, London)

...So they recruited the likes of Nick Lowe, Ian Duty and Elvis Costello right out of the pubs.

They put together a highly successful U.K. package tour with some of these artists, called “Live Stiffs.”

The first official Stiff Records release in the United States came late in 1978, in the form of Live Stiffs Live, a short album featuring live performances by Nick Lowe, wreckleSs Eric, Larry Wallis, Elvis Costello and Ian Duty from the package tour.
Live Stiffs Live documented a typical night on the Live Stiffs tour, with Lowe offering his take on classic rock styles, the underrated WreckleSs Eric getting lost in the shuffle, and Costello virtually blowing everyone off the stage.
The audience still considered these guys “punk” - at the beginning of the all-hands-on-deck finale!

One could argue that Costello and Lowe have never been better;
it was a moment that started a movement.

Be Stiff and behave!

**Where are they now?

Terry Williams joined Dire Straits and now owns a blues club in the UK.

Billy Bremner hooked up with The Pretenders for a short time.

Dave Edmunds recently survived a quadruple bypass operation and has resumed touring.

After divorcing Nick, Carlene Carter married another bass player, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Howie Epstein, who died in 2003. She was arrested for heroin possession in 2001.

Wonder what happened to Penny Tobin - anybody who knows?

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