Elvis Costello: Live with the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Turns Blue

Herald rating: ***

Costello's back in arthouse mode, taking a swingin' if bloodless wander through some lavish re-arrangements of his back catalogue (Clubland gets a lush cha-cha; Watching the Detectives is recast as a noir soundtrack and so on) while backed by Dutch jazz ensemble the Metropole Orkest in front of a festival audience at the Hague - just the place to remind what a clever clogs he can be.

Label: Universal