The Ramones, the Sex Pistols and The Clash were iconic punk rock bands. But from 1977 to 1986, there was no one angrier than Elvis Costello. And there was certainly no one else articulate and poetic enough to express that anger the way Costello did on his classic debut My Aim Is True album that blended punk, new wave and pop on the appropriately-named Stiff Records.

On Oct. 3 at the Charleston Gaillard Center, he’ll play a show full of songs from that classic period. The tour is called Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello, and the set list doesn’t go past 1986.

Starting with his 1977 debut and running until 1986’s corrosive Blood & Chocolate , Costello (real name: Declan McManus) and his band, The Attractions, were brilliant punk rockers (check out the self-explanatory “Pum

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