1. A selection of YouTube videos of Elvis ETAs performing in Porthcawl. ETA stands for Elvis Tribute Artist . In recent years  Porthcawl Elvis Festival and other locally performed ETA Events have exposed Porthcawl worldwide,  resulting to reviews on the web both nationally and internationally (see Links page). Unfortunately, there is not a lot of reference on the web for the Porthcawl Elvis Festivals of 2004 and 2005, apart from the winners names from The ELVIES official website. Luckily after 2006 the word spread. Every year since privately made videos have been posted on YouTube. We have a good selection here for 2006, 2007 and 2008.

PORTHCAWL ELVIS FEST 2009

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FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER @ 12.30 pm The Official Festival Launch at The Heartbreak Hotel @ 2.30 pm The Best Festival Elvis Competition (Heat One). The race for the best ETA begins for Saturday’s Grand Final. @ 7.30 pm The Irish Masters followed by Paul Malloy with Red Alert (legendary Porthcawl House Band)
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER @ 12 Noon The Best Festival Elvis Competition (Heat Two) followed by The 2009 Grand Final. @ 7.30 pm The Elvies (Elvis Tribute Artists), followed by the Elvies After-show Disco.
SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER @ 12.30 pm The Elvis Gospel Show, hosted by the Rev Steve Caprice. @ 3.00 pm Elvis at the Movies (invited ETAs and Red Alert perform songs from Elvis movies. @ 7.30 pm Trilogy. A new show for 2009 (with Kirk Turner, Ben Portsmouth  Paul Larcombe and Johnnie Lee Memphis). Visit the official festival site The Elvies for more details.

See our footage from PORTHCAWL PAVILION Trilogy

recorded at the Porthcawl Pavilion on 27-Sep-09

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The   HeartBreak HOTEL (THE BRENTWOOD 26-Sep-09)

1. My SPECIAL THANKS to all those who created the videos embedded in this website with their own comments from YouTube. Copyrights of all used footage is acknowledged and remains with the individual performing artists. This is a no-profit website created in good faith purely for the LOVE of ELVIS, his millions of worldwide Fans and the Town of Porthcawl. If anyone objects to their own material presented here please email me. Thank you all.

2.  See who won the ELVIES since 2004.

3. The Independent

4. The following text is an extract from The Independent Newspaper on 24 November 2007, listing the 2007 ETA Awards in Porthcawl. Click here to read more on the Porthcawl Elvis Festival 2007 from The Independent.

5. Karaoke Elvis

   This is the first time that DJ, from Rhonda, has taken part in the Porthcawl Elvis Festival. "I've always been a musician, in brass bands and things like that. I started doing Elvis when I was MC at the Labour Club. It was a bad time and we didn't have money to book acts, so I got in a karaoke machine. I did a couple of Elvis songs and that was that. I've been Elvis ever since"

   Karate Elvis

   Johnny Elvis – "as everyone calls me" – is 41 and from Pontypridd. A self-confessed fanatic, he has attended the festival every year since it began. But though he's a keen participant, he doesn't expect to win any competitions: "I'm not the greatest singer," he admits, "but I love Elvis. I even took up karate because he did"

   Welsh Elvis

   Dave Smith, who is 21 and lives in Porthcawl, has performed all over Wales and northeast England, and was voted Best Welsh Elvis 2005. To do Elvis, he says, "you have to have the voice and the style but also have to try to get the charisma and the look, too. You have to get the sideburns right"

   Elusive Elvis

   Twenty-eight-year-old Emma is a regular participant at Elvis events, both in her hometown of Porthcawl and further afield. Beyond confirming her obvious love of the King, however, she is reluctant to give many details about herself. "Just call me Emma Elvis," she says mysteriously

   Young Elvis

   Matthew Fletcher, 17, lives in Barry Island and works at WH Smith. His real passion, however, is for dressing up as the young Elvis. His favourite song is "Suspicious Minds", and like many ETAs, he became a fan after watching the King's movies on TV as a child

   Busker Elvis

   Jerry Forrest, who is 60 and from Porthcawl, uses his costume to raise money on behalf of his local branch of the Victim Support charity. He performs mostly in clubs and old people's homes, and though he has a wide repertoire of hits, his favourite is "All Shook Up"

   Maltese Elvis

   Gordon, 26, travelled specially to the UK from his home in Malta for the festival with his girlfriend. "My parents dressed me up as Elvis to go to school from the age of three," he recalls. These days, he is keen to stress his respect for the King: "I'm not an impersonator," he says, "I'm a tribute artist"

   Vintage Elvis

   Keith Moore, a mental health support worker from Caerphilly, bought his Elvis suit for £50 from his mate Terry. "My dad was a rocker and in a band called the Alleycats," he recalls. Keith performs mostly at the hospital and for his mother and the nurses at the home where she lives

   Vegas Elvis

   Fourteen-year-old Darren, who has Downs Syndrome, travelled to the festival from Swansea with his mother Joan and his aunt, who also made his costume. "He saw Elvis on TV and just wanted that outfit," recalls Joan. It was Darren's second year at the festival, and his all-time favourite song is "In the Ghetto"

   Reverend Elvis

   Steve Caprice, the Rocking Reverend, aka Rev Steve Bull, hails from Humbleton, near Hull, where he works for UK Outreach Ministries. Voted Best Gospel Elvis, he raises money for charity as an Elvis tribute artist and also uses his music in services. Not surprisingly perhaps, his favourite song is "How Great Thou Art"

   The People's Elvis

   Craig Jefferson, 34, lives in Portsmouth, where he works as a host at a conference centre. Voted Porthcawl's Best Festival Elvis 2007,he has been a tribute artist for two years – performing at Butlins among other venues – and his favourite song is "Suspicious Minds"