![]() It’s fair to say Elvis Costello is allergic to boredom.Īustralian Musician editor Greg Phillips had the pleasure of sitting down with Elvis over a zoom call to discuss the newest album and accompanying book, both titled The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories).Ĭostello says, ”The full title of this record is ‘The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories).’ ‘IF,’ is a nickname for your imaginary friend your secret self, the one who knows everything you deny, the one you blame for the shattered crockery and the hearts you break, even your own. He’s also recorded a brand new record with The Imposters, ‘The Boy Named If’ … plus wrote and illustrated a book that comes with it (A limited run of 6,000 copies of the book have been produced). If you’re asking Elvis Costello, he’ll tell you he has managed to release an album titled ‘Hey Clockface’, a french language EP ‘La Face de Pendule à Coucou’ – featuring the voices of Iggy Pop and Isabelle Adjani, an audio book ‘How To Play Guitar & Y’, ‘Spanish Model’, a remake of his 1978 album This Years Model, this time featuring Spanish artists singing in Spanish, and released the lavish vinyl box-set edition of the 1979 album, “Armed Forces” containing facsimiles of his original lyrical notebooks bound as pulp novels and comic books. What did you do during the pandemic? How did you cope? It’s a question people often ask you.
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