this blog is about elvis costello btw

if I put that in the title will this finally show up in search

[nickyrhodes]

Elvis Costello being approached by a random woman in the supermarket, 1978. (x)

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A Deal With The Devil Taken by Tom Zimberoff for SPY magazine.According to the photographer:

“The business card in the musician’s hand, for the magazine cover, had Donald Trump’s home telephone number on it.”

[gregorygalloway]

“Clubland” was released in the UK on 12 December 1980, the first single from the forthcoming Trust album (which would be released in January 1981).

Recorded while producer Nick Lowe was out with flu, Costello stated that the song “probably never did recover from his absence.”

“Clubland” was a commercial disappointment (peaking at #60 in the UK) and ending Costello’s streak of 9 straight Top 40 singles

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Hey Clockface has been out for 0 slutty, slutty days

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Hey Clockface has been out for 10 slutty, slutty days already bc time is fake

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Hey Clockface has been out for 36 slutty, slutty days but it feels like it came out about 3 days ago

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Musicians on Musicians: Iggy Pop & Elvis Costello

The old friends on surviving the Seventies, why most hard rock is overrated, and staying in touch with their iconoclastic inspiration

Pop: I had a tour booked this year. And then “Bam!” It’s part of the summer gone. “Bam!” There goes the rest of the summer. And so immediately I have this huge muscle buildup. “This is what I do! Nothing stops me!” And then I developed a healthy fear of the virus for an old boy with a history of asthma and bronchitis.

I said, “All right! We’re going to reschedule!” I rescheduled the whole thing for 2021. And then one by one, as the months went on, this thing is not going to be predictable or doable in 2021 either. At that point, I made the decision to back out. But I would have these nighttime attacks of, “Who am I now? Who am I going to be?”

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Elvis Costello on His ‘Clockface’ Album, ‘Armed Forces’ Set and Coming Broadway Musical: ‘I’ve Spent My Whole Career Leaning Backwards to Launch Forward’

By Chris Willman for Variety, October 30 2020 - photo by Diana Krall

[...]Even though he had a health scare a few years back, he thinks more about how some of the songs he recorded on his previous record, “Look Now,” took 30 years to get recorded, and he thinks they came out the better for that wait.

“What are we rushing for?” he says, taking the quarantine slowdown in surprising stride. He repeats himself with even more of a gust of ebullience, laughing: “What are we rushing for?” I’m not going anywhere.”

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Hey Clockface has been out for 0 slutty, slutty days

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“Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me” - Elvis Costello & Jon Batiste (live on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert)

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Elvis Costello interview: How I turned the crisis into my most creative year

Will Hodgkinson for The Times - October 29 2020

[...]“I’m certainly anxious when the bad news arrives,” he says. “A close friend died. My 93-year-old mother is in the Wirral, and with everything now being declared a disaster I have no prospect of seeing her again. On the personal side, though, I couldn’t have been more grateful for the time. Whereas normally I would be on a bus to Omaha or somewhere, I was at home where the boys were doing homework in one room, my wife was putting together her record in another, and I was outside on the back porch, trying to stay out of the way. I wrote a comic radio play, an audio pamphlet on how to approach music in a fashion that takes the fear away, and a lot of songs. By next year I could have a whole other record ready to go. It’s been far from paralysing.”

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Pump 'Em Up! Elvis Costello's Favourite Music

Paul Stokes for The Quietus - October 21 2020

Lockdown could have been very different and very lonely for Elvis Costello. A resident of Vancouver, Canada, the singer-songwriter was thousands of miles away on a tour of his native UK at the moment things started to close across the globe.

[...]Eventually, postponing his final few dates, the singer-songwriter dodged the bugs and doomsday, making it back to Canada to spend most of his corona enforced isolation in an idyllic cabin on Vancouver Island with his family… and his audio files. Having completed two, week-long recording sessions just before hitting the road for the tour, the enforced break allowed him to make sense of the results.

The first, taking place in Helsinki, was an entirely solo set up which resulted in a collection of beat-flecked, punkish tracks. His second week in a studio swung the other way, as he was joined in Paris by a group of virtuoso musicians assembled by long term keyboard player, The Attractions' (now The Imposters) Steve Nieve. The jazz-leaning group improvised their way through a series of newly written songs, adding a dixie swing to Costello's smouldering emotions. 

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Oof...just so you know, if you’re this needlessly edgy about other people’s right to keep their content private, you’re getting blocked. I could go on about social media generally being only as “public” as the coffee shop down the street–where, hopefully, you would still expect other patrons not to be nosy–but I digress.

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"Newspaper Pane" - Elvis Costello with Bill Frisell and Michael Leonhart

Eamon Singer rides again, evidently! This is a peculiar soundscape, almost like “Radio Radio” filtered through “My Dark Life”, briefly veering through When I Was Cruel (the album generally, not either of the songs).

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@elviscostello: ‘Hey Clockface’ scheduled for release on October 30th by [Concord Records]

Costello tells us, “I sang live on the studio floor, directing from the vocal booth. We cut nine songs in two days. We spoke very little. Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing. I’d had a dream of recording in Paris like this, one day.”

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@dianakrall: Happy Birthday My Darling Husband ❤️ All My Love Diana 🎊🎉🎂

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Elvis Costello - Pechanga Resort Casino; Temecula, CA (8-3-19).   @ElvisCostello

Photo: Jeff Bliss

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Today in History (March 1, 1993): Elvis Costello & the Brodsky Quartet perform in Paris, France at the Folies Bergère.

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Elvis Costello by Danny Clinch, 2013