Manafonistas

A book I have waited very very long to come to fruition will actually now be published this fall: Elvis Costello has finally written his memoir, „Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink“. Given the very revealing and interesting liner notes Costello wrote for when all his records were rereleased remastered and expanded, I guess we’re in for a treat and an interesting yarn to read and take time to listen to his records, too.

Quote from an interview Costello gave to the „New York Times“:

„I really am not nostalgic. I’m not at all nostalgic. I just love so much music that it’s, ‘‘Which past are you talking about?’’ There’s so much to choose from. You want to go back five years, 20. When you’ve got people romanticizing: ‘‘Oh, remember the old school’’ — what do you mean? 2003?“

„Happy to dislocate while he educated, John Peel caught the listener repeatedly off guard, revelling in surprise and innovation. A sequence of music might go something like this: Mississippi blues > riot grrrl > sludge metal > Berlin techno > Northumberland folk > Toronto surf-punk > Zimbabwean chimurenga > Seattle grunge. You don’t have to be au fait with all the genres to get a palpable sense of dizziness. The effect was like being whisked ariund a museum by a caffeine-overdosed tour guide with a train to catch. Look at this, Now this. Move faster. Come on.“ (Aus John Cavanagh: Good Night And Good And Riddance)