Wising Up: A chat with Elvis Costello about his new album with The Roots

Elvis Costello is on the phone from New York; instantly he remembers talking to me about three years ago.

I trigger the memory with a line about the ill-fated Sweetwaters Festival and our discussion around him keen to return to New Zealand, not the bad guy the press decided would never return.

“That’s right. I remember that conversation. I do. And I told …