Elvis Costello has been here, there and everywhere during the past several years. The question, posed by Rolling Stone, is whether Elvis Costello needs to respond to game show antics in order to keep his show on the road? It’s a fair question considering that this year Costello is again touring with the “Spinning Songbook” theme that he first introduced in the mid 1980s. Basically, guests are invited on stage to spin a giant “Wheel of Fortune” type prop. Costello and the Imposters then play the song and the guest is invited to enter a go-go cage to dance or have a drink at a makeshift bar or, presumably, sit down in the audience.

“I work in lots of different ways myself, you know, I can only go on my own example,” Costello told the U.K. publication “The Word” in a past interview. “Sometimes you go out there and there’s a very, very definite plan of how to get through a number of dates, other times the shows are kind of one-offs.”