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MDT ExClUSIvE More on p11 TAIWAN’s financial regulator is investigating Mega Financial Holding Elvis Co. after New York state ordered its banking unit to pay a USD180 million penalty and install an Costello independent monitor for violating the state’s laws against money laundering. More on p11 looking KOREAS The American- led U.N. Command in South Korea yesterday forward accused North Korea of planting land mines near a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that to Macau divides the two Koreas. Much of the border, one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints, is casino strewn with land mines and laced with barbed wire. residency MYANMAR Officials say United Nations P2-3 MDT REPORT Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a peace conference next week that seeks to end decades of armed conflict with ethnic minority groups. AP PHOTO SYRIA Turkish artillery shelled Islamic State targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day, a senior Turkish official said, amid reports that Turkey- backed Syrian rebels are preparing an offensive against an IS-held border town. P5 More on backpage 24.08.2016 wed th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO MDT ExClUSIvE | ElvIS COSTEllO Fortune spin wheel won’t be used in Macau, could raise ‘due questions’ from authorities Daniel Beitler NGLISH musician and Esinger-songwriter Elvis Costello will be making his first appearance in Macau next month, marking a new foray into the Asian continent – where he has rarely perfor- med before. Costello, who was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 as one of the 100 Grea- test Artist of All Time, will perform at the Macau Cultural Centre on September 9, shortly after he plays three concerts in Japan – a country that Costello says is the origin of his earliest Asian fan base. Following this, he will head to Singapore and then Taipei for his final Asia concerts for 2016. In an exclusive interview with the Times, Costello said that he is planning to perform a combination of his most well- known songs and possibly some newer hits in his Macau debut, but will not be featuring a return of his game show-s- tyle “spin wheel” that he has used on previous occasions to generate a spontaneous and somewhat unique set list. Cos- tello hinted that it might just be too much chance- based entertainment for a city built on gambling, and could invite “due questions” from local au- thorities. However, the singer- songwriter also suggested he might return for a month-long residency at one of the city’s resorts. The renowned artist sat down to be educated, as it were. I’ve a couple of times in Korea. My my disposal. And I think the MDT- You have previou- with the Times to talk about been told that the city is very longest relationship [in Asia] feeling of music can carry you sly used a game show-style Macau, the music industry, bustling and that it has a lot of has been with my audience in through quite a long way. But “spin wheel” with the na- and how and why he writes buildings. I expect that there’s Japan. I have been traveling I believe that people will take mes of some of your most the lyric-intensive, meaning- a vibrant skyline. there for nearly 40 years, so out [of the show] an accumu- popular tracks written ful songs that he does. I have played very few shows that’s a very different matter. lated story. across it to determine whi- in Asia actually; I played in My shows are ones that are ch songs will be played at Macau Daily Times Singapore twice, I played in MDT - Aside from en- created night-to-night in a di- that particular concert. (MDT) - What are your im- Hong Kong just once, and then tertainment, what do you fferent way, depending on the Will you be featuring a re- pressions of Macau? Have hope that the audience in songs I choose. If you come to turn of the wheel in Macau? you visited or performed Macau takes away from two of my shows, you are un- EC - No, I won’t be em- here before or elsewhere the show? likely to hear exactly the same ploying that on this occasion. nearby? EC - I think that this is a songs in the same order. I figure that when you play in Elvis Costello (EC) - I ha- But if we played show in which storytelling of a You may hear some new tra- cities where games of chance ven’t been to Macau before, kind in song is very much to cks in the show [in Macau]. I are their main industry, there but I have been to Hong Kong a residency the fore. Some aspects of the will hopefully manage to play is the potential for some due to perform on one occasion. song [will be] lost, allowing one or two news songs along questions asked by the ‘hou- Other than that I’ve not been in one of the for the fact that people will in with what I believe are the se’, shall we say? I don’t think in the area at all. some cases be listening in a better-known songs – I really introducing a game of chance As for my impressions, I have casinos, then second language. I still think don’t know [which those are] to the show will go down too only that which I’ve been told. [the spin wheel] it’s very important to stick now. I will try to play the best well [in Macau]. We didn’t So I can’t say that I’m an ex- with what I’m doing and sing songs. 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I a big wheel and it takes a long don’t have a special insight time to construct it and trans- into it that nobody else has. port it. But if we played a re- sidency in one of the casinos, MDT - Why did you want then it could be done. to write your recently pu- blished autobiography/ MDT - You have said in memoir, “Unfaithful Mu- the past that some of your sic & Disappearing Ink”? singles become country- What do you want the rea- specific hits overseas. Are ders to take away from it? there any particular son- EC - As the title suggests, gs that are popular in the memory is not a permanent area or Asia writ large? condition. So I thought it was EC - Well, I think that my best to get it on the page while calling card for a lot of people [I can clearly recall it], in case in places where I didn’t have there should ever come a time an initial popular success wou- when I couldn’t remember it ld be the song, “She”.