Elvis Costello's tour plans with his latest band, The Sugarcanes, sees him play only two dates in Canada -- Aug. 24 at Vancouver's Malkin Bowl and Aug. 28 at Toronto's Massey Hall -- although he does have an earlier Winnipeg Folk Festival date on July 8 with his non-country band, The Imposters.
So just how are he and his Canadian jazz artist/wife Diana Krall, who is also touring these days in support of her new album, Quiet Nights, actually going to connect with each other and their twin boys, Dexter and Frank?
Somehow, Costello says, they make it work.
"They are very good travellers, thankfully," he said of the boys, who have British and U.S. passports but will soon have Canadian ones, too.
It helps that Costello and Krall have the same management.
"There's a lot of work done with charts," he said before adding with a chuckle, "You remember those old war movies with the girls pushing the little fighter planes over the map of Germany? It's a little bit like that. We have an operation in the management office in Vancouver where there's little tour buses being pushed around with pictures of me and Diana and the boys."
For now, home is truly Vancouver for him and his children with Krall.
"It'd be great if those lads grew up feeling that they felt at home everywhere, that they belong, which I believe right now is Vancouver," said Costello. "I think it's a place of great natural beauty that people are very generous of spirit in my experience. If you spend any time on Vancouver Island, you don't have to look in a story book to see an eagle, you can look up in the sky. When they're older they'll be curious about New York. For myself, I don't think it's a place for little children. It's quite a grown-up town."
