Costello is the new Waldo

Sat, May 2, 2009

Festival Scenes, Uncategorized

One great thing about Saturday’s music festival was that with the price of admission, you were virtually guaranteed to see Elvis Costello. You didn’t even have to be at his set from 8 to 9:20. You just had to go see other people perform; Elvis Costello would just show up on the stage.

Many of you will go home tonight and look over the crowd photos you took with your cell phones. If you look close enough, you will probably see Elvis Costello in the picture. Not sure what he looks like?

elvis-and-hubert

This was from my first Elvis Costello sighting this afternoon in the blues tent, when he jumped up onstage for one tune with the great blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin (on the right). Great tune. Crowd went crazy.

We noticed that Elvis’ right hand was covered in what looked like Sanskrit writing. He reluctantly allowed us to take a photo of the said hand.

elvis-hand

“You won’t be able to read it,” he informed us. Then after a few minutes he came back over to add: “I’ve only had to write down the lyrics twice — here, and Live Aid.”

Really, we just wanted to see the bling bling.

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