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Thrilled to have tickets for Manchester Academy next October. Now all I want is a Spiders/Bull Black Nova/New Order-Blue Monday Manc segue mash up tribute. Or may be they could salute The Smiths... Or The Fall.... a girl can dream...

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night. The flaws are flawless.

Just finished Franzen's Freedom. Couldn't put it down. Loved it. I've been out of the Wilco loop for a while, so the Jeff references were an unanticipated pleasure, which brought me back here!

Great clips- thanks for posting them. One of the great things about Tony was the way he stayed in the north (or rather returned after college) and made it all happen there. To have big dreams and realise them at that place and time I reckon you had to have a really thick skin and a lot of blind self-belief and brass neck. Inevitable then that he often seemed/was a pretentious twat - maybe only one of that ilk could have made it all happen in the glorious way it did........ and also make such spectacular cock ups too. (For me Steve Coogan will always be Paul/ine Calf.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6941392.stm

Legend. That fucking disease.

Gotta love dem Gourds. Pre-ordered mine.... can't wait! SB and BofR my favourite albums. Kevin and Jimmy so underrated as songwriters me thinks.

Thanks for the info. I'm pleased that they've recognised the anomaly and look like they're trying to address it.

Looks like it may be available afterwards: Sadly no bonus tracks from Wilco posted there. Sorry too much wine can't make link work!

Excited about this. Hope they don't play it safe with straight album versions....