theashtraysays

The Back of My Eyelids

Beck with orchestra

It was a blast! Hot & crowded and everything you'd want out of a show. Pat was having the time of his life!

Big Star Quintet

Yo la Tengo + Built to Spill (yes, again).

Yo la Tengo + Built to Spill

Only an occasional fan of historical fiction, and this one was a tad long, but I greatly enjoyed the read.

Heckuva show indeed! I’ll just add that the venue was kind of like a much less bougie version of Salvage Station in Asheville if you’ve been to that one before it was washed away.

Wilco - bookending my Europe music trek

Jon Batiste

Deep Sea Diver opens. I rather doubt we’d get the “evening with” double Wilco sets. Great band out of (I think) the PNW somewhere. They’ve opened for Wilco before a few years back. This is on the wilcoworld page - 6.22.2025 London UK - Royal Albert Hall Doors 6pm Deep Sea Diver 7:30pm Wilco 8:30pm ALMOST SOLD OUT

As I missed night one in the forest in Antwerp, I can’t compare the two but I can say that this show was entirely delightful. Such a gorgeous evening and setting, a few nice setlist surprises, and a warm crowd who packed out the cozy little amphitheater to the far corners. In addition to the “sign decline” mentioned above (not that I’ll be deterred of course), I’ll add one bit of banter that I came across. Just before Via Chicago, in the quiet moment as the band was settling into the instrument change, someone (a woman I think) in the rail area in front of Nels let out a good solid “WOOO

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Wilco

I still have my ticket to that 2016 show....