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As of this Thursday night (Oct 18th) SkyArts.co.uk will be running a competition to win 2 pairs of tickets to each of the four UK dates in November, in Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham and London Brixton.

They're also giving away copies of Sky Blue Sky.

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/

You have been warned!

any chance that you could make the entire stream available?

I think the rest is up on the other thread about Berkeley . Hasn't SarahC put it up? If not let me know and I'll put up the rest.

Cheers

In A Future Age/Spiders from the webcast.

Big files 191 MB WAV.

Here's the download link:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dkehwl

Got this from Nonesuch UK today:

WILCO

EUROPEAN TOUR

If the stream is really an uncompressed source, anyone with the know-all want to make a matrix mix?

I'm assuming this is uncompressed though I'm no technofile. The files are large, average about 40MB WAV files for a 4 min song, actually even bigger than the Troutdale, Oregon show that surfaced via bit torrent (soundboard and audience mix).

If what you mean by a matrix is an audience recording mixed with the stream I'm not sure you need it as the crowd are fairly loud in all the right places.

Anyone enlighten on files sizes and compression?

Just captured the audio from wilcoworld of Berkeley gig.

Its streaming at 1500kbps - very large WAV files - the whole gig has hit my computer at 1.47GB.

Previous archives have been nothing like this in terms of file size. How come the increased quality?

Its great.

yeah - you were pissed (in the English sense) when you wrote that. nice spelling!

I really do hate hype ,you know those no point sentences about albums, well for us who are part of this internet culture of music it bleeds into our records and even when the hype is good its bad but still i love neon bible (okay now your confused) well my point is I still love records i like sitting down and getting to know an album and i finally know sky blue sky.

I have to admit that while crtisim from critics(duh) does not phase me the quick to condem wilco fans kinda hurt my feelings(re-instate jay bennet?) Wilco is a band of substence and if any one deserves our patients its Jeff Tweedy(wilco lyrics underated i just threw up) for those of you who just want wilco to rock great news theres a peotic bar band album called a.m and how lucky are we that uncle tupelo exists(when time goes on as it does will see how jeff tweedy is the neil young of the alternative generation case in point buffalo springfield-uncle tupelo two songwriters both talented one stuck in tradition) and then being there, music looking to the sky maybe the first fully realized wilco album

when they discoverd pretending is fun and they do a great job pretending to be there record collection as the story goes jeff decided what he once was isnt what he wants to be anymore when he let jay bennet take the reigns and bloom the best wilco record of the 90s. Finally reaching maturation wilco creates a classic the long delayed american answer to brit pop yankee hotel foxtrot is simply perfect Jeff left polished pop and took a hammer to his lyrics jay whent the other way wilco broke up really they did! YHF was the peak it gave purpose to summerteeth and being there and then of course a ghost was born(my current favorite wilco record) its scarry and childish and sounds like lightning hit On the beach(im so clever)man how lucky are we. Okay so those of you who are still with me honestly thanks for reading and heres my point Sky blue Sky is the first record of a band and how sweet it is. I love how rhythm of this album allows the guitars to breath which leads to my sky blue sky listening guide

 

1.listen to the rhythm(especialy shake it off) this is not a guitar rock album(i think alot of us feel the next record will be a guitar freakout record)

2.if you feel like singing a song and you want other people to sing along...(this is wilcos sing along record theres nothing better than singing along to side with the seeds

it seems like the spaces inbetween the lyrics are there to allow us to keep up)

3.Like the last three wilco records this is a lyric based album a song based album( how awsome is you are my face the first verse is jeff as a tenager in a family tree and the last is jeff as a husband in a family tree...our voices lift so easily...oh so its not just my parents who yell)

4.The sequencing of this album is its true virture and makes it a classic PBPWM starts off the second half of the record and is a examination of a realtionship and an attempt to simply

understand, perfect, this goes into Hate it Here the humorus take on the end of this realtionship the end that never happend it also seems like its lyricaly conected to ALTWYS

then like the title track LMLYFM goes back in time, to when the realtion ship began meeting that person who might be lonely to and this is all important because it justifies Walken.

5. Walken always confused me but its now clearly a look back to when he realizes that...honey your just right...long before honey kisses clouds of fluff

6. On and On and On , if sky blue sky is a movie then this song is the exit music to a film it neatly closes the album with the returning violins from either way.

 

i truly love this record i love to turn it loud and sing along it made me apriciate AGIB and i cant wait for the next record to make evreyone realize the gem that is Sky blue Sky

okay enough talking, any thoughts?

The beginning of "The Late Greats" always reminded me of George's "Give Me Love"... same key, feel etc...

Ahhh, 'Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth' ...... first 7 inch I ever bought, first song I ever truly loved, right down to the Apple on the label. The opening chords and lap steel, (or was it a slide guitar?) melted my then 13 year old heart!

I was just listening to the 9-30-04 show from Burlington, VT I attended and I finally came across the last song which just so happened to be "not so fearful". I got to thinking that Tweedy really respects Bill Fay and, subsequently so do I, yet I've never heard Fay's version. This may be a reach but I was wondering if anyone has or knows where I can get a copy of Bill Fay's original version of "Be not so fearful"?

Like many others I had never heard of Bill Fay (I'm from England and nobody here knows or remembers him!) until I heard a soundboard recording of Wilco's show at Hammersmith in London in 2005, a month or two before the Kicking Television shows in Chicago. Bill Fay was apparently in the audience or that's the impression you get from Tweedy's introduction which is actually quite moving, as is the version of the song.

I too went out and got his first album which is quite lovely. Imagine then the feeling when Fay turns up onstage at Shepherds Bush Empire in May this year (the first night of the two webcasts) and duets on BNSF. It was a magic moment, Fay's first time on stage in 30 years and Tweedy was kind of coaxing him through it almost whispering the song together. He just looked like an old man off the street, grey beard and shy. Talk about great lost albums........

Can't say I like Walken much. Just kind of reminds me of Rod Stewart years after he should have packed it in. Feel the same way a little about Hate It Here - a bit Rod , a bit bland, even if its is a decent tune.

ps I hate Rod Stewart post 1973

An amazing night last night. Great gig, the songs sounded even better live than on record.

 

There's a full review and some great photos from Muller here:

http://thelineofbestfit.com/2007/09/06/bro...-london-050907/

Sounds good. Going to see them at Koko (great venue) in Camden next month.

Don't get me wrong, I love AUD recordings--I have made bunches of them, torrented them, listen to them lots--but if I can get a SBD tape and get my friend to do a mix of the two, I think that's ideal. You really get the best of both worlds--the clean mix from the board, more of the on-stage sound and audience from the mics.

 

Have folks heard the matrix I just posted? I think it sounds great, and compares to many official live releases. Check it out, and let's hear what you think.

 

It's available here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=160700

 

and here (but without the photos):

http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/details.php?id=17968

Hi

Have registered for Zomb but am having trouble accessing the file. When I download I get a small 17KB file and then a message when trying to open of windows cannot open this file because it does not know what program created it'. Any clues?

Saw them at Latitude - bored me to tears. Hated them.

I saw them at Latitude too - thrilled me to bits. Loved them.

Named after the line from 'Theologians', anyone like them?

Really recommend the record, been out a couple of months - called 'Thirst For Romance'.

They come from Manchester in England (Bolton actually) and are the inspiration of Simon Aldred. Its got that beautiful but gloomy Manchester indie feel with a fair amount of country thrown in. Some lovely tunes. Check it out.

Glastonbury 1997 (or maybe 99)

Tweedy walks on stage with the immortal line:

'Hello cocksuckers'. Nice.

Saw Bloc Party at Berkeley at The Greek Theatre last summer - there's a semi circle standing area down at the front that will hold a couple of thousand I reckon. The rest is sitting on the steps in the ampitheatre. Spectacular view of the place it has to be said and you're not too far from the stage but its a big place - holds several thousand. Don't expect much movement even down at the front for Wilco, just lots of head-nodding admiration.

Omygosh! Does anyone have this recorded?

I have it - someone posted it up on sendspace the day after the gig. It should be still here either on this forum or the 'after the show' forum.

Cheers

Nothing happening when I click on the link. I have Quicktime. Any ideas?

Hoping someone might be able to help getting a copy of the London shows on May 20/21.

Any MP3's doing the rounds?

Thanks

Excuse my ignorance on this but how do you download the torrent? Do you need to install a bit-torrent programme first and if so any recommendations?

Cheers