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Have a feeling they played it in one of the Dublin soundchecks in 2007 - sure I read about it here somewhere. Funnily enough I saw one of those soundchecks in Dublin , but sadly it wasn't the one I caught some of.

yep it works a treat - like it

Well seeing as Wilco have been known top play Floyd's 'Breathe' in soundchecks I don't think it's unreasonable that they now cover 'The Carpet Crawlers' on the next record...

Born and grew up in Brum so life sentence assured.... Spurs? Harry's bubble will burst.Bit lucky when we played you the other week - very late goal when we could have nicked it. Was at the Brum derby last weekend - nasty match (but just the way I like it) Villa really hate us - but its mutual.

Saw Genesis on the Duke tour in Cardiff around late 70's just when they were starting to go dire. Remember them playing stuff like Cinema Show which I loved. But the new stuff was not good - guess all the punk/new wave stuff was taking over by then and for those bands Genesis were the enemy: to be destroyed. And that was fair enough - pre-Duke they were a great band but afterwards truly embarrassing.

hmm, can't find that on daytrotter nice little 'making of' taster on youtube http://www.youtube.com/albertacross

Worth seeing them just to see Nastanovich doing nothing apart from yelling and bashing an extra drumkit (out of time). Marginally less redundant than Bez in Happy Mondays who just did dancing.

Been listening to the debut album by Alberta Cross, Anglo-Swedish duo who left London for New York last year and mushroomed into a powerful five-piece. Started off as just two of them playing a folky blues but they've grown into a rocking monster playing melodic, soulful rock and blues. Some top tunes and great, soaring, lonesome vocal from Swedish front man. Recommended, watch out for them. Think they played Bonaroo, SXSW and Glastonbury. First full length album out next week I think. Short seven-track taster came out a couple of years ago. MMJ, Band Of Horses, Neil Young fans will lik

No ads/commercials - informed dj's - great live sessions - nothing but top tunes for discerning music fans - one of the few things that makes the BBC worth its licence fee (for uk residents). You can listen online all the time anywhere in thw world...BBC 6 music http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/

Bunch of queens......

Crikey, I was AT Glasto 2003 but didn't see them. Was too busy watching SFA as I remember, with Gruff Rhys stirring it up saying how he hated Radiohead. That said, I was at their famous 97 Glastonbury set when it also pissed down and was a mudfest.

Just been watching BBC coverage of Radiohead at Reading headlining on Sunday night. Astonishing crowd - especially the vast singalaong in the slow bit of Paranoid Android with all hands raised swaying in great waves, many thousands strong. Looked amazing, and a great look on Colin Greenwood's face - shock and awe! Yorke looked like he was in a trance with his robotic dancing and headshaking throughout the set - great knob-twiddling by Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien too. It's on Youtube if you fancy a look, as is most of the set broken down into different songs.

Right, an idea, anyone fancy a VC meetup somewhere in the vicinity of The Forum Nov 4th - there are loads of pubs nearby in Kentish Town? I have a guest list spare for the gig and anyone making the effort to come over from the US will be getting the ticket. Any takers?

Right, an idea, anyone fancy a VC meetup somewhere in the vicinity of The Forum - there are lodas of pubs nearby in Kentish Town? I have a guest list spare for the gig and anyone making the effort to come over from the US will be getting the ticket. Any takers?

True about the climate, but then again you just stay in the pub all day and down a few barrells of Guinness. No finer place in the world for atmospheric boozers

Magazine....? Lucky buggers. Sounds like a better set than Troxy - I suspect you'll get a very different show tonight, as it was was second night at Vicar st last time. Talking of which, glad they remembered the Burt episode! Have a great time tonight - last night of the tour isn't it?

The guy who wrote the piece used to work for Wilco-loving Uncut magazine (was there from the start I believe - I met him once or twice) and before that was at Melody Maker. I get irritrated by the 40-something men tag, there were many 20 somethings and up and a large female presence too. I can understand the band 'identity' thing to a degree. Eclectic bands like Wilco are hard to pigeonhole and IMO the wider the swing in styles the more you'll suffer for it (in terms of reaching a wider audience) . Walken for example is far from being alt-rock and a million miles from Spiders or Deeper Dow

Well you only had to ask me to move!! was actually taking some pictures that night and the security guy in the photo pit invited me to stay there for the gig which I wasn't gonna decline. Anyway I'm sure you got your own back with the Bacharach gag (cheeky f*****). Sadly won't be there this time - any more than the twice already this week would probably be overdoing it. But come over to London in November and I'll buy you a beer. Hope you get as varied a set over the two nights as we got last time.

You said it.....so let's have one or two more from the new record in place of one or two of the songs I quoted which they've been playing to the same audience for years

Think you might find there's a high percentage of regulars at the London shows. As Tweedy himself has pointed out, Wilco always sell the same amount of records in the UK.

Don't disagree with that but Spiders for example eats up 10 minutes plus of a two hour set which means two or three others are squeezed out. It's not as if they haven't played this in London every time they've played there. Same goes for the others. I say rotate and let's hear more of the gems that rarely get played.

Yes, seemed to be a bit of confusion/discussion onstage after Spiders. Looked like they hastily rearranged with the clock ticking down - they squeezed in a quick blast of I'm A Wheel, then thought, f*** it and threw in Hoodoo Voodoo which took them five minutes or so past the curfew. Shame they didn't come onstage earlier than 9 - then there wouldn't be an issue. Still no sign of much of the new material. Maybe it'll appear on the autumn tour. One other suggestion I'd really like to see happen at future Wilco shows. A Tweedy solo section of two or three acoustic songs would break up the s

Yep, there were cakes, two of them (on one plate) candles on both, side by side and in the shape of a nice round pair of you-know-whats or 'something eternal' as Jeff pointed out to the 2,500 rammed in The Troxy. And, of course we then got a hearty 'Happy Birthday' sung by every man jack inside the venue. Terrific stuff. The cakes were trundled on by Jeff's guitar tech right after they'd played 'Can't Stand It' and before they broke into a joyous 'Hate It Here'. Quite a few surprises - Radio Cure, Company In My Back, Nothing'sEverGonnaStand....., Can't Stand It, and a visceral ALTWYS to s

My source at Nonesuch says Wilco on at 9 - Blitzen Trapper at 8 so sounds like it might be a standard length show.

Birthday gig in London. Hope somebody remembers to bring a cake. And one 'nothing' for every year in Misunderstood please(42?)!