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From this week's Finn Fan Club Newsletter:

Too cool That took a hell of a lot of imagination to turn that song into a Stax funk-soul work-out. I guess soul guys like Otis Redding have always covered pop songs - which sometimes work well, and sometimes fail spectacularly. This one works, when it has no right to! Go JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound!!! Brilliant.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thesampler The MP3 will be available for less than two weeks now. Worth a listen. It reminded me that I'm a fan of a pretty damn cool band.

A little concert footage (no complete songs). Mostly studio and interviews.

I thought that the 7 Worlds doco was pretty sweet. Plenty of Tweedy action: - Watch Jeff & family arrive at airport! - Be astounded by spectacular scenery as Jeff walks at Piha beach! - See Tweedy kids paint self portraits! - Be amused when Johnny Marr beats Jeff with a cucumber! Plenty of mutual appreciation-type interviews (Wilco are great! Neil Finn is great! KT Tunstall is great! etc). So this is no high-drama rock ‘n roll clash of egos - the closest we got was a contrived practical joke with Marr stealing Tweedy’s 12-sting Telecaster - but it was good fun and in keeping with the

May 24 is a Sunday, not Monday. Just checked TVNZ website and yep, it's on Sunday night. Will try to record, and post any Wilco-related clips on YT.

My Ashes DVD arrived today! However, I'm not so sure that your American-DVDs are compatible with my New Zealand-DVD Player:

Looks like you're off to a good start, ticking-off Milford Sound early on. If you head up to the North Island, be sure to stop by Wellington for some urban sophistication. Further North, The Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Islands have the most stunning beaches around. This website might give you some ideas: http://www.aatravel.co.nz/101/index.php?se...AdvanceSearch=1 Hope it all goes well for you.

I haven't tried it out myself, but "How to fight loneliness" could work on the uke, given that the original kind of has that "Island strum" thing going on. For a little inspiration, check out our town's resident ukulele band Keep having fun with that Uke! Me, test-driving a coconut-body ukulele in Rarotonga

Man, Jeff is a just a top shelf bloke. And I did cry a little, too.

Curiously, both bands went on to release, what I consider to be, their best albums in the same year: 2002. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot & Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (yes, I know YHF was finished and available online in 2001 – but that’s a technicality as far as I’m concerned.) 2002 was a bit of a watershed year for me for music. I really had my ears open by this time. Beck’s best record, “Sea Change” was also released that same year. I also discovered UK indie singer-songwriter, Badly Drawn Boy, that year (thanks to his soundtrack work on “About a Boy”), which set me off down the

Ignore my questions above, I just spotted the_fliz's comment about the free video clip...

On the Wilco World Pre-order page, it states that:

Thanks for posting that link - great stuff.

I'm just happy that you guys know what a New Ziland accent sounds like, let alone that Wilco has recorded a large chunk of their new record here. Who would have thought? I think I'll have some fush and chups to celebrate. Between this, and the success of FOTC, I'm a little proud right now.

The trailer is great. Looks like they

Ryan interview/performance on NZ tele last night: http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/a-special-perfo...s-2463617/video I'll apologise in advance, on behalf of the nation, for the embarrassing interviewer...

Well, I'm not alone then. My best Wilco T-shirt story is when I walked into a cafe wearing said shirt, and the woman who served me (who also happened to be the proprietor of the establishment) commented on it and started talking about Wilco. We then got onto music in general and I asked about the bands that play at her cafe, mentioned that I was in a band, and before you know it we've exchanged e-mail addresses. A few weeks later we were booked to play there. It was a totally sweet gig. We played on the roof.

I was sitting in a cafe last Friday (Offbeat Originals, Left Bank, Cuba mall, Wellington, NZ) waiting for my Fish Burger when I over-heard the guy at the neighbouring table talking to his friend about Wilco. He was obviously quite passionate about the band, but his friend was completely non-plussed. She had no idea who the band was, or what the big deal was. He told her how he requested a song (Reservations) for the Wellington show via the website, and they played it. It was particularly special because he requested it for him and his girlfriend/fiance/wife whose anniversary it was on the

1st Night setlist: Plus two unscheduled encores: Outtasight (Outta mind) Hoodoo Voodoo

My photos from the Monday night show are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintmeech/se...5550786/detail/

Jeff has written a song for the 7 Worlds Collide project which should be on the studio album. It's called "You never know". It was played at the Monday show (and probably at the others too).

The two unscheduled Wilco encores were: Outtasight (Outta mind) Hoodoo Voodoo (pretty loose with Pat coordinating guitar solos between himself, Neil, and Johnny Marr while Liam interjected some crazy-arse Theremin). Tremendous fun. I just got back home after the day-long drive from Auckland to Wellington. What a great show (I went to the first one). Seeing Tweedy twice within 12 months is a rare treat for us down in this corner of the globe. "Fake Plastic Trees" was a highlight for me - Jeff and John with the Radiohead boys, Johnny Marr and Liam Finn was pretty special. Jeff also led t

My tickets for the Monday show have arrived. Boo yeah.

That is one rad keyboard. I want one. Looks like these guys do a software emulator: http://www.store.precisionsound.net/philicordainfo.php Probably not much help to you. And check out this dude funking up "Sultans of Swing" on one: It has such a lot of personality as an instrument, that you'd have to be careful not to overuse it, I reckon...