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you can sign up for "wilcomail" on www.wilcoworld.net and they update you with good stuff.
Was there an APB sent via Wilcomail about the "raffle"? If there was, I must've missed it.
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Who would've thought a Q/A session could have gone wrong?
Did it go wrong because of the Jay question? Or were there other awkward moments during the Q&A. That must have been fun! I can't imagine going to a concert where that happens. Did people raise their hands and get called on?
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You are right about speaking to a real person - I had to do so for the Danish tix, but the phone call cost me a fortune also.
I used Skype - almost free!
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Call or email the venue directly. The shipping charges are usually lower, or you can pick it up at the box office before the show with an ID.
Europeans, amazingly, are often multi-lingual and can speak English pretty well as long as you don't lapse into esoteric American slang (ie. "score" tickets instead of "buy;" etc.)
I've gotten tickets for Wilco shows in Spain, Sweden and for this one in Berlin by phoning/emailing and the customer service has been overwhelmingly friendly. (I meant to forward a ticket confirmation email to my BFF, and hit reply instead, so the venue emailed me and said "Yvonne, I think you meant to send this to someone else.")
These days, with Obama in the office, an American accent opens more doors around the world than it ever did. I am milking the goodwill while it lasts. :-)
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There's a post about it on this Irish Times blog, in the comments the organiser of the Belfast festival posts to say it's the only Irish date.
I just got this in an email from the festival director, confirming:
It is an Irish exclusive so this will be their only Irish show and we had this confirmed by their excellent booking agent. So you still gotta come up the road to Belfast!
Cheers,
Kieran
Kieran Gilmore
Festival Director
That's sorta sad for the floundering Irish economy, all these Wilco euros (including mine) floating north to the UK. I did my Christmas shopping down in the Republic, at least, so I don't feel so guilty.
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It's also been added on the site that this will be Wilco's only Irish date.
No way?! Where does it say that? Boo. I was half hoping there would be another date added in the Republic of Ireland.
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First thing this morning the site says 'sold out' - does anyone know if this is true? 2K tix in 24 hours? really??
Apparently there was a technical problem with their site until around 10am today. Apology on the site says there are still early bird tix left. Got mine this morning. So happy. It will be a long (wet) summer in Ireland, waiting for Wilco!
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Any VCers going to the Stockholm show in May?
I'm daydreaming about going, so am wondering whether Stockholm is a good place to spend a weekend in late Spring. What is the cuisine like? Is it easy/cheap to get around? Anyone know about the venue (Cirkus)?
I guess I could check tripadvisor, but prefer the VC POV.
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So-- I'm gonna be 40 in May, and am a little obsessed. Any who, I've made no secret to family and friends that I want a surprise party. But, I have this secret fantasy that I have a friend who has a friend who has a friend who knows someone in the Wilco world, and they'll arrange to have JT surprise me at my surprise party with an acoustic serenade. Maybe California Stars.
I have the same exact daydream! Except it doesn't have to be on my birthday. And any song will do.
When Wilco were in Dublin last year, I stood in the front row and imagined Vicar Street was my living room. That was almost a perfect dream come true, except for the other 1000+ people there, but I pretended they were my friends.
I'm sure the Virgin Mary doesn't think people are "stalkers" just for having a shrine to her in their homes, or for having one sided conversations with her. And this is why it is perfectly okay that I have my Wilco shrine, where I light a candle when I pray that they will come to Dublin again, soon.
(OK, I'm really Buddhist, and I light incense rather than candles, but Catholicism is a more populist metaphor for where I live.)
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The exact same Sponge Bob song backwards with different subtitles on screen.
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Proponents of pareidolia would argue that having the supposed backward "lyrics" up on the screen encourages your brain "hear" those words.
Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMtfOp6OPY
But it's still a lot of fun to do, if you are bored and have the technology.
Would love to know what "Not for the Season" sounds like backwards. If there are any hidden messages it HAS to be on a Loose Fur (Lucifer) album.
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Ever hear of the phenomenon of pareidolia? Here is the Wiki on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Some scientists think humans have a pattern recognition reflex, and that this is why we make out possible "words" from gibberish (dogs that say "I love you"), see faces on Mars, or Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun.
All art is Rorschach. Sometimes what we perceive is more about us than about what the artist's intentions are, no?
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Anyone ever listen to any of these songs backwards? In the olden days, didn't all the best bands hide their messages about Satan, etc., that way?
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... Bible or some other religious teaching that labels autumn as the devil's month?
Autumn is not a month. It usually lasts around three months.
I don't know which Wilco or Loose Fur songs refer to Autumn specifically, but I can think of one ("Not for the Season") that mentions Halloween. Mainly about leftover candy, though, and not the devil.
I guess Halloween might originally have had something to do with evil?
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Jeff Tweedy soundbite on camera at 00:30.
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I'm guessing most of you aren't familiar with Nels' previous band The Geraldine Fibbers, despite the leader of that band, Carla Bozulich, being a frequent opener for Wilco... check out this amazingly rockin' performance of Nels and Carla that displays why Jeff hired Nels and Carla to tag along with him to begin with...
Love Nels!
(Hey, are you Nels' twin brother, Alex Cline?)
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Didn't they play Vicar Street two nights in a row? That would mean that some of the costs (i.e. flights) would at least be shared between the two gigs.
That, they did. And it's not like they flew from Chicago just to play Dublin. They played London before that, I think. They still make WAY more money than I do, for sure.
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I don't begrudge anybody making a buck so they can make a house payment, eat, send their kids to school, drive a relatively new car or buy beer occassionally.
We are all so judgemental with how artists' survive financially.
I started this thread sort of tongue in cheek, but seriously, the last time Wilco played here in Dublin, we were trying to do the math, and they really DON'T take home as much money as one would think.
It was a sold out show at Vicar Street, which has a maximum capacity of 1500. And tickets were about 23 euro each, which works out to 34500 euro for one night.
If you assume that each band member gets an equal share, that's about 5700 euro per Wilco, for that one night. But this is BEFORE taking out the costs for the venue, the tour promoter, the management company, their airfare, hotel, food, crew, transporting all of the equipment, etc. Plus there's A LOT of wear and tear moving all that around, which they do almost every night on their tour.
They put in a good, solid, physically demanding three-hour show. With sound checks and everything else, the guys in Wilco definitely earn their money the hard way.
As a point of reference, with one of the highest grossing tours this past summer, U2 barely broke even financially on tour, despite filling stadiums (Croke Park in Dublin, capacity: 82,000) of people paying huge money for tickets. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6850952.ece
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I don't give a crap how the Pope presents himself. If he makes music I like, then I like his music. If he makes music I don't like, then I don't like his music.
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I don't give a crap how Wilco present themselves. If they make music I like, then I like their music. If they make music I don't like, then I don't like their music.
Yes. But there may come a point when I will have to take their framed photo down from where it hangs, next to the Pope's portrait, in the living room.
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Hope the clip will be up on the Wilcoworld website, like with the CBS Sunday Morning and the Colbert Report appearances, so fans outside the US can see it, too.
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Maybe the line is where artists cross over and become celebrities. That's when they start promoting THEMSELVES as a brand/product, and the art/music becomes secondary.
I am not sure if it is a line, or a slippery slope. But if Wilco starts to sell themselves that way, I suppose I would enjoy their music in an entirely different way.
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I meant to add this link, but it did not work. Speaking of Wilco cartoons -- one of my proudest moments was the creation of this thread. Is that sad or what??
Does this count as synchronicity?!
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The Wilco Kids™ will feature a half hour of zany comedy and musical interludes. Young versions of our favorite Wilco members hang out in the neigborhood, come up with solutions to problems, make new friends, solve mysteries, and play songs at the end of each episode. They all congregate in a treehouse with the words "teh LoFt" painted on the side. Each of the Wilco Kids™ also happens to have a superpower. Nels, for example, can shred any object into a pulp with his bare hands.
Love it! You ought to copyright that idea and then get an animator to put together a pilot episode. When I was little and living the Philippines during the sunset of the Marcos regime in the early 80s, I used to watch "Beatles" cartoons on Saturday mornings. (Apparently, Imelda Marcos was a fan and once coerced the Beatles to meet with her by sending armed guards to "escort" them at gun point to her palace!) I knew all the lyrics to every Beatles song by age 9. Serious!
Country Disappeared - intimate performance
in Just A Fan
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This is so lovely. Thank you!
The link to La Blogotheque says about this video:
"Sometimes we tell ourselves that no, the band is too famous, too important, that their label would never let them do a Take Away Show. We have a fantasy list: Radiohead, Tom Waits, Chuck Berry, Cat Power. Wilco. They announced their date at Olympia in Montreal just after I had touched down in the city. Wilco, the band whose tours never stop in Paris. I bought a ticket right away; a good idea, as the concert sold out in weeks. And then I asked around. What if we tried to film them? The answer was unanimous and enthusiastic. I sent out an email, without really believing it would come to anything. The next morning, their publicist called.
Working with [Derrick->http://www.astorytoldwell.com, we knew that we would have less than an hour, but we didn’t know if all of the members of the group would play; we were told that it would depend on where we filmed. They wouldn’t have the time to wander through the streets; it rained that day anyway. But they were prepared for us, had placed all their instruments and some amps in the back of the hall, set up some red lamps to create some ambiance. And above all, we got the entire six. I can’t help but feel a little silly in moments like that, camera zoom in hand and a smile from ear to ear. But I can’t help myself, when there is magic happening I feel like a kid. Tweedy’s voice without amplification, Cline’s attitude — who has to be one of the most elegant guitarists on the planet —, Kotche, visibly moved...
It’s decided, tomorrow I’m calling Thom Yorke – you never know."
(I like how they ended the write up with the title of another song from W(TA).)