Albert Tatlock

I'm glad you left some cold pizza and Doritos lying around (though I had the stretch the 5 seconds rule but I'm pretty hungry) - I'm having a little lunch here watching the recording. I have microwaved some of the Nachos Grande I found in Donna's tuperware box. Tasty!

Who's on the wall? My guess - Ronnie Lane / ? / Noel Fielding Can't see how the last one is correct though but that's who it looks like to me :-)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/ct-jeff-tweedy-spencer-family-illness-20140922-column.html I get a US readers only message and can't read it, which seems a bit bizarre. Please pass on any useful news.

The Observer 4/5 http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/21/jeff-tweedy-sukierae-review-wilco

More warped IKEA instruction sheets here:- http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/22/flatpack-fiends-ikea-kits-for-famous-monsters-in-pictures

TWEEDY are on Sunday. Definitley looks like some tough decisions have to be made on that day. Also a big remote fan of the Aquabats. BY-DAY HSB14 LINEUP ANNOUNCED! FRIDAY OCT 3 (10:30am - 7pm) Cibo Matto with Nels Cline, John Prine, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones, Buckwheat Zydeco, Yo La Tengo, Lucinda Williams, Peter Rowan's Twang An' Groove, Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun, Conor Brings Friends For Friday Featuring: Waxahatchee, The Good Life, Jonathan Wilson, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, Conor Oberst, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Ryan Adam

Several Official videos available

Apparently Johnny Depp played on stage during the encore of his London show. Tuesday he was also on Jools Holland, looking like Cousin It with scraggly hair deliberately hiding his face.

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/musikk/anmeldelser/Forfriskende-familiart-3201357.html%3Fxtor%3DRSS-2&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwilco%2Btweedy%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D671%26tbs%3Dqdr:h "cultivates a restless, light groping mood". Indeed.

That's great - thanks ‘If you’ve got a 12-inch album with a picture of somebody’s head on it, it’s the same size as your head. You can sit it up and talk to it. Not that I’ve ever done that’ - Oh come on, are you really, really sure about that? I'm picturing something along the lines of Tom Hanks and that basketball in that film. :-)

http://cinemaobserver.com/posts/tweedy-sukierae

"A vast and rewarding collection of gems" 4/5 http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/music-reviews/sukierae-by-tweedy-album/19120

She came into my mind.Emmylou's Red Dirt Girll. (Wrecking Ball was a couple of years shy). I liked Aimee Mann's Charmer too. I wonder if there's something in the fact that they are all female artists?

"The Wilco singer says Daniel Johnston epitomizes his mostly instinctual creative process." I really connected with the comments on melody being the driver - probably the single reason I am the fan that I am. The mumbled vocals explanation means that as well as being 'the American Radiohead', Wilco missed out on a chance of being 'the American Sigur Ros' :-) Interesting tidbit - I'll Sing It dates back to the Being There era. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/jeff-tweedys-subconscious-songwriting/380290/?single_page=true

That international arbiter of taste The Daily Nebraskan weighs in. It is a very positive review. http://www.dailynebraskan.com/arts_and_entertainment/wilco-front-man-son-team-up-to-create-contrasting-gutsy/article_b4a31e4c-3e0f-11e4-95e4-0017a43b2370.html

Comments after one listen can be worthless, but I like the sequencing, and even though there are a variety of styles, there seems to be an underlying consistency in 'feel'. I thought it might be what I consider the most consistent JT album, and I think it indeed is - I don't think I would skip anything, whereas every other album has always had something that immediately grates a bit and I feel I can do without.But asm me in a month . . . :-)

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/album-review-tweedy-sukierae/ The same sites album review.

Best thing about that is the use of the word 'lunchables'.

Not much happening at work today, so I'm going in . . .

Walked past the Tardis on the Thames Embankment on the way to work this morning. Too early for any of the actors for the photo shoot though. Not sure about the new Doc from an actor/personality point of view yet, but I welcome a change of direction to a bit more thought and mystery rather than crash-bang-wallop and snogging the assistants - though Matt Smith was fantastic.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/21/battle-of-sandwich-turkey-and-swiss-on-rye-fridge-note-war-is-the-most-passive-aggressive-thing-weve-ever-seen-4841225/

8 of 8 last night here. Gripping, thought provoking stuff.

Wilco working on demos later this week according to a report in German Musik Express, also a further project with Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. http://www.musikexpress.de/news/meldungen/article623994/wilco-arbeiten-an-neuen-songs.html Translated from the German by Google:-