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    7/15/06 Ottawa

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I've got VIP tickets tonight. Am just trying to picture from your post what you mean by a funnel effect. What fence are you referring to. Is there one behind the VIP section? To the side of it?Thanks

    The way they were setting it up at noon was that the third of the front, or maybe even half the front, on Pat's side is fenced off. So I'm pretty sure your VIP pass will get you in there. If you've been to the site already, it's the "lawn chair section" only they've made it bigger. So unless something has changed since then, get to your VIP seats early and they will be prime prime prime. Right against the rail. And there are fold-up chairs in there. I was thinking this morning they'll probably try and make people in the VIPs stay seated.

     

    The funnel is beside the VIPs. In other words, VIPs have more "rail" space than ordinary pass holders. But anyway, if it plays out the way I think it will, the funnel won't affect you.... You will be protected from us huddling masses.

     

    Have fun!

    Ottawa Bluesfest video next week?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I have a feeling the video may never see the light of day, at least not on broadcast TV. Rogers tends to play shows over the course of the year, but big name headliners are rarely amongst them. In fact, CanCon rules may be conspiring against us because I have never seen a non-Canadian artist's Bluesfest performance broadcast on TV, but I may be wrong about that.

     

    Let's keep our fingers crossed for a sympathetic insider to leak the footage.

    I've never considered that before but I think you're right. I agree on the leak.

    7/15/06 Ottawa

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Is this sad and pathetic that I starting a thread on a soundcheck?

     

    I'm the only one on the Bluesfest site not doing a job. Cripes, I have Wilco all to myself. Around 10 am, Mikael walks in my general direction. I say "Welcome to our nation's capital". He says "coffee". It's early.

     

    About 10:15, I see Jeff. Unprotected. So I apologize for bugging him so early in the morning and ask if he wouldn't mind signing my Wilcobook. And he does, very graciously. Asks my name and everything. So I've got a full set now in the book.

     

    About 11 am, the entire band assembles on stage, looking like a band should in the morning.

     

    - begriming at the second verse, they do 2 run-throughs of Impossible Germany, with some additional work on the "bridge" between the lyrics part and the guitar part

    - Company In My Back

    - I Shall Be Released

    - IATTBYH

    - the rest of the band leaves and Jeff worries about a crackling sound with his acoustic guitar. Techs say a whole of technical things like "go to 125 and make it 400 all across". It never seems to be resolved to his total satisfaction but I guess it gets close enough

     

    If anybody plans to go down tonight, be prepared for a real cluster**** if you want to get near the stage. About 1/3 is fenced of for "gold circle" people and another 1/3 is fenced off for "vip" tickets, so if you're flying coach, there is sort of a funnel thing happening and about 15,000 people will be aimed at about 30 feet of fence.

    Ottawa Bluesfest video next week?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I hear from a friendly fellow that the Ottawa Bluesfest show on July 15 is going to be closed circuited by the Rogers Cable Network and may be broadcast at some point. Sorta doubtful on the broadcast, but I know people who've gotten copies of the feeds before. Anyone else here this about the possible broadcast or anything? I'm not in Canada, so I know nothing about it.

    Everything on the main stage is shot by Rogers. They have a big screen there so people at the back can see so the close circut thing is right for sure. They also broadcast a lot of shows from the Bluesfest over the course of the year. I don't know anything about the rights - for example, I don't know if by simply playing Bluesfest you give them the rights to broadcast at a later time. But they are one of the sponsors so a broadcast is a real possibility. I'll keep my eyes peeled for that.

    7/13/06 -- Fredericton, New Brunswick

    in After The Show

    Posted

    P.S. FYI, I won't be at either the Quebec City or Ottawa fests, so hopefully somebody will post with setlists from there. Didn't want anybody to think I was holding out or anything. :P

    Shame you won't be there; I was thinking I should offer to buy you all the beer you could drink for your setlist reporting above and beyond the call of duty. I am floored by what a great job you do of catching new lyrics first time through and finding effective ways of getting across the "style or feel" of new material.

     

    I have been attending Ottawa fest this week and althought the main stage is really giving me the creeps, I will be attending Saturday night and will provide a report.

     

    Thanks again for great reports (and thanks to Brianne for the setlist for this one)

    7/7/06 -- Toronto, Ontario

    in After The Show

    Posted

    think springsteen has ever had to insult a crowd into activity?

    Great first post. I have to agree, by and large, with most of what you say but in response to above, yes he does/have, and he did it regularly on the "Seeger" tour.

     

    Last time I went to Massey Hall and stood up for a Wilco show (how I got to be the mook), Jeff ended up holding a "standing/sitting" vote and sitting won so maybe that had something to do with it too.

     

    It will be interesting to see what Ottawa Bluesfest holds. By the time he comes on Saturday night, the place will be packed with the least reserved audience he will have seen in a long time (ie drunken louts). I have seriously mixed feelings about this.....

    Who release first single in ages

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    On a balmy summer's night, the hottest ticket in town was The Who's

    much-awaited return to Leeds. First things first, if this was the band

    on the FIRST night of the tour god alone knows how good they'll be by

    the LAST night because, from the opening chords of Who Are You right

    through to the closing rush of Won't Get Fooled Again the band were

    in blistering, breathless form.

    Wire & Glass, the forthcoming single/mini-opera, was debuted and went

    down a storm whilst old favourites like Relay were delivered with equal gusto.

    I feel very lucky to have witnessed such an incendiary performance - as

    I suspect everyone else in the packed, stiflingly hot Leeds Uni refectory felt

    afterwards too. No need for me to wax lyrical about the performance as

    it was all recorded for later release in the Encore Series so you'll all be

    able to sample it for yourselves

    Wilco in Quebec in July?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Ottawa bluesfest lineup is being announced tomorrow (April 26th). I will go out on the limb and predict that wilco will be on the bill as part of the final weekend of the festival...

     

    :dancing - Good guess Ottawateeth! Wilco closes main stage Saturday, July 15!!! :cheers

     

    Also on the bill, July 11 - Son Volt. Calexico on the 7th. Great Lake Swimmers, New Pornographeres, Controller Controller, Hammell on Trial, Mark Kozelek, Bell Orchestre, Roseanne Cash, Fiery Furnaces, Metric, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Elliot Brood. Nuts!!!

     

    Lots of other stuff too of course, but some great names this year.

    Wilco in Quebec in July?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I'm happy you folks out east are happy.

     

    Dates like these make sense; recently it seems Wilco doesn't do "tours" so much as play places if that makes any sense. So I don't know if there will be a Canadian tour - but there might. Anyway, there have been 2 shows in Montreal since the latest record and 2 in Toronto. That means they owe Ottawa one visit at least.

     

    And some Tweedy solo shows at some summer festivals (Bluesfest, Hillside) would really be fantastic!

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