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  1. One final show Down Under, and now the Wilcos and the Wilcrew are all presumably headed back home after another successful run through their usual touring grounds of Japan and Australia. This final show of the run was in the more-conducive-to-rocking confines of the Enmore Theatre, which if memory serves, is where they also performed when they played Sydney back in the halcyon days of 2007 and 2008. Alas, I wasn't able to be there this time...but once again look forward to the reports and thoughts from those lucky souls who were. Here, via the good folk at Wilcoworld, was the repor
  2. I’m afraid that’s a couple of notches above my pay — or ta — grade these days. You could ask Vince, I suppose.
  3. Well, I am simply your ta - less servant as always.
  4. Unfortunately Melbourne was the end of the Australian run for me this time, but it looks like the band had quite the time at the esteemed Sydney Opera House (with a very special guest in attendance, at least backstage) in their penultimate show of this Japan/Australia jaunt before heading back across the International Dateline. I look forward to hearing about it from some of our intrepid correspondents on the ground, who will hopefully check in here when they get a chance. I promised to at least set up the template here with the setlist, based on the good work from the folks at Wil
  5. If there's any ground rules about seeing Wilco live that I could impart from years of experience, one of them surely would be don't miss any nights of a multi-night run if at all possible. Or at least do so with the understanding that you're almost certainly going to miss out on some gems from the catalog and an increasing simpatico both within the group and among the audience. I think perhaps those who turned up at the venerable Forum in Melbourne the past few nights began to appreciate some of that as the band completed its first-ever three-night run in Australia since it began touring here
  6. Second night better than the first? I believe a certain frontman once told me that rule himself one time, but it isn't always true. And what makes for a "better" show anyway? It's so subjective for everyone, I have to think. Is it more banter, or less? Is it a matter of hearing more songs that they personally wanted to hear? Or is it a matter of happening to stand in a spot where the sound was superior? Or a perception, either real or perceived, that the band performed better from one night to the next? Or simply the people one is surrounded by and enjoying the show with, which can make such a
  7. The start of a three-night run in Melbourne brings with it the same sort of energy it does anywhere around the world, I suppose. It's a place the band has played relatively often over the years — often, at least by Australian standards — and has built up a certain comfort level with the audience. And it's interesting to see old friendships renewed and some new ones made, depending on who has come out for the shows and who has been able to travel from where this time around. I suppose you meet more than a few folks as well who have journeyed here because their own home cities/countries have bee
  8. Other than falling somewhere behind the Big Three of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, I honestly couldn't tell you where Canberra fits into the rest of the Australian cultural conversation except that it has the added cachet of being the nation's capital. I do know that until tonight's show at the Canberra Theatre, Wilco had never performed in the city despite playing many shows in Australia since its first tour here back in 2003 (and neither the Tweedy band nor Jeff solo tours had visited Canberra either on their Aussie excursions in 2016 and 2019, respectively). So this was a rare first, whic
  9. Yeah, I took note of that as well. Who knows, but it is moderately interesting...
  10. [Would've gotten this filed much sooner if I hadn't literally gotten back to my room last night after the show and had my head immediately sent a-spinning by the announcement of the new tour dates and all the pre-sales going live within the next hour or two, not to mention having to pack and get up and out for an early flight to the next city, so I once again apologize for the delay in posting. And thank goodness for an off day, so I can catch up before falling too far behind. I'll get it together, eventually...] When it comes down to it, what am I going to remember about Night 2 i
  11. Apologies for the delay in getting this one posted, but the jet lag has been real...what can I say? Not to mention it's beautiful outside and one wants to soak up at least a bit of the Australian lifestyle during the day before congregating inside the intimate Princess Theatre in the evening. Anyway, tonight's first Wilco show on Australian soil in nearly a decade was a special one both for the band — and for those in its past, present and perhaps future orbit. OK, from a setlist perspective, one might look at the list of songs played and simply shrug their shoulders and say, 'Well
  12. And just like that, Wilco (and Finom’s) three-show run in the Land of the Rising Sun has come to an end, hopefully not for another decade. I have no idea if there were any special surprises as the tour moved on to Osaka, but once again, thanks to the quick work of the good folk at Wilcoworld, at least we know what was played. Otherwise, we await any reportage from those in attendance and/or social media evidence to emerge (preferably the former)… For now, the setlist for Osaka courtesy of Wilcoworld (and already griped about by at least one member of this forum):
  13. Now that’s not entirely true…they play Cruel Country (preceded by I Am My Mother) at almost every gig.* *tongue firmly in cheek
  14. Wilco’s second of three Japanese shows on this brief run, and its final one in Tokyo, looks to have been the barnburner of the two nights, as expected. Thanks to the folks at Wilcoworld, we once again have the setlist to tide us over as we await reports from our correspondent on the ground: Hell Is Chrome Handshake Drugs Pittsburgh I Am My Mother Cruel Country I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Kamera Side With The Seeds Random Name Generator At Least That’s What You Said Hummingbird Evicted Box Full Of Letters Jesus, Etc.
  15. Unfortunately I’m not able to be in Japan for Wilco’s once-in-a-decade run of shows in that special land, but I know we have at least one correspondent on the ground there, so I’m just going to start this thread and let him go take the reportage reins for a few days… For now, thanks to the good folks at Wilcoworld, here was the complete setlist for the band’s first show in Japan on this short run: Infinite Surprise Pittsburgh Handshake Drugs I Am My Mother Cruel Country I Am Trying To Break Your Heart One Wing If I Ever Was A Child
  16. Originally Wilco's final show of 2023 was scheduled to be held at the Teatro Angela Peralta, a charming outdoor amphitheatre tucked into México City's Polanco neighborhood, but less than a week ago, ticketholders were notified that the concert would be changing venues due to "determinations made during a neighborhood assembly which have made impossible the carrying out of the event at the place previously designated" (if Google Translate is to be believed). Instead, the show would now take place at the Frontón México, an indoor multi-purpose facility about three miles away that hosts everythin
  17. It was about a 15-minute walk from the Centro Historico. I wouldn't say it was the suburbs by any stretch, but I wouldn't say it was exactly near the old Spanish architecture either. Sort of in a non-descript commerical area adjacent to the historic district.
  18. It was the third complete performance of Many Worlds by the full band, I believe. They played it the second night in Iceland to start the encore, but not since then. I hadn’t realized it was quite that rare. Thanks for making me go back and check.
  19. It's almost always fun to see Wilco in a place the band has never played before, at least it is for me (and I assume it is for the guys). Especially in a foreign country, there's a different kind of energy in the audience and it's interesting to see what people respond to and how they respond. With a band that's been around as long as Wilco has, you don't often get to experience being in an audience anymore where you get the sense that the vast majority of those around you are truly seeing it all with fresh eyes. Certainly that was a marked contrast from how the band had spent the
  20. She must have started recording slightly late because the first song of the set was the new one, Cry Baby Cry. And they did play A Robin Or A Wren in its entirety. Just FYI.
  21. This is the kind of content people come to Via Chicago to be mystified by. Certainly not any of my idiotic ramblings… I never upload photos, but I shall try to add one of our Stan from last night since I am indeed a Stan stan:
  22. If that was indeed the last time Wilco participates in the Sky Blue Sky Festival in its current location and/or format, as some rumors have suggested, then the band certainly left the Hard Rock Hotel with a performance that touched on just about every corner of its catalog and showed why it has such wide-ranging appeal. And not only that, but a familiar face for so long at the front of house/sound desk console at Wilco shows made an appearance on stage to receive an award and some long-overdue public recognition, allowing me to finally use the line that I've been wanting to deploy for a long t
  23. Typically the third day of Wilco's four-day Sky Blue Sky Festival has been an "off night" for the headlining band, so that means another act — this year it was Father John Misty — takes the featured slot on the Main Stage and gives the members of Wilco the flexibility to do some other things (mezcal tasting with Nels and John, anyone?). In Jeff's case, that has primarily meant playing a set with his solo band, and this year was no exception. And just like she did at the last SBS, beloved cinnamontoastographer Susie R. Miller Tweedy gave those unable to get to Mexico a glimpse at wh
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