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The pluses: A very intimate, lovely sounding and looking venue (I was told the total capacity was just 1,000, with 600 standing on the floor and another 400 spread over two balconies, and it wasn't even sold out when doors opened); a relatively enthusiastic audience. During the show I remembered that, in my past experience seeing the band there — I have some especially good memories of seeing the band next door at Le Trianon's sister venue Elysée Montmartre nearly 15 years ago — Paris can have some surprisingly energetic crowds. And this one was no exception, with a brief flurry of random co

I think you've probably had too much birra...

Possibly. I think especially when they try to do the HMD>I'm The Man segue, they're switching guitars in the outro to HMD and then trying to get the timing just right to go into Man. I don't know if that's what you're referring to. Also kinda funny you brought it up in this thread since this is the one show they didn't play it. Haha.

Decided to take a personal day, which is pretty ridiculous since these are all personal days, but anyway, that meant not trekking to Padova for this show. So I'd be interested to hear about it from anyone who went, which I realize might be unlikely around these parts, but you never know! Since Wilcoworld has already posted the setlist, I will cross-post it here as usual. (Unfortunately, whoever posts the setlists there doesn't seem to believe in or is incapable of denoting where the encore break happened, so I'm just using my best guess): Bright Leaves Before Us I Am Trying To Break Your H

Well, that's debatable... Aw, too bad you couldn't make it. Have you ever been to the Volkshaus? Definitely one of my favorite venues they play in Europe.

I read it that way, too. And same about the Chipotle stuff. A few years back, I remember I would always seem to hear Theme From Chelsea Walls whenever I used the bathroom at a Chipotle; guess someone there was/is a fan.

Sorry, I just saw this for some reason. Some of their management team reached out to me (as well as some of their other longtime friends around town) and asked if I was free. My parts were probably done in like an hour total, but it was over two days (i.e. the pickup and dropoff scenes were on separate days) so that’s how I also snuck into the movie scene because they needed some extra bodies and I guess I was just randomly in the right place. That was purely by chance that I was visible. No real juicy anecdotes from the filming. They had a pretty quick turnaround on it, so they had a pret

It had been a little while since I'd been to Italy, or at least it felt that way, so I had sort of forgotten about what I think of in my mind as "the Italian way" of doing things. And Milan is probably as good a microcosm of Italy as anywhere else. So reflecting on the Milan show, at least in my opinion, I think it's best to remember that all the elements that make Italy what it is were present — beauty, passion, disorganization, charm, rudeness and more. Oh, and copyright infringement. (No, seriously, Italy seems to be the only place where Wilco is apparently a big enough band to make it wo

Forgot to mention that this show was bittersweet in one sense, because it was the last one on the run for Spiral Stairs and his guitarist Tim Regan as the support act. I had seen them at so many shows and also incidentally on the road, especially in Norway, that they started to feel like old friends. I really enjoyed their set each night and I encourage people to go check them out, especially anyone in Europe this month because after the tour with Wilco, they were meeting up with their rhythm section and touring as a full band for a couple weeks. That should be a fun show. What was cool abou

Just a rando forum user, albeit one who's been around for a long time now. I didn't drop him off until after the movie screened. Get your head around that one... Actually, this could be it (though I know nothing about the Potterverse)...

You'd better get a MEOW cap to go along with your YES one, in that case...

A morbid thought, but no kitties were harmed in the making of my Oscar campaign. I know that Scotland independence leader and cats rights advocate 50footqueenie certainly would nae have any of tha...

Well, as awkward as this might be to write from a personal standpoint, I’m going to try to keep myself out of it as much as possible and stick to the facts (and, OK, maybe a tiny little bit of opinion). On the surface, tonight’s show in Zurich set up as a kind of pivot point — or fresh start, if you will — for this opening leg of the Ode To Joy tour. First, Wilco was hitting the stage again after a rare two-day break likely necessitated by a long bus journey from Warsaw. Jeff looked somewhat freshly shaven and perhaps had even had a little hair trim (or maybe it was just hiding under his St

Who?

Good call!

Twice, if you’re really eagle-eyed!

Haven't seen it in a while, sadly...but here's hoping he hasn't gone pickle for good!

Well, Wilco went to Warsaw (or Warszawa, for my Chicago Polish cousins) for the first time, and while it could have been just a "professional" show and no one would have complained — after all, it was the band's fourth show in four nights — Jeff and Co. of course delivered an enjoyable and energetic, 29-song performance that left just about everyone wanting more. From the outside, the Progresja — or Progresja Music Zone, as I think its official name might be — doesn't seem like a particularly promising venue. It is located in a big hulking building that also houses, among other things, a rad

I assumed it wasn't LaserDisc... He was much more smiley tonight in Warsaw, fwiw!

Cool, thanks for the info. Ch-ch-ch-changes! Nice to know the “script” still isn’t set in stone...

Walking up to and into the Elbphilharmonie, the gleaming new jewel of Hamburg's harborfront revitalization project that opened in early 2017, you can't help but be bowled over by its combination of architectural elegance, accessibility and utility. It's a performing arts center, a hotel, a tourist attraction and a panoramic vista, all in one huge glass-encased, wave-shaped structure built atop an old warehouse building. The Elbphilharmonie's main concert hall, or Großer Saal, is quite a sight unto itself. The 2,100-capacity room features a setup in which the performers are on a relatively lo

Affirmative.

For the most part thus far on the European portion of Wilco’s Ode To Joy tour, Banter Corner has remained a largely lonely one with Jeff and his bandmates seemingly preferring to let their music speak for itself during slightly-longer-than-usual sets for this part of the world. In Cologne, Jeff didn’t suddenly turn into Chatty Tweedy but whether it was being back in a city in which he has performed relatively often over the years, the winding-down of the portion of the tour with old friend Spiral Stairs as the support act or something else entirely (the facial cover provided by the return of

A lot of them were, I believe. I know they got some folks to do it while they were in town for Pitchfork, like Cate and her band, and Parquet Courts and Kurt Vile. A lot of the others are either friends of the band, live in Chicago and/or have recorded at the Loft before.

Thanks for the info/details!