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O hush, you soused Scot!

Will put together some sort of full recap later, but just parking this thread for now. What an excellent festival set! Jeff plugged in (well, acoustically, but still)! Two new (to me) songs, both with a lyric involving Window Twin! Glorious weather and setting! Plenty of banter! Couldn’t really ask for much more out of a 75-minute set... For now, here was the complete setlist as played: new song-Bombs Above I Am Trying To Break Your Heart New Madrid Lost Love Hummingbird new song-New Wave Theater Passenger Side new song-Let’s Go Rain Impossible Germany Locator new song-Some Birds Laminated

Too bad they didn’t play the full Less Than You Think to give your day more of a drone vibe...

I don’t have any particular knowledge, but I doubt he would come back at this point unless he had to for some reason like family. But I think he’s pretty content being over there. I was just listening to some Loose Fur today and wondering if that long-rumored third record will ever see the light of day. Pretty sure the music has been recorded, but Jeff said a while ago that it was a matter of writing lyrics for some of the songs...

His wife, who’s half Finnish, won a Fulbright scholarship, so their family relocated there for most of 2018. One fairly significant reason for Wilco’s hiatus this year.

Man, this one really has bummed me out. I was a big Frabbit fan, saw them a bunch of times dating back to 2008 including what will probably be their last North American show in Washington this past February (celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Midnight Organ Fight). Really sad that Scott wasn’t able to overcome his depression and feel awful for his family and friends and bandmates. RIP Scott. P.S. You may want to edit the title of this thread to reflect the proper spelling of Hutchison. I’ve seen “Hutchinson” a lot, but I believe it is indeed the former.

Definitely make sure to get that...just like that. I love typo tattoos.

Susie mentioned to the early birds yesterday when she came out to take requests this year that they *might* change it up moving forward. Perhaps someone else can elaborate on what she said, since I was down the line a bit and am not sure I caught everything she said. But that was the gist...

"When you perform/It's so intense/When the critics pan/I write in your defense..." Try coming up with those lyrics to The Lonely 1 right on cue while feeling a thousand sets of eyes on you seeing if you’ll come up with the right words. At Jeff’s annual benefit shows for education at the Vic Theatre, when it comes to audience participation, there might be some highlights and there might be some lowlights, but there’s rarely a dull moment. All kidding aside, the audience — or at least the first 30 people in line — does play a key role in requesting the songs that comprise the setlist for that

Yeah, thanks. I thought I remembered seeing it had been played in Canada somewhere, but couldn’t remember where. So I stand corrected about the live debut on that one.

As always, it's almost impossible to fully capture the feeling in the room for these annual benefit shows at the Vic that have become such a beloved tradition among the Wilco/Tweedy fanbase. They are (and have been) a combination of delight, awkwardness, comfort, curiosity, generosity, honesty, serendipity and probably 10 other things that I'm failing to think of as I somehow type these words through bleary eyes just before 5 a.m. So that's a disclaimer of sorts, kind of like the one Jeff often puts on his own performance early on in the evening when he declares to the crowd that this show "

I only have my phone with me and I’m in transit trying to get home in time to help out some friends with Record Store Day madness, so I won’t be able to offer a full recounting of this final headlining show of Jeff’s current solo jaunt until later (if needed). But since no one’s posted the setlist here yet, and since tonight was an especially fun show with Jeff playing a couple of Golden Smog tunes with old friend Gary Louris — who I believe now lives, at least part of the year, in North Carolina — as well as singing with support act Ohmme on a couple more, I figure I’ll do at least part of

That song is the one he is calling New Wave Theater, FYI.

Dreamer In My Dreams definitely wasn't played; it was We've Been Had. And d. boony is correct that there is a song missing after New Madrid, which was Bombs Above. Also, the new song that was played between Ashes and Passenger Side was one Jeff said didn't really have a title yet but Jeff said he is calling New Wave Theater. First time I've gotten to hear it — I believe it might have been just the second (or third) time he's played it — and a definite highlight of the show for me. I am currently in transit, so won't have a chance to add anything else until later today, but will try to do so

Thanks for the detailed report, sir, delayed as it might have been. Funny about the border incident. Bands must have to deal with that all the time. And I think I’m pretty sure I have an inkling about who that “somebody” who stuffed the proverbial ballot box might have been...

Hey thanks a lot for the report, man! Guess they were too busy lighting up one-hitters in the Hammer to report back, so I’m especially glad to hear some news. Sorry I’m having to sit out this Canadian run, but I’m glad you enjoyed. Any Sarah Harmer sightings? Enjoy your hometown gig, and definitely fill us in again if anything worthwhile happens...

I think that would almost have to be I Must Be High for a second/third/etc. wedding, no?

I know. Major bummer.

At just about every Jeff Tweedy solo show I've ever attended, and especially at the kickoff show for a solo tour like tonight's in Michigan, there's a bit of suspense at the start as Jeff tries to read the crowd, the crowd tries to read him and we all see how the evening might transpire. There are some shows where Jeff doesn't say anything for quite a while into his set, and there are some when the audience is too polite — or not — and then things take their course. Three songs into this show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre (where, incidentally, Wilco played a memorable one-off gig nearly eig

Oh, certainly not! Cymru am byth! I do have a soft spot for the Scots, though...oxters aboin!

Uhhhh....

This is kind of an amusing review... "The key to the ultimate Jeff Tweedy experience is to meet his standards during the performance."

At least her accent is nice... (And she only got one fact wrong, saying the long song that was requested and which Jeff played the last verse of was One Sunday Morning instead of Remember The Mountain Bed.)

The paper he had on that table wasn't really a setlist so much as a list of songs he wanted to get to (or could potentially audible to) grouped together by various tunings. There's an example of one in the thread about the Edinburgh show. I took a picture of the London one — I think it probably was the one used by Jim Elkington while pseudo-guitar teching for Jeff — that I could probably post at some point. But basically it had quite a few songs on it, some he did play and many others he didn't (including The Ruling Class, Someone To Lose, Someday, Some Morning, Sometime, In A Future Age, Ra