Being there era show in england

[grateful dead]

I remember reading about a show in england or europe where jeff went off on a crowd. In greg kots book he mentions it. Anyone know the date or where a recording exsists?

 

 

Or did i just dream about this haha

[Analogman]

1997-04-13 Wilco - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England

[froggie]

i've got an mp3 somewhere of the Kingpin rant.... i'll and post it tomorrow.... remind me

[Doug C]

i've got an mp3 somewhere of the Kingpin rant.... i'll and post it tomorrow.... remind me

You'll 'what' and post it tomorrow ?

[keeprighton2]

Remember an agitated Tweedy walking onstage at Glastonbury in 1999 with a brutal 'Hello cocksuckers' before berely saying anything for the rest of the show. He's often also referred to the fact that he's had a 'history' with British audiences, mentioned it a few times at London gigs I've been to.

[Synthesizer Patel]

yeah, i think he thinks we don't sing and dance enough or something - not showing the band enough love. that's why i used to like going to see wilco when they played smaller venues - cos the people generally were there to hear the music, those days are gone now though; oh and we can't help it if it's more comfortable to stand with our arms crossed!

[Dude]

It's an odd country where the Happy Mondays can get people to dance and go crazy, but Wilco elicits crossed arms and furrowed brows.

[Synthesizer Patel]

It's an odd country where the Happy Mondays can get people to dance and go crazy, but Wilco elicits crossed arms and furrowed brows.

 

look at their eyes - the happy mondays crowd are on drugs. drugs can make anyone dance to anything, plus they've got bez showing them the moves too, all of this helps.

[Dude]

look at their eyes - the happy mondays crowd are on drugs. drugs can make anyone dance to anything, plus they've got bez showing them the moves too, all of this helps.

 

This is true. I half pondered whether Wilco needs a Bez, and the answer is a resounding 'No'.

[Synthesizer Patel]

 

This is true. I half pondered whether Wilco needs a Bez, and the answer is a resounding 'No'.

 

nobody needs a Bez, not even Bez.

[grateful dead]

Veryy cool thanks for the help, "what was that? it sounded snobby. but then again you british always sound snobby."

[keeprighton2]

I think over here in blighty music's always linked much closer to popular sub-culture tha in the US, that's why he get 'scenes' happening that spread quickly. ie 'punk' in the 70's, the 'baggy' scene in the late 80's with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, the whole thing was part of a wider fashion sub-culture. That always happens over here, I suppose because it's a smaller country and word gets round the cities fast.

[keeprighton2]

....and then there was the whole acid house thing around the time of the Mondays, the ectasy taking, the raves in the middle of nowhere in the late 80's, second summer of love and all that. It all became part of popualr sub-culture, made the news all the time. Middle England was aghast, just as it was when the Pistols turned the air blue on live television and punk went overground overnight, shocking the moral majority. Couldn't really happen in the US cos it's too big though I guess the web's immediacy is changing that.