Wilco — 6 August 2025, Pittsburgh, PA (Heinz Hall)

[bböp]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to this show, but I know that at least a couple of VCers were in attendance so hopefully at least one of them will chime in and give us a little bit of a report. For now, though, here was the setlist as provided by the fine folks at Wilcoworld (they don't specify where the set break was, but according to Setlist.fm, it came after California Stars; I'm also making a couple of educated assumptions about arrangements, etc.):

 

Set 1

Story To Tell

Handshake Drugs

Pittsburgh

If I Ever Was A Child

Cruel Country

Forget The Flowers

Evicted

Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement)

Bird Without A Tail/Base Of My Skull

You And I

Hesitating Beauty

Hummingbird

War On War

Via Chicago

Love Is Everywhere (Beware)

It's Just That Simple

Falling Apart (RIght Now)

California Stars

 

Set 2

The Late Greats

Whole Love

Side With The Seeds

Box Full Of Letters

Annihilation

Sunken Treasure (acoustic arrangement; Jeff on acoustic with no harmonica)

Either Way

Impossible Germany

Jesus, etc.

Hate It Here

Walken

I'm The Man Who Loves You

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Heavy Metal Drummer

I Got You (At The End Of The Century)>

Outtasite (Outta Mind)

[LittleDrummerBoy]

I was there! It was an interesting, but really fun show regardless. 

 

Similar to the last time they played here at Heinz Hall, the audience sat for almost the entire time. To be fair, the seats were very comfortable and I wanted to get up and groove to the music, but anytime I did so, I could feel the glares of the people behind me seeping deep into my soul. After each song, a fair amount of people would stand up to clap, and then promptly sit back down again. It wasn't until "I'm the Man Who Loves You" that the entire audience got on their feet. 

 

You were correct in terms of arrangements and which songs flowed into one another! It's almost like you've seen a few Wilco shows .

 

A highlight for me from the show was during Jesus, etc. when a woman stood in the aisle holding a rose. Her partner walked down the aisle to meet her, and the two of them slow-danced in the aisle for the entire song, the rose in the man's mouth and all. Afterwards, Jeff quipped "You two should get a room. I'm just kidding, that's actually really sweet."

 

Another highlight for me was hearing "You And I", presumably played because of Jeff and Susie's 30th anniversary being that night, to which Jeff said afterward "If you see Susie, tell her I played 'You And I'."

 

I also was quite happy that they played "Pittsburgh". I mean, the song was tailor made to be played here .

 

All in all, it was a good show, but it was definitely lacking the energy from the crowd for a proper Wilco show. I wonder if a lot of the crowd consisted of Heinz Hall members who just casually wanted to check out the band. 

[Brian F.]

On 8/8/2025 at 9:19 AM, LittleDrummerBoy said:

Similar to the last time they played here at Heinz Hall, the audience sat for almost the entire time. To be fair, the seats were very comfortable and I wanted to get up and groove to the music, but anytime I did so, I could feel the glares of the people behind me seeping deep into my soul. After each song, a fair amount of people would stand up to clap, and then promptly sit back down again. It wasn't until "I'm the Man Who Loves You" that the entire audience got on their feet. 

 

 

Don't you understand how it works? The people glaring at you are allowed to stand for the songs they know and/or like, but you're not allowed to stand for the songs that you know and/or like. This creates tension when the crowd is split between fans who are familiar with and fans of the whole catalog, and fans who are familiar with maybe two albums and "California Stars."