Jeff Tweedy (Band) — 4 October 2025, San Francisco, CA (Golden Gate Park) [Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival; Day 2 of 3]

[bböp]

I didn't make it out to San Francisco in person, but I did watch this show via the live stream...so it almost felt like I was there. But not quite. Anyway, I guess this was the first real show of the Twilight Override era in that it was the first one with the full band playing songs from the album that anyone — and literally anyone, since it's free — could attend. The roughly 65-minute set took place on the Towers Of Gold stage on the second day of the three-day event and, from what I could see, featured a pretty sizable crowd.

 

Here was the complete setlist, as played:

 

KC Rain (No Wonder)

Betrayed

One Tiny Flower

Caught Up In The Past

Cry Baby Cry

Forever Never Ends

This Is How It Ends

Low Key

A Robin Or A Wren

Gwendolyn

Amar Bharati

California Stars

Lou Reed Was My Babysitter

Feel Free

Enough

[Albert Tatlock]

On 10/27/2025 at 6:39 PM, bböp said:

the first one with the full band

I'm wondering if it is significant that on WilcoWorld all the US shows on the tour say ''Full band performance", but none on the European leg do. Hmmm.

I did try looking at the HSB stream a few times but of course the time difference didn't work out for me and I couldn't see any saved sets to watch (might be worth keeping an eye out for the archives to be updated with 2025 sets). Weather seemed gorgeous though from some YouTube bits and pieces I have seen, and the band really put some life into the songs (played live - duh!)  but sounding brighter if you know what I mean, and with more energy/enthusiasm coming across (from the 'youngsters'). After one listen to TO I went back and listened to Sukierae. It didn't have quite the 'sparkle' and variety/inventiveness I like there, but it's certainly much more up my street than Dull/Duller and The Other One. After repeated listens it really is pretty good (which is British understated speak for a bloody good effort) and growing. I get the feeling it will always be better in performance though. Having said all that Feb 26 is problematic because of the 6 Nations. Doesn't JT pay any attention to my posts? Jesus  

(I used that emoji since last Saturday I biked along the towpath where the Monty Python fish slapping sketch was filmed. Always a moment to stop and pause for some reflective contemplation on life's ups and downs. Plus on the other side a bit further where they filmed a segment of Ronnie Lane's The Poacher video.)

 

P.S. Anyway. HSB is all about Day 3 and Her Majesty.