Maybe Tweedy hasn't got over that weird solo gig in the Vicat St yet.
Thats good news though, new album out in May aswell apparently.

I saw it Eoghan... I put a message on the Gigs board looking for Sydney CLUAS people who might like to meet up for the gig.

PJ - what do you mean by the weird Tweedy solo gig?

Wilco hasn't played a proper gig in Ireland in several years. When Tweedy came to do a small solo gig last year, I think the crowd was a little too over-excited to sit quietly and listen. Overall the gig was fine, a good enough performance from him but he was interupted a few times during songs and he didn't really understand alot of the between song yelling from the crowd. I would have expected any artist to get frustrated by this and just plow through their set without anymore interaction but he handled it like a gent.

Having said that, Wilco has a bad habit of bypassing Ireland in European tours. They have done for the past few years. They did record bits of Mermaid Avenue here...I wonder are we a bad hangover from that period?

One of the best gigs I have ever been to was Wilco at the Olympia in the late 90s... I think they were touring Summer Teeth. I remember standing in the crowd with our esteemed editor. It was before their wonderful guitarist from Being There left. Forgotten his name. I remember catching a drumstick lobbed into the crowd by the drummer but I also remember a sheepish roadie coming to the front edge of the stage to beg for the return a guitar that had just been thrown into the crowd. Bizarre... yet oddly endearing. I think it was the "we can't really afford to lose another guitar" look on the roadie's face. To be honest, there aren't many gigs I've been to in my life that I look back on with more pleasure.