Soyprensa spends a night with Wilco

Wilco played at the Fillmore in Miami Beach to kick off their tour in support of their new album Wilco [The Album]. The show took place on Monday March 26. Wilco performed their unbelievably chaotic and beautiful music before a sold out crowd. And the crowd was into it to! Even Jeff Tweedy said that we were a great audience and that he usually don’t give out compliments. The Concert was really good with Wilco playing for over 3 hours. Their set consisted in a big chunk of songs from the new album, Wilco [The Album}, combined with some hit songs from Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, Ghost is Born, and Sky Blue Sky. They even did a great version of Woody Guthrie’s California Stars, from the album Mermaid Avenue Sessions which Wilco recorded along Billy Brag. During California Stars a kid name Max Crowdsurfed his way up to the stage. Max couldn’t have been happier to reach the stage where his idols were performing. Little did he know that things for him were going to get even better.When Tweedy saw this teenager, Max was around 14, being taken to the exit of the stage, he called him over and let Max finish the singing of the song. If that wasn’t enough, Tweedy then gave Max his Guitar and Max rocked it…Max was the fucking Lead singer for the Wilco for a little more than five minutes, but I’m sure for Max felt like a lifetime.
After that first set Tweedy said they were going to take a little break “enough time so you guys can go urinate” as Tweedy put it. When the band came back the crew had set up a smaller stage inside the big stage of the Fillmore. The small stage was cozy and homely which was the idea behind the title of the concert, Spend a night with Wilco. The band did 6 or 7 songs acusticly. The highlight of this were that the band was very close to the audience and their song Kamera.
After they were done with the acustic, sit down stuff everything went back to rocking hard and kicking asses with the last set full of Yankee Foxtrot Hotel‘s hits such as Heavy Metal Drummer, I’m the man who loves you and a great version of Jesus etc. in which the first half of the song was sang by the audience with Tweedy’s enthusiastic approval. After the song Monday (Cutely placed as the last song of the night since the show took place on a Monday.) The band left the stage again. However concert goers did not left. They wanted more, and Wilco happily obliged by singing an emotional tribute to Alex Chilton by doing a cover of Big Star’s Thank You Friends.
Overall it was a magical show and a reminder that there are still bands out there with genuine passion for music and appreciation for their fans.

Here’s how the playlist looked like:

1. Wilco (The Song)
2. Bull Black Nova
3. You Are My Face
4. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
5. One Wing
6. Shot In The Arm
7. At Least That’s What You Said
8. Pot Kettle Black
9. Deeper Down
10. Impossible Germany
11. California Stars
12. Either Way
13. I’ll Fight
14. Handshake Drugs
15. You Never Know
16. Spiders (Acoustic)
17. What’s The World Got In Store (Acoustic)
18. Kamera (Acoustic)
19. Hesitating Beauty (Acoustic)
20. Sky Blue Sky (Acoustic)
21. Casino Queen (Acoustic)
22. Outta Mind (Outta Sight) (Acoustic)
23. Misunderstood
24. Heavy Metal Drummer
25. Jesus, Etc.
26. Hate It Here
27. Walken
28. I’m The Man Who Loves You
29. Monday
30. Thank You Friends (Big Star cover)