Wilco at the Bushnell

(Hooray for blurry cell phone photos that I get yelled at by ushers for taking!)

You know when you're pretty tired once you get to a show because it's the end of the long week? Yeah, that happened to me, but I got my second wind during this show.

This was Wilco's first appearance in Hartford, and my second time seeing them, and it was awesome. The first time I saw them was at Tanglewood, and I couldn't really see, even with seats because I had really tall people in front of me. This time I got an aisle seat and normal-height people in front of me. It was much better. This show in general was a lot better too - and it took me about 20 minutes to get there! My boyfriend read up on Wilco's set lists from recent shows, and we were expecting maybe two sets and an encore. About two and a half hours into the show, we realized they were just playing one long set. They pulled out all their old favorites and stuff from all of their albums. According to the Courant's Eric Danton, they played 36 songs for over three hours. (I'm glad he kept track because I didn't.)

"Wilco the Song" was a great start to the night, and then they went straight into "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" - two songs we listened to in the car, I might add. Basically, every song we thought they would play or were hoping they'd play, they did. My favorite part was toward the end after we had a sing-along to "Jesus, etc." They really rocked it toward the end, especially with "Heavy Metal Drummer" and then "I'm the Man Who Loves You" - two of my favorites. It was one of those cases where I could tell they played a long time and appreciated it, but I also couldn't believe they played for so long because it was so fun.

Wilco Coming to the Bushnell in April

So we just got our tickets for the Wilco show at the Bushnell coming up on April 9. Tickets, which are $35, went on presale today, and they go on sale to the public Friday.

According to Brian Lee on the Courant blog, Sound Check, it's Wilco's first Hartford appearance in its 15+ year history. Pretty exciting.

Saw them two summers ago at Tanglewood up in Lenox, Mass. We had seats, but we set up a picnic area with Garrett's dad and some friends since Tanglewood lets you bring food and drinks and enjoy them with your lawn seats. It was a great show. I couldn't see very well because there were tall people in front of me, but the band played all my favorites, and it was a lot of fun. A quick review of this concert can be found in this past round-up post.