WILCO LIVE AT THE ESTRAGON, BOLOGNA, ITALY – 9th February 2012
A rubbish picture of Wilco on stage at the Estragon in Bologna posted just to prove I was there!
After the post-xmas January lull and the freak snow of February, this was the first concert I’ve been to in 2012 ad it set the benchmark very high.
Wilco are not a band who go through the motions. Their set list changes constantly so even if they had any greatest hits you would never count on hearing them at every show.
Great songs like Via Chicago and Shot In The Arm fared better than the newer material although Art Of Almost from their latest album, Whole Love, was one of the show’s early high points.
Most bands would have started with an up tempo tune like this but they chose to begin with long and slow acoustic ballad One Sunday Morning, the closing track from on the same disc. This self assured opening laid the foundations for a well paced two hour show which included a generous six song encore. Continue reading
