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Wilco / John Stirratt @ Newcastle Academy


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Hi all

Went to see Wilco t'other night... the Academy is sonically an awful room, but I sacrificed acoustics for atmosphere and I stood towards the front anyway.

Bloody great... what a band. Tweedy is quite a happy chap these days.

As ever, John Stirratt was excellent. He used pretty much his usual set-up:

Lakland Glaub w/ Dark Star > Avalon DI > Schroeder (not that Schroeder!) tube head > into two silver-cloth Ampeg 4x10s, stood side-by-side.

No mic on the cab, just DI, and it was PHAT AND GROWLEEEE.

One of the best gigs ever. That is all.

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[quote name='wateroftyne' post='959246' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:08 AM']the Academy is sonically an awful room[/quote]
Totally. Boom, whoooffff, booooom. And that's just the vocals. :) Saw Bauhaus there a few years back. They put on a good show, but it was sonically [i]so[/i] frustrating. No definition to anything. Pure mush.

Glad Wilco kicked ass though. Great band.

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[quote name='wateroftyne' post='959246' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:08 AM']Hi all

Went to see Wilco t'other night... the Academy is sonically an awful room, but I sacrificed acoustics for atmosphere and I stood towards the front anyway.

Bloody great... what a band. Tweedy is quite a happy chap these days.

As ever, John Stirratt was excellent. He used pretty much his usual set-up:

Lakland Glaub w/ Dark Star > Avalon DI > Schroeder (not that Schroeder!) tube head > into two silver-cloth Ampeg 4x10s, stood side-by-side.

No mic on the cab, just DI, and it was PHAT AND GROWLEEEE.

One of the best gigs ever. That is all.[/quote]



Nice one. Wilco have to be THE best live band in the world at the moment.
I didn't want to know that Schroeder had built Stirrat a bass head though - their guitar amps are legends. That must be incredible & will generate epic GAS!

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