Wilco’s last show for over a month was a special one as it was the final concert for their stage manager/Jeff Tweedy’s guitar tech, Matthew McNamara. McNamara has worked for the band for over a dozen years, and was well known to fans so it was fitting that Tweedy and company give him a proper send off. During the first song of the encore, “Kingpin,” Tweedy informed the audience of McNamara’s leaving, encouraged them to sing “Goodbye,” and changed one of the lines to “How can I say goodbye to you/when I don't know what to do?”
As for the rest of the show, the band returned to the type of setlists they were doing over the first leg of the Ode to Joy tour, but, perhaps inspired by the reception to the three nights at the Sky Blue Sky festival when they played 76 songs with no repeats, they packed the show with a lot of choice crowd pleasers.
It went like this:
Teatro
Metropólitan, Mexico City, Mexico 1/25/20
“Before Us”
“I Am Trying
to Break Your Heart”
“War on War”
“Handshake
Drugs”
“At Least
That’s What You Said”
“One and a
Half Stars”
“Can’t Stand
it”
“Hummingbird”
“Via Chicago”
“Bull Black
Nova”
“Random Name
Generator”
“Reservations”
“Impossible
Germany”
“Jesus, Etc.”
“Love is
Everywhere (Beware)”
“Box Full of
Letters”
“Everyone
Hides”
“Heavy Metal
Drummer”
“I’m the Man
Who Loves You”
“Hold Me
Anyway”
“Misunderstood”
“Spiders
(Kidsmoke)”
“The Late
Greats”
Encore:
“Kingpin”
“California Stars”
“Red Eyed and Blue”
“I Got You (At the End of the Century)”
“Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
“A Shot in the Arm”
Wilco’s next show will be at The Sylvee in Madison, Wisconsin on March 9, 2020.
Official show poster at the top of this post created by Jose Garcia / Zoca
Daniel Cook Johnson’s Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of America’s Best Band is available for order here.
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