Sunday, Jul 30, 2017
Wilco
With Big Thief
- Date
- Sunday, Jul 30, 2017
- Show time
- 7:00 PM
- Venue
- Thompson's Point
- City
- Portland, ME
- Went with
- Becky
- Tickets
- 2
- Seating
- GA6
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
2 GA tickets in Section GA6. Order total $106.40 all-in (~$53.20/ticket incl. fees). Big Thief opened, per John — setlist.fm records their set that night too. Six years before John saw them headline the State Theatre.
What they played
- Random Name Generator
- Via Chicago
- If I Ever Was a Child
- Cry All Day
- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
- Art of Almost
- Pickled Ginger
- You Are My Face
- Misunderstood
- Someone to Lose
- War on War
- Bull Black Nova
- Reservations
- Impossible Germany
- Someday Soon
- I'm Always in Love
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- I'm the Man Who Loves You
- Hummingbird
- The Late Greats
Encore
- At Least That's What You Said
- Jesus, Etc.
- Locator
- Spiders (Kidsmoke)
24 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Big Thief played
- Real Love
1 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
A thread-knotting bill: Wilco, eighteen years into John's seven-show relationship with them, headlining a point on the Portland waterfront — with Big Thief opening, months after Capacity, the first of what became six Big Thief entries in this archive. The band John followed from the Belly Up through the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot wars, introducing the band that would define his next decade of tickets. Archives are supposed to show you time moving; this is the single ticket where it pivots.
From the time
- Capacity
“Big Thief's 2017 second album — the opening slot on bills like this one is how the whole world found them.”
The stub
No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the
Ticketmaster confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add
"stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.