Second & Final Wilco show April 3
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MEDIA RELEASE
13 DECEMBER 2012
Sydney Opera House present
Second & Final Wilco show April 3
CONCERT HALL, 2 & 3 APRIL 2013
“Wilco has become a live band that can go from down-home
folk-rock to hallucinatory — or back — in an instant.”
NEW YORK TIMES
Due to an overwhelming response to the members pre-sale, Sydney
Opera House have added a second and final concert for Wilco. The Chicago
six-piece will
perform in the Concert Hall Sydney Opera House on 2 and 3 April, 2013 as part
of Music at the House. Tickets go on sale to the general public tomorrow,
Friday 14 December at 9am.
Not many bands manage to get strikingly better with age, but
that’s entirely the case with Wilco. The transformation from their humble
mid-‘90s alt-country origins to one of the planet’s most powerful and intuitive
rock’n’roll bands, has been something to behold over the last decade.
For their Opera House debut Wilco will perform new material from
their critically acclaimed Grammy-Award winning chart-topper, 2011’s The Whole
Love as well as drawing on their extensive back-catalogue of masterpieces. From
the sonic expansiveness of 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or the melodic
inventiveness of Grammy-winner A Ghost is Born to 2009’s compellingly
catchy Wilco (the album) impeccable craftsmanship is set to coalesce with
rollicking showmanship as Wilco take to the Concert Hall stage for the first
time.
Whether it is pop irreverence or serious experimental
compositions, Wilco founding member and ringleader Jeff Tweedy has carved out
an astonishing catalogue in the past quarter-century. Incorporating
everything from Beach Boys harmonies to kraut rock rhythms to post-punk
distortion flares, it is clear Tweedy doesn’t stay in one place for long,
musically speaking, and neither do his almost impossibly adept collaborators in
Wilco. The current Wilco line-up coalesced around Tweedy back in 2004.
The addition of legendary guitar virtuoso Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist
Pat Sansone, joining bassist John Stirratt, percussionist Glenn Kotche and
keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen has become the band’s definitive roster. Each
member of the band is an accomplished player in their own right, but when
together they become something greater than the sum of their combined parts.
This performance is part of Music at the House, the contemporary
music program presented by Sydney Opera House. Music at the House
2013 includes performances by First Aid Kit, Sharon Jones & The
Dap-Kings, Dead Can Dance, Kings of Convenience, Sarah Blasko, Neil Finn and
Paul Kelly and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. sydneyoperahouse.com/music
DETAILS
WHO: Wilco
WHEN: Tuesday
2 & Wednesday 3 April 2013, 9.00pm
WHERE: Concert
Hall, Sydney Opera House
TICKETS:
$79 – 90
sydneyoperahouse.com/music
9250 7777
MEDIA
CONTACT
Helene Fox
02 9250 7805 / hfox@sydneyoperahouse.com