More Fuji Rock videos have surfaced. Now you can really regret not moving to Japan when you had the chance.
Missed Wilco’s set at the Fuji Rock Fest July 31st? Me too. I’m totally bummed about it. Or at least I would be if I couldn’t live vicariously through those who were there with more of these excellent videos!
For more pictures and videos of the performance at the Fuji Rock Fest, put your cursor over here and click….now!
Here’s the set list for those of you interested (all of us):
Fuji Rock Festival Set list
I Might (new song)
Bull Black Nova
Side With the Seeds
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
One Wing
Ashes of American Flags
War on War
Via Chicago
Impossible Germany
Born Alone (new song)
Handshake Drugs
Jesus Etc.
Dawned on Me (new song)
Shot in the Arm
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m the Man Who Loves You
Late Greats
Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
I’m a Wheel
And here are some videos from the set for your viewing pleasure:
Fuji Rock Festival. Japan. Almost worth flying the 106 hours to get there.
I don’t think Japan has been this happy since it convinced some Americans that Digimon was as cool as Pokémon (it totally wasn’t). The Fuji Rock Festival took place last weekend at the Naeba Ski Resort in Japan, featuring bands from all around the spectrum of great music. Bands from Arctic Monkeys to Beach House to Big Audio Dynamite to a little indie band only your weird underground friend at the Bodega has heard about: Wilco (I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly). After this summer’s Solid Sound Festival and announcements of an upcoming tour to go along with the new album, The Whole Love, it’s safe to say that many Wilco fans are jones-ing for some more live Wilco performances. Some fans in Japan got their wish yesterday, enjoying (what I assume was) a killer set from Tweedy and the gang, along with other performances throughout the weekend from:
Arctic Monkeys
Asian Dub Foundation
Atari Teenage Riot
The Avett Brothers
Beach House
Best Coast
Big Audio Dynamite,
Buddy Guy
Cake
Chemical Brothers
Coldplay
Congotronics vs Rockers
Cornershop
CSS
Dark Star Orchestra
Deerhoof
digitalism
The Faces
Feeder
Four Tet
Funeral Part
G. Love & Special Sauce
Incubus
The Kills
Manu Chao
Mogwai
The Naked & Famous
New Mastersounds
Noah & The Whale
The Pains Of Being Pure Heart
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Sisters Of Mercy
Tangerine Dream
Tinarwen
Todd Rundgren
Warpaint
Wu Lyf
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Anyway, for those of us who (many of us who reluctantly) missed the festival, here’s the set list from Wilco’s July 31st set:
Fuji Rock Festival Set list
I Might (new song)
Bull Black Nova
Side With the Seeds
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
One Wing
Ashes of American Flags
War on War
Via Chicago
Impossible Germany
Born Alone (new song)
Handshake Drugs
Jesus Etc.
Dawned on Me (new song)
Shot in the Arm
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m the Man Who Loves You
Late Greats
Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
I’m a Wheel
Here’s a few videos (big time thanks to Mariana-mrnnr.tumblr.com – for finding the first one) of surpirisngly great audio and video quality from the Fuji Rock Festival. The first is the band playing I Got You (At The End of The Century), from the Being There record, the one below it is particularly rockin’ version of the now-iconic song, Heavy Metal Drummer from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. To be completely honest, I’m not 100% sure what the third video is; it’s definitely very cool, though. Maybe we could play “Name That Solo?” The game in which Wilco fans watch the 42-second clip, and if they guess the correct song, they win a comment with their name on it!
UPDATE: The third song is a clip of Ashes of American Flags. Big ups (yes, that’s a thing. Just go with it) to @AlexHansonman for pointing that out!
If any other videos surface, I’ll be sure to throw them up here as soon as I can.
Wilco -Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At The End of The Century)
Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
Wilco – Ashes of American Flags
UPDATE: Here are 3 more videos that have surfaced of Wilco at the Fuji Rock Festival:
Wilco – Dawned on Me (new tune!)
Wilco – One Wing
Wilco - Side With the Seeds
There are also some fantastic pictures from the show, which you can take a gander (or a goose, if you’d rather) at below (from fujirockexpress.net and newaudiogram.com – thanks (once again!) to Koji Kumada and Time Out Tokyo for keeping me in the loop).
Can’t wait to see Wilco live and hear the newest tunes? Check out last week’s poll here to vote for your favorite live Wilco performance, and listen to some of the latest tunes from The Whole Love here.
