Wilco Coming to Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater in September
Wilco is no stranger to the Triangle area, playing almost every single large venue in the area over the past few year. The latest on their tour de triangle will be as part of the second season of the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater. The band will be on tour to promote their new album, The Whole Love, which comes out on the same day that Wilco will play Raleigh, September 27th (just one week after Fleet Foxes and The Walkmen grace the same stage).
The Downtown Amphitheater's sophomore season continues to drown the first year in embarrasment. Also, Wilco was on Old Habits guitarist Lin Peterson and local music blogger Karen Mann's hopefuls for the Downtown Amphitheater back in April of 2010. This will be an easy sellout. Now, to the thought of who may be opening the show....? Nick Lowe is rumored is opening these shows, which would be quite an amazing duo for the downtown amphitheater. The top levels of all the surrounding parking decks will be full as well.
No word on tickets yet but you best get them fast via the Live Nation iPhone app or through the presale password. We'll update this post when we have more info.
Update: Tickets for this sale go on sale to the public on Friday, July 15th at 10am for $38 and $49 over at Ticketmaster. Not sure if they'll be available on Wednesday, July 13th on the Live Nation iPhone app or not.
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spudley q. weatherbottom
06/29 10:31 PM
Oh, no. The hipster Nation will be out en force.
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Alton
06/30 10:50 AM
The 40+ hipster Nation?
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ti
06/30 12:40 PM
“The Downtown Amphitheater’s sophmore season continues to drown the first year in embarrasment”—i’m glad new raleigh is here to make sure there’s nothing left unbitched about. the amphitheater was built and opened incredibly quickly. trying to sell a new venue to potential bands and promoters was undoubtedly difficult, but they pulled together a reasonable first season. now that it’s proven itself a worthy place to play, the interested parties have obviously increased.
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Jeff tweedy's ego
06/30 07:59 PM
WILCO is the most over-rated band of the Millenium.
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dueling dreidels
06/30 10:31 PM
“WILCO is the most over-rated band of the Millenium”
Perhaps you haven’t seen how their albums have rated over the last several releases. Overrated isn’t the correct word.
Also, great post.
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frank
07/01 03:06 PM
Live Nation didn’t have to do much tempting to get people to play the venue. They tell the act where they’re going and they suck it up and say, “hello Raleigh!” There’s no muffin basket to get these acts to come to Raleigh - just cold hard cash. How much did they have to wine and dine Cheap Trick to play in the middle of the street at a ribfest?
And no matter what act, I’m really not up to spending top dollars to stand in a buggy muggy parking lot in the middle of summer.
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arturo
07/03 12:03 PM
frank - how is that different than every other place live nation bands play? it’s not. instead of standing in a muggy parking lot you should buy a ticket for a show at the amphitheater.
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frank
07/05 11:29 PM
aturo - the muggy parking lot is the amphitheater. They slapped some seats onto a surface that can easily handle some downtown executive’s Audi. If I’m going to pay top dollar to see a show, I want a little AC.
And if I read the event calendar right- there’s only 7 shows for the next three months including only 2 in July.
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Carl
07/06 12:18 PM
FRANK:
Hey Grandpa,
I think your oxygen tank is on E.
Pop a geritol and we will see you at Meymandi Hall. -
Jonn
07/06 12:27 PM
I saw their show at DPAC almost 2 years ago. It lasted over 3.5 hours and i wanted to die.
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Bill
07/06 05:18 PM
John, I hope you meant die b/c it was incredible. That was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
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frank
07/06 05:38 PM
grandpa? you’re the one excited about seeing a 17 year old band. or did you also buy kei$ha tixs?
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b
07/06 10:05 PM
wow..now the amphitheater has maybe 8 shows booked this entire summer….what a great programming schedule (NOT). And, if you buy tix online, you can pay a 30% markup to ticketmaster.
Downtown Amphitheater - great idea…terrible execution.
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Jonn
07/07 10:33 AM
Bill: No offense intended, but it was pretty boring to me :\
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abbsouth
07/07 02:17 PM
livenation does indeed suck. does anyone know if there are times one can go to the box office and avoid the astronomical markup?
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abbsouth
07/07 05:33 PM
google answered my question, maybe helpful for other locals: http://www.raleigh-amphitheater.com/tickets
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