I’d like to start by saying that Wilco playing at the Walton Arts Center is pretty damn weird. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super excited about the show but still, that shit is weird.
Buying tickets to this show, however, was even weirder. You see, Wilco has a fan community and if you sign up for it (it’s free) you get access to pre-sale tickets a few days before the show. I signed up but buying pre-sale tickets was a total mess. First of all, they were supposed to go on sale yesterday at 9am. At 9am, I tried to get tickets but the “Buy” button still wasn’t there. I headed back over to the Wilco site and noticed that the time had been moved to 10am. So an hour later, I tried again with no luck. So I went back to the Wilco site a second time and the pre-sale date had been changed to Wednesday February 7 which I thought was odd because February 7 is today (Tuesday). A few hours later, it had been changed to Tuesday February 7 at 11am. At 10am today, I thought, “What if they changed it again and they’re really going on sale at 10am?” A couple of clicks later and guess what? THEY DID GO ON SALE EARLY! Soooooo, I bought my tickets, walked across the hall to tell a co-worker that they’d gone on sale early and by this time (about 10:15am) the only tickets available were a few singles here and there.
Long story short, I got my tickets but not many other people did. Kind of lame. But not for me I guess. If you wanna try your luck, the rest of the tickets go on sale Thursday through waltonartscenter.org
UPDATE: I just saw this on the Wilco tour page: “Stay tuned. We are arranging for more tickets to be sold via wilcoworld. ” Keep trying I guess…
February 7th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Row F is the place to be!
February 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Lucky! I’m on J!
February 7th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I had no idea that Wilco was going to f-town! Sonofa!
February 7th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
looks like you can still get pre-tix from wilcoticketing
February 7th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
But not Row F or J - too bad for you!
February 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
No sweat. I’ll just move to the front when they play in KC.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Weird. Why is does Wilco get the WAC but Sun Volt got Georges? I didn’t realize Wilco was the bigger band.
Also weird that many people in town have even heard of Wilco much less sold out the joint.
I didn’t realize Wilco was that big. In fact I thought they were on the decline.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Wilco is anything but on the decline. The past few years have been huge for them. “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” was named and instant classic by Rolling Stone. About the same time, their documentary DVD came out which garnered them tons of respect. Since then, they’ve put out “A Ghost Is Born” and a few other things including internet-only EPs, a fantastic live album, a book, etc. Not too shabby.