It doesn’t take long for the startling three-guitar masterclass that is Wilco to power up. The feted Chicago band – recipients of a Grammy and, latterly, soundtrackers of TV chef drama The Bear – edge in sideways, with just a brief electric guitar exchange on tonight’s set opener, Hell Is Chrome.
Soon, though, the promise of the three old-school Persian rugs arrayed on the floor, and the banks of effects pedals laid on top, is made good. Handshake Drugs boasts all the fun of the Wilco fair. (At least, as far as the music is concerned; lyrically, this a sad, elliptical tale about singer Jeff Tweedy scoring at the height of his former addiction to painkillers.)
