Live music: Tweedy - Vicar Street Dublin

4/5

We secretly hate it when a work colleague brings their child to the office. It’s even worse when they are musicians: the catalogue of parent-sibling hook-ups in pop is long and inglorious. In the case of Jeff Tweedy, frontman of cult rock group, Wilco, however, the picture is more complicated: the singer and guitarist’s 18- year-old son, Spencer, is happy to remain in the margins as drummer.

Indeed, familial smugness was in scant supply as the pair brought their well-received Sukierae album to Vicar Street. In essence a solo project by dad, the LP is less fussy and overwrought than recent Wilco records — in places, the notoriously tortured Tweedy sounds as if he might be vaguely enjoying himself (perhaps it is the liberating effect of not being required to live up to Wilco’s 15-year legacy).