Sonic Youth

[Aragorn]

I hate how they've suddenly got popular with people my age through their t-shirts and their name being dropped in Juno.

Goo is definitely one of my top 10 albums ever.

[OneLittleFish]

Am I young at 23? Either way, saw SY on their Daydream Nation Don't Look Back tour and they were spectacular.

[biscant]

If Sonic Youth play GF there is no question but I'm there.

Headliner on the Other Stage on Friday night.

Start with a highly ironic "Dirty Boots"...

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[timespeedsup]

Yes please, but no thanks to Friday night - Sonic Youth supported Neil Young back in the early 90s, so it would be a travesty to have to choose one or t'other......

[mandypants]

Surely they'd have to play on SUNDAY

[Roger Explosion]

If they played Dimaond Sea i would wet myself...

[HOT JON]

i'll probably do something silly with excitement if/when this turns out to be true

on the other hand, that Reading thread is far from convincing - and even if i believed one sentence backed up by no evidence what-so-ever on an internet forum, i certainly don't understand why 'some-one doing sound on the other stage at glasto' would know who was playing that stage two months in advance.

but i have been known to be wrong (once)

[lovelessrapture]

Sonic Youth aren't playing Glasto.

Look at their American tour, it's from June to July. They're in chicago one night of Glasto. So that's pretty conclusive evidence. Good thing I'm seeing them tonight really

[Almost Crimes]

See you down the front lovelessrapture

[Kyelo]

I bought one of those Sonic Youth tshirts at T in the Park about 3 or 4 years ago. I got that and 2 others all for a tenner, bet they don't pay that in Urban Outfitters!

[a robot]

But I can see what you mean, it's the same thing with people suddenly starting to like someone they haven't really cared about before just because they are headlining the festival they are going to.

[russycarps]

I hate how they've suddenly got popular with people my age through their t-shirts and their name being dropped in Juno.

Goo is definitely one of my top 10 albums ever.

[eFestivals]

Sonic Youth aren't playing Glasto.

Look at their American tour, it's from June to July. They're in chicago one night of Glasto. So that's pretty conclusive evidence. Good thing I'm seeing them tonight really

thanks .... but where exactly can you look at their american dates? They're not on their website and they're not on their myspace.

Edited April 27, 2009 by eFestivals

[titch juicy]

sonic youth tour dates

[eFestivals]

sonic youth tour dates

thanks ..... but I guess that does leave the Friday as possible, if extremely unlikely.

[ramragon]

shame, would have been great to see them play this year

[ivan]

Having met many people who go to V I can safely say that they are only interested in what is current and Oasis. I think of that festival as a big scatter gun loaded with cash, taking pot shots at any band it has recently heard on radio 1 or read about in smash hits. They probably got paid more for that slot than they would for headlining the Other Stage and anyway I've also heard from some of these V types who've actually 'found' a band themselves, done a bit of leg work, that 2nd top on the 3rd stage at V is the golden ticket for bands with a bit of oomph and far reaching influence and is usually pretty quiet because the toss pots are all off watching the latest bit of MOR dross to be dressed up as 'indie' or 'alternative' because it's got a bit of feed back or a jangly guitar or two and,and.....

Sorry got a bit carried away there. Better stop now, pacemaker batteries running low and it would be a Kool Thing and much better than being chased by a Bull in the Heather, if they weren't loud enough I'd shout Turn It Up, Turn It Up! And if it rains I'll have Dirty Boots.

See what I did there? Shit 'eh.

[titch juicy]

they were awesome doing daydream nation at the roundhouse

[glimmers_of_hope]

I thought they were awesome at V.

Everything they do is amazing.

Thank God for Sonic Youth.

Everyone who likes "alternative" music should hear Daydream Nation.

[grandadcollective]

I thought they were awesome at V.

Everything they do is amazing.

Thank God for Sonic Youth.

Everyone who likes "alternative" music should hear Daydream Nation.

[Bradders]

They could quite easily play Friday.

Slightly off topic, but the t-shirts in Urban Outfitters are £40!!!

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

I'm sure if they play..

Eric Will Trip..

(That was awful..)

*Gets coat..*

[Kyelo]

They could quite easily play Friday.

Slightly off topic, but the t-shirts in Urban Outfitters are £40!!!

[NowhereMan]

Although I have to admit, I do shop there quite a lot

[pezzypops]

Sonic Youth will be on Later with Jools Holland tonight, BBC2, 10:00 for the first time in 17 years.

make sure you watch!

i reckon they'll only get one song though as its only a half hour show and Depeche Mode & Lily Allen are both on too.

they should just have a half hour of SY!

Edited April 28, 2009 by pezzypops