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Free Sonic Youth show in Central Park!

  
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:25 / 22.05.02
Oooh! Ooooh! Who else is going? I'm there, no question about it...


Sonic Youth have announced an extensive world tour spanning the months of June, July, and August, including a free show to be held in New York's Central Park on August 11th. Joining Sonic Youth on the bill (part of New York's Summerstage series) will be composer/experimentalist Wadada Leo Smith and his Golden Quartet, plus a DJ set from Monotract.

Other tour highlights include gigs at summer festivals in Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Italy, and Scotland as well as two-night stands in London, San Francisco, and Jim O'Rourke's hometown of Chicago. Plus, only a band as storied as Sonic Youth could go from playing Japan's Fuji Rock Festival (as they will on July 27th) to an Austin, TX barbeque joint just six days later. Dates:

06-14 Sweden - Hultsfred Festival
06-15 Austria - Salzburg Festival
06-16 Neuchatel, Switzerland - Cargo
06-17 Strasbourg, France - Laiterie
06-19 Lyon, France - Transbordeur
06-20 Lille, France - L'aeronef
06-22 Manchester, England - Academy
06-23 Bristol, England - Academy
06-24 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
06-25 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
06-27 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
06-28 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
06-29 Paris, France - Olympia
07-01 Cagliari, Italy - Rockaralis
07-02 Rome, Italy - Valle Giulia
07-03 Italy - Arezzo Wave Festival
07-05 Catania, Italy - Piazza Dante
07-06 Turin, Italy - Extra Festival
07-08 Dresden, Germany - Alter Schlachthof
07-09 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Halle
07-10 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit
07-11 Koln, Germany - E-Werk
07-13 Dublin, Ireland - Witness
07-14 Glasgow, Scotland - T In The Park Festival
07-27 Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
08-02 Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ
08-03 New Orleans, LA - Tippitina's
08-05 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
08-07 Raleigh, NC - The Ritz
08-08 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
08-10 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
08-11 New York, NY - Central Park (free show)
08-13 Boston, MA - Roxy
08-14 Montreal, Quebec - Le Medley
08-15 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
08-17 Chicago, IL - Metro
08-18 Chicago, IL - Metro
08-19 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
08-21 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
08-23 San Diego, CA - Del Mar Fairgrounds
08-27 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
08-28 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
08-30 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-01 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival
 
 
Ierne
13:59 / 22.05.02
The 11th falls on a Sunday, so there won't be that awful "free gig in the park AND YOU'RE AT WORK!!!" feeling. (Although I work weekends...I'd better work out my sched so I can go!)
 
 
rizla mission
16:38 / 22.05.02
I'm seeing them in Manchester.

It's mad that they're doing T in the Park .. I heard they're 3rd on the bill or something, with loads of shite people like Ian Brown. The humiliation!
 
 
bitchiekittie
17:05 / 22.05.02
hmm. Ive never been to central park, never seen sonic youth. sounds like a plan...
 
 
Rage
20:45 / 22.05.02
That's awesome. I'll see you guys there.
 
 
Utopia
15:53 / 23.07.02
i'm most likely going to the philly show the night before. how much does the youth change up their set lists between shows (as in, will i see the same sy show twice...not that that would be such a bad thing...)?
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
23:30 / 23.07.02
How would one recognize Barbelithians on sight? Do you all have shaved heads, or emit an unnatural glow, or have demon familiars perched on your shoulders? I might consider coming if I knew what I was looking for.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:29 / 24.07.02
Utopia, you will not see the same SY show twice, though you are like to see about 60% of the show twice. This is the Sonic Youth concert chronology. It is your friend, and has setlists for every show the bands plays, including every date they've played thus far this year.

The odds are even that you will hear all seven of the songs on Murray Street. It's fairly likely that you will hear some of these songs: Bull In The Heather, Kotton Krown, Eric's Trip, Candle, Kissability, Kool Thing, Drunken Butterfly, Shadow of a Doubt. You also have a chance of hearing these songs, but slightly less so than the others: Skip Tracer, Making The Nature Scene, Inhuman, Silver Rocket, Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?), Side2Side, White Kross, Tom Violence, The Burning Spear, She Is Not Alone, Mote. They will most likely add more songs on the US tour.
 
 
Utopia
15:46 / 02.08.02
very true flux. last year i was actually surprised by how many songs were played from NYC G&F. well, i'll definetly be at the central pk show, mebbe at the troc in philly the night before...

vladmir, jr: we'll all be wearing red carnations in our lapels. i will be anyway...
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
17:02 / 03.08.02
vladmir, jr: we'll all be wearing red carnations in our lapels. i will be anyway...

Perhaps everyone can just jump on here the night before and detail what distinctive items they might be wearing or any other distinguishing characteristics. Though as I'll be fresh off of visiting my 95 year old grandmother I could be in a cardigan and on a walker.
 
 
lolita nation
18:16 / 04.08.02
hey flux, are you gonna get there really early?
 
 
bio k9
07:22 / 05.08.02
Guess Ill have to wait for Bumpershoot.
 
 
Planet B
00:53 / 06.08.02
I would love to meet some 'Lithers and will be there at 2:30 on Sunday on the big rock outside the Summer Stage. I was just there yesterday for the Avalanches. I'll post again with what I'm gonna wear later on.
 
 
Utopia
16:15 / 07.08.02
i'll be the guy wearing pants. but i can never guarantee thet.
 
 
Rage
16:12 / 08.08.02
Shouldn't we arrange a meeting place?
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
23:36 / 08.08.02
Yes.

We should.







What?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
02:40 / 09.08.02
Here's the info you'll need - where to be, what time, who the opening acts are.

I should be there maybe around 1:40 or so, I think.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
00:16 / 10.08.02
Right now I'm thinking I may wear a white collared button-down shirt, oversized, covered in day-glo Southwestern Native American-type designs and white jeans.

Unless I don't. But I probably will.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
15:19 / 11.08.02
Just an addendum to my wardrobe: I'll also be wearing a light grey t-shirt with an image representing Basque separatists, and silver mirrored goggles. I'll be hard to miss.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
00:49 / 12.08.02
Well. Hmmm.

I was there, and sat on the big rock outside the stage, since by the size of the line I could guess that there was no way in hell I was getting in. Got there around 2:30, probably stayed until about 5:30, as I got bored and my ass got numb from sitting on rock. Sketched in my book for most of the time, petted some big dumb dogs, and scoped the hotties. Actually, I feel it was far more productive than it sounds.

Obviously I was the only one who gave any sort of description of what I'd be wearing. Anyone spot me?
 
 
Rage
01:15 / 13.08.02
What a great show!

Wish I could have found some of you there. I looked for blank badges and found nothing though. I saw one guy in an X-Men shirt, and I was gonna ask him if he was from barbelith, but I figured he would have looked at me blankly. Lots of people wear X-Men shirts at Sonic Youth shows.

I was the girl in the pot bandana dancing and head banging all whacked like. I shouted out a bunch of shit with my friend Matt.

"Play that song that I like. It's my favorite one. It reminds me of my girlfriend." -Matt
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
18:17 / 13.08.02
Well, I've a proposal for NYC area peoples, though this one costs money and is outside NYC, so I guess there's even LESS chance of meeting up, but for shits n giggles, here 'tis:

My sister, her husband, their son, my roommate and I will all be attending the NY State Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, NY, this Saturday. I know you're all so cool and would just go to kick the asses of anyone who refers to you as "thou" or "my lady" or "my lord." Nope, not a single SCA alum among you, I know this. Nevertheless, as there are crafts and foodstuffs aplenty, not to mention a whole gallery of tarot card readers and various other streetcorner hierophants who a well-trained mage could show up, I suggest that anyone with money to burn (hahahahaha... oh, my wallet hurts) come on up. There are buses leaving from the Port Authority all day, and we'll be arriving early. I will be dressed distinctively: not in "garb," per se, but sort of a stylized anachronism. I will give more details if there's an interest, and even start a separate thread, but right now I'm just testing the waters. How say ye?

(Away put your weapons!)
 
  
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