Can't you book online, Tokolosh?

i'll definitely be going



you can, but not on the day of the gig.

I don't have a credit card and I'm lousy with paypal.

you can use a normal debit card too if you have internet banking.
http://www.ideal-betalen.nl

but online sales always stop about 7-10 days in advance.

It's starting to look very bleak for me.

That would be nice... but at least Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer will perform Drift in Helsinki, Finland on November 19th.

holy fuck!!!! is it worth goin, my house is like 1 hour from amsterdam

shit!!! it was yesterday fuckicng ticketmaster!!!! they have wrong stuff

Please don't remind me. I missed it too.

i was there, just bought a ticket at the door...

i have seen/heard some pretty nice things...

a little longer review will follow later... got some things to do first...

wow! it must be deadly to see lee doing his solo impro!

last thursday was some collage thing, with artists playing right after each other and all over the building, not just on stage. there weren't many people at all, but i think it's planned like this too because some perfomances were in the middle of the hall or on the balconies.

as far as the sonic elements were concerned, lee's trio with ulrich krieger and dj olive was awesome. at the start dj olive was barely audible, but in the quiet middle part he and lee mixed well together, creating a nice ambient soundscape, where lee's playing reminded me a bit of the made in usa soundtrack for some reason. it was specifically not billed as a text of light perfomance and maybe to highlight this the films that were being projected behind them were not by brakhage (and apparently not chosen by them either).

lee also did a short (about 25 minutes) solo version of drift in the upstairs room. it was nice, but a bit messy. certainly not as good as what i'd seen in brussels earlier this year, but that was a full performance of course while on thursday it all seemed less prepared. without leah all he had to go with was the dvd and he didn't came out in his timing to the movie at times. at the end he looked a bit helpless when he said "the film lasts a little longer than i had planned. i'm just gonna let it play out". :D
still a nice performance though, it's always great to watch lee playing solo.

interesting confession: lee said that some of his poems were directly inspired by internet spam.

Thanks for the review :)

as for other european tour plans this autumn, lee said that sonic youth will play a "secret" gig at a private party in paris in october and also add some more dates in december, but just a few. the only ones i heard about were that a second gig in brussels will be added and when i asked about holland he said "maybe", because they were at this point undecided about choosing between the hague and barcelona. :rolleyes:
i don't know about any other possible dates, but i heard that if there will be any at all then there won't be many (just 1-2 weeks maximum)

you're "welcome" i "guess".

I would have giving you all my reputation point if I could :)

i wouldn't count on anything moshe (i slightly edited what you quoted there). when he mentioned maybe some more dates it sounded to me more like "adding two or three" than "adding five or six". the only one that seemed certain was an extra gig in brussels.


thanks nefeli. :o

So there's a small chance, that they'll come to Holland.... Nice! :)
Thanks Pokke Herrie!
*fingers crossed*

i don't think many bands would choose the hague over barcelona, but fingers crossed indeed.

of course he saw the humour in it as well, because he said it with a big grin: "we just might prefer the hague over barcelona".

Rock on Lee