SY Lolapallooza farewell?
 

Heard rumors today from a buddy who is a music journalist that SY may be on the Lolapallooza tour as a final hurrah? Anyone here heard those rumors? Or any updates about the future at this point?
Here was his message via twitter:

@guerrilacandy: Anybody else hear this rumor about Lollapalooza: Metallica, Beck, RHCP, Beyonce, The Killers and Sonic Youth's farewell show?

Too bad it isn't the killers farewell tour.

Rumorpalooza.

yeah I don't believe it. But...if it's true....then my first and last SY gig would be a Lolla gig.

ThurstonWHORE

Honestly man, and I could be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that you will get another opportunity to see the Youth whether it be at Lolla or not. I don't see them becoming super active again (I've already stated my feelings this)...but I'd be surprised if there aren't more shows at some point. Too much money involved.

I hope it's true, I've never seen them. I hate coming late to the party.

They should come back in about 8 years. People will be thirsty again for their music. Yeah. Sonic Thirsty.

Homerpalooza.

Actually....after hearing about this guy's shennanigans last year, I'm really starting to worry...

My first SY show was SUPPOSED to be at Lolla...I dunno if I want to try and
make it my last one. The Williamsburg show was breathtaking. I kinda want
THAT to be my last SY live memory. Not a festival gig.

I say that now. When it's official (if it's official), I'll probably change my tune.
I'd be an idiot to have the chance and pass it up.

does lollapalooza still tour?

i hadn't read or heard anything about it for years

Farewell Youth Tour 2012. Maybe Kim could bust out those Marilyn leggings of hers.

OK, i dunno maybe this is just me but i have to say that i don't have as much interest in seeing SY with what has happened with the band... i heard, read and saw the videos from the last tour in S. America and they just didn't seem to be "themselves". I just don't see how thats going to change for the better, glad to have seen them a handful of times in my life. I would probably feel much different if I never seen them live before.

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lol that would have been a good derby name for me too! Glad I went with gore though ;) Thanks for posting that article too! I could care less about anyone else on the bill. If SY is there, I am there.

I keep (kept?) hoping that the split would be amicable enough to keep the band together, save a small hiatus, but that hope is fading I must say. I was hoping it'd be like the parents who get divorced, but keep everything civil and active for the kids, kind of thing. Time will tell...

I hope they will make some kind of "reunion" to Roskilde sometime. I will be there!

If this is true I will go for sure. I haven't been to anything "lolla" in a while (a long while), but for them I'd go.

I'm ever so slightly peeved by the fact that I can barely remember seeing them tour behind Eternal due to black-out-drunkenness, which is a situation I rarely find myself in. If I'd known it was (might be) the last time, I would have been either stone-sober or on something much funner ;)

They should record one last actual album inside Dave Grohl's garage, sounds like that's the happenin place to be these days.

i don't know! ... it seems just like a loopy speculation. would sonic youth really have a farewell concert? i think if they did want to for whatever reason, it wouldn't be this year because it would distract from Lee's album which otherwise will be much better appreciated which is a positive side effect of the youth hiatus. :)

YES.

There was a great quote recently in an interview with Mike Mills regarding REM's split and the chance of a farewell tour:


Obviously a different band and a very different situation, but I'd be very surprised if Sonic Youth didn't feel the same way about a farewell tour.

Which do you prefer:

1- No more shows ever
2- No more shows for a few more years
3- Farewell tour by themselves
4- Lolopallooza as farewell tour
5- They stick together and keep up the album/tour every two years or so schedule

5. ofcourse.

5. 1, 3 and 4 are equally undesirable to me.

I do not believe this is going to happen. However if it does ill be there with bells on.

Disagree. That last show was crap. Something was off, or something was missing. But I was disappointed as hell by the farewell show and I would like to see them say goodbye in a better way. I can't speak for the tour as a whole but that last show was a let down.

For incredibly selfish reasons I would love to see a farewell show, but don't really expect it to happen. I've been listening to SY since I was 13 (1997) and only got to see them one time on the Rather Ripped tour. They played Teenage Riot as the opener and followed with almost all RR material. Would be cool to see them play songs spanning some of their older stuff. Again, don't expect it to happen, but I'd be willing to travel great distances to see it.

:D I can't say I disagree! It would be much more exciting for it to seem like they are done, and then at no fun fest or something they are just there, unannounced or announced very close to the actual date, and play an amazing concert, and still no one would know their plans after that. : )

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I don't know that I'd want to go to a Sonic Youth farewell show/tour. I suspect it'd bring out all the morons who want to be able to say they were there for SY's farewell but who don't actually give a shit about the band or the music and who would just spoil the event for those who do.

My experience at the London NYE show a couple of year's back was spoiled by that sort of people, and it's ruined my memory of the whole thing.

That said, if my final SY live experience could be guaranteed to be a good one, and I could have a positive memory to go out on, well I'd be there like a shot.

I will believe it too when I read something I wrote about it :)
I tend to trust myself.

You better not be holding out on us ya kn ow...

I can confirm that sy will not play Lollapalooza this year.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Moshe again.

You better not hold out on us dood.