[costock]

If you remember, the exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC. : SENSATIONAL FIX will start in Saint-Nazaire, France, this summer (from June 17th to September 7th)

So, as expected, the band will make a concert in this city: they will headline Les Escales festival on Saturday, August 9th 2008. Source here.

List of artists in that festival:
- Friday 8th:
Dee Dee Bridgewater (USA)
Charlélie Couture (France)
Balkan Beat Box (USA)
Antibalas (USA)
Vieux Farka Touré (Mali)
Herminia (Cape Verde)
Ramiro Mussoto (Brazil - Argentina)
Agua Na Boca (France)
Dj Chico Correa (Brazil)

Saturday 9th:
Sonic Youth (USA)
Alpha Blondy (Cote d'Ivoire)
Asa (Nigeria)
Still Black & Still Proud” An African Tribute to James Brown by Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis & guests (USA)
Herminia (DR Congo)
Konono n°1 (France)
Agua Na Boca.

11.70 Euro per day , that's cheap !

[greenlight]

that's cool. what is the nearest airport?

[alphi]

Great! I'll be there !!

I can't miss Sonic Youth playing in my native city, 4 days before my birthday !

[Torn Curtain]

Originally Posted by greenlight

that's cool. what is the nearest airport?

Nantes, there's also La Rochelle a bit further but it has Ryanair flights from Dublin.

[Torn Curtain]

Originally Posted by costock

11.70 Euro per day , that's cheap !

Thanks for the info, at that price I'll try to be there.

It's kind of funny to see Sonic Youth headline a world music festival.

[Torn Curtain]

Is anyone else going ? EDIT: I forgot to specify I got a ticket.

[greedrex]

i might / may / must / will
probably

[blunderbuss]

i'm going to this - i'm very excited! is anyone else?

[Torn Curtain]

Ok, we three are going for sure, anyone else ? EDIT: sorry alphi I didn't notice your post

Could we also plan a meeting (the afternoon at the exhibit) or at least at the show, if you're interesting off course ?

[Torn Curtain]

Originally Posted by greenlight

that's cool. what is the nearest airport?

Are you going too greenlight ?

damn I need a car again to drive to concerts. trains suck, and are really expensive...

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

Are you going too greenlight ?

i thought i'll go, but flight were somehow expensive (around 200 eur.! back when I checked) and then still 50 km from Nantes. I'm going to Norway instead (50 eur!) with ryanair and i can see Orighinal Silence as well. i wanted to go so much coz also Sensational Fix. well. you're going?

[mXe]

Great show tonight ! I've found them far better in live than on MySpace, I mean it's definitely a live band for a non SY connoisseur pov.

Great festival, it's the only 2 days where the city is kind of "alive".

By the way, sorry to the fat b**** that I threatened with death. That was irony...

[alphi]

I was at the show yesterday.

The Burning Spear was really great, the band enjoyed themself. But after that I though the daydream nation stuffs wen boring !
The sound was terrible for a SY show (actually the sound was not 'bad' but 'common' for a rock gig, but the 4 previous SY shows that I went before had a really really great sound) so I didn't really get into the performance.

It was also a bit sad to see them playing the same stuffs as at the Méditéranéennes, while I was hopping for something 'special' tonight.

The Rather Ripped songs and the encore where more enjoyable, but the sound was still terrible.

I think actually it was a bad choice for the band to play the daydream nation stuffs (they played 6 songs from it, almost the half of the show), because it seemed automatic for them. But I don't blame them for this. The problem was the sound quality (and Thurston also complained about the lighting). The festival being a world music festival, I think they wouldn't make it right anyway. I really think actually Christophe Wavelet from the Life is an hardcore fan and wanted them to play, which was a good idea.

There is an article today in Presse Océan (newspaper) by the way.

[Torn Curtain]

The Daydream Nation stuff did not bore me at all (but I was my first SY show so I didn't care about the bad sound, I still thought they ripped).

They played a lot of my favourites so I was very happy with the setlist (The sprawl, 'Cross the breeze, Hey Joni, The wonder, Hyperstation, Schizophrenia, Pink steam off course...). The show was just too short but it was clearly imposed on them.

I'll agree with mXe in the sense that SY really take another dimension live (or at least they did for me yesterday). Hats off to Steve by the way, I knew he was great but he even improved on the songs comared to studio I thought.

[Torn Curtain]

By the way weirdly I could not find any SY merchandising yesterday, did I not search for it enough ? I had brought the money to buy a T-shirt, never mind...

[alphi]

There were no merchandising except SYR 6 and SYR 8 ! lol
They were cheap (11.50€), but I didn't have no money at all !

I can understand you enjoyed the show as the performance was good actually. But the bad sound and the fact of having already see the band last years 2 times playing the same DDN stuffs didn't really exited me. On the other hand I didn't attend any DDN show so I never got the chance to see live songs like Silver Rocket or Kissability. It was a kind of 'best-of' show. Most people from there must haven't see the band before, so I undersand the choice. I can still dream they will make very soon (before I leave) a special performance at the exhibition! lol

Here is the presse océan article

 

And my photos also here:
http://ashortsite.free.fr/photos/2008-08-09sonicyouth/

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by alphi

The Burning Spear was really great

same for me in oslo. highligt of the gig for me.

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

By the way weirdly I could not find any SY merchandising yesterday, did I not search for it enough ?

they don't seem to have any merch when they play festivals. I was hoping they will have some after Original Silence gig, but there was none either.

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

Hats off to Steve by the way

he's great drummer, isn't he?

thanks for pics!
did you people (I mean from here) meet up by any chance?

[Flow my Tears]

Longtime i did not come on this forum...
Agree with Alphi about the kind of "Best-of" show, nice set-list with all their hits, even if 6 DDN songs was maybe a bit too much, but they played a really nice "The Wonder" & "HyperStation", so it's ok .
The sad thing is they did only 1 encore (Shaking Hell). Was too short...
And of course, thanks alphi for the article and the pics !!!

[ruben]

they don't seem to have any merch when they play festivals.

Not true, at the Lokerse feesten, there was some sy merchandise. Just t shirts I think, there was one very nice daydream nation shirt. Too bad they came at 25 euro