Spokane/Seattle/Vancouver/Portland - who's going?
 

Probably left this a little late, but if anyone's going to any of the upcoming 4 shows, let me know!

Portland in particular as I'm getting in quite early and will have a lot of time to kill.........

I'm going to Portland. It's going to rock, too. I'm not sure if this has been posted yet but Thurston is DJing at Jackpot Records downtown (9th & Burnside, a block down from Powell's) at 3PM. If I don't go hiking I'm definitely hitting that.

was going to go to vancouver but its over $80 and there is literally no one else on the bill i want to see. thats a lot of money to go and see sonic youth.

yeh the vancouver bill is terrrrrible and SY are on at 5:15 ! looks like they'll be playing less than an hour...

thanks for the tip, matt!

I'll be at the Portland show would love to connect during the show. Before hand I have an agenda (including work while Thurston is djing, grrr!) that will take up too much of my time to hang out. But once the show starts, yeah!

Just ring me up, dude. I got allllll day in Portland.

I'm thinking of going to Seattle, but I need a way to get there... My bf couldn't get the time off to go, and I don't have a car... and the bus is like $70, roundtrip.

Anyone who's driving down want a bit of gas money? :D

p.s. Chris, I'm definately going to Virgin Fest. Let me know your plans, you should come hang out with us before or after (and during!).

going to see Jesus Lizard tonight, so no spokane show for me, but I am going to Seattle (it's like .5 miles from me) and had a friend convince me to keep my tickets for the portland show. Should be a gnarly time.

saw them in Spokane tonight. fantastic show.

I'll be at the Vancouver show on Sunday! I'll have this shirt on and my girlfriend will be wearing this platform boot. Whoever finds us gets to smoke a big fatty (while supplies last!).

oooooh... don't be that guy. it's a general rule that you don't wear the shirt of the band that you are going to see.

I will be at the portland show.

Not applicable at a festival where they're at least 5 slots down from the headliner. :D

And considering how many people were mystified by my Boredoms shirt yesterday (except all members of SY's crew), I'm content to be 'that guy' wearing a Nurse shirt @ the Seattle gig tonight... say hi if you see me!

Julia - I'll msg you...I'm thinking of heading back to the island right after SY since they're playing so early in Vancouver.

how do you look again?

To everyone who wants to go to the Vancouver show but can't afford it, check craigslist for tickets. http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/tix/
Make sure they're hard copy though. I've seen a bunch going for really cheap.

Well despite efforts to connect on the part of Chris and flophousefloozie, I managed to not hang out with any of you at the show. I did run into my friend Tiffany, and I was with my wife up front for a while until she became overheated and had to bail. Whatever, I had the coolest spot, and I nailed quite a few shots I liked. I talked to Steve and when I yelled for "Silver Rocket" a few songs before they did it, Thurston started playing a little bit of it teasingly. First round of pic is below.

Show was really good, better than the Seattle shows, but dude, that venue was soooo hot. It was 107 outside, probably 120 - 130 by the time SY finished up. I over heard the lady taking drink orders say that their AC broke earlier that day. Ugh. Got back to seattle around 230am and got up for work around 7am.

ooooh dead air we were lookin for y'all in the balcony...

That was the hottest motherfucking show I have ever attended. Good performance by SY despite that though. I had a much better experience in Portland than at that ridiculous Block Party.

rock on.

Balcony is for old folks! I actually considered climbing the barricade and stage diving (ok, I was a little drunk...) but decided getting ejected and missing any of the show would be way too big of a loss.

we had a hot tip you'd be in the balcony!

Yeah, you said you'd be there. That's what you said a few months ago, anyway. We were looking...

No, I most certainly did not! I said that because everyone who drinks goes to the balcony the floor is wide open and you can walk right up to the band! Of course that was based upon the Rather Ripped tour show when there were less than half as many people in the place. But regardless, when Sonic Youth play, look for me as close to the stage as humanly possible. I will step on children and run over little old ladies to get there. Thankfully all I had to do was squeeze in between some sweaty indie kids and once I started jumping up and down they inched away!

Sorry I missed your message. I was in the throes of debauchery at that point, I must admit...

More, more, more...

no worries, sorry we missed you, but we had a pretty incredible view in the balcony (which i never would have said 10 years ago).... i think we got our fair share of sweaty mosh action in vancouver (or seattle for those who were there).

fun fact: my friend was talking to one of the shirtless macho moshers who appeared out of nowhere at van and apparently he 'used to' be paid to show up and start mosh pits......so i'm curious if the seemingly spontaneous shirtless macho moshfest right up front in vancouver was actually choreographed...

I find highly suspect the claims of a large shirtless man that he "got paid to start mosh pits". Paid by who and for why? I doubt even Epitaph bands would stoop so low.

The roseland theater sucked big monkey balls... just for the record.

The show started super early (SY were already playing when I walked in at 9:30). No bars on the main floor? wtf?

super early? doors at 7... awesome color at 8...played for half an hour (which is about all an opener should play for)... sonic on at 9-ish? i think they were scheduled to play 9 til 11... (which seems standard for most 'club' shows on this tour, i think?)

That's so kids under 21 can see Sonic Youth. Something Sonic Youth and 99.9% of their fans are rather in favor of...

I think it is a "theater" thing or possibly an all ages thing. At clubs the doors usually open at 8ish, openers start at around 9:30ish and main acts start at about 10:30ish.

I'm looking at my ticket stub and it says 8PM. That is when I assumed the doors opened... not the show starting. Fucking weird... but I had a good time anyway despite almost missing it completely.


I grew up in the Washington D.C. area where all shows are all ages. They just put a stamp on the under aged kids. Problem solved! Strange liquor laws the Pacific Northwest has for supposedly being the "final frontier".

Next time I hope SY come to real venues when they pass this area of the country... not the fucking Block Party (couldn't hardly see the band from the "drink pit") and not the Roseland theater (Metal detectors, frisk on entry, no bar on stage level, main act starts at 9PM, AC broken).

I agree the liquor laws suck, but the club has a choice, keep the kids out with a bar on the main floor, or have a bar a few yards away on one of the other two levels and let the show be all ages. Unless those liquor laws we both would rather have change happen to actually change by the next time SY plays Portland, I can guarantee the band will play a place where the kids can be up next to the stage.

Put a stamp on the under aged kids and open the fucking bar I say!! :D

I also vote for Sonic to play the Showbox in Seattle next time around.

Sure and if you, I, the club, or the band got to decide that would be the case. But since we don't, the band does the cool thing (pun noted but not planned) and plays where the kids can get to the stage (and so can adults who have finished their drinks in the very same club). Bitching about the club when they are doing the best they can with a set of laws undoubtedly they hate even more than you do, is just whining. If you want to change the laws, why don't you get a petition going? I'll sign it.

the first couple of my holgas from Portland...