Sonic Youth in Dublin
 

Date: December 6
Venue: Vicar Street http://www.vicarstreet.com/
Tix will go on sale on Friday.

Moshe, thanks for great news! I'm glad I was wrong about them not to playing this year in Dublin. uhmm, so I guess I'm flying from ATP in Minehead already on Sunday morning to catch them in Dublin. yes!

Moshe you're welcome to come ;-).

Pauly what's the capacity of Vicar St.? haven't been there yet. that's the one near Guinness factory right?

wow. almost 50 eur. for a tick.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/onth...blin-december/

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who is supporting I wonder.

oh, for real?
that reminds me ... i need to get my airline ticket sorted as soon as possible.

O boy to the nth degree.
Vicar Street is not a huge venue and it's possible to get a clear view from almost everywhere. It's down the road from the Guinness Storehouse and about a ten minute walk from the city centre. Should be a great place to see the band.

Will there be a presale for this? I coughed a little at the ticket prices, but SY are also my favourite band of all time so I shall reluctantly but excitedly pay the amount requested.

Vicar Street is an amazing venue for intimate gigs, I've seen Frank Black, Weezer, and The Flaming Lips there and it was fantastic.

sorry rich, i got your txt during work, just home.....

as lar says its not a huge venue at all but a near perfect place to spend my 35th birthday!!!!! man too fucking sweet indeed! finally, and i mean finally ill get to see sonic youth in a venue and not a festival.....

man that news has made my day..

so guys you are all invited to paulybees 35th birthday bash at vicar st on the 6th dec...
support by sonic youth!

joy!!!!

I'm there for cake and jelly at Pauybee's party.
Jayus, I thought you were older. Delivering the post at five in the morning must age a man prematurely.
I haven't seen them since 1994, when they opened for Faith No More and Belly.

i'm up for it!


oh man, can't wait. this should be my 5th. time seeing them this year, but I'm hoping by that time they will play Massage The History, or Diamond Sea live (hahaha, that is bit tooo much I know). but Massage The History with long outro would be sweet.

ticks. are going on sale on Friday. It is up on ticketmaster, but ticks. are still not available.

thanks lar, here was i basking in my youthful looks!!!! cheers for that reality check!!!!

by the way... sy/faith no more in dalymount was 1993...... i know, senelity sets in quick amongst teacher folk :-)

I recline corrected. And this date-related mistake on the LC History day! I've posted on that gig on Jim Carrol's IT blog--see you've been there, too. It's great making the most of this sunny weather, ain't it?

Booo Yeahhh!!!!! the guy in tower records told me this today and I didn't believe him.

It just occurred to me. Vicar street is really small and has fantastic sound. this will be phenomenal!

This will be amazing. Unfortunately, I'll be at ATP.
I shouldn't complain, but its kind of annoying to be missing the first proper Irish show in years.

just wondering. how popular do you reckon this will be. is it worth being online at 9 on Friday morning to get the tickets straight away?
I'm just gonna go to ticketmaster at Nine to be sure.

i doubt it will sell out immediatly but for sure it will sell fairly fast.. im getting mine shortly after you alan, when i finish work...about 10.30 am! man ive never seen sy in an enclosed venue and its on my fucking birthday..... im stoked beyond stokagedness!

i saw battles at vicar st and the sound was spot on, in fact redneck manifestos sound was probably better!

ok, you're saying small venue, but what would be the number more or less. 2000 tickets for gig in Brussels sold out in couple of hours on the internet. would Vicar St. accommodate more then 2000 people?

definitely no more than 2000. It's very small

wiki

Vicar Street is a mid-sized concert and events venue in Ireland, located on Thomas Street, Dublin 8. Its capacity is estimated at 950 for seated performances, and between 1500 and 1,600 for standing gigs

I guess this means Sonic Youth will play ATP on Friday and Saturday?

Unless they'll be playing just one show at the Pavillion stage, which would be horrible.

that's what i was thinking about: 'cause it sells so quickly, they might put out the pavilion stage again for Sonic youth, MBV, DLS etc...

still hoping for just two stages (and the saloon) like last time.

From what I've learned the Pavillion stage has volume restrictions, so My Bloody Valentine definitely won't be playing the Pavillion stage. They're way too loud. For that same reason Sleep and The Jesus Lizard also played the Centre stage twice during the ATP vs The Fans last month.

I think (hope!) SY are considered to be too loud for the Pavillion stage as well, so I reckon that they'll also be playing the Centre stage twice instead. Hopefully without wristband restrictions, like with Sleep and The Jesus Lizard, but of course Sonic Youth are way more popular than those bands.

I've heard about (early) plans of MBV playing the Centre stage on all three nights to make sure everyone will be able to see them; Don't know if that idea is still on, but I was kind of hoping for SY to play all three nights as well... wouldn't be very likely, I'll admit, because they're not the ones curating it, and if they're already playing in Dublin on the 6th then it's definitely not going to happen.

that means that yes.

Pavillion stage is the main one?

so you're coming again?

last time there was a wristband control during fantomas, butthole surfers etc, but somehow i got in twice during butthole surfers and fantomas...

But that was an ATP where they sold less tickets than usually, right? I think it's going to be pretty packed during SY at this one... but I reckon they'll probably still let you in with a different colour wristband after it has started and the room's not filled yet.


The Pavillion stage is inside the Pavillion, right where the Burger King/Pizza Hut/etc are:



It's the biggest stage, but it wasn't there during Thurston's ATP in 2006. The biggest stage then was the Centre stage.

I'll be coming... to smack Kevin Shields out of the late 80's/early 90's.

yeah, that's why I didn't know, coz there was not such a stage @ Thurston's ATP. I see now what you mean about the sound.

Right. Now maybe I'm think but I logged into Ticketmaster right on 9am and there were no seated tickets left. I got two standing alright, but do these tickets even go on sale?

I bought 2 tickets for standing as well. never try seated option, 48 eur. something, right? none of them were left? weird. yeah, I don't know. it doesn't bother me so much.....weird but.

I must be thick. I typed think instead of thick.
And standing bothers me not a jot. There are only about 150 seats seated upstairs anyway, by my recoking. Might drop into Sound Cellar later, see whether they got any.

only 150? so they might be gone alright.
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maybe 98 fm got them all for their radio shows hahahaha.

bought mine! got it at 9.45 am in weford but had to join the throngs of miley syrus ticket buying m=ums who camped on wexfords main st since 2 am to get a ticket and then were told "sorry she sold out". wet and ticketless, no fags and sore..... go on the mums of the world!!!!

anyhoo.... i got my ticket and what suprised me is that i was one of 10 people in the queue buying sy tickets! 10 wexford people buying sy tickets at the same time???? strange but yeah, ill give the show less than a week to sell out.. as for upstairs..fuck that shit.... right front of stage as the crowd sees it...illbe there unless i get detracted by lar again and end up hanging by the merchandise stand talking of haino!

They had it for the Explosions in the sky one. That didn't sell out half as quick as this has one has. To be honest, I think it's probably up to the curator whether they want it up or not.

Don't imagine its the curator, so much as the promoter. Not having that stage would seriously restrict the capacity for the festival. Its been a permanent fixture at all the ATP's there since Thurston's (as an attempt to avoid the capacity issues in the venues that weekend), apart from the Melvins/patton one. I suspect they decision not to have it there was helped by low ticket sales.

Fucking Miley cyrus nearly cost me my standing tickets. there were about Sixty people queuing in the rain since 5AM. I was able to negotiate my way to the front by proudly saying, "I'm not queuing for Miley, but Sonic Youth." Picked up my copy of The Eternal as well. Happy Times!!

ha! where you were at the hanna montana mums were obviously less tired and drenched then in wexford... i was quite swiftly told where to go and stick my metal bands tickets when i said the same thing!!!!

by the way seemingly only a couple of hundred tickets left! man i knew they would sell fast but not that fast, shows how big a deal this gig is to ireland... it may seem odd to the americans or even the british but when a band like sy comes to ireland its almost a national social activity! i mean face book is full of sy shit at the moment...at least mine is!

where's ithinkimissyou...

I'm seeing it all around. everyone working in tower records asked me when they saw the eternal in my hands if I was going to the gig. It's gonna be so good. I was so paranoid about not getting tickets I didn't tell anyone I knew just in case. once I had them I spread the word telling people to come.

i told people tho, and told them to go and get their tickets yesterday.... every sy gig ive been to the same heads turn up to it and this one will be the same..... thats one thing i loveb about ireland... these gigs turn into some kind of social event!

Did you secure the Daymount show yet Paul?

I really want to go :(
I suppose ATP might just about make up for it - there better be some good stuff happening on the Sunday night though!