SY want to play Glastonbury 2009'
 

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Sonic Youth - Glasto?

Alt rock legends put their names forward for a slot at Glastonbury festival 2009

26 January 2009 - As Glastonbury line-up rumours begin to gather pace, singer and guitarist Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth has told 6 Music he'd love to play Michael Eavis’ event.

Their 21st album, The Eternal, is currently being mixed and is scheduled for release in June. (Read more on album).

Moore revealed their itinerary has not been finalised yet but said: “We’re actually going to be getting on that fairly soon...I’m almost positive we’ll definitely be doing one or two festivals in the UK.”

When asked which UK music festivals were on the band’s hit list, Moore replied: “I wanna play Glastonbury because it’s such a disaster camp and I really enjoy that.

“The general consensus amongst musicians I know is that it’s like walking into the pit of hell, and in some way it really feels like that.”

He recalled his bitter-sweet memories of playing there in the past: “The only times I’ve ever been there it’s been so incredibly messed up, where you can’t really get onto the site because there’s a huge lorry stuck in the mud.

“People are traipsing through water damaged tents and then you finally get on stage and you’re so wrecked from the experience.

“You’re lucky to get through any perceptible, decent set at all and then there are these huge roving cameras on stage that are spinning around documenting the disaster. There’s something about that I find really charming.”

"I wanna play Glastonbury because it’s such a disaster camp and I really enjoy that."
Thurston Moore

Last year’s festival saw a decent spell of sunshine following the torrential rain of previous years.

Moore said it’s a special festival come rain or shine: “Every once in a while I’d like to be there when it’s sunny, but in a way I sort of like it when it’s drenched.”

In recent weeks, rumours surfaced that Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young will perform at the festival, but the Glastonbury office denied any line-up additions.

Michael Eavis did confirm to the BBC that there will be two UK and two US headliners this year.

hahahahahahahahahahaha.

I think T-Bone should know that no real Sonic Youth fan would go anywhere near the Glastonbury Festival. As if their t-shirts being sold in Topshop and Urban Outfitters wasn't bad enough, they're playing this cavalcade of posing NME hipster twats? Fucking hell. The rest of the band need to tie up Thurston before his mid-life crisis destroys the band's credibility any further.

Heh, I was thinking of going this year for the first time in fucking ages (mainly for Neil Young), so I'll be pretty happy if they do...

I don't care what you snobs say :D, pro shot vids from glastonbury are nice.

you know what? I was just typing out a reply saying about how good glastonbury is for getting naked in the mud (with shrooms) when i rememberd that that was a long time ago and these days (if you can get a ticket) it is indeed shit. or it was, who knows

The crowd today is entirely populated by the ignorant college students of Great Britain, thinking they're ever so cool for 'roughing it' for the first time in their priveleged, middle-class lives. The same crowd of self-important tossers that ruined things like antique cameras, listening to the Kings of Leon, and nostalgia for the 1980s.

Kings of Leon were always horrible though.

i liked aha shake heartbreak

It's a great album, as is the one the preceded it. Too bad their latest album is shitty stadium rock. I wonder how many times 'Sex On Fire' has been played at thick people's weddings..

They've always seemed to me to be some lame generic indie rock band aimed at gullible teenagers who think they're in some way alternative.

Their singles might give off that impression. Maybe it's just the fans. I don't know. To me they sound like a more garage-rock CCR, with dashings of Little Feat and Rory Gallagher. Great bluesy riffs and unintelligible singing.. proper foot-stomping rock and roll.

You certainly can't bundle them into the same category as Razorlight and Coldplay.

i've got nothing against lame generic indie rock

It is the soundtrack to idiocy.

I'm afraid your initial Glastonbury snobbery is completely nullified by liking the Kings of Leon.

And Glastonbury, much like any other festival, is as good as the company you're with - all the larger ones are teeming with wankers and arseholes these days, but if you've got a bunch of decent folk with you it's easy to ignore/forget all of them, except for occasional inadvertent comedy interludes.

Hahaha! Touché.

Maybe you're right. I will be the first to admit that I am a snob- could you blame me, though, with a general public such as ours? Living in a country that broadcasts E4? Oh, heavy burden.

actually, i have got everything against lame generic indie rock.

Play Glasto SY, go on.

Oh God, Sonic Youth, PLEASE don't play Glastonbury. Do you really want to play to an audience of champagne-quaffing, caviar-eating, 4 wheel drive-driving, Guardian-reading, upper-middle-class twats? It would be like playing a gig to a load of fashion show whores.


Ah... I see a flaw in my argument....



But on a slightly more serious note, I'd put money on them playing Latitude ahead of Glastonbury. That and the Scottish one (EDIT - T in the Park).

Again, I like Glastonbury proshots.

Those 'ignorant college students' don't bother me. They aren't the ones who steal things from your tent, get drunk and start fires, keep asking you if you can lend them money or drink (I'm thinking of The Leeds Festival here). As someone who grew-up in a fairly nasty area, I quite like being surrounded by priveleged, middle-class people - it's safe.

If you're with a group of friends, and you spend your time hanging-around the other stages (where the good bands play) or the green fields, Glastonbury is probably the best festival experience you can have.

god, no not another festival tour.. does that mean the youth at an irish festival again playing for less than an hour???? nooooo. in a venue this time please!!!!

kings of leon.....WHY?

LOL:D

LOL:D

"Ruined" antique cameras?

Sounds like you're the hipster douche my friend.

That's just plain tacky, just like this wankfest of a festival. What next? Supporting Oasis? I could understand a young cool band having the arrogance to say they wanted to inflict some 'proper' crazy sounds to this most turgid of gatherings, but haven't SY had enough years to have a go at that already?

Those college students are mainly the Oxbidge rejects at Bristol University. Though I'm not sure how that can really spoil a festival. Who do you exactly expect to go to festivals apart from students? Would you prefer being surrounded by stinking crusties/hippies? Do you go to festivals to make friends? If so at least the students will have some level of education. I don't know how anyone can ruin another's nostalgia....unless what you really mean is that you don't like things as soon as they get popular.

100% yes

its not about not likeing things when they get popular, its about knowing when something has lost its appeal. When the things that made it decent have been priced out or have simply not been able to jump through all the fucking hoops required to get a ticket.

saying that i laughed last year when my mate walked into an hmv a week before and bought 2 tickets with cash!

and why do you presume they're mostly from bristol?

Actually that's crap but there are a lot because of it being nearby. I just remember there being a lot of ras when I went then getting to know Bristol a bit I realised why.

Did 80s nostagia become expensive? Things don't just lose appeal, surely appeal is about whether an individual finds something appealing or not (that isn't saying anything about whether something is good). But anyway, if something loses its appeal when the privileged become interested then it clearly hasn't lost it's appeal; does an increase in the number of people interested in something mean an decrease in the thing's appeal? That would be a contradiction.

I suppose, in the case of music, once a group becomes popular they can lose their appeal due to over-exposure, i.e., Sigur Ros's music being used to soundtrack every sporting moment of 2008. I have no idea how 80s nostalgia could have appealed to anyone at any point.

Anyway I'm just glad I finally know what a 'rah' is. Apparently the university I goto has lots of them.

I expect nobody to go to festivals and to let me enjoy the bands I like ALONE. Also, when things I like get popular I will admit that is annoying because it's a sort of violation into the fragments of my personality.

AND F.Y.I. AN ANTIQUE CAMERA FETISH DOES NOT MAKE ME A HIPSTER I JUST LIKE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF THE OLD MECHANISMS AND MEDIUM-FORMAT FILM

Oh right, I understand perfectly now. Those bloody selfish people.

Oh ok, that does seem to make a bit more sense but it also makes me think that the band probably wasn't good in the first place. For example, if there was some piece of music, by some great composer, that was used a lot on tv I don't think that would put me off it because it doesn't get boring, it endures. Oh right, do you go to Bristol uni? It's spelt r a h is it? I didn't know that. It's meant to be how they speak, supposedly.

Festivals are what you make of them.
Sigur Ros have always been shit.

I goto Leeds University - I just took a guess at how it was spelled!


Agree with both.

Edit: trying to get the hang of quoting two posts in one reply.

you sir, you have encountered my full scale approval. godly.

Oh right. Probably a better spelling than ra.


You have my name for the second quote. I didn't write that.