Paris
 

I knew I should have gone over a day early. The little facebook announcement saying they were enjoying a day off in Paris confirmed it. Bet Lee was in Place de Vosges. Coud have made myself bump into him. Can't wait for the gig though.
Think I may come home single though as My gf is not being in any way good to me right now, I'm expecting her to explode. maybe I'll just keep her ticket.

Sonic Youth @ Palais des Congres Paris Oct 25th 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYhH...layer_embedded


Setlist, sort of review & pictures:
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/

Thanks for this sy2004... some really cool moody shots there. Shame about the photog's signature though.

This Is Not There will be gutted that they played Shadow Of A Doubt in Paris.

thanks sy2004. i'm gutted that I see T on lying on the floor with his guitar. nothing like that in Brussels. well there's ATP and Dublin to come so hopefully.

i wonder what they were shooting for TV.

Amazing show in Palais des Congres.
Set list :
- No Way
- Sacred Trickster
- Calming the Snake
- Walking Blue
- Stereo Sanctity
- Anti-Orgasm
- Poison Arrow
- Antenna
- Leaky Lifeboat
- Silver Rocket
- Malibu Gas Station
- What We Know
- Massage the History
>>>
- Tom Violence
- Cross' the Breeze
>>>
- Shadow of A Doubt
- Death Valley 69

According to me the highlight was Silver Rocket with a wonderful noise jam.

They are playing a french TV show called " L' Album de la semaine" ( Album of the week ). Bands doing this show are playing in front of an audience of 150 people, 6-7 songs from their new cds (and sometimes they add a couple of oldies ).
Audience is seating in stalls 3 meters in front of the band which is playing on the floor , so it' s like having them playing in your bedroom.

http://www.canalplus.fr/c-musique/pi...a-semaine.html

canal plus fr, they're recording the show tomorrow...AAAAAAAARGH!
Dunno why but music shows on french tv are always pretty nicely filmed/recorded, can't wait to get a chance to see this...fingers crossed.

you're right nic, and the gigs for french tv are awesome. damn you frenchiesees!

hello

hello. did they film that tv thing yet?

do they film it on today and broadcasting it as well??? or they will be broadcasting it later??? i checked that page nicfit sent, but I could not figure it out. I have no french.

oh yeah, it seem like it is on tonight at 18:10 on Canal Plus and then 11:55 on Canal Plus Decale...hmmm. am I right?

is there anybody who can record it ?

seeing as it's on french tv will they all be naked?


(have a childhood memory of french tv being really slutty....sorry)

So Shadow of a Doubt is played in Berlin, Brussells and Paris but NOT London. I feel like we were robbed. :mad:

...............but we did get Hey Joni instead :)

If New York is "The Big Apple", and London, "The Big Smoke", what is Paris, "The Big Cheese"?

Tom Violence was definitely the highlight for me follow by Shadow of a Doubt. Sometimes I wish Kim would put a bit more effort into her singing though.

Back from TV show L' Album de la Semaine
Setlist:
No Way
Sacred Trickster
Anti-orgasm
What we know
Antennes

wuw anti orgasm pro shot!

Parisian show memories:
hxxp://concerts.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2009/10/27/sonic-youth.html

Kim's poncho thing looks cool as fuck. She is so goddamn hip it is almost nauseating.

Good show, not THAT great, because of the venue i think.

Some songs from The Eternal felt unexpectingly weak, like Poison Arrow, Leaky Lifeboat or Malibu Gas Station, all of whom i really like on the record.

Stereo Sanctity was really cool of course, an expected treat. Tom Violence and Cross The Breeze have been the highlights for me, as well as Anti Orgasm.

I felt it lacked the kind of craziness i dug some much at others Sonic Youth's concerts. It lacked drumsticks and very old songs. It lacked surprises.

All in all it was a great show though.

I wished they played Hey Joni.

so what's with the tv stuff?

i wonder as well. there should be something coming up here

http://player.canalplus.fr/#/musique/les-live

but definitely not full set and it would be a web quality. I hope tv recording will surface, eventhough I doubt know, coz it's been 24hrs. since broadcast so french boardies would put it up already, hope I'm wrong and hoping that it might surface somewhere else.

thanks richard I will check it out

I think audio and/or video will appear someday. Often those "live de la semaine" or "concert prive" are released a few days later but often also weeks/months later. Just have patience I guess

yessss, reruns could help greatly in our quest...

hold on. there was no broadcast of it yet? I thought that was like live. sorry.

sorry for the misunderstanding, I think it was broadcasted but I meant the audio and/or video recording of it usually shows up in the end, but it can take a while (from days-to-months)

alright, I see... cheers!

The week of November 16, Canal + in France will air one song a night from a recent performance by SY at their Paris studios. The songs air at 6:05 Monday-Friday.

its a lot of time then..

latest info i got:
so in that case, it'll take a while to find a recording

so, nobody has said anything (as far as i know) about Lee's broken wrist effecting or not effecting these shows. for those of you who attended, did he seem any different, playing wise? supposedly he owned the last gig in oakland pre-breakage...