Official Sonic Youth/Scientists Sydney Enmore 18/02/08 thread
 

Holy fuck it kicked ass. The venue really was sold out (I could barely move) and my friend and I were the closest people to Lee. They whole set was unbelievable, I noticed they even added some new parts to songs. I saw Mark Ibold backstage near the soundboard headbanging during Eliminator Jr. One of my few gripes was that they didn't acknowledge the crowd much, they didn't even say "Hey" or anything, they just walked on and played Teenage Riot. Also I didn't run into any SYG members.

Scientists were fantastic too! But all I could hear was the bass because of where I was standing.


Anyway, it was great when Mark came on for the encores! It was pretty cool to see him again now that I'm a Pavement fanboy.
Encores:

• Incinerate
• Jams Run Free
• Reena
• Drunken Butterfly
• Pink Steam

I was glad they played the best songs of RR and Drunken Butterfly was a welcome bonus (mosh wise).

Anyway, I want to hear yr stories, I know a few of you attended. Oh, and Dan, make sure you can sneak into the Perth one, it's worth it. I'll post pics when I get home.

(Excuse the spelling, I'm using school computers and am very tired from, getting home at 1am)

Wow, Drunken Butterfly!

i think that may be a common theme of these DDN shows, they barely said a word at the brooklyn show last year during the Daydream songs, sans for maybe a few from Lee introducing his songs, so i think it was more due to the nature of the set and not with the venue or something like that

hey zero
what was the venue you went to?
how was it set up
did you get a wrist band or stamp?

congrats on going to your first gig

It was amazing, and it wasn't too loud. Though I think The Scientists were too loud (but they were still great). They extended the instrumental bits in the songs (the noise part in Silver Rocket went for a while).
I was in the seated area, and I had a perfect view of Thurston and Steve, but I couldn't see Lee or Kim. The vocals weren't very good, they made Thurston and Lee sound a bit cartoonish.
My Iron Maiden loving friend didn't really like it. He hated The Scientists, and he hated the noisy, screechy bits in SY's set. He looked relieved when Rain King finished, and I told him "Just 2 more songs to go." He didn't know Trilogy is a 15 minute song. And he hated how they did 2 encores.

Twas my second Sonic Gig. It's a shame that you couldn't have gotten standing tickets, Death & the Maiden as it was so cool up the front. I got Lee's pick at the end and one of their waterbottles too.

I bought tickets the day they were released, so I could have gone to the standing area, but I didn't want to. I knew it'd be crowded, and I wouldn't get to sit down, and it would be too loud.

Does Kim change clothes?

As promised, crappy camera phone pics:
Scientists

 

Lee

 

Kim

 

Bad quality Mark pic

 

 

No good Thurston or Steve ones due to where I was standing.

I took loads of pictures, but I don't think any of them were any good. The stage was too dark. But I did get some good video. I recorded Teen Age Riot (1 minute), Silver Rocket (1 minute) and Candle (2 minutes) on my camera and phone. All of the footage I got was of Thurston. My friend got some good footage of Kim Salmon.

Thurston was doing some mean headbanging the whole time.

Yeah he was, and Kim was dancing during the encores.

Steve is an amazing drummer. My friend was disappointed to see that he didn't have glasses on. We listened to DDN on the car trip there, and he looked at the album notes and thought Steve looked like Harry Potter.

This has been mentioned on Uncyclopedia numerous times, funnily enough. And yes, Steve is fantastic, and I feel sorry that most of the fans focus on Lee, Kim and Thurston.

Absolutely fantastic. I was right in front of thurston with six of my friends, and i know this sounds like gay fanboy talk, but when he said 'you guys were awesome' he pointed down at us! I also got me a setlist.

The rather ripped stuff sounds much better than it did 2 years ago aswell.

Haha I didn't see the appeal of the setlist. I demanded a water bottle.

What you gonna do with the water bottle? You could get some of T's DNA off it and clone him.