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'Rockin on Paper' is a 320 pages full color history on the Vera Club and it's posters. The Vera Club in Groningen has been renowned for being a cool place to perform for the alternative music scene. Part of it's charm are the posters: silk screened with lots of original artwork. Mementos for both audience and band. This book contains a broad selection of the archived posters (more than 300) between the really early years and somewhere around 2005. Next to it a short historical overview of the Club and some personal memories on some of the -for a variety of reasons- more memorable performances. Interviews with: Lee Ranaldo, Mick Collins, Lou Barlow, Kim Gordon, David Yow, Ross Knight. Text is in both Dutch and English.

With the book comes a DVD containing original live footage shot at and by the VERA Club itself. Exciting performances by: the Gunclub, Monster Magnet, Dead Moon, Giant Sand, Sebadoh, Cosmic Psychos, the Gories, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dinosaur jr., Sonic Youth and Beat Happening.

http://www.veraboek.nl/


The Sonic Youth songs on the DVD are:

# Sonic Youth: Schizophrenia (aka Sister)
# Sonic Youth: Xpressway To Yr. Skull (aka The Crucifixion Of Sean Penn aka Madonna, Sean And Me)
# Sonic Youth: Pacific Coast Highway
# Sonic Youth: Beauty Lies In The Eye
# Sonic Youth: Tom Violence
# Sonic Youth: White Kross

According to the concert chronology, SY have played in Vera in 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1987. I'm guessing this is all from 1987, but I don't know really.
Complete tracklisting of the DVD can be found here
http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/label/v/verarecords.htm


Now before you all get out your credit cards, it costs €35 ex shipping, with free shipping within holland. I'll see if I can find it in the bookstores later this week to find out what it's like.