SONIC YOUTH // 2009 Tour Statistics

Main Statistics

  • Number of shows played: 58 (including 5 improvised/special performances)
  • Number of television appearances: 4

    Number of Appearances in 53 Partial or Complete Set Lists:

    
    100%				 4
    Antenna				52
    Anti-Orgasm			47
    Brother James			 5
    Bull in the Heather	         8
    Burning Spear			 1	03/29/09 Santiago, Chile
    Calming the Snake		53
    Catholic Block			11
    Cross the Breeze	        34
    Death Valley '69		24
    Eric's Trip		         2
    Expressway			10
    Hey Joni		        30
    Hyperstation			 1	07/18/09 Kansas City, MO
    Incinerate		         3
    Jams Run Free		         9
    Kool Thing			 4
    Leaky Lifeboat			47
    Making the Nature Scene		 4
    Malibu Gas Station		36
    Massage the History		40
    Mote				 1	03/29/09 Santiago, Chile
    No Way				52
    PCH				 9
    Pink Steam		        11
    Poison Arrow			42
    Sacred Trickster		53
    Schizophrenia			 9
    Shadow of a Doubt		19
    Shaking Hell			 5
    She is Not Alone		 5
    Silver Rocket		        19
    Skip Tracer			 1	07/28/09 Portland, OR
    The Sprawl		        30
    Stereo Sanctity			23
    Teenage Riot			 5
    Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn	 3
    Tom Violence			25
    Walkin Blue			36
    What We Know			51
    White Cross			13
    The Wonder			 1	07/18/09 Kansas City, MO
    World Looks Red			 9
    
    
    TV APPEARANCES:
    
    Antenna			2 (Jools, Canal+)
    Anti-Orgasm		1 (Canal+)
    Leaky Lifeboat		1 (Canal+)
    No Way			2 (Fallon, Canal+)
    Poison Arrow		1 (Canal+)
    Sacred Trickster	3 (Jools, Letterman, Canal+)
    Teenage Riot		1 (Jools)
    What We Know		2 (Jools, Canal+)
    
    
    IMPROVISATIONAL PERFORMANCES:
    
    04/16/09 - 04/19/09	NYC, NY "Merce Cunningham: Nearly Ninety"
    
    Four evenings celebrating choreographer Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday, with SY providing improvised backing music
    for the dancers based on pre-determined concepts like "SMASH GRIND DISTORT" and "FILE/METAL".
    
    05/16/09		NYC, NY "No Fun Fest"
    
    Improvisational set with Bill Nace sitting in for Lee, who was at the Cannes Film Festival.
    
    
    

    Current Release: The Eternal

    Songs from albums: The Eternal 12 Rather Ripped 3 Washing Machine 1 Experimental Jet Set 1 Dirty 1 Goo 2 Daydream Nation 8 Sister 5 Evol 3 Bad Moon Rising 1 Kill Yr Idols 1 Confusion is Sex 3 Sonic Youth 2

    Other Statistics

    Unreleased at time: 0

    Number of different songs played: 43

    Non-LP songs performed: 0

    Note: The statistics above only reflect the information available on this site in the form of gig dates, set lists, and tour schedules. Since many set lists are either missing or incomplete, and not all concert dates are available, it's impossible to offer 100% accuracy, but this is as close as the site can come w/ the information available. Your help to make the site more complete would be greatly appreciated. Contact Chris Lawrence with any info you have.


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