got mine for adelaide

Are you doing the sound for it :D

I'm so excited!

This is GLORIOUS NEWS!!!

just a heads up kids.
the 2nd sydney show is back on. just saw it on the ticketek site. tix on sale 9am tomorrow.
yay.

Are all Aussies on here Cricket fans?
I know its a stereotype but im just wondering

No way, I hate cricket. That's good news about the 2nd Sydney show. Not that it affects me or anything.

i saw a group on facebook today, the greatest cricket sledges, it was good fun

am going to auckland,
anyone heard of 'the dead c',
new zealand experimental noise band.
pretty old now, but this is good news.
looking forward to it.

i'm a cricket fan but not a fanatical one

no one of my colleagues is system engineer though.....

Sweet. I know that Dead C had a song sampling "Kerosene".

is 'kerosene' a pretty popular song?

I think 'dead c' are a New Zealand
equivalent of 'wolf eyes',
they have something like 20 albums,
mostly underground stuff.

Kerosene is probably the second best Big Black song next to Passing Complexion.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-16947,00.html

New York's Sonic Youth are seasoned Don't Look Back campaigners, having performed Daydream Nation at All Tomorrow's Parties and at a series of DLB concerts in Europe and the US.
They weren't that keen to begin with, says the band's Lee Ranaldo, but were talked into it by DLB founder Barry Logan.
"We didn't want to do it because we're not a particularly nostalgic band," says Ranaldo. "We felt we'd rather spend our time writing new music than revisiting something from a long time ago."
Eventually, however, "it just seemed that the stars were aligned to the point where we couldn't say no", Ranaldo says. "We were preparing that album for a deluxe edition release, part of a three-album set, something that we started six years before. Then the album got inducted into the US Library of Congress.
"We couldn't have planned the concert any better if we'd tried."
Daydream Nation, released in 1988, represents the pinnacle of Sonic Youth's career to that point. It was a marriage of their earlier white noise sensibility to a newer pop framework and included songs such as Hey Joni and Teen Age Riot that have since become staples of their live performances.
"It's the album that put us on the map for a lot of people," says Ranaldo. "We were so confident in our abilities when we came to do it, which is why it's a double album. That's why Daydream was so peculiar because our general attitude is looking forward. That shows up in the music. It cuts free from a lot of the music of the past and tries to move somewhere else."
All of these nods to significant albums, as far as DLB is concerned, are down to the persistence and musical taste of Englishman Logan. A self-confessed music tragic, he has coaxed many of his favourite bands into performing the albums he loves.
It doesn't hurt, of course, that he has a festival stage to offer them, but it's his role as a fan more than anything that has convinced the acts to say yes and that has taken the concept across the world.
"The way we listen to music now, the album is under threat, so this is one way of preserving that idea of an album as a piece of art," Logan says.
He worried for weeks when he approached Iggy Pop about doing the first Don't Look Back performance with the Stooges. "He said it would depend on what album I wanted. I said Funhouse, and he said that was the right answer." Since then, other bands such as Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney, Cowboy Junkies and our own Dirty Three are among those who have performed one of their albums track by track. The first to do so for Don't Look Back in Australia is Minnesota lo-fi outfit Low, who begin their short tour in Melbourne on January 11. Singer, guitarist and songwriter Alan Sparhawk agrees that the idea of doing an album from start to finish is a good one and gives the artists a chance to approach the work in a way that they may not have considered. They first performed Things We Lost in the Fire in London a year ago. Again, as with many of the other artists, the Fire album was a pivotal one in their career.
"We were at the cusp of being innocent about what we were doing and also opening up the door and going for different arrangements," he says.
Sparhawk recalls wincing at the prospect of doing the whole album live, "but the more I thought about it. it made sense", he says. "We still play half of the songs live. At this point in my life I feel comfortable going back to them. In fact there are a couple of songs that I think we probably have a better perspective on now than we did at the time."
As technology redefines the role of the conventional album, it's uncertain whether the concept of Don't Look Back will survive long term, but for the moment bands such as Died Pretty, who, unlike some of the others, are not a going concern, are happy to be able to revisit the work that made them famous.
"That album changed things a lot for us, in Australia that is," Myers says. "It certainly shows how an album is a powerful entity, but there are a lot more bad albums than there are good ones, plus there are a lot of albums where you only have two or three good songs, so when you get a classic album like, say, (Television's) Marquee Moon, it sticks out. It's not something you regularly do as a band, play your album from beginning to end."
The Don't Look Back concerts begin on January 11 and run until February 23.

I'm so excited about the Sydney show! Woo!

First one?

yep it is actually, despite having listened to them for 17 years now I've managed to miss every concert except this one, so I'm looking forward to it heaps! Daydream Nation would haveto be one of my favourites too which makes it even better

i still have to sneak in
hopefully the security isnt big
bob dylans security wasnt tight at alll, was easy to sneak a friend in
i wonder if there will be coloured arm bands.. hmm

You mean the Perth one Dan?

yes the perth one
its the only one i can try to get into
damn it SY
come on here and see that i need to get into your gig next yr

cricket fanatic and proud of it

good day to one and all on the BB.

Looking forward to this tour immensely... Shame Albini & co. aren't supporting but can't have it all I guess...

I have a question - can anyone suggest where to sell spare tix for Daydreams Down Under? I emailed webmaster to ask if OK to offer here but heard now't.

cheerio for now.

eBay

The first concert at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney is going to be my first ever concert. And Daydream Nation is my favourite album. And The Scientists are supporting. It's so exciting.

Enmore rocks. So nice and old.

I don't reckon there'd be anymore tickets for the Enmore show?

Newtown is dreamy.

Eww Newtown. Can't stand anywhere in Sydney that lies below Parramatta river. But I'm sure they are still selling Sydney tickets.

Newtown is a great place.

Me too!

Are you serious?! What above the Parramatta river is not simply boring? I don't adore Newtown/Enmore but it's one of the only places where there's anything happening culture-wise in Sydney.

the enmore is beautiful. as for ticket status i checked yesterday. floor is sold out for the first show, but seats still available, everything still available for the second show.

I prefer the quieter places in Sydney. Newtown etc is too full on and there's too many people. I hate large crowds unless it's a concert.

ah well yeah I prefer a quieter place day to day too

Like the alley ways in George street? Don't go there!! Or Town Hall square either.

Ahaha... I try to stay away from the CBD when I have the choice, the part of the city I hate the most though and always try to avoid is George Street anywhere between Town Hall and Central, what a nightmare!

Ahh yes, but anywhere between Town Hall and Circular Quay is the best part of the CBD.

had to say it,
counting down just one week untill auckland set.
yeah!

Almost Sydney!!

Y'all some lucky bitches.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/gig-revie...234114355.html

When Thurston Moore, singer and guitar strangler with Sonic Youth, was first approached about performing the band's seminal 1988 album Daydream Nation in its entirety for the Don't Look Back series of concerts, he didn't really want to do it.
"I didn't have a problem with the idea of it," he says, from the home he shares with his wife and bandmate Kim Gordon in Massachusetts. "I did have a problem with spending time having to rehash something rather than working on something new. Time is precious, man. I'm going to be 50 this year. I don't have time to play Daydream Nation for the rest of my life."
But Barry Hogan, the enthusiastic 35-year-old Englishman behind Don't Look Back, is a persuasive man. Eight years ago he instigated All Tomorrow's Parties, a British music festival whose line-up is chosen by a guest curator each year. The inaugural year was curated by cult Scottish band Mogwai; in 2003, Hogan branched out to the US and got Matt Groening to program it. Three years ago he came up with the idea of a series involving bands performing one of their best-loved albums, playing the tracks in the original order.
"In the current age of digital downloads, people tend to neglect albums and just handpick tracks," Hogan says. "I think there are so many great records that you should listen to from start to finish. Like the Stooges' Fun House. You put that record on and you can't take it off. And if you can there's something wrong with you."
In fact, Fun House was his first choice and the Stooges kicked off Don't Look Back in 2005. Since then participants have included Slint doing Spiderland, Belle & Sebastian with If You're Feeling Sinister and the Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs. But Hogan really wanted Sonic Youth on board and turned up at gigs across the US and in Berlin and Paris to badger them.
"I admit that they were reluctant at first," Hogan says. "I had to convince them that this was a worthwhile thing to do and people would really want to see it."
Moore, Gordon, guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley finally agreed but it was a daunting task putting the show together. Some of the songs on Daydream Nation were never played live and, as the band uses unconventional guitar tunings, relearning the songs wasn't easy.
"I don't even remember some of the songs existing," admits Moore, laughing. "I'd have a vague memory of the title and then had to think, 'How did that even sound?' And sometimes I'd listen to what I was playing on the recording and think, 'I have no memory at all of doing this, let alone what tuning it's in.' "
Daydream Nation is often on lists of the greatest albums of the '80s, a touchstone for the entire alternative rock genre. Moore feels it should have sounded heavier than it does and "although it was more extrapolated song-wise and it was pretty audacious to bring out a double album back then, we certainly didn't think of it as some kind of grand statement".
Still, when the band played their first Don't Look Back shows in June - they've now performed it 18 times in Britain, the US and Europe - something clicked.
"By the fourth or fifth time we played it live it became something I really enjoyed," Moore says. "It brought me back to the space I was in mentally and psychologically and musically back in 1988 and I liked that."