shitty crowd ruin a sy show in portugal once again
 

the world looks red
incinerate
reena
hey joni
do you believe in rapture?
what a waste
jams run free
100%
bull in the heather
rats
turquoise boy
pink steam

encore

trilogy (the wonder/hyperstation/eliminator jr)


2nd encore

shaking hell



things looked like to be in a good way after the world looks red and incinerate, but along the show the crowd response to the band was embarassing.
even after several atempts from the band to make people act as a fucking crowd

here's a example, kim gordon is shouting "shake of your flesh!" and furociously shaking hers but most of the people were just there staring at the band, body still, mouth shut. these moments totally killed the show.

totally man!

kim gordon, really nice to see her dance, and probably causing some envy on the css girls. shameful to see her efforts to wake the crowd failing to achieve.

I thought portuguese people would get crazy at a SY gig.

hmm. people were either astouned or the reason you've mentioned

thanks for setlist.

That's a real shame, but I hope you managed to enjoy it anyway.

apart from the group that gets wild for anything and few others and it was mostly ecstatic.

we had some chorus moments...

people went more crazy about sunshine undergound and peter & whatever ballerine tricks and castrated guy vocals and i guess that is how it was supposed to be but why so cold sy? why? why?

css were the most cheered band of the day.

c s s suck a s s

i was happy after all. you know.. finnaly got my chance.
i bet if everyone felt the something like i did the show would've been different... but they dint, because most of them dont listen to sonic youth, or listen to few works like recent stuff (rr) and press classics like ddn.

festivals sucks.

yeah, pretty shitty crowd... I was in the front, and most people didn't know one fucking song. not even 100% or bull in the heather. half were just moshing and crowdsurfing even when the band stopped playing, the others were just staring and some guys in front of me spent the whole fucking show asking for pics and setlists.

anyway, i still enjoyed the show, my first SY show. thurston and lee were amazing and kim danced like mad. and i got to hear world looks red, which was amazing.

people suck, sy rock live.

I don't think Sonic Youth let the crowd impact their performance all that much. At least not as much as some bands do.

crowds are bogus.
I hope you got something out of the experience Dr J.
AND anyone else who was there - the SY fanship transmits good feelings even if the crowd is full of chumps.

Im a tame watcher.
I came to watch not dance.
that's what cd's and loud stereos are for.

What kind of venue was it? Open festival type? I can imagine Sonic Youth's energy being lost on an open festival type. SY need indoor venues to get that all encompassing thrashy sound to jar people into moving.

Yeah thats a real pity, real shame. I was at a gig last sunday and the small crowd there spewed negative vibes with their soberness, standing unnaturally still throughout this powerful music.

Pretty hot setlist. I swear, it pays to see them a while after an albums been out, so they're sick of the new songs and playing lots of old ones as well. Ideally, I like a mix of both, and you got it here. Opening with "World Looks Red"?? That soo kicks ass. Fuck the crowd, I wouldn't even notice them.

rats!

I really can't understand this. So not all of the crowd was into SY (this was an open festival), so there were people that didn't knew all of the songs (is that a crime?), and some say people didn't dance? Well, from where I was standing, people were moving and enjoyng the music, but the crowd was so compact that it was nearly impossible to move a muscle. Anyway, I fail to see where the show was ruined, people seemed to love it, and the guys seemed to enjoy too. Well, I know I did, so fuck everything else.

Anyway here are two links from a portuguese website where those of you that understand portuguese (or are able to use babelfish..) can see that the portuguese audience really enjoyed the concert and are expecting SY to come back for more (Coliseu do Porto, who knows?):

http://blitz.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stori....stories/12324
http://blitz.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stori....stories/12284

i doubt a crowd could ruin sonic youth show, unless you were assaulted and then sonic youth got bottles thrown at them.
I saw Dinosaur Jr at a festival once and even though there were only about 5 fans there out of like 10 thousand people, it was still a great show!!!

they didnt threw bottles, but they did ruined the show.

and by that i'm not saying they didnt enjoyed it.

but if they dont get any comeback from the crowd how does that makes them feel?

you were there thin ice, how many of us shouted their name during the show?

i am sure they are used to it.

and... ?

they are still a shitty crowd.

well, what can you do about it now?

complain about it and try to make people act diferently at the next time.

this is not japan or whatever, they dont sell many records here, if we want them to come back more often we need to make the difference at the shows.

ahhhhhh, i seeeeee

i want them to come here every year, but if they dont enjoy playing here will they do it? i wish!! but obviously not.

tears, tears, rolling up next years, i'm afraid.


with so much sonic youth blablabla in the past weeks, i was expecting something different.
i've read some of the post show blablabla. if people enjoyed them that much, in my opinion they failed to transmit it to the band.

yeah, but i think thats the same everywhere, it might have been especially bad for you, but even the london shows they play are full of posers and their girlfriends mouthing the wrong words.

at least they mouth something.

Poser Boy: Blah Blah na na na na blah blah de de de Teenage Riot Blah la la la la la Blah Blah Blah Blah teenage leather and booze na na na na na na

Poser Boy's girlfriend: Can We Please Go NOW!

haha yes.

portuguese poser, pre-show: sonic youth? fucking great, awesome, awesome
portuguese poser, during show:
portuguese poser, after show: fucking great, awesome, awesome

On another completely different note - do you know if the word Foggo means anything in Portuguese, someone told me it meant fire or cooking place???

It's Fogo (with one "g"), and it means fire, yes.

hmm, interesting, my surname is Foggo and i have never known what it actually meant.

would you relax please with the "people ruined the show"? sy played shows this year in nyc where nobody moved and you could hear a pin drop at some points, that did not detract from the experience. why are you focusing on what the other people are doing? focus on the music instead. and sy is not exactly an audience participation band, they dont do sing alongs, im sure they will love you just as well if you just stand there and listen.