Toronto show
 

Ahhhh... I can't wait! Only 2 days away, it'll be my first SY show.

see you there......you will be blown away.

Yeah, I'm the only person in my group of friends that likes SY. I got one of my friends to go though, he was lured in by the promise of hanging out in Toronto for the day.

Neighbor: "Hey can you babysit for us the 8th?"
Me: "No, sorry! I'm going to a Sonic Youth show!"
Neighbor: "Damnit that's why I wanted you to babysit!"

=) it was nice.

Hahaha. That's pretty awesome.

Yeeeeeeaaaahhh! Sonics in Toronto for a 3rd time! Flyin' solo as well, my 'sonic-mates' are all broke or busy...so look out for the hippy in the washing machine shirt passin' 'round the doobs.. :)

yeah yeah! tomorrow!! i cannot *wait*. :D

one more day.

Sonic Love
 

Haha yeah!!! One Moore day! I'll be the first one in line wearing the washing machine t-shirt :D

what time are you guys gonna get there?

i was just hgoing to ask this, im going to be arriving probably around 4:30 ish. i would like to be there earlier, but im travelling four to five hours to get there, and we have to leave at noon.

I was planning on getting there around 4:30-5ish. I'll be the 6"0 15 year old, probably be wearing a grey Radiohead shirt, since I don't yet have an SY one.

i don't think i stand out like a six foot fifteen-er, but im a five and a half foot fourteen year that will be in a Confusion is Sex+Kill Yr Idols teeshirt with possibly a longsleever somewheres. woooo!
anyone know if they are selling the Helen Lundeburg seven inch?

Well, I'm technically 14 years old, but I turn 15 on Monday, a week today, so I just said 15.

oooh, ya lyin!

Hahah, yes I am :D

Also, how early do you think we'll have to get there to be front row?

i have no clue.
its a large stage , really wide,so i am hopeful my two hour wait will suffice.. i would like to get there like, four hours early. but that can;t happen...:(

I could get there basically as early as I want, but I'm probably gonna be there for 4ish since I don't want to waste a full day in Toronto.

that makes sense i suppose. i just don't want to be later than everyone else, and not get the front, that would be shitty! but i doubt that will happen. i can't reember how long we waited for Metric.. a good few hours, but the again, metric has many little lamoh motherfuckers that cling onto em because of Dead Disco.

Holy shit, just read they've been soundchecking SKIP TRACER. :D One of my favourite SY songs.

haahhaa. i haven't screamed for a song at a concert yet. only three of e ive been to. except a kickass local band where we all requested "more songs" when they tried to leave TOO early.

Can you hear the soundcheck at Kool Haus? I've never been there. Hell, I've only been to a few shows in general.

i have absolutely no clue man.. probably a couple of hours prior to opening, like, maybe 2-3??? but i have no clue, like i said.

i have been to The Pixies (reunion, obviously) Death From Above 1979, (prebreakup obviously) and Metric (post huge success.)

oh and Sam Roberts and Matt Mays are playing a free concert here on the sixteenth, i gotta go to that!

Nice! It's one of those OLG shows right? For the casinos? I went to the one in Fort Erie, it was seriously incredible. I was there 2 hours before the show started, and I was front row and centre. Just amazing. SY are top 3 bands for me though (along with Matthew Good (Band) and Radiohead), so this should be even better. Wow, I really fucking hope they play Skip Tracer or Stones.

yeah, casino. im excited for SY so much.

Same here :D You going alone, or with friends?

im going with one friend of mime. you? ""(sorry if you said..i forget)

What'd you think of metric k-krack?

it was gooood fun, there was a lot of asshoels (teenage girls) that would not shut the fuck up, after being asked politely over and over, and then asked "shut the hell up!!!!" to no avail) during Islands' set. Holy Fuck totally slayed. Islands was a barrel o' fun! and Metric was just awesome.

im off now, see you all tomorrow i hope!

What's really cool about reading this thread is that I can remember how excited I used to get about going to see the Sonics....I used to wait outside all hours before hand....I'm now 29 and have seen SY about 10 times....and think that the Warehouse/Koolhaus is one of the most boring places to wait outside. It's goona be a great show...it always is. The Kool Thing (see what I did there) about going to an SY show is that the crowd is anywhere from 13 to mid-50's. I've met them a few times and they're really cool. Have fun tonight!

Thanks! You going to be there?

are you kidding? For sure!!! There's only one thing I know in life....Every two years SY will be playing at the kool haus, and every two years I'll be there, girlfriends, wives, buddies, bands may come and go but every two years I get to bring someone who's never seen SY before. My concert calendar slims down considerably every year but I still look forward to seeing SY.

Good stuff! I'm gonna try to be front row, I won't have a friend who's uninterested to drag along, so I don't have anyone else's schedule to go on :)

Yeah my friends come to the shows not really knowing SY all that well, but leave SY fans. I once brought a Metallica fan who wasn't into that "alternative shit", and he now owns every SY album. Take that Lars! I can still remember the day I stopped going into the pits...It was October 24 1995 @ The Warehouse (Kool Haus) and I had been landing pad for a crowd surfer for the last time. I'd have to say that the best SY show I saw was with Stereolab. That and their set in Sao Paolo Brazil.

Nice. Since I live over in Niagara Falls and am just short of the driving age, I wouldn't be able to get a friend down here anyway. Stay with my aunt and uncle for a few days was the only way to make it work haha.

That's what aunts and uncles are for.

Yeah, my uncle's pad was where I crashed for my first Sonic Youth show, then the 2nd show, my whole band slept in a 'cardboard-box mansion' we built outside of Ryerson University (What kind of train system stops at 1:15?? Damn GO transit thats who..) It was a real expereience tho.....LOL

I'd like to go to Toronto but it's not happening.