Sonic Youth in Holland (Lowlands Festival) and Belgium (Pukkelpop) in August
 

This won't be news to anyone who's been "following the rumours", but it's official now.

They'll be playing Daydream Nation so I heard at Pukkelpop.

It's mentioned on the Pukkelpop site as DDN indeed. Are you going?


Don't know what the Lowlands set is going to be yet as SY still has to be added to their site, but SY's myspace doesn't list it as Daydream Nation so it appears that it's not. But even if it will be then it's not that likely I'll be going either way. I haven't been to Lowlands in over 5 years and a return ticket to London is probably cheaper than the 120 euros or whatever a 3-day ticket for Lowlands costs nowadays.

Ironically, a friend of mine suggested a couple of months ago that we should go to Lowlands this year just for old times sake. I liked the idea of that, but I dont't really see it happening. First time I went there was when SY also played it in 1996. In an ideal world they'd do a Rather Ripped set at Lowlands and then add a DDN show at an indoor venue on the 20th or 21st before heading to Glasgow on the 22nd, but that's probably asking too much.



www.pukkelpop.be
www.lowlands.nl

I'm certainly going. I'm trying to arrange so I can videotape the show although Pukkelpop's organisation is prety difficult in these things.

I haven't gone to Pukkelpop since 2003! I'm really looking forward.
Mabey I'll see you there!

They are closing the Marquee on Saturday night as well. That's so fuckin awesome!

Damn, Pukkelpop is always when I'm on holidays

Fuck, I can't go, like sy2004 I'm on holidays.

does ANYONE have pictures of kim's panties?

I think that Thurston has one in his night drawer, ask him.

i found some!

thank god she's wearing those, i always figured she'd wear a trashy leopard thong

Im thinking these:

classic.

...

classic.

I know they are.

erm, you guys are losing your focus ....

I am highly considering to go to Pukkelpop, my two favourite bands are there SY and Low. And SY is playing DDN, which they apparently won't do in Köln. Too bad they aren't on the same day, I don't feel like camping.

Would they consider an iRiver H320 as professional gear, or as an mp3 player that happens to have a record button?

hmmm, I just realized that the last time I saw SY at a festival, I walked away after 10 minutes with all my fingers in my ears. But that was in 1991 (Ein Abend In Wien, Rotterdam) and they were using screwdrivers to mutilate their guitars:eek:
Needless to say that they were still unknown to me back then

You're older than me... ;)
Were you also one of the people who couldn't get into the main hall where Nick Cave did a spoken word performance and had to settle for watching that yet-to-break-through-band Nirvana demolish the stage in one of the smaller rooms?

I don't think an iRiver H320 would be considered professional gear anywhere. Can I ask you where you bought that though? I've been thinking about getting one (or maybe an H340) for recording shows but iRiver no longer have a distributor in Holland. There's the occasional online store that has them and then there's marktplaats etc or I could order it from abroad, but when it comes to electronics I prefer to get them from a shop where I can return it to if it's broken etc.

Pukkelpop now added to SY's myspace too. They don't list it yet as a DDN set so forget what I said about Lowlands not being a DDN set because it's not listed as such on their myspace.
The chance I'll be going to Pukkelpop is even smaller than the small chance I'll be going to Lowlands, even though Pukkelpop sells 1-day tickets and Lowlands doesn't. I think I'm already overdoing the DDN thing anyway if I'm really going to those three shows in London.

Damn it, you should've asked that last week. I could've asked Steve Albini about the incident at the Q&A sessions when Shellac played here a few days ago.

3 shows in London? wowie
I only went one day to the Abend In Wien festival, didn't see Cave nor Nirvana, I think they played at a different day (at least Nirvana did). Went there actually to see Black Francis, as I was a huge Pixies fan back then (Hi Rappard :-D), but he was a bit disappointing, just solo. Magnapop kicked major ass though

Pukkelpop says they will be playing DDN, but perhaps they are wrong.

I bought my iRiver on eBay, picked it up myself in Germany. You will have to settle for a second hand, since they are not made anymore


edt: what the deal with the panties???

I'm sure Pukkelpop would know what they're booking... I'm 100% not sure yet if I'll be going to all 3 London shows or even one of them, but I do have tickets.

re:kim's panties - Atsonicpark was referring to something that happened about 20 years ago when Big Black and Sonic Youth toured together. Kim Gordon gave/threw some panties to Steve Albini both at Pukkelpop and in Amsterdam. Story never gets old it seems, as Albini later made a song about it with Rapeman.
http://petdance.com/actionpark/bigblack/tourdiary/
read the parts under July 22 and July 23.

kim gordon mentions it here as well
http://petdance.com/actionpark/bigbl...lerderby12.php


guess i'll check for irivers at marktplaats and ebay then.