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Sonic Youth - Glasto?

Alt rock legends put their names forward for a slot at Glastonbury festival 2009

26 January 2009 - As Glastonbury line-up rumours begin to gather pace, singer and guitarist Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth has told 6 Music he'd love to play Michael Eavis’ event.

Their 21st album, The Eternal, is currently being mixed and is scheduled for release in June. (Read more on album).

Moore revealed their itinerary has not been finalised yet but said: “We’re actually going to be getting on that fairly soon...I’m almost positive we’ll definitely be doing one or two festivals in the UK.”

When asked which UK music festivals were on the band’s hit list, Moore replied: “I wanna play Glastonbury because it’s such a disaster camp and I really enjoy that.

“The general consensus amongst musicians I know is that it’s like walking into the pit of hell, and in some way it really feels like that.”

He recalled his bitter-sweet memories of playing there in the past: “The only times I’ve ever been there it’s been so incredibly messed up, where you can’t really get onto the site because there’s a huge lorry stuck in the mud.

“People are traipsing through water damaged tents and then you finally get on stage and you’re so wrecked from the experience.

“You’re lucky to get through any perceptible, decent set at all and then there are these huge roving cameras on stage that are spinning around documenting the disaster. There’s something about that I find really charming.”

"I wanna play Glastonbury because it’s such a disaster camp and I really enjoy that."
Thurston Moore

Last year’s festival saw a decent spell of sunshine following the torrential rain of previous years.

Moore said it’s a special festival come rain or shine: “Every once in a while I’d like to be there when it’s sunny, but in a way I sort of like it when it’s drenched.”

In recent weeks, rumours surfaced that Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young will perform at the festival, but the Glastonbury office denied any line-up additions.

Michael Eavis did confirm to the BBC that there will be two UK and two US headliners this year.

[Everyneurotic]

hahahahahahahahahahaha.

[Danny Himself]

I think T-Bone should know that no real Sonic Youth fan would go anywhere near the Glastonbury Festival. As if their t-shirts being sold in Topshop and Urban Outfitters wasn't bad enough, they're playing this cavalcade of posing NME hipster twats? Fucking hell. The rest of the band need to tie up Thurston before his mid-life crisis destroys the band's credibility any further.

[radarmaker]

Heh, I was thinking of going this year for the first time in fucking ages (mainly for Neil Young), so I'll be pretty happy if they do...

[nicfit]

I don't care what you snobs say , pro shot vids from glastonbury are nice.

[SonicBebs]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

I think T-Bone should know that no real Sonic Youth fan would go anywhere near the Glastonbury Festival. As if their t-shirts being sold in Topshop and Urban Outfitters wasn't bad enough, they're playing this cavalcade of posing NME hipster twats? Fucking hell. The rest of the band need to tie up Thurston before his mid-life crisis destroys the band's credibility any further.

you know what? I was just typing out a reply saying about how good glastonbury is for getting naked in the mud (with shrooms) when i rememberd that that was a long time ago and these days (if you can get a ticket) it is indeed shit. or it was, who knows

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by SonicBebs

you know what? I was just typing out a reply saying about how good glastonbury is for getting naked in the mud (with shrooms) when i rememberd that that was a long time ago and these days (if you can get a ticket) it is indeed shit. or it was, who knows

The crowd today is entirely populated by the ignorant college students of Great Britain, thinking they're ever so cool for 'roughing it' for the first time in their priveleged, middle-class lives. The same crowd of self-important tossers that ruined things like antique cameras, listening to the Kings of Leon, and nostalgia for the 1980s.

[Derek]

Kings of Leon were always horrible though.

[SonicBebs]

i liked aha shake heartbreak

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by SonicBebs

i liked aha shake heartbreak

It's a great album, as is the one the preceded it. Too bad their latest album is shitty stadium rock. I wonder how many times 'Sex On Fire' has been played at thick people's weddings..

[Derek]

They've always seemed to me to be some lame generic indie rock band aimed at gullible teenagers who think they're in some way alternative.

[Danny Himself]

Their singles might give off that impression. Maybe it's just the fans. I don't know. To me they sound like a more garage-rock CCR, with dashings of Little Feat and Rory Gallagher. Great bluesy riffs and unintelligible singing.. proper foot-stomping rock and roll.

You certainly can't bundle them into the same category as Razorlight and Coldplay.

[SonicBebs]

i've got nothing against lame generic indie rock

[Danny Himself]

It is the soundtrack to idiocy.

[radarmaker]

I'm afraid your initial Glastonbury snobbery is completely nullified by liking the Kings of Leon.

And Glastonbury, much like any other festival, is as good as the company you're with - all the larger ones are teeming with wankers and arseholes these days, but if you've got a bunch of decent folk with you it's easy to ignore/forget all of them, except for occasional inadvertent comedy interludes.

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by radarmaker

I'm afraid your initial Glastonbury snobbery is completely nullified by liking the Kings of Leon.

Hahaha! Touché.

Maybe you're right. I will be the first to admit that I am a snob- could you blame me, though, with a general public such as ours? Living in a country that broadcasts E4? Oh, heavy burden.

[SonicBebs]

Originally Posted by SonicBebs

i've got nothing against lame generic indie rock

actually, i have got everything against lame generic indie rock.

[This Is Not Here]

Play Glasto SY, go on.

[blunderbuss]

Oh God, Sonic Youth, PLEASE don't play Glastonbury. Do you really want to play to an audience of champagne-quaffing, caviar-eating, 4 wheel drive-driving, Guardian-reading, upper-middle-class twats? It would be like playing a gig to a load of fashion show whores.


Ah... I see a flaw in my argument....



But on a slightly more serious note, I'd put money on them playing Latitude ahead of Glastonbury. That and the Scottish one (EDIT - T in the Park).

[nicfit]

Again, I like Glastonbury proshots.