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Sept 6 - Lee Hopscotch Festival, Raleigh NC
songs in duo with Booker Stardrum |
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September 7 Mark Kozelek w steve shelley Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Sept 8 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Trondheim, Norway
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 9 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Stavanger, Norway
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 10 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Cafe Oto, London
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 12 - Lee joins My Cat Is An Alien and Jean-Marc Montera
performance amongst friends to celebrate 20 years of MCIAA |
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Sept 13 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Pisa, Italy
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 14 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Ferarra, Italy
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 15 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Bari, Italy
Time Zones Festival: Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 16 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Matera, Italy
Time Zones Festival: Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 18 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Athens, Greece
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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September 19 Thurston Moore and David Toop San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
Free Improvisation Noise Music performed by Thurston Moore and David Toop |
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September 20 Thurston Moore and David Toop Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Memorial Library
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Sept 22 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Cordoba, Spain
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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Sept 23 - Lee solo Songs and Stories - Madrid, Spain
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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September 27 Thurston Moore and David Toop Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
Free Improvisation Noise Music performed by Thurston Moore and David Toop |
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September 29 Sun Kil Moon w steve shelley San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
thefillmore.com |
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September 30 Sun Kil Moon w steve shelley Long Beach, CA Music Taste Good Festival
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October 10 If I Could Only Remember My Name - steve joins in performance of David Crosby's classic LP- Brooklyn, NY Three's Brewing
www.facebook.com |
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October 14 Thurston Moore on Daydream Nation Suffolk, UK - John Peel Centre for Creative Arts 4:30pm
CLASSIC ALBUM SUNDAYS WITH THURSTON MOORE
STOWMARKET: John Peel Centre for Creative Arts
SUN 14TH OCT, 2018 4:30pm
Sonic Youth founding member Thurston Moore will be joining Classic Album Sunday, here at the John Peel Centre, for a special evening celebrating the 30th anniversary of Daydream Nation.
Thurston will be interviewed by Classic Album Sundays founder and BBC 6music host Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy which will be followed by a full album playback on a world class audiophile sound system installed by Nintronics featuring Bowers & Wilkins and then a Q&A where audience members will get the opportunity to ask questions of their own.
Please note that these are seated tickets. Seats are not allocated, but all have a good view. |
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October 20 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Portland, OR Hollywood Theatre 7pm
Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation
with Steve Shelley, filmmaker Lance Bangs and SY archivist Aaron Mullan in attendance
Sonic Youth released their sixth album Daydream Nation on October 18,1988. The album was an immediate critical success. Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone that it “presents the definitive American guitar band of the Eighties at the height of its powers and prescience”. Time has not dimmed the album’s lustre: It was selected to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2005, and in 2013 Consequence of Sound declared “the record simply rules.”
In celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary, Sonic Youth, in conjunction with the Hollywood Theatre, filmmaker Lance Bangs, and SY archivist Aaron Mullan, will present a program of Daydream Nation-related films on October 20th. Two are rarely-screened archival pieces from 1989, in brand new restorations. Lance Bangs will also present excerpts from his new concert film of the band performing the album in its entirety in Glasgow in 2007. A few unseen gems from the band’s archives will round out the bill.
Put Blood in the Music 1989 Dir. Charles Atlas (SY Edit): Charles Atlas’s first major recognition came for his work with Merce Cunningham as the company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978-1983. From this pioneering work establishing the field of ‘Dance for Camera”, he went on to make the faux Cinema Verite Hail the New Puritan for BBC4 about the Scottish dancer Michael Clark, featuring music by Glenn Branca, Bruce Gilbert (of Wire), Jeffrey Hinton, and the Fall. Then Atlas was approached by the Irish writer David Donohue, asking him to do a movie about music in New York.
CHARLES ATLAS: This was really the first documentary that I made. For me, I’d done a lot of pieces for television, art pieces. And I knew about the downtown New York music scene, having worked with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Rhys Chatham and also knowing Glenn Branca.
I really wanted it to be green screened and I really wanted to have New York backgrounds, but we didn’t have time to go around shooting against New York backgrounds. So I had separate days to shoot New York backgrounds. I wanted to mix it up, and have it be really visually busy, like New York. A lot of people ended up copying the “interviewees against green-screened backgrounds” idea.
I knew that I was editing it, I wasn’t making it for someone else to edit. So I told the Director of Photography “It’s too boring to have the talking heads static like normal. Just do whatever you want. Make it interesting” and then I had to work with what he did.
I kind of wrote it by editing the clips of the people, which was something I then did in subsequent work. I’ve been criticized for not letting people speak the way they do in documentaries, with pauses. But I still had an American sensibility, even though I was working a lot in Europe, and I wanted things to change. I didn’t want any dead air at all. I
We thought of a lot of different people to feature in the documentary, but I really wanted to do people who I thought would do well as television personalities; who would talk about their work in an engaging way. In retrospect it’s really quite star-studded, Hal Wilner and Karen Finley, in addition to the people already mentioned. It was really about downtown art, and the whole downtown music scene, and we just had to choose some people to represent that. I thought it was at a really critical moment for Sonic Youth. We went to great expense to record live performances, because I wouldn’t dare ask them to mime to playback. But then shortly afterward they signed with Geffen and there they were…
It was also the moment before the band had really gotten their press image totally together. Thurston was already like a late-night talk show host, but when they went more mainstream they got that part of their stuff together more. So it was interesting, because it was quite real. And I was quite naïve, in that it was really only later that I realized how complicated band dynamics are.
On Rust VPRO Dutch Television: Sonic Youth got some of their first European exposure via Holland. Lee Ranaldo had worked with the Dutch musician Truus de Groot in the group Plus Instruments. Lee and Thurston traveled to Holland performing with Glenn Branca, and by this time had become friends with de Groot’s roommate Carlos Van Hijfte, who would eventually book their European tours.
CARLOS VAN HIJFTE: At that time, there were TV shows in Holland, on National TV, who did interesting stuff. Dutch television, especially VPRO, had a tradition of doing that kind of stuff. They had weird shows, shows you would probably never be able to see in the States on Public TV, ever.
I watched the On Rust again recently, and it struck me how amazingly good it is. This time period; 1989, Sonic Youth were at the peak of their powers. There’s no doubt about it. People still talk about the albums they made in the late 80’s, and if you watch this, you know why: because it’s so incredibly good.
The Paradiso, where the show was filmed was packed, 1200 people. It was the first time they ever sold out the Paradiso. It was amazing. The first 3 or 4 tours they had been playing to 100 to 200 people, and all of the sudden, things happened. Because of Daydream Nation, there was a lot of excitement for all these bands, and Sonic Youth was at the front edge of it. In that year it really worked. There’s so much energy in this footage, so much rawness. At that time, things could still easily fall apart. That’s the great thing about rock shows, when you feel like it’s on the edge of disaster, but it holds together. That can create amazing music.
Daydream Nation Dir. Lance Bangs 2018 Lance Bangs's new Sonic Youth concert film "Daydream Nation" presents the band performing the titular double album in Glasgow on August 21st and 22, 2007. Bangs blends HD footage shot in Glasgow with fragments of personal Super8mm and 16mm from his archives of Sonic Youth over the decades.
Sonic Youth performed “Daydream Nation” in its entirety less than 20 times during a 2007 tour, often at festivals or outdoor venues. This document captures one of the few indoor club performances; a setting SY member Thurston Moore always claimed was the type of venue for which the songs were written. Glasgow had been a great city for the band’s tours, and the live sets shown in the film received a 5 star review in the Guardian.
"Daydream Nation" the film features multitrack audio of this material with a fidelity beyond any 1980's documents, and offers a performance of this material by musicians who are simply more experienced and more adept with their instruments. The joy of the band and the audience are a sight to behold; the band and the fans joined together in celebration of this landmark album (10/10 NME, 10/10 Spin Alternative Record Guide, 5 Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 10.0 in Pitchfork, A from Robert Christgau in The Village Voice) |
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October 21 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Portland, OR Hollywood Theatre 8pm
Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation
with Steve Shelley, filmmaker Lance Bangs and SY archivist Aaron Mullan in attendance
Sonic Youth released their sixth album Daydream Nation on October 18,1988. The album was an immediate critical success. Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone that it “presents the definitive American guitar band of the Eighties at the height of its powers and prescience”. Time has not dimmed the album’s lustre: It was selected to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2005, and in 2013 Consequence of Sound declared “the record simply rules.”
In celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary, Sonic Youth, in conjunction with the Hollywood Theatre, filmmaker Lance Bangs, and SY archivist Aaron Mullan, will present a program of Daydream Nation-related films on October 20th. Two are rarely-screened archival pieces from 1989, in brand new restorations. Lance Bangs will also present excerpts from his new concert film of the band performing the album in its entirety in Glasgow in 2007. A few unseen gems from the band’s archives will round out the bill.
Put Blood in the Music 1989 Dir. Charles Atlas (SY Edit): Charles Atlas’s first major recognition came for his work with Merce Cunningham as the company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978-1983. From this pioneering work establishing the field of ‘Dance for Camera”, he went on to make the faux Cinema Verite Hail the New Puritan for BBC4 about the Scottish dancer Michael Clark, featuring music by Glenn Branca, Bruce Gilbert (of Wire), Jeffrey Hinton, and the Fall. Then Atlas was approached by the Irish writer David Donohue, asking him to do a movie about music in New York.
CHARLES ATLAS: This was really the first documentary that I made. For me, I’d done a lot of pieces for television, art pieces. And I knew about the downtown New York music scene, having worked with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Rhys Chatham and also knowing Glenn Branca.
I really wanted it to be green screened and I really wanted to have New York backgrounds, but we didn’t have time to go around shooting against New York backgrounds. So I had separate days to shoot New York backgrounds. I wanted to mix it up, and have it be really visually busy, like New York. A lot of people ended up copying the “interviewees against green-screened backgrounds” idea.
I knew that I was editing it, I wasn’t making it for someone else to edit. So I told the Director of Photography “It’s too boring to have the talking heads static like normal. Just do whatever you want. Make it interesting” and then I had to work with what he did.
I kind of wrote it by editing the clips of the people, which was something I then did in subsequent work. I’ve been criticized for not letting people speak the way they do in documentaries, with pauses. But I still had an American sensibility, even though I was working a lot in Europe, and I wanted things to change. I didn’t want any dead air at all. I
We thought of a lot of different people to feature in the documentary, but I really wanted to do people who I thought would do well as television personalities; who would talk about their work in an engaging way. In retrospect it’s really quite star-studded, Hal Wilner and Karen Finley, in addition to the people already mentioned. It was really about downtown art, and the whole downtown music scene, and we just had to choose some people to represent that. I thought it was at a really critical moment for Sonic Youth. We went to great expense to record live performances, because I wouldn’t dare ask them to mime to playback. But then shortly afterward they signed with Geffen and there they were…
It was also the moment before the band had really gotten their press image totally together. Thurston was already like a late-night talk show host, but when they went more mainstream they got that part of their stuff together more. So it was interesting, because it was quite real. And I was quite naïve, in that it was really only later that I realized how complicated band dynamics are.
On Rust VPRO Dutch Television: Sonic Youth got some of their first European exposure via Holland. Lee Ranaldo had worked with the Dutch musician Truus de Groot in the group Plus Instruments. Lee and Thurston traveled to Holland performing with Glenn Branca, and by this time had become friends with de Groot’s roommate Carlos Van Hijfte, who would eventually book their European tours.
CARLOS VAN HIJFTE: At that time, there were TV shows in Holland, on National TV, who did interesting stuff. Dutch television, especially VPRO, had a tradition of doing that kind of stuff. They had weird shows, shows you would probably never be able to see in the States on Public TV, ever.
I watched the On Rust again recently, and it struck me how amazingly good it is. This time period; 1989, Sonic Youth were at the peak of their powers. There’s no doubt about it. People still talk about the albums they made in the late 80’s, and if you watch this, you know why: because it’s so incredibly good.
The Paradiso, where the show was filmed was packed, 1200 people. It was the first time they ever sold out the Paradiso. It was amazing. The first 3 or 4 tours they had been playing to 100 to 200 people, and all of the sudden, things happened. Because of Daydream Nation, there was a lot of excitement for all these bands, and Sonic Youth was at the front edge of it. In that year it really worked. There’s so much energy in this footage, so much rawness. At that time, things could still easily fall apart. That’s the great thing about rock shows, when you feel like it’s on the edge of disaster, but it holds together. That can create amazing music.
Daydream Nation Dir. Lance Bangs 2018 Lance Bangs's new Sonic Youth concert film "Daydream Nation" presents the band performing the titular double album in Glasgow on August 21st and 22, 2007. Bangs blends HD footage shot in Glasgow with fragments of personal Super8mm and 16mm from his archives of Sonic Youth over the decades.
Sonic Youth performed “Daydream Nation” in its entirety less than 20 times during a 2007 tour, often at festivals or outdoor venues. This document captures one of the few indoor club performances; a setting SY member Thurston Moore always claimed was the type of venue for which the songs were written. Glasgow had been a great city for the band’s tours, and the live sets shown in the film received a 5 star review in the Guardian.
"Daydream Nation" the film features multitrack audio of this material with a fidelity beyond any 1980's documents, and offers a performance of this material by musicians who are simply more experienced and more adept with their instruments. The joy of the band and the audience are a sight to behold; the band and the fans joined together in celebration of this landmark album (10/10 NME, 10/10 Spin Alternative Record Guide, 5 Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 10.0 in Pitchfork, A from Robert Christgau in The Village Voice) |
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October 22 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Seattle, WA - Grand Illusion Cinema 6:30pm/9pm BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT
w Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley In conversation |
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October 23 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Los Angeles. CA The Regent, DTLA 8pm
www.ticketfly.com
www.ticketfly.com
Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation
with Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, filmmaker Lance Bangs, Ray Farrell (Blast First!) and SY archivist Aaron Mullan in conversation.
Sonic Youth released their sixth album Daydream Nation on October 18,1988. The album was an immediate critical success. Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone that it “presents the definitive American guitar band of the Eighties at the height of its powers and prescience”. Time has not dimmed the album’s lustre: It was selected to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2005, and in 2013 Consequence of Sound declared “the record simply rules.”
In celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary, Sonic Youth, in conjunction with the Hollywood Theatre, filmmaker Lance Bangs, and SY archivist Aaron Mullan, will present a program of Daydream Nation-related films on October 20th. Two are rarely-screened archival pieces from 1989, in brand new restorations. Lance Bangs will also present excerpts from his new concert film of the band performing the album in its entirety in Glasgow in 2007. A few unseen gems from the band’s archives will round out the bill.
Put Blood in the Music 1989 Dir. Charles Atlas (SY Edit): Charles Atlas’s first major recognition came for his work with Merce Cunningham as the company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978-1983. From this pioneering work establishing the field of ‘Dance for Camera”, he went on to make the faux Cinema Verite Hail the New Puritan for BBC4 about the Scottish dancer Michael Clark, featuring music by Glenn Branca, Bruce Gilbert (of Wire), Jeffrey Hinton, and the Fall. Then Atlas was approached by the Irish writer David Donohue, asking him to do a movie about music in New York.
CHARLES ATLAS: This was really the first documentary that I made. For me, I’d done a lot of pieces for television, art pieces. And I knew about the downtown New York music scene, having worked with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Rhys Chatham and also knowing Glenn Branca.
I really wanted it to be green screened and I really wanted to have New York backgrounds, but we didn’t have time to go around shooting against New York backgrounds. So I had separate days to shoot New York backgrounds. I wanted to mix it up, and have it be really visually busy, like New York. A lot of people ended up copying the “interviewees against green-screened backgrounds” idea.
I knew that I was editing it, I wasn’t making it for someone else to edit. So I told the Director of Photography “It’s too boring to have the talking heads static like normal. Just do whatever you want. Make it interesting” and then I had to work with what he did.
I kind of wrote it by editing the clips of the people, which was something I then did in subsequent work. I’ve been criticized for not letting people speak the way they do in documentaries, with pauses. But I still had an American sensibility, even though I was working a lot in Europe, and I wanted things to change. I didn’t want any dead air at all.
We thought of a lot of different people to feature in the documentary, but I really wanted to do people who I thought would do well as television personalities; who would talk about their work in an engaging way. In retrospect it’s really quite star-studded, Hal Wilner and Karen Finley, in addition to the people already mentioned. It was really about downtown art, and the whole downtown music scene, and we just had to choose some people to represent that. I thought it was at a really critical moment for Sonic Youth. We went to great expense to record live performances, because I wouldn’t dare ask them to mime to playback. But then shortly afterward they signed with Geffen and there they were…
It was also the moment before the band had really gotten their press image totally together. Thurston was already like a late-night talk show host, but when they went more mainstream they got that part of their stuff together more. So it was interesting, because it was quite real. And I was quite naïve, in that it was really only later that I realized how complicated band dynamics are.
Daydream Nation Dir. Lance Bangs 2018 Lance Bangs's new Sonic Youth concert film "Daydream Nation" presents the band performing the titular double album in Glasgow on August 21st and 22, 2007. Bangs blends HD footage shot in Glasgow with fragments of personal Super8mm and 16mm from his archives of Sonic Youth over the decades.
Sonic Youth performed “Daydream Nation” in its entirety less than 20 times during a 2007 tour, often at festivals or outdoor venues. This document captures one of the few indoor club performances; a setting SY member Thurston Moore always claimed was the type of venue for which the songs were written. Glasgow had been a great city for the band’s tours, and the live sets shown in the film received a 5 star review in the Guardian.
"Daydream Nation" the film features multitrack audio of this material with a fidelity beyond any 1980's documents, and offers a performance of this material by musicians who are simply more experienced and more adept with their instruments. The joy of the band and the audience are a sight to behold; the band and the fans joined together in celebration of this landmark album (10/10 NME, 10/10 Spin Alternative Record Guide, 5 Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 10.0 in Pitchfork, A from Robert Christgau in The Village Voice) |
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October 24 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening San Francisco, CA New Mission Theatre
Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation
with Steve Shelley, filmmaker Lance Bangs, SY archivist Aaron Mullan and Brian Turner (gimme radio.com) in attendance and conversation
drafthouse.com
Sonic Youth released their sixth album Daydream Nation on October 18,1988. The album was an immediate critical success. Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone that it “presents the definitive American guitar band of the Eighties at the height of its powers and prescience”. Time has not dimmed the album’s lustre: It was selected to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2005, and in 2013 Consequence of Sound declared “the record simply rules.”
In celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary, Sonic Youth, in conjunction with the Hollywood Theatre, filmmaker Lance Bangs, and SY archivist Aaron Mullan, will present a program of Daydream Nation-related films on October 20th. Two are rarely-screened archival pieces from 1989, in brand new restorations. Lance Bangs will also present excerpts from his new concert film of the band performing the album in its entirety in Glasgow in 2007. A few unseen gems from the band’s archives will round out the bill.
Put Blood in the Music 1989 Dir. Charles Atlas (SY Edit): Charles Atlas’s first major recognition came for his work with Merce Cunningham as the company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978-1983. From this pioneering work establishing the field of ‘Dance for Camera”, he went on to make the faux Cinema Verite Hail the New Puritan for BBC4 about the Scottish dancer Michael Clark, featuring music by Glenn Branca, Bruce Gilbert (of Wire), Jeffrey Hinton, and the Fall. Then Atlas was approached by the Irish writer David Donohue, asking him to do a movie about music in New York.
CHARLES ATLAS: This was really the first documentary that I made. For me, I’d done a lot of pieces for television, art pieces. And I knew about the downtown New York music scene, having worked with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Rhys Chatham and also knowing Glenn Branca.
I really wanted it to be green screened and I really wanted to have New York backgrounds, but we didn’t have time to go around shooting against New York backgrounds. So I had separate days to shoot New York backgrounds. I wanted to mix it up, and have it be really visually busy, like New York. A lot of people ended up copying the “interviewees against green-screened backgrounds” idea.
I knew that I was editing it, I wasn’t making it for someone else to edit. So I told the Director of Photography “It’s too boring to have the talking heads static like normal. Just do whatever you want. Make it interesting” and then I had to work with what he did.
I kind of wrote it by editing the clips of the people, which was something I then did in subsequent work. I’ve been criticized for not letting people speak the way they do in documentaries, with pauses. But I still had an American sensibility, even though I was working a lot in Europe, and I wanted things to change. I didn’t want any dead air at all.
We thought of a lot of different people to feature in the documentary, but I really wanted to do people who I thought would do well as television personalities; who would talk about their work in an engaging way. In retrospect it’s really quite star-studded, Hal Wilner and Karen Finley, in addition to the people already mentioned. It was really about downtown art, and the whole downtown music scene, and we just had to choose some people to represent that. I thought it was at a really critical moment for Sonic Youth. We went to great expense to record live performances, because I wouldn’t dare ask them to mime to playback. But then shortly afterward they signed with Geffen and there they were…
It was also the moment before the band had really gotten their press image totally together. Thurston was already like a late-night talk show host, but when they went more mainstream they got that part of their stuff together more. So it was interesting, because it was quite real. And I was quite naïve, in that it was really only later that I realized how complicated band dynamics are.
Daydream Nation Dir. Lance Bangs 2018 Lance Bangs's new Sonic Youth concert film "Daydream Nation" presents the band performing the titular double album in Glasgow on August 21st and 22, 2007. Bangs blends HD footage shot in Glasgow with fragments of personal Super8mm and 16mm from his archives of Sonic Youth over the decades.
Sonic Youth performed “Daydream Nation” in its entirety less than 20 times during a 2007 tour, often at festivals or outdoor venues. This document captures one of the few indoor club performances; a setting SY member Thurston Moore always claimed was the type of venue for which the songs were written. Glasgow had been a great city for the band’s tours, and the live sets shown in the film received a 5 star review in the Guardian.
"Daydream Nation" the film features multitrack audio of this material with a fidelity beyond any 1980's documents, and offers a performance of this material by musicians who are simply more experienced and more adept with their instruments. The joy of the band and the audience are a sight to behold; the band and the fans joined together in celebration of this landmark album (10/10 NME, 10/10 Spin Alternative Record Guide, 5 Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 10.0 in Pitchfork, A from Robert Christgau in The Village Voice) |
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October 26 Spectre Folk Jersey City, NJ - FM Restaurant Bar and Lounge
Dromedary Records presents a pre-Election Day fundraiser for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jess King and Justice Democrats!
Musical performances by Savak, Spectre Folk, and Sunwatchers.
Admission is just $10, and representatives from Justice Democrats will be on hand - sign up for last-minute phonebanking and canvassing.
Doors open at 8, show starts promptly at 9. All proceeds go directly to the candidates. |
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November 2 Thurston Moore Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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November 3 Thurston Moore New Haven, CT - Statehouse
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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November 4 Thurston Moore Greenfield, MA - The Root Cellar
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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November 6 Thurston Moore Philadelphia, PA - Ruba Club
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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Nov 9 - Lee Solo Songs and Stories - Moss, Norway
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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November 9-10 Thurston Moore Minneapolis, MN Walker Arts Center
Thurston Moore: Moore at 60 |
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Nov 10 - Lee Solo Songs and Stories - Tromso, Norway
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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November 11 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Chicago, IL Music Box Theatre w Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley in conversation
Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley in conversation with SY archivist Aaron Mullan |
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Nov 11 - Lee Solo Songs and Stories - Copenhagen, Demmark
Lee will be singing songs, talking, showing videos, doing Q+A. An intimate experience. |
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November 12 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Austin, TX - Alamo Drafthouse- Ritz 7:30pm
with Lance Bangs and Gerard Cosloy in conversation
drafthouse.com |
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November 12 Thurston Moore Chicago, IL - The Art Institute of Chicago SOLD OUT
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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November 13 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Detroit, MI - MOCAD 8pm
with Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley in conversation |
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November 15 Thurston Moore Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere
New Noise Guitar Explorations
Thurston Moore with James Sedwards and Steve Shelley |
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November 18 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMoca 7:30pm SOLD OUT
with Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley in attendance and conversation. |
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November 18 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMoca 4:30pm
w Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley in attendance and conversation
www.ticketfly.com |
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November 19 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Brooklyn, NY - Alamo Drafthouse- Brooklyn 9:30pm SOLD OUT
with Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Lance Bangs and photographer Michael Lavine in attendance and conversation.
drafthouse.com |
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November 19 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Brooklyn, NY - Alamo Drafthouse- Brooklyn 4:30pm SOLD OUT
with Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley in attendance and conversation |
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November 20 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 6pm w Lance Bangs and Steve Shelley in attendance
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November 21 - 30 Years of Daydream Nation screening Atlanta, GA - Plaza Theatre with Lance Bangs, Chad Redford (Creative Loafing) and Steve Shelley in conversation
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November 30 Lee Ranaldo New York, NY - City Winery BOWIE TRIBUTE
Lee is gonna sing STARMAN at this event. |
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December 1 Lee Ranaldo Brooklyn, NY - Murmurr LOVE SPEECH ANTI HATE BENEFIT
Lee will play short set along with many others.
INFO: www.brooklynvegan.com |
| Dec 4th, 2018 (Tue) -- Dec 8th, 2018 (Sat) |
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December 4-8 Thurston Moore New York, NY - The New School's Glass Box Theatre - Stone Residency
12/4 The New School’s Glass Box Theatre New York, NY
12/5 The New School’s Glass Box Theatre New York, NY
12/6 The New School’s Glass Box Theatre New York, NY
12/7 The New School’s Glass Box Theatre New York, NY
12/8 The New School’s Glass Box Theatre New York, NY |
| Dec 8th, 2018 (Sat) -- Dec 9th, 2018 (Sun) |
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December 8-9 30 Years of Daydream Nation movie screening with steve shelley Sao Paulo, Brazil Cine Olido FREE
30 Years of Daydream Nation,
with Steve Shelley and Gustavo Riviera
Date: 8 and 9/12 of 2018
Schedule: 19 pm (Saturday, 8) and 18 pm (Sunday, 9)
Duration: 2
Cine Olido
AV. Saint John, 473
Tickets: FREE, by withdrawing tickets one hour before the session |
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December 21 Lee Ranaldo Brooklyn, NY Union Pool - Electric Trim Trio
Third chance to see my trio in NYC in the last 12 months.
With Raul Refree and Booker Stardrum.
opener TBA |
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