Yo La Tengo roll call

Sonar tomorrow?

its an early show. doors at 7pm. probably puts YLT on around 8:30-9.

the Rapture is the late show, they say main room opens back up at 11:45pm. figure, YLT ending by 10:45, to give em an hour to clean up.

i plan on buying tickets at the door, and i expect rosebuds around 7:30pm, YLT around 8:30pm


see you clowns there!

Wish I could (so you can call me sweetie…) but Baltimore is too far for most of us. I guess i'm going to Jonathan Richman tomorrow.

I'd love to catch both shows, but I'm already heading up to Baltimore on Saturday for an engagement party, and two trips up north in one question isn't in the cards.

joe: HANDS OFF MY SONICK

ROTFLOL! :D

I feel I have a fairly ambitious schedule upcoming…

Friday - Yo La Tengo @Sonar
Saturday - Plug Independent Music Awards (Stephen Malkmus/Silversun Pickups/Deerhoof/Tokyo Police Club) @Irving Plaza in NY
Monday - Thunderbirds Are Now @Rock N Roll Hotel

… So bummed,
I'm stuck in Florida. Wish they were here.
So bummed, I'm stuck in Florida… pass me a beer.

I'll be there! Look for me with the 3 other guys that look kind of like me.

cool! well,i dont know what you look like, but i'll look for 4 similar looking guys, hanging together. :)

I wish I could go, but I'm sticking around the burbs tonight since I was travelling all last week. Have fun!

I'm finally listening to the Rosebuds' most recent LP, I really like what I've heard. Good stuff! Looking foward to seeing them.

On the whole, a disappointing show. The majority of the audience were a bunch of rude assholes, and the PA sucked. To all of the jerks who were shushing back and forth during the quiet songs, next time stay at home and get drunk and don't ruin the show for everyone else. And as for the person that booed Georgia, hope that you'll grow up and learn some manners. It was clear that the band were disgusted, and I can't blame them. It ruined what could have been a great show. I wouldn't be surprised if they skip playing in Baltimore for a while.

That has always been my experience at Sonar. Horrible horrible venue.

After last night I have to say I'd think twice about going back there. You could tell that YLT weren't happy with the sound and the audience.

i have to admit i had a different experience with the show. i was a bit closer and didnt hear all of the shushers. but there was a good deal of talkers in the crowd. i must have missed the booing too. i thought they played well, not really my favourite band or anything though.

i have noticed that, and not just at Sonar, friday night shows always seem to have a lot more assholes in attendance than other nights.

That has always been my experience at Sonar. Horrible horrible venue.

I experienced the same at the BT/Thomas Dolby show last December. I don't see the point in paying for a ticket just so one can talk and drink through an entire show when admittance to bars is generally free.

Actually, I've never attended a show in Baltimore where this -didn't- happen. It's not strictly a Sonar phenomenon.

unlike where in DC i have actually been shushed BETWEEN bands once.

Unfortunately, I wasn't there but I'm confused. So what's the difference between the rude audience noise between that at Sonar as oppossed to that at the Black Cat? Other than maybe that those in Baltimore might have had more balls to tell the talkers to shut the fuck up. At least, that's how it's coming off in this thread. But like I said, I wasn't there but have often been totally annoyed by the rudeness of the crowd in many other venues. The one exception has been at The Warehouse Next Door which tends to draw a lot more very serious music fans who seem to know how to behave in public. I don't get out to shows much in Baltimore but from those I've been to, I don't see a whole heck of a lot of difference other than that Baltimore's tends to be just a bit younger over all.

maybe DC people are just so grumpy from having the drive all the way up to baltimore for a show, that they are much more easily agitated.

:)

Naw…I can handle some banter and audience noise, but the people on Friday were just deliberately rude. When the band has to ask the audience to quiet down, you know that they're loud. Friday's show mirrored the Low show I saw at the Black Cat 2 years ago. So yes Jaguar, maybe it was like experiences you've had there.