Before they headed to the Minnesota State Fair last night for a rain-soaked concert with the Magic Numbers and The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth stopped by for a tour of the Walker galleries with Performing Arts curator Philip Bither. The band–Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, and Kim Gordon–has been here before: Gordon gave a talk on Yoko Ono’s influence in 2001; Ranaldo performed in 2004 as part of the group playing a live score for Stan Brakhage’s films in Text of Light; and, most memorable of all, SY headlined Rock the Garden 2000 (with Stereolab and Sunship Sextet). But this time around, they came specifically to see the work of a friend, Cameron Jamie (here they are posing with Jamie’s Kranky Masks). What’d they think of the exhibition? They’ve promised to let me know for a future post or feature in Walker magazine.
At the concert they anounced they were heading to Mickey’s dinner in downtown SP so I guess the got the whole tour of hotspots.
Comment by bryan kennedy — 8/26/2006 @ 11:05 am
That photo is awesome. Their set was pretty good, but it seemed like most of the people came to the show to see the Flaming Lips. Despite that, they rocked out anyway.
Comment by justin — 8/28/2006 @ 9:12 am
[…] Imagine the Langley Schools Project kids in, like 50 years, and you start to get an idea what the senior choir Young@Heart sounds like. Can’t imagine it? Then watch this video of the group performing Sonic Youth’s “Schizophrenia.” (Thanks, Witt.) […]
Pingback by Off Center » Sonic Seniors. — 12/18/2006 @ 1:24 pm
[…] Sonic Youth (who played Rock the Garden 200o and dropped by for a gallery visit last summer) for Rather Ripped 21. Ornette Coleman (who played his 75th-birthday concert here in […]
Pingback by Performing Arts » Pazz & Jop 2006: Minneapolis Connection — 2/8/2007 @ 7:51 am