David
“The Diamond Sea” played at Wellington Town Hall in 1996 could possibly be my single best live musical “moment”. Nothing else was important or relevant in the world for that 20 minutes. The only thing that was mildly annoying about it was a couple of fuckers talking throughout.
It didn’t really matter though, the genius of Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo’s other worldly guitar antics quickly extinguished that distraction and erased the irrelevant.
When they played with J.Mascis in Auckland the following decade, supporting the recently released “Sonic Nurse”, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. J.Mascis was absolutely astounding. The Youth’s played another blinder.
At that Auckland gig Kim Gordon was also the bees knees!
DavidThis album was probably the starting point for me when music shifted from an Anglo-centric template (The Smiths, The Cure, The Bunnymen) to a much richer and wider aural palate and gave me a greater appreciation of American bands.
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DavidThe two live Sonic Youth shows I went to in Wellington in 1995 (with the Foo Fighters) and Auckland in 2004 (with J.
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