Sonic Youth to Play UPenn Spring Fling + Student Reactions

He's alive!

I found this the most offensive by far...

What?

cat power in front of thousands of fraternity douches is pretty much worth the cost of admission alone.

hahahaha!!!

"Who are they?" College freshman Elizabeth Jefferson asked. "I've never heard of them."

Wharton junior Lloyd Thomas said he feels "disappointed," especially considering what some other schools have performing this year.

For example, Snoop Dogg will be headlining Cornell's Slope Day concert and Ben Folds will be playing at Brown's Spring Weekend.

"I think we deserve a bigger name," Thomas said.

hahahahahaha

You're all dumbasses. In 1995, Violent Femmes performed and they were the last good band to perform. I went to Penn 1996-2000 and THERE WERE NO GOOD ACTS. One year the headliner was Maceo Parker, who the f is he? Sonic Youth is a band that was bigger than NIRVANA in the late 80s and a band that KURT COBAIN HAD RESPECT FOR. I know you kids are young but YOU NEED TO GO SEE SONIC YOUTH. THEY ARE AN AMAZING BAND. Take it from an old timer like me, go see sonic youth... a band that preceded the early 90s grunge era.

Also. $70,000? Jesus fucking Christ, that's inflated!

and just so you know, people don't make fun of Penn kids for their pseudo-intellectualism. they make fun of them because they think ivy-leaguers are rich, spoiled brats. which this interesting sentiment, "We deserve better" seems to reflect nicely. maybe Mommy and Daddy can get Jimmy Eat World to play your birthday party, hon. then you won't have to be such a sad little raincloud.

t-bone

with only 30K remaining in their budget, they still need to construct a full stage & rent a sound system, set up fencing and all security related issues. the cost of the stage is probably going to eat up the remaining part of that money, so in order to pay for everything else, they need to use ticket sales. and i wouldnt be surprised if the bands receive a percentage of ticket sales in addition to their guarantees.

i am going to guess that the entire thing will cost in the realm of 100-125K to put on. let's hope about 2,800 students decide to attend this thing in order for them to break even.

maria and djdee completely OTM:
cat power in front of thousands of fraternity douches is pretty much worth the cost of admission alone.
and
This situation seems perfectly set up for me to hate anyone who has a position to argue.

"SPEC Concerts could learn a lot from SPEC Connaissance -- which recently announced Martin Sheen will be speaking at Penn -- about what appeals to students "

so what they could learn is that students like old people, except when they're musicians?

"Go see the show. In 1990, we had Jerry Seinfeld who no one heard of and he was amazing. That year we also had Meatloaf right before his comeback."

or

"I compare them [SY] to Ace-of-Base, an afterthought, almost a novelty act.....and now I hear Dartmouth gets Robert Randolph AND Talib Kwali? I thought we had more pride than that."

College spring shows are so strange. One year at Rutgers, we got Allan Holdsworth opening for the Ramones. But we also got REM's Preconstruction tour my freshman year, and it was all good - even the jocks didn't complain.

NOW don't you almost wish it were snoop dog?! (heehee)

sounds like she may need a date considering:

"I don't have time to go out on Wednesday night and Thursday night like many Penn students," she said.

Personally you couldn't pay me to watch Sonic Youth. I'll definitely be going to the Jimmy Eat World/Taking Back Sunday/The Format show on 4/15 at the Tweeter Center in Camden.

fuck SPEC
Occupation: student
Location: penn

Andy
Occupation: Musician

pissed off
Occupation: student
Location: philadelphia

this may prove amazing.

You don't deserve anything

thing is, the last time i saw SY was when they opened for Wilco at Philly's Festival Pier. there were about 5,000 or so people in attendance, and it was a dead silence throughout SY's set - and they were amazing, not that really anyone noticed!

i guess any FAP plans will be in the Univ. City area, and i'm not all that familiar - it's generally too far west for me. you're from baltimore, right? email me and we'll figure out where you're meeting maria and go from there.

it got moved to the tweeter! because of cat power...and facebook! whoopee!

???

"I wouldn't really say I'm a fan," she said, "I downloaded a Sonic Youth song, but I might not go anymore because getting caught by the RIAA was a big downer. I guess it wasn't hard to find the one person downloading Sonic Youth."

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no, richard-san. i think it's a fascinating sociology capstone project to subject sonic youth to penn undergraduates. i for one am thrilled. throw open the laboratory doors!

i wish they published actual numbers of tickets sold. i'd like to see sonic youth with like 40 other people.

The STA Side stage bands include Felix Sarco, Idiosympathy and Kairos; In addition to the top three winners of the Battle of the Bands which include A.I. Inc, Dragon Slayer, and Tokyo Vertigo.

also from the site: And David is not your average songwriter. He sings with the passion of Howie Day one minute, then the calm ease of Jack Johnson another and is lyrically as capable as either of the two.

* Cocteau Twins/Galaxie 500
* Sonic Youth (not that STP)
* Bauhaus reunion show (the last one before Coachella)
* Melvins
* Rodan/The Grifters
* Royal Trux/Trumans Water/Nothing Painted Blue/Shoe Face
* Unrest/Stereolab/Idaho
* Scrawl
* Poster Children
* Fastbacks
* Tsunami
* Drive Like Jehu/NAPO
* Hazel
* Mike Watt/fIREHOSE (way too many times to mention)
* Bikini Kill/Red Aunts
* Rocket From The Crypt/Red Aunts/Sandy Duncan's Eye
* Foo Fighters/Ween/Jawbreaker

Shows that were cancelled because of potential riots and/or conflicts with finals

* Green Day
* Unwound/Crain

and that's just a part of the top of my head there.

-- donut debonair (do...), April 12th, 2005.

haha I know exactly what you're referring to! on the intro to "The Bedroom"! that's awesome!

Our program board = fucking lazy.

What happened to you guys? Last year we had Liars and Broken Social Scene and this year we had Wolf Eyes and...? [i'm still going]

-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), April 12th, 2005.

which dude? Ness? Chopper?

"wow, man. my school got shit like Maestro Fresh Wes (if you have any idea of who that is, holla)"

*Hollering*

my school too.

Canadian schools just ain't got the cash. i'm shocked at some of what i've seen upthread. the reactions from the Penn State kids is just one more reason to hate the Ivy League. I guess in their defence, the freshmen would have only been 3 years old when SY signed to Geffen, but that's still no excuse!