Sonic Youth need no introduction. Absolutely one of my favorite bands of all time. This photo above was taken when they played Daydream Nation in Melbourne at the Metro. It's not that unusual to see them do a but of guitar porn like this.
However, I do have some bragging rights about the photo below. It was taken at the
Corduroy Records building when
Lee Ronaldo, Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley, and Jim O'Rourke (active member of SY at the time) were invited to record an improvised live-to-acetate recording for
Saucerlike Records. There was a limited release of 800 copies, with the cover art done by Kim Gordon.
The band had just come off the plane, so Kim was too tired to join in. The guys didn't have their own equipment, so they borrowed everything. This is Thurston playing on the recording, using my beloved Japanese guitar, a Suzuki Super-Sounds!
Brendan crowdsurfing!
Western Australia's French Rockets, brought their awesome light show to the Espy as a part of the Summertones gig, put on by the fantastic local label, Mistletone. I was there with my camera snapping away for this Mess+Noise article. However, I thought I'd add a few other images they didn't publish on their site.
The Twerps are a great relatively new band who played down in the Espy's public bar on the day. Julia used to play the awesome guitar lines in Batrider before they parted ways a year or so ago..
Rowland S Howard also has his own entry here on Long Exposure, but I thought Id add another photo from the weekend's gig. He was in fine form.
