02/05/99 - Nantes, France @ L'Olympic

QUOTES

T: "Hello everybody. We are called The Sonic Youth and we're from New York City and it's a pleasure to be here tonight. In beautiful downtown Nantes."
- She Is Not Alone
T: "Thanks everybody. We're just sort of uh, waking up. We were taking, um, we were drifting...we were drifting earlier and so we're just coming back and so we'd like to, um, it's very important for us to say that we'd like to do this next song called 'Sunday' for you."
- Sunday
T: "Ah thank you very much! K, y'all set? Set? Ready set? Ready set go?"
- French Tickler
T: "Oh merci beaucoup everybody. Okay uh, Mr Ranaldo's gonna rock the boat now."
L: "This is called 'The Eye-Mote'."
- Mote
L: "Thanks!"
K: "Uh, this song's an old song, it's called 'Bull in the Heather'."
- Bull in the Heather
K: "Thanks, thanks a lot."
T: "Alright alright, keep it in your pants! Alright, shut up! Um, this is a song called 'Schizophrenia'."
- Schizophrenia
T: "Merci merci merci."
K: "Okay uh, this song is called 'Female Mechanic Now On Duty'."
- Female Mechanic Now On Duty
- Hoarfrost [w. noise intro]
T: "Um, thank you very much. Alright. [?] Um, this song is called 'Sugar Kane', it goes like this. 1 2 3 4"
- Sugar Kane
T: [after small bit of skronk guitar] "Thanks! I was waiting for the first person to respond, and you were it, so you win."
- The Ineffable Me
T: "If you're gonna make requests you have to e-mail us beforehand. And even then, we only just consider it. I'm just pretending I'm like the guy in Sparks, I'm not really him. [laughing at crowd shouts] I gotta get some boogies out, man. You got a tissue? [laughs] I need a tissue, I've got some major boogage in my nose!"
K: "No I love you!"
T: "I love my record label. And God. Not in that order. Alright, everybody calm down! [laughs] This song is called 'Tom Violence'."
- Tom Violence
- Teen Age Riot
T: "Je t'aime, je t'aime. [someone shouts "you're beautiful!"] Yeah, for Yankees! [laughs] Um, well we'd like to thank everybody for coming out tonight, and we'd also like to thank our friend Keith Rowe, who played music before us tonight. Uh, the gentlemen who was playing guitar. He's a resident, he lives here in Nantes, and uh...excuse me. Yes. Haha. It's a primal thing, isn't it? This is called 'Heather Angel'."
- Heather Angel
K: "Gracias and bonsoir!"
[encore break]
T: "Thanks a lot everybody! Ready?"
- Wildflower Soul
- Death Valley '69 [with 10'00" noise outro including Kim spoken word]

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