Sonic Youth Releases Live Recording From 1989 Concert In Ukraine
Proceeds from the recording benefit World Central Kitchen and relief to Ukraine.
By Nate Todd Apr 14, 2022 • 4:01 pm PDT
Sonic Youth released a live recording from a concert in Kyiv, Ukraine on this date in 1989. Proceeds from the recording, available via Bandcamp, will benefit World Central Kitchen and relief to Ukraine.
Following the release of their 1988 album Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth were among the first outside bands to venture into the crumbling Soviet Union as holes began to show in the Iron Curtain. Sonic Youth came to Kyiv on April 14, 1989 and performed a number of songs from Daydream Nation and more.
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Ukrainian-born Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz was in attendance that night and shared his memories of the concert:
That SY Kyiv show was life changing for all musicians that were there… we were already attuned to Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, S Pistols and Discharge but these were the new vitamins we needed. I made a decision to experience NY right there. Plus my friends VV were opening so i got in free. The fact that it wasn’t shut down half way through like all other punk gigs was the doing of a Ukrainian man named Mikhail Gorbachev, who set up the atmosphere of political “springtime” and a promise of change.
Head here to purchase Sonic Youth’s 1989 Ukraine concert benefiting World Central Kitchen and relief to Ukraine.
