Music

Sonic Youth, Shellac & Factory Floor» 31 December

John Rogers | Thursday 2 December, 2010 21:52

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Hammersmith Apollo | 45 Queen Caroline St., W6 9QH

Forget about house parties and Hootenannies and head over to deepest West London this New Year’s Eve for this stellar ATP party, featuring old hands Sonic Youth and Shellac and bright new talents Factory Floor. Evergreen alt-rock heroes Sonic Youth are in a rich run of form, making some of the best music of their career in recent albums Sonic Nurse and The Eternal. Shellac’s better material might be a bit farther in the past, but their brutal, ferocious live shows simply never disappoint. Factory Floor aren’t built to open for anyone, but their relentless, pounding krautrock-noise-techno is reason in self to attend.

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