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Queen Elizabeth Hall - Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road, SE1, London, UK

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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Tour name: Allen Ginsberg at 100

Doors open: 19:30

Rejoice in the life and work of the American bard at a one-off spectacle with a stellar line-up that’s sure to go down in history as part of the Ginsberg myth.

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Thurston Moore biography

Thurston Moore is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Florida. Born in 1958, Thurston Moore is best known for his involvement with the band Sonic Youth.

Thurston Moore formed the band Sonic Youth with his ex-wife Kim Gordon in 1981. The band released 16 studio albums, with the 1992 album "Dirty" reaching the number one spot on the UK album charts. After multiple successful albums the band split up in 2011.

While performing with Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore also worked on his own solo projects and has released four solo albums between 1995 and 2014: “Psychic Hearts”, “Trees Outside the Academy”, “Demolished Thoughts” and “The Best Day”.

Never one to stop working, Thurston Moore has also released collaborative tracks with a host of other artists including Maryanne Amacher, DJ Spooky, William Hooker, Daniel Carter, Yamantaka Eye, Chris Corsano and Yoko Ono. Moore’s work with Yoko Ono was actually a collaborative project between himself, his wife, Kim Gordon – also a member of Sonic Youth – and Yoko Ono. The album, entitled “Yokokimthurston” was released in 2012.

Moore has also been invited to work on multiple film soundtracks, such as “Backbeat”, “Velvet Goldmine”, “Heavy”, “Bully”, and “Manic”. His work has also been featured in television shows such as “Gossip Girl” and various documentaries.

A lover of the business as well as the art of music making, Thurston Moore owns his own record label where he works with multiple artists. Moore also writes for various magazines and other publications.

Live reviews

Outstanding, unforgettable and the best experience since I met aliens on an interplanetary visit some years ago. From start to finish I was hypnotised. I'm 80 years old and have seen almost every live act imaginable from Led Zeppelin to the Pink Floyd, from Barbara Streisand to The Spice Girls, and this was definitely the best. I encourage everyone to share in this experience :-)

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robin-rimbaud

Thurston Moore gigs tend to come in one of three guises – the acoustically delicate, the wildly experimental, and the comparatively straight ahead and rocking. If he’s in the mood for the first sort of show, you’re as likely to hear stripped back, deftly considered takes on Sonic Youth deep cuts as you are to be treated to the sound of Moore accompanied by full string sections to replicate the luscious sounds of albums like ‘Demolished Thoughts’. If it’s experimental Thurston who turns up, there’s a chance he’ll have brought anyone from Japanese noise terrorist Merzbow to Scandinavian improvisational saxophone player Mats Gustaffson along for the ever cacophonous ride, resulting in a set that’s likely devoid of anything resembling a chorus, melody or even rhythm. That’s a trio of things that do at least feature in the more straight forward of his increasingly diverse gigs, especially when accompanied by his post-Sonic Youth vehicle Chelsea Light Moving, named after the New York removals company started by his heroes Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Thurston Moore can basically do anything he likes with a guitar, the only certainty of his live sets being that you’ll get to see one played in a way few others could even attempt.

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