Christmas with Kim and Thurston

Sonic Youth, you say? In Manchester? On New Year's Eve Eve? With the reformed Pop Group in support? Why yes, don't mind if I do. (Even if the line-up for the Hammersmith Apollo the following evening - also featuring Shellac, Factory Floor and a DJ set from Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite - is rather special...)

Naturally, with ticket bought I couldn't resist the urge to cherry-pick some classic footage from YouTube (most notably Kathleen Hanna bouncing along to 'Bull In The Heather', 'Sugar Kane' on Later... and the original video for 'Death Valley '69') and give last year's album The Eternal another blast. And what a damn fine record it really is - genuinely one of their best.