Velvet Underground members to reunite at New York Public Library
The closest we might ever get to see a reunion of The Velvet Underground will take place on December 8th at the New York Public Library. There’s no performance planned (or at least one we know of) and a few key members will be missing (namely John Cale) but on that day, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule will unite for an extremely rare joint public appearance to discuss their band’s music and legacy with rock journalist David Fricke as part of the “LIVE from the NYPL” series.
The event will take place in New York City at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Ave. and 42nd St. Tickets sold out minutes after the event was announced, meaning you’ll have to rely on Craigslist from this point on. Either that, or wait for our full recap of the event on the morning following the event.
The reunion, which will essentially mark the first VU appearance since the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, will come on the heels of a new box set, The Velvet Underground Singles 1966–69, and two publications, Rizzoli’s The Velvet Underground: New York Art and Jim DeRogatis’ The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of A Walk on the Wild Side,
i have to say this is the most interesting group of names to comment haha, even chris with his haterade and katie for being cool enough to let it go
Didn’t sell out in minutes, unless you mean more than sixty because I bought them an hour after seeing a twitter post about it.
I checked the NYPL site, you may still be able to get them:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=6084
Thank god. We don’t want pickles or juice anyway.
thats stupid. lou reed hates coachellaz. duh.
Maybe this could point toward a possible Coachella appearance? Oh god that would be amazing…
katie and chris, you are both fucktards.
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Way to be mature. Its not worth my time even arguing with you.
^ at my name
Wow Chris. Wow. Look at you all high and mighty behind your computer….
Thank God. We don’t want people like you there anyway.
I can’t believe I missed getting tickets to this! =/