The Sonics Concert History

The Sonics are a garage rock band formed 1960 in Tacoma, Washington, United States, the band's original members were Gerry Roslie (vocals, piano, organ), Larry Parypa (guitar), Andy Parypa (bass), Rob Lind (saxophone) and Bob Bennett (drums). The band's loud, powerful sound is often considered to be extremely influential on the later psychedelic and punk genres.

The Sonics Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2024) (Page 7)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 08, 2008
Way Out West Festival
"Way Out West Festival" / The Dodos / Franz Ferdinand / Dengue Fever / Sigur Rós / Okkervil River / Yeasayer / Broder Daniel / Buraka Som Sistema / Grinderman / Iron & Wine / Jose Gonzalez / Lightspeed Champion / Mando Diao / The National / Sonic Youth / The Sonics Show all bands
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Slottskogen Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Aug 07, 2008 –
Aug 09, 2008
Way Out West Festival 2008
Franz Ferdinand / The National / Neil Young / Iron & Wine / Fleet Foxes / Sigur Rós / Lykke Li / The Flaming Lips / José González / Kelis / N.E.R.D. / Yeasayer / Four Tet / Lil' Kim / Buzzcocks / Okkervil River / Caesars / The Dodos / Booka Shade / Mando Diao / fanfarlo / HEALTH / No Age / Grinderman / Sonic Youth / A Place To Bury Strangers / Kid Sister / Håkan Hellström / The Sonics / Holy Fuck / Joan As Police Woman / Louis XIV / The Bug / Buraka Som Sistema / Petter / Lightspeed Champion / Dengue Fever / Familjen / The Gutter Twins / Wildbirds & Peacedrums / Looptroop Rockers / Sahara Hotnights / Frida Hyvönen / Scott Matthew / Adam Tensta / The Mae Shi / Andreas Kleerup / Dust / Christian Kjellvander / DaPuntoBeat / Division of Laura Lee / Ingrid Olava / The Night Marchers / Silje Nes / Silverbullit / Dark Meat / I ARE DROID / Ikons / Chords / faca / Kool DJ Dust / A.Human / All Out Dubstep / The High Hats / Kenge Kenge / Henry Fiat's Open Sore / Broder Daniel / Park hotell / les Big Bird / Hederos/Hellberg / Kristofer Åström & Rainaways / Kool Dj Show all bands
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Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Aug 06, 2008 –
Aug 09, 2008
Øya Festival 2008
The National / Diplo / Iron & Wine / Fleet Foxes / Sigur Rós / Lykke Li / José González / Janelle Monáe / Metronomy / N.E.R.D. / Cut Copy / Yeasayer / Mogwai / A-Trak / Girl Talk / The Whitest Boy Alive / My Bloody Valentine / Bigbang / Boys Noize / The Presets / Okkervil River / Fat Freddy's Drop / The Dodos / Jamie Lidell / Ane Brun / Clipse / Booka Shade / Los Campesinos! / Drive-By Truckers / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / HEALTH / Ida Maria / No Age / The Notwist / The Sword / Grinderman / Dirty Pretty Things / Sonic Youth / Claude VonStroke / A Place To Bury Strangers / Kid Sister / Håkan Hellström / The Field / Lindstrøm / The Sonics / Holy Fuck / Turbonegro / Mayhem / El Guincho / Buraka Som Sistema / Lightspeed Champion / Kaizers Orchestra / Dengue Fever / Sunn O))) / Casiokids / The Ocean / The Wave Pictures / Telepathe / The Death Set / Moddi / LA Riots / Konono n°1 / Grand Archives / The Mae Shi / Les Petits Pilous / Howl / The Shining / Raga Rockers / Diskjokke / Stella Mwangi / Keep of Kalessin / Strip Steve / Isis / Ingrid Olava / Coliseum / White Williams / Saviours / Animal Alpha / The Night Marchers / Lukestar / Nisennenmondai / Thom Hell / Rockettothesky / Pilooski / We / Grand Island / Luca C / Supersilent / Best Fwends / Silje Nes / Lars Horntveth / Årabrot / Lama / Jerry Bouthier / The Urges / Elephant9 / THE DiSCiPLiNES / El Cuero / Rumble in Rhodos / Dark Meat / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Yoyoyo Acapulco / Tommy Tokyo / Noxagt / Subsonic / Haust / Gerilja / Pirate Love / Ingeborg Selnes / Sun O / Truls and the Trees / Kenge Kenge / Sigh And Explode / Kung Fu Girls / Original Silence / Philippe Lalanne / Master Piece Of Cake / Fitts For Fight / Tvang / go ahead drink drink / Tore Jazztobakk / diskJokke Band / rampant dogs / iconoclastic / Electric Lane / Roger Grsberg & the Anti-music Bonanza Show all bands
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Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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May 29, 2008 –
May 31, 2008
Primavera Sound Festival 2008
MGMT / Bon Iver / Vampire Weekend / Portishead / Cat Power / Animal Collective / Caribou / Explosions in the Sky / De La Soul / Deerhunter / Public Enemy / Rufus Wainwright / Kavinsky / Dinosaur Jr. / Devo / Dirty Projectors / Simian Mobile Disco / The Cribs / Apparat / Okkervil River / Clipse / The Go! Team / Atlas Sound / fanfarlo / HEALTH / British Sea Power / The Notwist / No Age / Why? / Bill Callahan / Man Man / Nick Lowe / Tindersticks / Menomena / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / El Guincho / The Swell Season / A Place To Bury Strangers / The Sonics / Voxtrot / Sebadoh / My Brightest Diamond / Holy Fuck / Fuck Buttons / Bob Mould / Midnight Juggernauts / Boris / Mount Eerie / The Felice Brothers / The Clientele / Bishop Allen / 808 state / Les Savy Fav / Ellen Allien / Russian Red / Shellac / Autolux / Dr. Octagon / Mission of Burma / The Rumble Strips / Buffalo Tom / Lightspeed Champion / Para One / Holly Golightly / OM / Port O'Brien / The Mary Onettes / The Lions / Surkin / Pissed Jeans / The Wave Pictures / Times New Viking / Throbbing Gristle / Tiefschwarz / Alan Braxe / Digital Mystikz / Young Marble Giants / Manel / Robert Hood / Scout Niblett / Six Organs of Admittance / Polvo / Kelley Stoltz / Edan / Model 500 / DJ Assault / DJ Funk / DM Stith / Messer Chups / Kinski / Enon / Malente / Matt Elliott / Prinzhorn Dance School / Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Shipping News / White Williams / David Thomas Broughton / Eric's Trip / The Devastations / Manos de Topo / Supermayer / Silver Jews / Thomas Brinkmann / Tachenko / Andy Votel / The Right Ons / Träd, Gräs och Stenar / Mi And L'au / MV & EE / Voice of the Seven Woods / Awesome Color / Extraperlo / SJ Esau / The Strange Death of Liberal England / la estrella de david / Tarantula / Graham / Madee / Bob Mould Band / Unchained / Guillamino / Apparat Band / Mary Weiss / Torpedo / It's Not Not / Scarlet's Well / Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt / fasenuova / El Hijo / Clint / El Chico Con La Espina En El Costado / The Marzipan Man / Vortice / DJ Supermarkt / Moho / Mv & Ee With the Golden Road / Morente And Lagartija Nick / Les Aus / Dj Shir Khan / Le Petit Ramon / Gentle Music Men / Subterranean Kids / april fool's day / Grande-Marlaska / Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter / Le pianc / The Missing Leech / Juan B / Abrevadero / Bélmez / La Orquesta Del Caballo Ganador / DjCoCo / Ary Weiss of the Shangri-las / Edan & MC Dagha / Tarntula / DJ De Mierda / Twin Kranes / Bèstia Ferida Show all bands
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Mar 21, 2008
The Sonics / The Jaybirds / The Good Time Charlies
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The Forum London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 02, 2007
"CaveStomp" / The Sonics / The Strawberry Alarm Clock / The New Colony Six / The Thanes / The Fleshtones

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Warsaw New York, New York, United States
Apr 20, 1965
The Beach Boys / The Sonics / The Nebulas
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State Armory Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016 on Nov 4, 2016 [030-small]

Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Rolling Stone Weekender 2016
Nov 4 - 5, 2016
 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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Apr 22, 2012
 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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The Sonics / The McCharmlys
Apr 13, 2024
 San Francisco, California, United States
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Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters / The Sonics on Sep 20, 2015 [084-small]

Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters / The Sonics
Sep 20, 2015
 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Genres:

Rock
Punk
Psychedelic Rock
Garage Rock
Garage
Classic Garage Rock
Punk Blues
Protopunk
Freakbeat
Proto-Punk
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Latest Setlist (02/04/2018):

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  1. Cinderella
  2. Shot Down
  3. C'mon Everybody
  4. Sugaree
  5. Have Love, Will Travel
  6. Be a Woman
  7. Get in the Car
  8. You've Got Your Head on Backwards
  9. Lucille
  10. Louie Louie
  11. Boss Hoss
  12. I'm Going Home
  13. Money (That's What I Want)
  14. Keep A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
  15. He's Waitin'
  16. Dirty Robber
  17. Psycho
  18. I Don't Need No Doctor
  19. Strychnine
  20. The Witch

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Concerts Per Year:

2024 3 concerts
2023 3 concerts
2018 8 concerts
2017 15 concerts
2016 28 concerts
2015 22 concerts
2014 8 concerts
2013 6 concerts
2012 6 concerts
2011 5 concerts
2010 5 concerts
2009 7 concerts
2008 9 concerts
2007 1 concert
1965 1 concert

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has The Sonics had?

The Sonics has had 127 concerts.

What genre is The Sonics?

The Sonics is most often considered to be Rock, Punk, Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock, Garage, Classic Garage Rock, Punk Blues, Protopunk, Freakbeat, and Proto-Punk.

When is the next The Sonics concert?

The next The Sonics concert is on August 16, 2024 at Echoplex in Los Angeles, California, United States.

When was the last The Sonics concert?

The last The Sonics concert was on April 13, 2024 at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, United States. The bands that performed were: The Sonics / The McCharmlys.

What setlist does The Sonics play live?

The songs that The Sonics performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the February 04, 2018 concert at Lido in Berlin, Berlin, Germany:

  1. Cinderella
  2. Shot Down
  3. C'mon Everybody
  4. Sugaree
  5. Have Love, Will Travel
  6. Be a Woman
  7. Get in the Car
  8. You've Got Your Head on Backwards
  9. Lucille
  10. Louie Louie
  11. Boss Hoss
  12. I'm Going Home
  13. Money (That's What I Want)
  14. Keep A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
  15. He's Waitin'
  16. Dirty Robber
  17. Psycho
  18. I Don't Need No Doctor
  19. Strychnine
  20. The Witch

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