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Amy McGarrigle writes...

So the legends that are have just announced a show in Dublin in December. Can't see those tickets hanging around too long!

I was too young for Sonic Youth first time round, but I still remember buying my first Sonic Youth record.

It was on my school trip as a moody, depressed, teenager in Paris. My whole class were in some big music shop on Des Champs-Elysees when I decided to scarper to the darkened corner of indie-land where I found a bargain bin.

It was here that I picked up something what would change my notion of music forever. That something was 'Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr Idols' by Sonic Youth. Having no idea of what was a good or bad Sonic Youth record, I bought the cheap CD expecting something typical of the grunge era.

Grunge, this was not! I think I recall feeling ill the first time I heard the record. It was abrasive, atonal, confrontational and completely alien to my poor fragile ears. I'd only started getting into music in a big way, with my introduction being and so far. This was, without any doubt, completely different.

But I persisted with it and eventually it didn't hurt my head anymore. Soon it made sense and I actually enjoyed listening to it. It may not have been the first of it's kind, but it certainly brought '' to a wider audience, introducing myself to a whole world of new music along the way.

The only downside was, I didn't realise Sonic Youth were anything other than a strange, paranoid, noise band for years. Somebody later tried to convince me Sugar Kane was by the same band. Nonsense I thought...

Legends.