Sonic Boom Concert History

Sonic Boom is the alias of Pete Kember, known first as the singer/guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3, then as the leader of Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research in the '90s, and as a producer (MGMT, Panda Bear) and collaborator (No Joy, Dean & Britta) since then.

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Sonic Boom Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 8)

Date Concert Venue Location
Mar 19, 2010
Sonic Boom / Daddy's Milk Club Academy, Manchester Academy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Feb 27, 2010
The Holloways / Area / Light Scars / Sonic Boom The Leadmill Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Feb 13, 2010
Sonic Boom / Dressed To Kill Club Academy, Manchester Academy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Feb 04, 2010
Sonic Boom / Grooverider / Bailey / The Prototypes Digital Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Jan 15, 2010
Sonic Boom Club Academy, Manchester Academy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Nov 14, 2009
Tom McRae / Sonic Boom / Neil McSweeney / Anna Haigh The Leadmill Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Oct 23, 2009
Sonic Boom Club Academy, Manchester Academy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 03, 2009
Sonic Boom / The Cordels / Minus IQ / Reform / Gurus Club Academy, Manchester Academy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 05, 2009 –
Sep 06, 2009
Offset Festival 2009
The xx / Bombay Bicycle Club / Metronomy / The Jesus and Mary Chain / The Horrors / Gold Panda / Wild Beasts / The Futureheads / Connan Mockasin / Lower Than Atlantis / Danger / Clinic / The Slits / Good Shoes / Maps / Pulled Apart By Horses / Factory Floor / She Keeps Bees / Future of the Left / Dananananaykroyd / Male Bonding / harry james / A Certain Ratio / Your Demise / Arno / S.C.U.M / Turbowolf / Rolo Tomassi / Kap Bambino / Let's Wrestle / Bo Ningen / Mazes / Friendship / Tim Burgess / Fiction / Devil Sold His Soul / D.A.N. / Spectrals / More Than Life / Cheval Sombre / The Ghost of a Thousand / Tubelord / Teeth of the Sea / Gramme / Kong / Sonic Boom / Dead Swans / Die! Die! Die! / The Eyes of a Traitor / Bearsuit / John & Jehn / Damo Suzuki / Hatcham Social / Detachments / Blakfish / Wild Palms / Cold Pumas / Panico / Discipline / The Chapman Family / Shrag / A Grave With No Name / The Fables / Official Secrets Act / Hook & The Twin / Blackhole / Outcry Collective / Ipso Facto / Rinoa / Magnus Betnér / The Plight / Wetdog / Death In Plains / Sian Alice Group / No Bra / Maths / Throats / Stupids / Math Head / Azriel / Ali Renault / Ulterior / Brownies / Kasms / Dead Kids / Tortuga / Daniel Savio / Analog / Electricity In Our Homes / The Ruling Class / Rrr / What Would Jesus Drive / The Brides / Holy State / run,WALK! / Shaped By Fate / The Tupolev Ghost / Gyratory System / Crocus / Berlin Brides / Disconcerts / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Niyi / Attack! Vipers! / C.R.A / Drum Eyes / ROMANCE (UK) / NewIslands / LR Rockets / Quad Throw Salchow / GhostCat / London Blackmarket / Artefacts for Space Travel / The Rayographs / Tommi / Josh Caffe / The Duloks / Tulipomania / Ye Nuns / Sunderbans / Whole Sick / Magic & Fur / Advert / Brontosaurus Chorus / Goodnight and I Wish* / K-tron / Death Cigarettes / Dogshow / Speak and the Spells / Cementimental / Nullifier / Stranger Son Of WB / Teen Sheikhs / Chapter Sweetheart / Douglas Hart / Casper Clark / Devil Man / Easy Hips / Buster Bennett / Fonteyn / Methodist Centre / Daniel Simonsen / Koogaphone / Kap Bambino Dj / Cooks Dj / The Beat Djs / Private Trousers / Paul B Davis / Douglas Hart / Snitch Djs / Chris Flatline / Cheval Sombre Sonic Boom / The Quietus DJs / Hampus Time Dj / David Freedom / Paul St Paul / John and On / Complexxion / miss something / Bob Slayer / Jake Moore / Lekiddo / God Don't Like It Djs / Clash Magazine Djs / K.Wale / Jim Warboy / Smith Tropical / Milan O / Not Shy / Nuke Em All / This Is Music Dj's / SHE SET / Louis Enchante Show all bands
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London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 14, 2009 –
Aug 16, 2009
Dockville Festival 2009
MGMT / Metronomy / Wavves / The Whitest Boy Alive / Black Lips / William Fitzsimmons / HEALTH / Bill Callahan / Patrick Wolf / Turbonegro / Wintersleep / Panteón Rococó / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Miss Li / These New Puritans / Soap&Skin / Good Shoes / Chew Lips / Extrawelt / Bonaparte / Coma / Scroobius Pip / Crystal Antlers / Black Box Revelation / Frittenbude / Element of Crime / Kettcar / Blumentopf / Hundreds / Dan Le Sac / Indian Jewelry / Hjaltalín / Spectrum / Voltaire / Glint / Beat!Beat!Beat! / Turbostaat / We Are Enfant Terrible / Sonic Boom / Beta / Herrenmagazin / Super700 / Mediengruppe Telekommander / DJ Phono / Mikroboy / Vierkanttretlager / The Kabeedies / Locas In Love / Pascal Finkenauer / Dj Mad / Ghost of Tom Joad / Vincent Van Go Go / Jan / I-FIRE / Trashmonkeys / Dennis Lisk / GoldieLocks / Malakoff Kowalski / Goldie Locks / Sprout / Tilman Tausendfreund / Dancing Pigeons / Super 700 / I Am Austin / Junopilot / R.S.S. / JIM PANSEN / Nobelpenner / Fello / Misses Next Match / revolver club / Dan Treacy / Fickscheisse / MIO MYO / Estuar / Xrfarflight / Exits to Freeways / Terrible Eagle / Xochil / Electric Set / Sutsche / Andy Strauss / Raf & Superdefekt / Dancing Pigeons Like Ice Cream / The Haina / Sulaiman Masomi / Ratkat / Fickscheie / marcus carp / The Ricky Kings / Scufx / Pascal Finkenhauer / Same Teens / MOTORBOOTY! Show all bands
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Wilhelmsburg Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 11, 2009
Sonic Boom Casbah San Diego, California, United States
May 08, 2009
Spectrum / Sonic Boom / Abe Vigoda The Echo Los Angeles, California, United States
May 07, 2009
Dora Flood / Sonic Boom / Spectrum / The Entrance Band
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Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California, United States
May 04, 2009
Sonic Boom Doug Fir Lounge Portland, Oregon, United States
May 02, 2009
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Sonic Boom @ Neumos

Neumos Seattle, Washington, United States
Apr 30, 2009
Cheval Sombre / Sonic Boom Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Apr 28, 2009
Spectrum / Sonic Boom / Ghost Box Orchestra / The Broken River Prophet Upstairs, The Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Apr 26, 2009
Spectrum / Sonic Boom / Psychic Ills / Cheval Sombre Mercury Lounge New York, New York, United States
Apr 24, 2009
Sonic Boom Sonar Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Apr 23, 2009
Sonic Boom Kung Fu Necktie Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Fillmore Flyer for SF Street Poles, tags: Robyn Hitchcock, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Boom, Sebadoh, Gig Poster - The Flaming Lips / Robyn Hitchcock / Tim Keegan / Sebadoh / Sonic Boom on Jul 27, 1999 [562-small]

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Jul 27, 1999
 San Francisco, California, United States
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May 10 - 12, 2012
 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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May 10 - 12, 2012
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Latest Setlist (07/03/2026):

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  1. Never givin' in
  2. Edge of the Edge
  3. Graveyard
  4. Go On
  5. Lucky Charm
  6. Gettin' to the Point
  7. Everything's Been Leading to This
  8. A ? of WHEN

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 6 concerts
2025 4 concerts
2024 4 concerts
2023 29 concerts
2022 6 concerts
2021 17 concerts
2020 5 concerts
2019 3 concerts
2018 5 concerts
2017 6 concerts
2016 10 concerts
2015 5 concerts
2014 6 concerts
2013 11 concerts
2012 5 concerts
2011 9 concerts
2010 14 concerts
2009 20 concerts
2008 11 concerts
2007 6 concerts
2004 2 concerts
2002 7 concerts
2001 8 concerts
2000 4 concerts
1999 6 concerts
1996 1 concert
1995 1 concert
1994 1 concert
1993 1 concert
1991 8 concerts
1990 1 concert
1988 1 concert
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