Steve Shelley: Banging a drum for Daydream

Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley is in Cork and Dublin this week to talk about one their best albums, writes Noel Baker

Steve Shelley, drummer with Sonic Youth, is chatting down a glitchy phone line about the legacy or otherwise of the band’s classic Daydream Nation album, when he introduces the idea of parenthood. “It’s just another one of our records,” he says with a laugh. “It’s like children — I love them all.”