HMH show - the afterpartythread

[lloyd]

What a fabfreakingtasticmothermover of a show!
First of all we had a great meeting with some fellow dirties at the cafe next to the HMH, all nice people of whom some travelled 13 hours by train from Poland to see the show. Not that flying in from the UK or even NY is 'crazycrazycrazy'... But driving 13 hours by train.. my goth! Meeting details in the thread about it.

The show.
After darren DJ'ed, Blackstrobe came on stage and played an interesting concert. Some of the tracks were good, some nice. It wasn't my stuff really, rythms and the used synth sounds didn't differ enough per track. But the BASS was loud and banging :) Always good!

Darren spun some nice tracks again and around 9pm rick and karl came on stage to do some last tweaks and let the first track flow over the track darren was spinning.
The rest was one flow of energy, tweaked tracks, improvs and everything we love about Underworld. Precise tracklist I'll leave to other people as I'm already lost. But, we got a super-extended-Uber-long version of KoS which was brilliant. Juanita was played! Not only Rick sang but also Darren. Darren sang through the vocoder over a great track which has Dub influences. The 'visions' song is great played live and also the track with the DnB/triphop rythm went down well with the dutch crowd.
Ofcourse Born Slippy was welcomed by a roaring crowd, it was mixed in after a very good improv. The people did remember Push Upstairs very well and got them moving and shouting and singing. There was another new track, very slow and had interesting lyrics, it sounded like it was made for a movie. After a hot, steaming 1:45 flow of energy it was over and the crowd gave them a long and very loud applause. After a couple of minutes they were back on stage to play Jumbo.
Then it was really over, Karl told us that the vibe was to good to stop but 'Vibe-police' wouldn't allow anymore.
With a little trouble we met with all our friends again, waited for some time at the artist door but had to leave for trains and metros before they came out.
Super concert! Thanks boys and all the people we/I met today!

[Jason Roth]

All I can say is, wow.

First of all, thank you to all the other dirties that I met, for turning my solo journey into a full on group effort. It was an unforgettable night.

The show - it can be broken down into two distinct parts. The first hour was mixed together - like a club gig. Brilliant song selection, a few new ones, a few old ones. Including Juanita/Kiteless, which I had never heard live before this gig. The second hour was played song by song, with breaks in between. Different, but fantastic none the less. Yes, you could tell that the boys had one more in them, but were constrained by the clock. All of this done in the HMH, which is an amazing venue - great acoustics and plenty of room to dance.

Now it's 3.40, and I must be getting to bed.

Cheers

[big screen satellite]

sounds like you all had a great evening...i wish i was there...

not sure if you know but as far as i could see there were NO webcasts of this so i didn't get any recordings :(


i'm not sure if anyone else did manage to

[King of Snake]

It was great, more full report later.

[King of Snake]

tracklisting (as I remember it):

01 new track
02 improv
03 juanita
04 pearl's girl
05 improv
06 BS Nuxx/2003
07 new track
08 Push Upstairs
09 new track
10 King of Snake
11 Cowgirl/Rez
12 Jumbo

could be slight difference in the order played but that's about it. They played three new tracks, including the vision/drum 'n bass track. The other two were much slower, laid back pieces. They played Juanita!! That was very cool, although I missed that synth sound which starts of live juanita on EE or bootlegs like ECG. This was more of a straight album version although mixed very nicely with the opening track.
Surprisingly, nothing at all was played from AHDO.
Sound was good, although at some points, especially the BF tracks later on in the show, I kinda missed the punch of the kickdrum, as if it wasn't quite loud enough in the mix. The visuals weren't really interesting, they use a few camera's on stage to capture grainy nightvision footage of the band and audience and play it with a few effects on it. And there was no video for most of the show anyway. Bring back the Tomato video's!!!
I really loved the first half of the show, because it of juanita and the fact that it was all mixed together and improvised like it should be. The second half was not quite as good, playing all the standard tracks with pauses in between (of course there were the new tracks which kept things interesting). Rez was played very short, almost like an outtro to cowgirl only it seemed. It was still a great show though, probably the best one I've seen so far.

[irishboy]

[QUOTE=King of Snake]tracklisting (as I remember it):

01 new track
02 improv
03 juanita
04 pearl's girl
05 improv
06 BS Nuxx/2003
07 new track
08 Push Upstairs
09 new track
10 King of Snake
11 Jumbo

QUOTE]

wow - no moaner to close, must be a while since that's happened. looks like a solid set - strange that there was no TMO at the very least from AHDO. Sound like a great gig from the reports though - roll on August 20th!!!!! :)

[sole_fellow]

i'd like to add how great it was to finally meet up with so many dirties/rtsr's after all these years. we had a big group of about 20 before the show!

this was also my first uw show, and it was everything i could want it to be. the new tracks were different but personally i really liked them, esp the dnb/trip-hop beats.

i'll let you know when i've sorted all my photos/video - hopefully be online in the next few days.

mike

[DwarfeD]

Awesome!!!

Really enjoyed the show. Loved the new track they started with! Also the KoS-version they played was excellent, heard some parts of the version they put online on underworldlive.com, great!!

It was a wonderful evening! I hope 3voor12 (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/festivals/media/index.jsp?portal=2534202&event=22956363) will put some content online, they already did with the concerts of 13 & 14 Juli from the 05 Days Off-festival :)

[Techno_Bunny]

it was great :D marvelous!! :D
pity Mojo was in between us and the band ;) we tried though!
It was absolutely beautiful to meet every one and see all those happy faces around me during the gig.
the new trakcs are brilliant and seem to fit right in, can't wait to hear more!
what really blew me out of my socks was hearing Rick sing, he has an amzing voice!!! Hope to hear it much more often...

take care every one, have a good flight/journey back home
:)

[potatobroth]

01 new track
02 improv
03 juanita
04 pearl's girl
05 improv
06 BS Nuxx/2003
07 new track
08 Push Upstairs
09 new track
10 King of Snake
11 Jumbo


wow! sounds awesome everyone. i bet there were more than a few people in the crowd pissed that TMO wasnt played. (i have a bunch of friends here at my job who have just gotten into UW and would be mortified if TMO wasnt played at a show they went to)

[Eikman]

yeah, it's really funny to see that they don't play any song from AHDO on this tour...

[King of Snake]

updated the setlist: they played Cowgirl/Rez as well.

[DwarfeD]

Had my YouBringLightIn-shirt on, 4 nothing... ;)

[holden]

01 new track
02 improv
03 juanita
04 pearl's girl
05 improv
06 BS Nuxx/2003
07 new track
08 Push Upstairs
09 new track
10 King of Snake
11 Jumbo


That's a fine setlist, to be sure! Sounds like those who attended got treated to lots of new material and jams. It'll be interesting to see how this changes during the tour...will TMO be added? Will NUXX be dropped from the set?;) :p

[stimpee]

That's a fine setlist, to be sure! Sounds like those who attended got treated to lots of new material and jams. It'll be interesting to see how this changes during the tour...will TMO be added? Will NUXX be dropped from the set?;) :p
They played TMO in Poland at least. We also didnt get Dark Train like they did. And of course we didnt get Moaner because of the time limit, but i was happy anyway :) Looks like they are still experimenting.

[Raz]

Just got back to the UK. Big shout out to all the dirts who made it to the meet, great to see you all.

It was my first gig and won't be the last :D

[Dirty0900]

Good to see some solid reviews, man i'm so exicited for global gathering! Seeing they've got some time off, maybe they'll tinker around he set for the other shows to keep us all guessing.

[DarkStar]

Hello Dirties,

I put us on Flickr, for the other members to see!

Dirty Meeting at Jinso outside HMH before Underworld show. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/71158126@N00/)

It was a great show! Nice entry into the show to hang out with the dirties from all corners of the Earth, It was a great positive atmosphere in the HMH, you could tell there were FANS! At the festival Impulz where I once saw them they played great, but not as intense a sphere as Sunday night!

I thought the dancing of Karl was also spectacular! The lighting played an important role! Hihi,

No doubt a unique show, nice to hear new and known songs. After party? Can't complain as we were dancing, getting home we were lucky to find a taxi, so sory we lost you dirties during the show, we were right of the stage pretty close to Underworld.

Lets hope they keep touring and come back to the Netherlands soon! I Love Techno, Gent would also be good if they played.

[lloyd]

Great, thnx for the pix. Yeah, I saw a few show till now but never saw Karl dance as much and intense as this time :)
I don't know about the back of the venue but the roaring applause and cheers in front of the stage were massive :D

[stimpee]

I uploaded some pics too. Go look (http://ugly.blerp.org/~stimpee/UW/UWHMH/index.html)!

[Domel]

BIG SHOUT TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE DIRTY TEAM we meet
peace and love 4 everyone from amsterdam Poland camipng fellas
...what a night co za dzieñ

Do zobaczenia na nastepnym koncercie
See you on the next concert

[Techno_Bunny]

Hi Domel!

it was so nice to meet you all the people from Poland!

peace and love to you too :)

[lloyd]

Hee Domel :)
I hope you and your friends had a great time in Amsterdam, we sure did! Pity you arrived so tired after the train travel else we could have talked more. Man, did your friends that came to the cafe look sleepy! ;)
Good that the concert was this great and made the 13 hours of travel more then worth while!

[undarrenworld]

That's a fine setlist, to be sure! Sounds like those who attended got treated to lots of new material and jams. It'll be interesting to see how this changes during the tour...will TMO be added? Will NUXX be dropped from the set?;) :p


TMO was played 13.7. in Prague.

[undarrenworld]

It was my first gig and won't be the last :D

Thats for sure, i agree...:D ;)

[lloyd]

a 'not so good (http://www.oor.nl/news_details.asp?id=2080)' review in dutch of what till today was my favorite musicmagazine.
I think the reviewer didn't get enough free drinks at the VIP bar or something.

[stefan]

hey peeps,

I'm new here, though I've been following underworld for quite a while. I also went to this show (I won a passepartout to the whole festival on 3FM). Great show, though not the best Underworld I've seen. I can remember em playing in the Alpha tent on Lowlands once, which was right before or right after the release of Everything, Everything I think. That show was ROCKING. Anyway, this one was definately good, I enjoyed it a lot.

I made some pictures, though I was quite late so couldn't really get a good spot for pics. Three of them were OK enough to put online: on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skoop/tags/underworld/)

Enjoy :)

[lloyd]

Welcome stefan :)
Lowlands 2000 was great too yes.
Thanks for the pictures

[Camiel]

a 'not so good (http://www.oor.nl/news_details.asp?id=2080)' review in dutch of what till today was my favorite musicmagazine.
I think the reviewer didn't get enough free drinks at the VIP bar or something.

What a wanker.

[King of Snake]

Hahaha, nice reaction you wrote on the OOR site lloyd :D

[Rel]

Another newcomer to the forum here. :)
Been following Underworld for a few years now, but somehow never saw them live before last Sunday, and now I kick myself for not making a bigger effort to see them at earlier occasions.

In any case, the show was fantastic, and they performed all my absolute favourites: Juanita, Rez/Cowgirl...

Next time they're even marginally in the vicinity I'll be there again!

[lloyd]

Hahaha, nice reaction you wrote on the OOR site lloyd :D

Well, a bad review is one thing, somebody could not like it. But this review is just spilling paper/webspace.

[Shevek]

Hello!

My account is finally activated so time for my reply!

Great Great show! Not as good as Rock Werchter, but that is because I don't know the new songs that well so you more or less stand still and try to get into them and I have to say that I quite liked the slower ones and especially the opening track! I thought they should have played another encore and I was realy hoping for MoMove or Luetin or something. Thankfully an up tempo version of Jumbo made everything allright and I was delighted by Juanita/Kiteless. :cool:

Just to watch Karl dance on stage is such a joy in itself as well. Makes me smile big time! Fuck them OOR reviewers cos they obviously don't know shit! It was very crowded and I couldn't swing my arms around me as much as I wanted to, and normally I hate that when I constantly feel people's elbows against me but it wasn't THAT packed! And if you are all in trance of the music it doesn't matter anyways.

The visuals weren't very interesting though, but I think they were just trying to experiment with this gig a bit and focus more on the music and not aiming to please sad reviewers by playing a greatest hits setlist which they already did at Rock Werchter, so I was personally glad for more experimental and newer stuff. I'm glad they played slower songs like Jumbo, and the one they played before Cowgirl (can't remember if that was the Vision song or not)
One day I hope to hear the full version of Cups or SolaSistim live, cos that would be godlike! I'm sure that when the new album is released, they will be performing more structured and more bombastic or ...<fill in a ''reviewer language'' adjective>... show.

Had a damned good time! Wonderful and friendly atmosphere created by the whole crowd! I am looking forward to the new album and another show!

Also: Stimpee, thanks for complimenting my ''I need sugar'' shirt. Your self-made ''Luetin'' shirt is cooler though!
Also respect for Jason for coming all the way from New York. Thanks for the short chat and nice to meet you both!

:)

[stimpee]

Hello!
My account is finally activated so time for my reply!
Also: Stimpee, thanks for complimenting my ''I need sugar'' shirt. Your self-made ''Luetin'' shirt is cooler though!
Also respect for Jason for coming all the way from New York. Thanks for the short chat and nice to meet you both! :)

yeah, sorry that we didnt have time to talk longer but you did say you were on Dirty. Nice to meet you anyway! I didnt think those Somerset House t-shirts were available online as I got mine when i went to the gigs (yes, both of em :D). My Luetin one was based on the t-shirts UW did for the Japanese dates at the end of 2003, only with www.dirty.org on the back instead of the dates in the same style as the Somerset House info. Many thanks to Yannick for the scans of this rare t-shirt!

[Shevek]

I was quite surpirsed to find the shirt online as well. It was the only one available online at that time together with the blank shirt for which you have to iron all those words and letters on it yourself. when I ordered it, I didn't even noticed the Somerset House data on the back. Just thought I buy it ASAP for they might run out and so they did I think.

I uploaded some pics too. Go look (http://ugly.blerp.org/~stimpee/UW/UWHMH/index.html)!

Great photos!! And I'm on this one --> Pic 09-Dirts in the crowd :D

Guy in the dark shirt behind the guy in the red shirt with his arm in the air. I look mightily tall compared to the two little girls in front of me or were they crouching :confused: :p

[stimpee]

Great photos!! And I'm on this one --> Pic 09-Dirts in the crowd :D
Guy in the dark shirt behind the guy in the red shirt with his arm in the air. I look mightily tall compared to the two little girls in front of him or were they crouching :confused: :p

hah! thats King Of Snake in the red, Geo in front of him, and Raz in front of him! you were right there :) KoS got pushed back after a while and i brought him back forward so the girls could probably see again after that!

[King of Snake]

hehe, yeah looks like you were right behind me :)

[Jurton]

very good show indeed!

[Geo]

my pictures here: http://users.telenet.be/geospot/dirtymeeting/ :)

It was an awesome weekend :)

Met up with Raz and Janie Sunday-afternoon, had a drink in this Irish pub underneath our hotel, with King of Snake!

After that we went by Metro to Jinso!!
Great meeting it was, more and more people kept on joining our table :D

The gig was fantastic, I had a GREAT time.
The sound was fantastic, but the visuals were a bit lame.
I don't expect Chems-like things, but it could have been a bit better..

It was great to see you all!!!

[Techno_Bunny]

i liked the visuals!!!!
it was fun watching Karl play with the visual-thingie :D

[sanblaster]

Those tees are teh s3xx.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Amazing amazing gig - first time I have seen UW for nearly 10 years. Won't be waiting so long next time.

Kisses to all Dirts - we had a fab meet before hand which just made the gig a thousand times more fun, being together.

Can't wait til the next one :D

[Daeron]

Ik moet zeggen, het is voor het eerst dat ik deze gasten live heb gezien, en wanneer ze weer komen ga ik dat zeker weer doen, ben helemaal uit m'n pan gegaan en dat is tot nu toe alleen bij Sonic Youth geweest, jaren terug in Eindhoven. Ben niet bepaald thuis in de "dance" muziek, met uitzondering van Underworld en Orbital welke ik wel zeer regelmatig luister, als tegenhanger van de gitaarherrie zeg maar. Ik ben het ook absoluut niet eens met de Oor rencensie, wat een stelletje zeikstralen, aldus.

Mocht iemand nog intresse hebben in nog wat pics, ook ik heb een Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/daeronlossehelin/) site waar wat pics van het optreden op staan

And for those of you who can't read dutch, They were awesome!!
sorry, don't want to typ it again all over, didn't realize almost everything was in English

[King of Snake]

Ik moet zeggen, het is voor het eerst dat ik deze gasten live heb gezien, en wanneer ze weer komen ga ik dat zeker weer doen, ben helemaal uit m'n pan gegaan en dat is tot nu toe alleen bij Sonic Youth geweest, jaren terug in Eindhoven. Ben niet bepaald thuis in de "dance" muziek, met uitzondering van Underworld en Orbital welke ik wel zeer regelmatig luister, als tegenhanger van de gitaarherrie zeg maar. Ik ben het ook absoluut niet eens met de Oor rencensie, wat een stelletje zeikstralen, aldus.

Mocht iemand nog intresse hebben in nog wat pics, ook ik heb een Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/daeronlossehelin/) site waar wat pics van het optreden op staan

And for those of you who can't read dutch, They were awesome!!
sorry, don't want to typ it again all over, didn't realize almost everything was in English

hehehe, well there's a lot of us dutchies here, but it IS the internet and we're a pretty international group here. So yes english is best :)
Glad you enjoyed it anyway!

[stimpee]

heh. ive seen Sonic Youth too and they really know how to put on a show. Lee Ronaldo plays that guitar like a violin (sometimes with a drum stick!)... Or was it Thurston Moore... anyway, Underworld are a different animal and im glad you enjoyed it and made the effort to register and share your experiences and photos. Please dont let this be your only post.

[Shevek]

Great pics Daeron thanks! I'm no dance music fanatic either, though I love to dance and go to raves such as Awakenings, but Underworld are on a different plane in that genre of course.

Did you see Sonic Youth at the Paradiso last year? Pretty fantastic show! Half an hour noise jam as an encore with all sorts of stuff they used on their guitar to create sounds! :cool:

[Daeron]

Have seen Sonic Youth 2 times now, Tivoli-Utrecht and Eindhoven ( philipszaal?), both of them great shows, hypnotic but in a whole different way then UW ofcourse. These shows both were a few years ago, lately seem to miss them everytime.

I hope you enjoyed the pics me and my buddy took from UW. He also took 2 short movies with his camera from 'Pearl Girl' and ' Born Slippy'. it's not the best quality but it gives a real good sence of the atmosphere last sunday. If you are intrested you can check them out here (http://www.daeron.hjhosting.nl/) They take a while to download, just be patient. ;)

[jimbob]

All I can say is wow, what a show! The crowd at HMH were ace very cool people and very friendly! The party then seemed to carry on, on the first floor! (what was all that about? and how long did it go on for?) we were really up for it but had to get the train back to town, :( So being still in the mood to party we went to Melkweg in the Leidseplein, big wow, fantastic club and crowd! Micheal Mayer was there, truly amazing set might I add he had the crowd going bonkers check out his set, well worth a listen. http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/archief/index.jsp?showme=dj-sets. Those dutch sure know how to party..........Hard! I had an amazing weekend in Amsterdam, a huge shout out to Dutch clubbers and a thank you for their hospitality, I have never had a weekend like it, cant wait to go back!

[Geo]

I put my videoclips into one compilation :)

It includes the dirtymeeting, and Kenny Penne with Karl and his infrared-camera:

http://users.telenet.be/geo/Underworld%20at%20HMH.WMV

Click it left to stream it.

Enjoy :)

[Daeron]

Great clip Geo!! :D

[spoonman]

I enjoyed :)
Thanks Geo =)

[lloyd]

And there we are! In the left bottom corner.
We had a great night as you can see ;)

[Shevek]

Great clip indeed!

Couldn't view yours Daeron. Can't read any .qt files alas.

Ah man I need another gig!

*bounces*

[Camiel]

Hahaha, great that Karl mentions Jason.

[Shevek]

And there we are! In the left bottom corner.
We had a great night as you can see ;)

Amazing pic! :cool:

I envy Mr. Roth even more now!!!

[King of Snake]

"sorry to all dirts who waited for us outside to come out"

Ok Karl, apology accepted. Next time we expect you to be there though! :D

[BeautifulBurnout]

"sorry to all dirts who waited for us outside to come out"

Ok Karl, apology accepted. Next time we expect you to be there though! :D

Yep!

With tea and biscuits, too!

[King of Snake]

btw, your sig...did he really say that? :)

[lloyd]

Rock concert movement #100
Impress the audience with a nice microstand juggle

(free to Blueman groups rockmovements guide)

[Raz]

btw, your sig...did he really say that? :)

Yep.

0123456789

[Daeron]

Great clip indeed!

Couldn't view yours Daeron. Can't read any .qt files alas.

Ah man I need another gig!

*bounces*

Better yet, get a Mac, like Underworld, saw a new iMac and a iBook standing on their desk , these guys have taste and dont want a gig to get screwed by XP hahahaha :D :D

[stimpee]

check out the chick, checking out my ass!

why didnt anyone tell me? i could have been in there!

[lloyd]

Who was holding up a mirror then?
She was watching you showing off the T, maybe..
It looks like she was watching just pass you tho ;)

[stimpee]

jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins my friend.

[Daeron]

To me, it looks like she is looking hopefully @ your beer, sorry dude :p

[lloyd]

Ah good!
I collect those

[Jason Roth]

Finally back in New York - so many good memories. Thanks again to all of you, and especially to lloyd for getting the tickets. I'm sure we'll be seeing each other somewhere down the line.

[lloyd]

Your welcome :)

[BeautifulBurnout]

check out the chick, checking out my ass!

why didnt anyone tell me? i could have been in there!

What ass? ;)

[BeautifulBurnout]

Finally back in New York - so many good memories. Thanks again to all of you, and especially to lloyd for getting the tickets. I'm sure we'll be seeing each other somewhere down the line.

T'was great to meet you. Come over for I Love Techno in November :D

[DarkStar]

Hey Dirties,

Nice to see the other pictures of the show and the meeting! Video footage is awesome, brings me right back in the sphere of a spectacular night!

Greetings all!

[King of Snake]

greetings to you too! Another dutchie then? :)

[sanblaster]

check out the chick, checking out my ass!

why didnt anyone tell me? i could have been in there!




A fit bird!