Tour News 2007

[lloyd]

2 days until the first concert of the new tour.

http://www.efespilsenonelove.com/

Can anybody who reads turkish check the sponsor links if there'll be webstreams? 'Dream' looks like webtv and 'number one' like webradio.

People who are going to attend this and other concerts, have fun and report back here with reviews and pix. And find those newspaper and/or web-reviews and link them here.
ThNx

[lloyd]

Second concert june 16th

http://www.ejekt.gr/

[sanakan]

Can anybody who reads turkish check the sponsor links if there'll be webstreams? 'Dream' looks like webtv and 'number one' like webradio.
I've asked a friend of mine to check, but he didn't fine anything.

- dream tv is kind of like MTV, but he found nothing in their program schedule.
- number one didn't have a program schedule online, though it is a radio and tv station that put their streams online.

[lloyd]

thnx

Tomorrow they're playing in a baseball parc in Athens, Greece.
Mediapartners there are:
http://www.rockradio.gr
http://www.mad.tv
http://www.mad.tv/madradio/

Festival poster http://entash.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/heineken_ejekt_2007.jpg

[rudydaduck]

Anyone at the show in Turkey with any kind of info -- setlist, review -- please let us know. Dying to know what was played and how it sounded.

Shapes you know. Vibrations. Smells. We're all cave bats around here until the new record gives us light.

[Rog]

kebabstyle:D

[lloyd]

first pic I found
http://www.herseysimdibasliyor.com/photo/HSB0706161468BIZ420B.jpg

[rudydaduck]

Holy crap! That's amazing.

[Troy McClure]

So I was antsy to see if any videos were up on YouTube from the current tour, and it seemed that the Eject Festival was shutdown before Underworld got to play? Hope that wasn't the case.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uEx8XdBrp7Y

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gQbRIpXpTVI

[TheBang]

Wow, are those giant inflatable tubes or something?

And those videos from Greece, holy cow. That sucks.

[stimpee]

yannick posted this in the irc. dunno where he got it from:

"16 June 2007, stopped due to episodes. Burning cars, firemen try to stop the fire, Underworld never showed up. The bars were under attack, everyone got a bottle of booze or two. greek festivals will never die. Eject festival's organizers should give us our money back. such a shame, underworld please come again."

[BeautifulBurnout]

That seriously sucks :(

[TheBang]

stimpee, that quote's from the video description for the second YouTube video Troy McClure linked to. I guess that's why there's been no update to underworldlive.com. :(

Here's another video from Istanbul. It's Cowgirl, with what appears to be new video of some lovely dancing from Dirk Van Dooren:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9wMgZhwP4c

From the first Istanbul video Lloyd posted, I could only make out what sounds like Biro the Leggy. Between this year and last year, Biro sure is getting a lot of live play. Is it, perhaps, finally going to make it onto an album?

[TheBang]

Comments posted to Underworld's MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/underworld) over the last few hours:

"guys what happend @eject festival in greece...?"

"hi, you are supposed to play at ejekt festival in Greece, what happened?I am very sad about that..."

"I was at ejekt fest and somebody told us that these idiots, who started smashing everything and burning cars, hurted a member of underworld. Of course I am sad that your show canceled (especially this way) but I hope that the band member is ok. I don't believe that you will visit Greece but we realy want to see you here...

But you have to know that there are manny people here in greece that want to see you live.

cheers!"

Regarding that last one, given that it's 23rd-hand information, I'm sure whatever the situation was got exaggerated into "Some1 killed Underworld! zOMG!!1!!" and that they're OK. Still though, sounds like the festival got crazy in Greece.

[lloyd]

OMG
:(

I hope everybody is fine

[stimpee]

User avel599 (http://www.last.fm/user/avel599/) at last.fm made a comment on the event page for the festival. He said "Another fiasco in the world of greek concerts." so i sent an email and got the following response back:

This might all be greek to you but the photos are self-explanatory:

http://www.avopolis.gr/live/default.asp?ID=827

A short summary:

- Support groups and Madness played normally

- Beastie Boys had 10-15 minutes to go but left the stage.

- The organisers opened the gates for people to enter without tickets (!!), and with them, some bad-formed "anarchists" entered and started burning cars and doing all sorts of ... bad things :/

- Basically the security / safety measures were terrible in the end, even though at the start it all frankly looked like exceptional work from the organizers

- We were informed that a member of Underworld was injured and thus they could not play at all. I also just got a message that he got hit by a brick on his head. :( I don't know if this is true, or if he got injured at all and this was just an excuse to make us leave the dangerous site. I hope it was a lie and that he's OK...

Hope this helps. Feel free to relay it to the forums.

---

Here is a babelfish translation (http://tinyurl.com/35f9jv) of the page linked above. The relevant text being:

"Immediately afterwards the premature finishing of appearance of Beastie Boys, and with the tobaccos from the burn of cars precisely outside from the space, were immediately announced the wound of member of Underworld and the end vradja's, that or alicey'ej or no, it was the better excuse in order to it finishes the festival and are avoided the villains."

which doesnt look good at all.

I'll try to update here if i find anything else.

UPDATE: from http://tinyurl.com/2uesgo

"23.15 Begins first ntoy to the backstages and the battle. Somebodies (even irrelevant) leave from the middle in order to they avoid the fury koykoylofo'rwn which vrj'zoyn the organisation, threaten, chase. From that point it is obvious that it could not become concert Underworld. Oj Beastie Boys fey'goyn a'ron-a'ron. The vandalisms mupltiply, in the spaces in, in the bar, in funds - we speak henceforth for loot. It is announced that member of Underworld was wounded. In all the panic, the attack to the backstages and the broken panes, us it would not make by no means impression. However thus and differently the festival anymore had other protagonists... It had finished..."

[Dirty0900]

Fuck i was expecting to see how good the live set up was, not to read this. God knows what happened, but i hope everyone over there is ok and no-one is hurt.

[crazysugarboy]

This sounds terrible!:eek: Like everyone else on this thread, I hope everyone in u/w (band and crew) is ok

[lloyd]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8817549@N04/sets/72157600380174755/

pictures of the terrible situation at the ejekt festival in Athens :(

[lloyd]

Well... after searching the web for news we think this did happen.
Tickets were 60 euro and the festival ground was only half full, there were people outside wanting in without tickets. Somewhere during the beastie boys concert, security/organizer (it seems) decided to open the gates to stop/prevent trouble.There are reports about fights at the gates and security getting out of hand (also that one member of the public was beaten up by security). Word about this got around and people were (of course) not happy about this. Then 'people wearing helmets' started to invade and trash the VIP area/ bars to hand out 'free drinks for the people'. In a parkinglot 5 cars were set to fire amongst them a van of red bull. At one point a car with an injured person left the area. The beastie boys concert was ended early and then someone announced that the festival was over and a member of underworld was injured. Organisation left the scene and the crowd was left on to their own to make an exit.

Greece has a long history of public violance. Anarchists fighting the establisment and global companies.

Nothing of this is official, so the truth perhaps is otherwise.

[Dirty0900]

Cowgirl from Turkey, audio is pretty dodgy but better then other link. Strangely filmed upsidedown

http://www.herseysimdibasliyor.com/login.asp

[rudydaduck]

This is almost the worst thing i could have read this morning. Hoping beyond hope that everyone is just fine.
What a horror.

[big screen satellite]

hoping someone can spread some good news from the UW camp when they can on this event...

praying all is well with the guys...

[BeautifulBurnout]

Not sounding at all good, whichever way you read it. :(

hope the guys are ok.

[change]

I know we've been told not to expect frequent posts, but this may be an issue that chimp can clear up for us. We're all very concerned and anxious to know that everything is ok. Please and thank you.

[Yannick]

Will have an announcement tomorrow.

[Dirty0900]

Underworldlive has been updated with the caption:

"We came to dance"

I don't know why, but i think something dodgy has happened:(

[BeautifulBurnout]

Underworldlive has been updated with the caption:

"We came to dance"

I don't know why, but i think something dodgy has happened:(

I think it is just expressing their sadness that something which should have been so beautiful and inspiring and amazing turned into something violent and spiteful and nasty. My heart is with the band, and all those fans who turned up expecting to see the band they loved. And whatever these morons thought they were trying to achieve through their violence and agression, I hope that one day soon they will understand that they were misguided and were picking on totally the wrong people.

Peace.

J x

[rudydaduck]

I just read a , myspace comment from someone claiming to have just seen a news report in greece that would verify the supposed injury report.

i have no words.

peace. love. hope.

[chimp]

Official Statement here (http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6029) and here (http://www.underworldlive.com/index/home/ejekt-statement.html)

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Alright, I admit it, I have become a fucking fanatic. I have never checked back to a site every 15 minutes EVER.

Someone give us a green light that everything is OK. :(

[change]

Thanks, Mr. Chimp. We all appreciate you guys shedding some light on this for us!

[third.toughest]

What a horrible turn of events for such beautiful ppl. I hope they all get well real soon. We love you UW

[cheshkat]

blimey, that's disgraceful.
Best wishes for a quick recovery Rick.

[Rikkie]

Am I going mad or did these cheeky tour dates slip out without me noticing until I got an email from SeeTickets?!

October Tour Dates:
8th - Southampton Guildhall
9th - Birmingham Academy
10th - Norwich UEA
12th - Northumbria University
13th - Glasgow Carling Academy
14th - Nottingham Rock City
16th - Manchester Apollo
17th - London Roundhouse



No matter - I've booked my tix for Southampton! That calls for a :D:D:D

[rudydaduck]

Was a setlist ever revealed for the show in Turkey?

[ndrwrld]

samralh and i are attending both the Amsterdam and Gent gigs, flying in from Toronto.
paging Yannick.

i dunno about any of the hotels there...seems expenso, especially if were gonna be spending 2 or 3 days in Gent after Ilovetechno.
hostels are an idea..are any of those amsterdam / gent hostels cool ?

[sanblaster]

samralh and i are attending both the Amsterdam and Gent gigs, flying in from Toronto.
paging Yannick.

i dunno about any of the hotels there...seems expenso, especially if were gonna be spending 2 or 3 days in Gent after Ilovetechno.
hostels are an idea..are any of those amsterdam / gent hostels cool ?


www.hostelworld.com ftw


I wouldn't mind giving you a floor and a ceiling for a couple nights, but I'm afraid I won't be here by then..

[botkiller]

I'm seeing the boys for the FIRST TIME at Red Rocks in denver on 9/11. I CANNOT wait. It will be amazing.

[ndrwrld]

I'm seeing the boys for the FIRST TIME at Red Rocks in denver on 9/11. I CANNOT wait. It will be amazing.
hmmmmmmmmm.

[Jason Roth]

hmmmmmmmmm.

And it's on a tuesday too, just like in 2001.

[rudydaduck]

When do the boy appear on bbc? is it this weekend?

[big screen satellite]

When do the boy appear on bbc? is it this weekend?

saturday 23rd JUNE

yep

[big screen satellite]

Culture Show BBC2:

A film special, visiting classic locations around Britain. We return to the deserted London streets of 28 Days Later (pictured) with director Danny Boyle (http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/cultureshow/ext/_auto/-/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000965/). Plus, interviews with Julian Fellowes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/cultureshow/ext/_auto/-/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271501/) and Ewen Bremner (http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/cultureshow/ext/_auto/-/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001971/).

from the culture show website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/

[lloyd]

to dig up the original thread I started for this...

Exellent picture of last nights concert in portugal
http://blitz.aeiou.pt/users/0/80/d5f63766.jpeg
more on my blog of course

[undarrenworld]

Yeah, great picture, thx lloyd;)

[gaborez]

ace pic :)

[BeautifulBurnout]

OMG Darren´s SMILING !

:p ;)

He always looks so serious when he´s working, although not half as stressed now as he looked in 05. Lovely photo. Thanks Loity :)

[crazysugarboy]

I noticed in the Culture Show "Born Slippy" clip that Darren looked a bit serious. I recall Karl's u/wlive reports at the beginning of the eastern european tour of 2005 that Darren was very nervous re his first live gigs. Maybe his seriousness is a good contrast to Karl's buzzy upbeat-ness - juggling his water bottle while filming some random funfair stuffed toy, which was crowd-surfed onto the stage:)