Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

When did Darren leave? I read some places that said around Christmas 1999, but it wasn't officially, widely announced until April or May-ish.

When did Darren join? I found several places that said he was with R+K for 10 years (1989-1999). Other places say it was 1991-1992-ish.

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

regardless of when Darren Emerson left UW, they've been doing just fine without him.
if he was so important to the band, UW would have been putting out shite since his departure.
that clearly isn't the case.
another new Darren has taken the place, and i'm loving it.

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

Emerson Leaves Underworld (Article part 1)
Emerson Leaves Underworld (Article part 2)

just to add to this post

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

I always thought than in the first gig with that legendary long appearance on stage as MK II in 1992 Darren was there, and I heard somewhere that he joined in late 1991, or early 1992.

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

The article Matt posted above is one of the ones I read that said 1989/1990 for when Darren joined. I found another one too that also said 1989, so I guess it's a little earlier than I had thought it was.

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i'll check some of the notes i have it might be listed somewhere - i still have loads more stuff to put up so it'll probably be somewhere... (bear with me)

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

experimental sound field at glastonbury - i missed it.

by a year :(

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

Tony Barrett's newsletter dated January 1993, which covers the previous 12 months basically states that Underworld 'has a new member, Darren Emerson' and they he and Rick were (mainly) responsible for the Lemon Interupt releases & Steppin Razor remixes in 1992.

The previous underworld contacts dated June 1991 doesn't mention Emerson (and in fact mentions UW working on a new album with Rupert Hine, in Spain) - so its basically betwen June 1991 & January 1993 when Emerson joined, although based upon the rough release schedules of the Lemon Interupt singles / Remixes by Steppin Razor, its likely to have been later 1991 / early 1992 when Darren 'officially' joined. An ID Magazine article dated October 1992 mentions Darren. I am ploughing through all the music press articles i have to see the first mention of Mr. DE, although i'm not sure all are accurate!

will report any further info when i find it....

here's the 1993 January Underworld contacts for ref


big screen matt

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

blaaaah, blahhhhh, blaaahhhh, bla-bla-bl-blaaaah,,,

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

At the risk of sounding terribly flippant, does anyone have Darren Em's mobly phone number, and so we can simply ask him?

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

hahaha - you think he will know!!! haha i've emailed him before about specifics, he can't bloody remember - he'll be as vague as we are...

i bet he comes back and says sometime between '1990-1992ish' (if anything at all, he never seems to mention UW much these days, although does still bash out an odd tune now and a again...)

(I'd ask Steve H, but he's also a bit vague on times around the early 90's - a lot of 'things' were going on around then that have affected peoples memories)

but if anyone wants to try and ask Emerson's on facebook and myspace...

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Thanks for looking that stuff up, Matt. I thought it was around then, but then I saw those couple articles that were saying "10 years" and "1989", and it made me wonder.

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

indeed - his new g.u. release opens and closes with 'skyscraper'...

Re: Darren Emerson leaving UW was the worst thing that happened to the band!
 

a full cd quality version of which is available on the unmixed promo too...

thats by the by though

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more fuel (read bottom left article) here:

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I'm more amazed that the article on the right calls Dirt Epic (sic) a "lumbering blasphemy, the only non-event here". :eek: And then goes on to praise the "magical guitars" of frickin' Surfboy, haha.

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oh my god, some of the dodgy reviews Uw got are an entirely other thread... where do you start!!

I will be posting a lot of these reviews and articles shortly.... check back at my flickr site !!