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my plane just landed. thebang, how did you get to hear the soundcheck?? way cool.

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Stood outside the door. :D

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Let's meet by the ticket lobby at 5, for anyone who's down.

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Arrived. Recharging cell phone. Wearing an Oblivion w Bells shirt. :)

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Just talked to the employees at the ticket lobby. Doors@8, Opener@8:15, UW@9:30. TheBang was told doors@8 also.

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Yeah, I just talked to another person at the ticket booth and they said the same thing. The kid that told me wrong said he was sorry for giving me bad info.
The open at 6:30pm for sold out shows.

Sorry for giving out bad intel.:(

Going to the pool until the show.

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I'm here also. Was at the Cafe at 5 for some reason my phone not getting the inet capabilities well. Anyways jeans, black shirt with U on front and underworld in small type on back, black shoes, short hair, glasses.

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omw now with my wife. Ill be the one in the yellow eddie bauer shirt


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at mr luckys having pad thai (seems to be my standard diet these days)

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I'm not in Vegas, but I must admit it's been fun reading what everyone is wearing as identifiers. Hope you're all having a great time right now!

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i'll admit, i get a bit of a rush reading the last bunch of posts just before the concert.

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damian lazarus is kickin!!

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It's quite a treat to be reading these posts...we won't have to wait for a proper setlist to trickle in, and catch all the transition loops dropped in. And we'll probably get some clips on YouTube from the show besides NUXX.

Someone better get their hands on a balloon. That would be the ultimate collector item.

Jason

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drunken fucking frat boys behind me having a conversation at the top of their lungs because they can't hear themselves over dl's smokin set.

lets hope the boys play bs first so they g home

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I've been taking a few photos an tagging them with the lastfm id:

http://www.last.fm/event/1068743

Security told me we're not allowed to take video, sadly.

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forget drunken frat boys... about to kick the shit out of a drunken frat chick

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What bar are they going to hang out at? ;-)

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woo-hoo! got the setlist from lighting tech. couple of dirties took pic so it should be posted soon.

and everything I said about moaner... I take back. live, it is incredible!

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Wow. What a set. I was always kind of skeptical that UW read the requests, but I'm a believer now. I got my "Kittens" and "Spikee". THANK YOU! The only thing missing was Juanita, and that was on the "sparing" list. I don't know if that means it was a possible substitute song or possible additional songs if they had time. Perhaps everyone will get Juanita tomorrow in Oakland.

Another thing to say. Fucking CUPS! Has it even been played live since the Beaucoup Fish tour? I was recently thinking of starting a thread about retired live songs (Cups, Dinosaur Adventure 3D, and Bruce Lee come to mind). But Cups is such a good one, it would've been my 4th request in the requests thread. But I didn't list it because I figured it was unlikely to be played at any point. And then they go and do this killer Cups/Push Upstairs mix tonight! It's eerie; it's like Rick is in my head.

Lots of Beaucoup Fish songs tonight. No Oblivion with Bells and only one from AHDO. But there were a lot of non-album songs played tonight. I was actually worried that they would play a greatest hits type setlist like they had for the festivals last month. I should not have doubted. There were lots of rarities and lesser played songs, and just the right amount of hits songs. Thank you for taking care of your hardcore fans, UW!

Unfortunately, the venue was only about half full, but we still had a pretty good time. People weren't as responsive to some of the songs, but the overall reception was pretty good.

Setlist:

1. Intro
2. Dirty Epic
3. Bamboo
4. Rez/Cowgirl
5. Kittens
6. King of Snake
7. Small Conker and a Twix
8. You Do Scribble
9. Between Stars
10. Born Slippy .NUXX/Monkey Wink
11. Two Months Off
12. Diamond Jigsaw
13. Spikee
14. Cups/Push Upstairs
15. Jumbo
16. Moaner

Between Stars and Diamond Jigsaw got pretty good dancing receptions, considering that no one knew the songs.

At the end of one of the songs (NUXX maybe?), Karl came up behind Darren and turned his headphones sideways on his head.

For Spikee, I'm really glad the guitar has made a return to the song. For tonight's rendition though, Karl left the stage, so we didn't get any lyrics.

When they set up the haphazard Inflatables configuration, they added a few new ones that I haven't seen before. They are 33% longer than the typical Inflatable. Make of that what you will.

That's it for me. It was nice to meeting the Dirts at dinner tonight, and additional Dirts at the show. Off to bed now, early flight tomorrow to Oakland.

http://www.aloha.com/~tabanger/underworld/lvsetlist.jpg

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I think the sparings were little bits used as intros to other songs.

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Was great to meet all the peeps at the show last night and what a show it was. Underworld are truly a class act ant Dirts are class people as well. I hope we can all catch a show soon.

Keep in touch and I will post future show plans UW or otherwise in the future!

Thanks for everything everything Underworld!

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you got cups?
how'd you get cups?
i want cups.

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Great show! It was all dance stuff last night, as you can see from the setlist, which is exactly what I wanted. The crowd seemed a bit dead in terms of movement but you could tell there were loads of hardcore fans there.

Got to hear Spikee for the first time in person, that was a great moment, but it included the guitar outro that I have never heard on any live recording! I lost my mind.

I guess that was my 8th or 9th time seeing Underworld. At the airport now to see them in Oakland later tonight. Then back home to L.A.!

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Oh LiveHereNow, I wish you had an American arm. I'd love to hear last night's set again and again.

It was great meeting various dirts and I am stoked about tonight's OAK show. I'm really hoping that LV was the dress rehearsal for tonight's live streaming show. :)

Also, the opening DJ was pretty good. I wish there had been more people dancing for him. Then again, since there weren't it was easy to get a spot up front for the rest of the show. ;)

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http://uwlive.rowla.com/gigs/view/372

I added the gig...

Cups - was it just the bridge version (i.e. @8.20)??

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Correct. It was mixed with and bookended Push Upstairs.

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Any merch for sale last night?

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Fantastic! First play for nearly ten years!

Im looking forward to hearing this again

http://uwlive.rowla.com/gigs/bySong/108

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Whoa. That. Setlist. Sounds. Awesome.

They started off with "Dirty Epic", got Kittens, Spikee, CUPS!!, Bamboo, YDS... wow.

Nice sketch from the lighting guys, too!

Hope the broadcast show set is just as bangin! Of course it'll be a class act, but i like a high-energy set for sure.

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Nothing. :(

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Found some youtube clips from Vegas...all in good quality.

Small Conker and a Twix / You Do Scribble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDInLWyGx8w

Nuxx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqFzFiRvRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveV5KcBdhQ

Cowgirl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18mSSYXFSX8

Jason

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Cups was also played as Push outro at Traffic and Balaton Sound this year!:)

Traffic Festival, Torino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYBv2F18BE
Balaton Sound, Zamárdi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHv1KMFJIBU

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Thanks for posting all the awesome links!

Bummer about no merch. I had been saving up to get a new shirt.

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Grrrr!

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pix. . . even video of dirty epic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4132460...7621976878114/

I apologize ahead of time about the quality :(

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Thanks for the info, updated the gigography too.

http://uwlive.rowla.com/gigs/view/371
and
http://uwlive.rowla.com/gigs/view/346

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the show was brilliant. fucking brilliant.

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Positive review...

http://www.spin.com/articles/underworld-explosive-vegas

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too bad they dont know their ricks from their darrens

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or their boys from their moaners:

". . .to the apocalyptic bass bombs that comprised a show-ending "Boy, Boy, Boy" from their most recent disc. . ."