Who's Up for the Euro Gigs?
 

Tallin
Riga
Finland

who's in...

yes, no or maybe?

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Funds being available, I would be up for all three. Realistically prolly only Tallin and Helsinki though. But the dosh is the issue at the moment.

But in principle..... WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!! BRING IT ON! :D

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me too...

Tallinn and Helsinki sound good

we could call the trip ' Ta Hel and Back... '06 '

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How come you're hesitating to go to Riga? It's in the same region and, more important, the Riga gig is the first :cool:

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Money is the only constraint for me - but it's a bloody big one right now, unfortunately :(

Ooooh - I feel another Dirty Tour Shirt coming on.... :)

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Maybe for all three, but I should've voted YES for Tallinn and Helsinki :)

It's just plain fun to plan the whole trip :D

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19 October 2006
Event: TBA
Venue: Riga Arena
Riga, Latvija

My birthday is the 19th and my Fall break is from the 17th till the 21st, possibilities, possibilities. Good thing I know this know so I can start to calculate the cost of travel etc.

Really wonder how much the tickets will be, but would be cool (litterally) if I could see em on one of those dates. Guess this is what they mean with "special locations"; eastern europe and south america.

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i dunno if im going yet but i've been before and all three of the first dates are possible. if i had more time i'd stay in helsinki for a week and then hope over to saint petersburg. for tallin to helsinki try tallink or copterline.

http://www.seat61.com/Estonia.htm

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who'll be paying my fares? ;-)

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Missoula, Montana, FTW!1!!!1!!

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AAARRGHHH!

Make all three gigs in Riga! Oh, I just opened the www.underworldlive.com and saw, that UW will be playing St. Petersburg and thought 'cool! I can make it! My cousin lives there too'. Then I took a look a bit higher and saw Estonia - 'even better! Closer and still some relatives there!’ and THEN i saw IT, few lines higher, 19.October, Riga, Latvija (although it should be Latvia, but what the heck) and was totally like :eek: multiplied about 1000000 times. I can't believe it! This is so cool. Finally, my home town. No need to go anywhere abroad, no need to find a place to stay and I'm certain (and determined) no work that day, or next, or one before. I can't say enough, but THANK YOU UW.


LIELS PALDIES! Tas ir vienkārši un totāli kolosāli!

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Riga should be Ace as 1st on tour - fairly cheap to get there
Nice city also - went there for first time last year

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Everyone round to Sulik's place for the afterparty! :D

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you're more than welcome.

seriously ;)

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how popular will the show be in riga? is it a big venue? do many people in riga know who underworld are? 10 years ago i didn't know where riga was !:)

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To tell the truth, I really doubt that many people are familiar with UW here. Ok, that can partially be explained by our... rather low population number. You can’t practically have many fans where there aren’t many people. Once I searched the local internet for UW fan pages and found none :( Same explanation I guess. Still I’m sure that the gig will have many people participating in it, because… who doesn’t like to party? :) I’m also sure that local concert promotion companies will promote the concert quite nice and thus attract quite a lot of people. Probably it will be the same as it was with Massive Attack concert couple years ago. While standing in the line, I heard a lot of people asking question each other about what kind of music does Massive Attack play. One quote was something like – “Isn’t it a heavy metal band of some sorts?” Still the stadium, where the concert was held, was almost completely full. I recon same will be with the UW concert, so no worry there :)

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Stadium? how big is the venue?

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not too big, and not too small. Riga Arena is the new building (hockey stadium) built specially for hockey championship that took place in Riga this year. probably more info can be found http://www.arenariga.com/en/.

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don't let yourself be fooled by numbers :)
in zurich (where i live ATM) the venue was filled, too - and zurich has only half as many citizens as riga (ok, it was a relatively small venue, i'd gess around 1000 people). and as for fan-pages: there are none in switzerland, too, and as far as i kno, i'm the only swiss on this dirty board.

i think it rather depends on how much "western" (sorry for that bad expression) electronic music is known in lativa, i've been to places in eastern europe where only "chart-hits" were known.

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yeah, those "chart-hits" are "a problem". mostly as far as i know here in riga local night life consists of night clubs with their club music, some jazz clubs and live "country-like" music. oh, yeah, there is one place where alternative music is played, and the bands that are on stage there are quite "non-char-hits-like", but as for clubs where "normal" (as i call it, excuse me if anything) electronic music could be played, there are none.

but as i said, with good advertising the gig will be filled with people. although i would much like the gig to be of a smaller "scale", like in zurich for the same 1000 people.

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it is strange sometimes how the tickets sell. Here in holland the 3 concerts sold out, the 5daysoff gig within 3 days or so. The cancelled gig in Gelsenkirchen germany didn't sell enough tickets so the promotor cancelled the whole festival. Luxemburg... ,a very small venue, there still were tickets sold at the door when we got there. But I think it nearly was soldout in pre-sale.

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This'l prob sound insane, but I hate flying and reckon I could get to the riga and/or tallin gigs by train, via eurostar to brussels (I've been thro the chunnel several times and it doesn't faze me - going OVER the sea freaks me out!!). Does anyone from the uk want to join me??

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well i'm now 99% in...

done some cost analysis - flight from London to Tallinn, (then gig), then boat from Tallinn to Helsinki (just €17!), then another gig and then flight From Helsiinki back to London

works out at around £200

plus hotels and gig tickets, so its looking good for me...

:D

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Going to Riga on August 4th for a 'stag do' so i'll let you know what the hotel's like!

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Any chance of meeting up with you for a beer or two between the 4th and 7th of august. I don't want to drink all day all weekend..........:cool:

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i guess we dutchies are just a little bit more mad about Underworld than other nations ;)

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Hotels weren't that bad in riga when stayed last year (apart from bright orange bathroom suite) but depemds where u stay i guess - fairly cheap though.
I for one am trying to pursuade my girlfriend to get me to Riga for the 19th for my 30th BD pressie :D
not having much luck though :mad: - still early days

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uh, exactly those days are already planned for me. i won't be in riga starting 4th and up to late evening on the 6th. perhaps on the 7th, if it is possible and then only in the evening after work :rolleyes:

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Dammit! would have been cool to meet you for a chat and a drink! never mind i'll have to see about coming over in october then:D I leave Riga in the morning of the 7th............

cheers for the hotel info penguin, we are apparently staying in a 5* hotel.....

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12 October 2006
Event: Underworld with Sven Vath
Venue: Cocoon Club
Frankfurt, Germany

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yep that throws a spanner in the works...

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I wish all spanners were this enticing... :)

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4 - 10 November 2006
Event: Underworld
Venue: Somewhere in the UK

how 'bout it boys???

save us UK's travelling eh?

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Sure does!

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25-30 Sept. would be more perfect...better chance of using outdoor venues as well.

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There's going to be sooo much gude Laune! I tell you, se messäge is Feierei, Alda!

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:eek: :eek: :eek: This will be an absolutely awesome show! I still bang out the Sven Vath Coccoon live from Ibiza mix from a few years back. Techno at its finest. Color me jealous. Hopefully the U.S. will get some UW gigs come 2007. I'm going into withdrawal as the 100 Days Off Tour seems so long ago.

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sven väth! ola ola!
fantastic..i'll be there!!! :D

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that's gonna be my early birthday present! (my birthday is the 13th)

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Cocoon Club --> minimum age 18.
:eek:
:(

edit: i forgot to say, if there is no age restriction, i'll be there.