NUXX always played live since '96?
 

Hey all,

I know there's an ongoing effort to catalog the live performances of Underworld (thanks to those involved)...
But as i sat sorting CDs this weekend (unpacking from a move!), i realized just how many UW shows have been recorded, and it seems to me, NUXX has been played at virtually all of them since this song became a hit.
I realize that the 2003 version was an effort to revitalize the song, but save the piano outtro, the live version is still remarkably the same as it always was.

Has there ever been a show since circa 1996 anyone can recall where Born Slippy.NUXX was not performed?
Interestingly, a recent Chemical Brothers concert i heard did NOT include "Block Rockin' beats", likely their biggest hit, which surprises me. Do you think ther will ever be a time when UW stops playng NUXX?
Not that i'm complaining...the song is still amazing and stirs the crows to a frenzy. Just wondering! :o

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i think that this snippet from an interview back in 2002 sums up underworld's position on this subject (link to interview = http://music.barnesandnoble.com/feat...D=344817&z=y):

[COLOR=#999966]B&N.com:[/COLOR] Do you ever get sick of playing "Born Slippy"?
[COLOR=#999966]RS:[/COLOR] No! There was a period three or four years ago when I was sick of it, and Karl said, If you went to see James Brown, you'd want him to do "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" -- how would you feel if he didn't do it? Because we jam, it becomes a thing to be manipulated and fooled with, and it changes every night enough to keep us happy. When you see 40,000 people go completely mental as you drop a chord in, it's hard not to just think, This is great! Whatever you're feeling about it as a piece of art, it's incredibly satisfying.



my guess? odds are you'll be hearing it at every underworld show ;)

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and at least the vocal has been kicking around since those early '94 shows

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it's interesting though that for a while they always morphed into the 2003 version when playing Nuxx live, but now they seem to play the "classic" version again (at least they did at Wild In The Country).

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thanks for this... yeah, i guess i'd be bummed if they didn't play it. I was really just wondering if on some rare occasion, NUXX wasn't performed. Unlikely, as their solo performances, being longer are likely to include more tracks and why drop Nuxx if you have the time and the fans to play it, and shorter festival gigs tend to get right to the hits.

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Blue Mountain

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Yeah, I'm going to my first Underworld show at Central Park, and I must say, I'd be pretty bummed if they didn't play it.

Yeah, pretty much from the late 2003 shows through all the RiverRun shows in 2005-2006 they did the 2003 version ending. While it was nice and I like the piano, I also missed the more improv jammy stuff that they would play before ending the song. They also didn't play the 2003 ending at SBSR, so here's hoping we see the return of the improv jams this year.

But that was a radio broadcast, not a show proper, wasn't it?

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Blue Mountain wasn't a radio broadcast

I think it was more like a 'dress rehearsal' done either at the same time, or around the time of the making of the "Push Upstairs" video

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but it was live and they didn't play nuxx, right?

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true - it was done live

and no - they didn't play NUXX

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So, it was done on-stage in front of, what, a small crowd or something? I mean, what made it a "dress rehearsal" rather than a regular show? Or was it like a warm-up gig for the Beaucoup Fish tour? And why doesn't anyone know the exact date that it happened? (Sorry for all the questions. I'm curious. :))

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In theatrical terms it would be what's referred to as a "dry run".

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Your right about it being done around the time of "Push Upstairs"

Came across this:
http://dancemusic.about.com/cs/inter...derworld_4.htm

" “Push Upstairs,” that was made by Graham Wood, you know, one of our long-time collaborators at Tomato, who has done most of the videos that Underworld’s put out. And at that point we’d become kind of bankable and programmable by music television, so he had pressure on him to make something that was television-friendly, you know, that had a look, and yet retained some integrity. So we spoke about it and what we wanted to do is we wanted to be filmed playing live in the landscape, you know, so we thought let’s go to Scotland and do it up in the mountains, and we’d take cameras up there and we’d take a mobile recording studio and we’d build a stage up there and we’d do a gig, and that would be part of the show and then we’d use the recordings for something else.And everyone said that’s ridiculous, in Scotland it’s going to be raining, it’s going to be wet, everyone’s going to be sodden, you know, and then this possibility to do the Big Day Out Tour in Australia came up and so we said fantastic, OK, let’s go down there a bit early, we’ll film it in Australia, no problem, the weather’s going to be fantastic, scenery for miles.

Graham Wood went down there, found this spot up in the Blue Mountains, where on the edge on the edge of this cliff, we’d build the stage on the edge of this cliff and we’d play to hundreds of miles of beautiful landscape. Well, we woke up in the morning and it was pouring down with rain, and it was a cloudy day and you couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of your face, and basically it was Scotland with Gum trees. And I have these DV films of Graham Wood in this poncho, stood on the end of this cliff looking out into the abyss, and you know, you can see, do I jump or do I try and pull this one out the bag? And I think he did a fantastic job, needless to say if it had been a sunny day, we would have been fried to a crisp."

The Big Day Out they are talking about was in January 1999, so Blue Monutain is from around that time.

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thanks for that quote - I didn't want to say anything was definite, b/c there's always a chance I could've remembered it somewhat incorrectly

but yea - that's where the Blue Mountain gig is from

the "recordings for something else" = Blue Mountain gig, which originally was only available as individual streaming-audio files - so you had to check back after a day or two to see if anything new came up [this was the early UW live page, so when the 365 couches first started]

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whew...here in Ontario Canada, we also have ' Blue Mountain " and i would have slayed small dogs in half if i found out i missed that. :p

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Look at this shit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/24/tsa...nts/index.html

Neo-McCarthyism spinnas!

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wrong thread? or did you mean UW are behind this? ;)

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Speaking of the Blue Mountain gig...

Is track 5 entitled "Cappe Pfuno"? It bears a lot of resemblance to "Please Help Me," from the Push Upstairs EP, but the ending at Blue Mountain is completely different. Should it be called "Please Help Me/Cappe Pfuno"?

I'm confused.

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Not this again;)

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No, No, No. Underworld are original in everything they do, this case is anything butt. ;) and ;) .

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If I'm bringing up an old dilemma, I'm truly sorry. I'll blame it on being new-ish. :D

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To answer your question, it is "Please Help Me/Cappe Ffuno"

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yea - it's basically the two songs together as one track

and Cappe Pfuno was never released officially. It only showed up as a part of the Blue Mountain download and as an improv here and there

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The file name is Cappe Pfuno, but if you downloaded it from Underworldlive.com (..back in the day? Maybe it's changed?) it is listed as Please Help Me/Cappe Pfuno.

Cappe Pfuno is the bit at the end, I'm assuming. :)

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Pretty sure it's Ffuno, not Pfuno.

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Haha no worries, just don't ask about Laughing Tortoise!

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Thanks for the help!

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... or what a vinyl is...

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I think a crocodile ate the laughing tortoise.

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I drawn more to the story of David and Golieth.

Runuth over your asses with religion.

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Can I ask about a barn spotter's nightmare, then?

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What about the Luxemburg gig in 2005? I remember from the bootleg that they played the original Born Slippy instead (?) of NUXX.

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Nah - they played both. :)