mornin'
it was a fine nite in a nice venue. nicely decked out, cloakroom, friendly bar staff (got to know them v well
), clean toilets, a cool chillout room and the soundsytem was good too. lots of tv cameras so hopefully we'll see some good quality footage turning up on youtube. underworld were on much later than i'd expected - 00:15 - after various sets from the support dj, some punkpoprock band from germany (electronic beats, anyone?), modeSelektor and their champagne spraying antics, and alter ego...
by the time underworld came on the place was absolutely rammed (a bit too rammed for my liking but then i've been spoiled at gigs like lux) with a v up for it crowd. i was loving the opener - bamboo - which had got quite a long way through when it stopped very suddenly. the crowd cheered (prob lots of people thought it was intentional) but rick & darren looked shocked and a bit peed off. uw quietly shuffled off - not happy - and malcolm (is it?) rebooted everything. the crowd kept encouraging them back on and eventually i think the problem was solved and they came back for their first encore!
karl apologised for the power problems and they played a stormin rez/cowgirl... i think possibly uw were not v relaxed after the problem - poss not sure if it would happen again? - but the crowd kept cheerin' em on...
me + brain divided by beer wont go, so my setlist memory is hazy too! i think whatmakesustick (welcome
) has it just about right. i think the third track was actually banstyle which sounded ace. they deffo did youdoscribble too
i agree it was a good version of jumbo - it was the same jazzy drum loop version that was on uw myspace. the encore was chery pie and moaner and we loved it
see y'all at the end of feb
jono
p.s. just found this which shows the moment it all stopped:
and here's karl saying sorry, and the start of rez/cowgirl