Just out of a Frankfurt - Paris ICE hi-speed train... & back home now...
What can I say (& add to TomTom review). Erm... it was just really great & really different than any other UW gig I saw, recently or not. They started @ 10:00pm & finished @ 1:08am, & I really had the feeling that Rick didn't wanted to stop playing (I was as close as possible from the center right of the stage, as you can be anywhere in Cocoon, no barriers, fences, etc...). The gig never really stopped during these 3h08, I didn't have the feeling that Rez/Cowgirl was a "proper" encore... or let's say that the encore was Jumbo & right after Rez...
I also had at some moments the feeling that Karl was kinda "tired" or even sad (Mr Minghella's death?), he was definitely dancing less than usual (but the stage there is quite small, specially with the new disposition of the gear). Imo, he was definitely not singing like he usually sing (nothing negative here...) he sounded just "different", improvising quite a lot, using a lot of different effects on his voice (not only vocoder). It was just different & great. In the last 3rd of the gig, Karl started to be as smiling as he usually is, dancing more, etc... which was very cool.
I also had the feeling that Rick improvised really more than usual. I heard intros/outros, beats & loops I've never heard... which was amazing, specially as, as I said, the gig never really stopped. It was obvious that they had a few fuckups (due to the amount of improvs?) but I never had that much the sensation that Rick (& Karl & Darren indeed, but specially Rick) was(were) literally "creating" new things, here & now.
The sound in Cocoon is great &... I don't know... this place must have something special as the 2 UW gigs where I was, 2006 & yesterday are leaving me like "shocked" because of their quality. Yesterday was really very intense, tight & kinda unique gig. I can't say more for now...
I don't remember they played Luetin... but here's what I remember as a (as chronological as possible) setlist that I could
note on my cellphone:
Crocodile
Mmm... Skyscraper
(unknown intro)/Peachtree?
(unknown intro)/Lenne Penne
(unknown intro)/Beautiful Burnout
Two Months Off
Glam Bucket
(unknown improv)/Can You Feel This Bass
Juanita
Spoonman
(unknow improv + Karl Jam)
Nuxx
(unknown intro)/Moaner
Pearls Girl
Borialis?/King Of Snake
Rowla/Cherry Pie
Push Upstairs
Jumbo
Rez/Cowgirl (not as a proper encore as I said...)
I do hope that this gig was somehow recorded (like Hamburg & Berlin) & that we'll see this appearing one day on uwlive as downloads (free or not... I'd be delighted to buy them, I have to say...).
VoilĂ*... my english is probably too poor to express what I felt last night, but I hope that confusedly you can see what I meant here... I'm still blown by this amazing show... Thanks Rick, Karl & Darren (& everybody involved @ uwlive HQ
in making this possible...).
PS : in advance, sorry for the possible mistakes in my setlist
ps2 : sorry TomTom, I got your PM too late... & at the time you were entering Cocoon, I was having a dinner in the restaurant inside... & I can confirm that the food is really glorious there