Who's Up for the Euro Gigs?

[sulik]

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 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!

[suicidalpenguin]

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

[stimpee]

Everyone round to Sulik's place for the afterparty!

[sulik]

you're more than welcome.

seriously

[jose m]

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 !

[sulik]

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

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by sulik

Still the stadium, where the concert was held, was almost completely full.

Stadium? how big is the venue?

[sulik]

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/.

[sanakan]

Originally Posted by sulik

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

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.

[sulik]

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.