2010-10-31 HARD Haunted Mansion - Los Angeles, CA

[jose m]

Originally Posted by Jon Paul

...If they go on.

...and yea, sorry to sound like a detractor. I'm still a junkie for all things UW. I loved the Santa Monica Civic show in '99...and chucked every penny I had to fly to London then bus out to Homelands to see their very Next show. I'm fairly confident they'll come back around to the West Coast at something outside of a crappy festival setting. Until then, I hope that they DO get onstage and I know for those Dirts in attendance, it will be spectacular.

fully understand your point of view here but (and i have this from the horses mouth,well friends of friends of the band) underworld have had some patchy responses from promoters in the states after some gigs that didn't sell or not as well as expected and no-one wants to book them to do a show in a venue that they can take production to plus no-one wants to risk pulling a 30 something audience who's raving days might be behind them and only can make it if they've got a sitter etc etc.
the hard people like underworld and think they'll work with their audience even if their audience are pill munching nutters (weren't we once?) and hard will pay underworld enough so they can bring a show,play some other gigs and wont lose $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ doing it.
its fucking tough on older fans (and i count myself in that number) but numbers have dwindled since the glory days of electronica and underworld lose $$$$$$$ EVERYTIME they play in america.
the only thing that will change this situation might be a great reaction to the new album and loads of luck (maybe oprah's a secret fan?).
fingers crossed for coachella 2011 eh? its about time again.