Similar Setlist Thoughts?

[dubnobasswithme]

Interesting bit from Karl about the whole 'same setlist' thing:

from http://dcist.com/2010/10/dcist_inter..._of_underw.php

I read an interview online where you said you have only recently started using set lists. Is that right? How did you communicate what song is next?

Yeah. We were pretty much making it up as we went along. How would we communicate? We've always had a lot of hand signals that are now reduced to kind of nods and winks of eyes. We read the audience. It was something we learned form hanging around DJs at the end of the 80s. We'd watch these DJs turn up with a box of records, assess the audience, check out the DJ that was on before, drop the first record and then see how the audience reacted. They had no set list, they just saw how the audience reacted and improvised. And we thought, "you know, these guys are more live than most of the groups that we know. These DJs are playing different sets every night." It was a lot like watching improvised jazz to us. It's not the same every night. It's different every night, and that's what we want to do. It's just going where the flow of the night wants to go. And after 20 years of doing that, the crew, who have always improvised the videos and the lights and the sound, they came to us and said "could we maybe make a set list before we go onstage just so we can have a vague idea of what we should prepare for what's coming up."