New Underworld album - Barking (Sept. 13, Sept 2 Japan)

[jose m]

Originally Posted by lowbit

Well...to be honest I'm really interested in the music rather than the art (UW are musicians, after all), and am pretty irate that it's going to cost me circa US$70 to get a version of the new album that includes the disc of remixes, so I was debating not purchasing the Ltd Ed at all.

Then I decided to go for it (support the artist and all, I guess) and discovered that the cost of shipping if ordered from underworldlive.com was US$14, which is more than the regular album itself. :P So...back to possibly ordering from Amazon?

I dunno...I don't doubt this is blasphemy among the hard core faithful, but at this point I'm just waiting to hear that for the next tour they'll be yet again playing only New York, LA, and San Francisco when they come to the US, leaving the millions of us not living on the fashionable east or west coast yet again in the lurch, at which point my UW fandom will have been eroded far enough that I won't care and will be glad I didn't spend the $70. :|

millions !!!!!!!!!
not being funny like but i think the reason underworld don't tour the states "properly" is that not enough people want to go and see them outside of the coasts.
if they were a touring band trying to "break" america maybe the tours would be bigger but they've done that in the 80's and 90's so expecting a couple of 50 plus guys, who play to huge crowds outside the states, to schlepp it around the mid west playing to a few hundred people is a long shot.
enjoy the next album and if you wanna see them make it a special event 'cause unfortunately you are probably right about the next tour.

[lowbit]

Originally Posted by jose m

millions !!!!!!!!! not being funny like but i think the reason underworld don't tour the states "properly" is that not enough people want to go and see them outside of the coasts.

Yeah, millions. Believe it or not, the Chicago metro area has more people than London, and the population here in the central U.S. dwarfs that of the entire country of Great Britain. And it's not like there's no market for DJs or electronica -- even here in Madison, recent shows by Girl Talk and Pretty Lights have sold out in record time. House and Techno originated here in the Midwest, not in New York or LA or London.

As to whether enough people want to see them: It's circular -- keep skipping a region when you tour, and fewer and fewer people in that area will want to see you the next time you come around. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.