2016-03-24 London Roundhouse 1

[Troy McClure]

Curious as to what type of merch was being sold at the venue. I saw a post from a fan on the UW Facebook page of a 'Barbara, Barabara....' tee from the Germany gigs that looked interesting.

Thanks, Jason

[markreed]

I don't think I saw him play guitar once?

I missed the merch as I was going to get some after but the fire evacuation and restart gave me 10 minutes from the last song to the last train home. There were, from a quick glance black & white t-shirts, CD's, and the £100 box set.

[amhilde]

Re: merch - there is also the ever-popular tote bag option (UWBBWFASF on it, like the back of the cd), vinyl and cd versions, the box set, poster, the two tshirt options (black and white, fairly minimal) and I think that was about it.

Do we need a roundhouse x2 thread or continue in this?

[King of Snake]

Interesting, when I saw the setlist from the Germany gig I thought "Awesome, looks like they're improvising the setlist again", but it seems this is now THE setlist for this tour as the Roundhouse one is indentical. Also, not a single track from Barking on there. (not that I mind too much, though they should play You Do Scribble again sometimes, that was awesome ).
Still, looks like a good setlist and looking forward to seeing them in Amsterdam next week!

[Goaty]

My 2p - Having seen UW many times over the last 21(!) years - this was definitely an excellent and very memorable gig. Maybe it was just that they haven't toured for a while (except the DubNo tour, which was great but an entirely different feel), but everything really came together.

New songs sounded excellent alongside the older material - I'm a big fan of the new album anyway, and the older tracks sounded fresh.

Great to hear Juanita/Kiteless, Rowla, 8 ball, and the new mix of Dirty. Everyone went totally nuts to KoS, especially after the evacuation when they restarted everyone just seemed to go completely nuts.
The set lasted for around 2h 10m, so plenty of time to play some less well known tracks which really made the set flow - it wasn't just a greatest hits set with some new material.

Would definitely love to hear a SB recording of one of the sets from this tour. They seems to be playing the same setlist for each gig, but that's in no way a bad thing.

[DoctorRad]

Originally Posted by Goaty

Would definitely love to hear a SB recording of one of the sets from this tour. They seems to be playing the same setlist for each gig, but that's in no way a bad thing.

Hopefully the Belgian radio broadcast will provide this, although the set may be shortened slightly as it's a two hour slot vs the 2h10 we seem to have been getting thus far...

[Mike]

Dirty Club is simply Dirty with Dirty Epic lyrics.

[skyscraper101]

We were right down the front by the barrier, slightly to the right in front of Karl.

It was an excellent gig, and I've seen them quite a few times since 1996. Much better than the last one at the Apollo.

I actually thought the fire alarm added something really special to the night. Some of you who were there may have noticed that they bought all the house lights up before they faded down KoS so it was amazing seeing all the crowd in the bright lights jumping around.. Then there was that moment of adventure and uncertainty having to get chucked out into the rain for 5 mins - then suddenly, a large cheer from hundreds of fans as we were all let back in again and the party was back on.

The only pain was having been down the front since the beginning until the evacuation, and then losing our place and having to push back to the front but we found our way back and managed to get back to where we were within 2-3 mins.

On the return, KoS seemed mostly improvised, a bit haphazard, and it reminded me of days of old when anything could happen and they had to think on their feet and no track sounded the same from night to night. Basically everything that I loved about UW from the beginning (I put some of that in the video below).

Highlights for me were Juanita, Low Burn, random re-run of KoS. Ring Road was also excellent - possibly my favorite track of the night. Seeing Rick waving his arms and singing along to the lyrics was also great. He looked like he was genuinely having fun, which was great to see after he wasn't able to perform at Hammersmith last year.

I took snippets of video and edited them together last night. Got bits of most of the classic tracks but not the new ones, for no particular reason. I thought all the new ones were great - especially Low Burn. The only track which seemed a bit out of place was Eight Ball which is a great tune but just didn't seem to suit the flow. I'd have preferred if they did Pearls Girl, and perhaps Moaner instead of NUXX but I can't complain - it was still excellent.

Video here:

[beantherio]

How long did they play?

[markreed]

Originally Posted by beantherio

How long did they play?

Normally 2 hrs 10 minutes, but Camden #1 had a 30 minute Fire Break, so 8.50-11.30