I'm In Fucking Underworld?

[lemonjelly]

I anticipate it will still happen. It seems to e something a lot of effort was put into - it just isn't happening as quickly as some fans want it to.
There's lots going on it seems - US tour (with 2 sets again), some festival dates being announced, the hundred days off remaster, the potential for additional uk/european dates in summer (we can hope!)

I am still really loving strawberry hotel. For me, it's a really complete album. I am still not shuffling, and enjoying every track.

Bands experience delays all the time. Another band I love were due to release a boxset in january, and 6 days prior to release it gets delayed until May. These things happen.

[purlieu]

I was surprised to see the album only got to number 43 in the UK charts, that's one of their lowest, only beaten by OWB (by a couple of places), and Drift which wasn't really done as a proper album anyway. Wasn't expecting it to be a smash hit, but given that Barbara reached the top 10 it seems really low. That can't be much more than a couple of thousand sales in the UK.



I'm still enjoying it a lot. I had a revisit of the three past deluxe editions recently and hmm, yeah, those albums are definitely deeper and more exciting than this, I sometimes forget how brilliant the '90s stuff is I think, and OWB will always be my personal favourite, but this not being up there with their best isn't exactly a major insult, it's still a superb record start to finish.

[lemonjelly]

charts operate in such a different way nowadays. there is so much focus on the week of release figures (hence why bands are doing so many limited editions, zoetrope vinyls, different colour releases and so on).

longetivity is key, and perhaps IIFU can develop some momentum?

drift seems to have re-invigorated the creative tendencies of UW. the IIFU trailer suggested a lot of unreleased stuff.

If it doesn't happen, when we buy the super deluxe boxset of strawberry hotel, there's a lot of content for it!

[purlieu]

Passive aggressive bump. This isn't happening, is it? This thread's more than eight months old now!

[TheBang]

We're back!



Mixer strip archive on the wall at 0:10. The interesting one that stands out to me is the one on the far right, "Toluca Stars", which has never been played live.

[lemonjelly]

awesome!
also, the live dates page seems to be teasing shows on 29 dec, 31 dec and 5 january...

surprised to not get an email about the film. I am sure I signed up to the IIFU email list.

[purlieu]

Nice footage, but I'm not really... sure what it is? Just a few minutes of behind the scenes stuff from gigs. Is I'm in [Fucking] Underworld a video diary series, or...?

[industri_studios]

Originally Posted by purlieu

Nice footage, but I'm not really... sure what it is? Just a few minutes of behind the scenes stuff from gigs. Is I'm in [Fucking] Underworld a video diary series, or...?

I think that's the point... "IN" Underworld (as in, seeing what only the band see)... my assumption anyway.

[aphasein]

Haven't seen much mention yet here or on Reddit of the new Nuxx Thirty shorts on YouTube and "sign up" requests with them. I'm sure Instagram is getting stuff as well, but I'm not on there.

Assume a drop is finally coming soon and the lettering is probably a preview of the design style for it. Starting to feel more like a Cure fan at this point (which I also am) with the jaded sense of I'll get excited for it when it's actually ordered, but until then it's not real and seriously in doubt.

Do still hope IIFU is happening soon after Nuxx since the page is still there, but so hard to tell...

https://www.youtube.com/@UnderworldLiveTV/shorts

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by aphasein

Assume a drop is finally coming soon and the lettering is probably a preview of the design style for it.

Same font/design as 1992-2002 Anthology and NUXX 2003.

There was a tease of Nuxx 30 in the announcement video for Strawberry Hotel just over a year ago, when you could see a Nuxx 30 folder on Rick's computer, so they've been planning it for a while. I thought it would happen on the actual 30th anniversary (January 2025), but maybe we're just going for same calendar year, or closer to the Trainspotting (1996) anniversary?