Underworld; Live at Roundhouse 29,2,08

[twicezero]

My version of the setlist is something like:

Confusion The Waitress
Rez/Cowgirl
Air Towel Improv (about 8 mins)
Crocodile
Pearls Girl
Born Slippy.NUXX
Twist
? (Everybody Jack)
Juanita
Two Months Off
You Do Scribble
Jumbo
Poem
? ('talks to god' words but nothing else of spoonman - drums not very underworldy)
Beautiful Burnout
Can You Feel This Bass / King of Snake

Encore: Moaner


(I made it to King of Snake - its all my skin would allow - but loved the night)

[m.g.]

I agree with this setlist (was just checking with the liveherenow cd that I bought yesterday night) except that the Air Towel Improv (the whole track is lasting 8:08 min but after 3:20 it becomes "something" which is not Air Towel... & then, at 4:49 it becomes "something else" but I leave to better specialists than me to find out what's mixed with it (I'm not that good with titles...)

The gig last night was really great, far better imo than the day before. Was very cool to see you all, Janie, Joris, Michiel, Michal (& all the Polish gang), crazysugarboy &, very briefly, Steve...

[King of Snake]

just got back from london, they were two amazing gigs!! (again I might add. They are really on a roll this tour).
For some reason (either me fucking up while purchasing the ticket online, or maybe roundhouse made an error) on thursday my ticket was for the circle which is the upstairs area, rather than the main space. So I got seperated from m.g. and janie. But after a while I actually came to enjoy my high vantage point at the back cause it gave an unusual perspective of the stage + crowd. And it did seem really crowded down there too so I was thankful for having all the space I needed to dance around

Second night we got there earlier so me, joris and marc made it up to the front (couple rows down), where we eventually spotted crazysugarboy and the polish crew (sorry guys, forgot your names). Steve was around but we'd lost sight of him after entering the venue. Sadly Janie had to bail out earlier in the afternoon because she was feeling ill.

I thought Karl, Rick and Darren all looked very into it for both gigs, even though I could see Rick sometimes getting annoyed at the machines when they weren't doing his bidding. Even so when there were any problems they managed to get out of it without any noticeable trouble. I find it always interesting to watch how they (try to) communicate on stage. Rick is very much in charge all the time giving hand signals to Karl ("stop/start singing now ok?") and counting on his fingers to Darren when a song is taking a new turn, with Darren in turn doing his best to sync up his laptop with Ableton Live to the main songs. It's obvious they are actually improvising and doing a true LIVE set which is still a pretty unique thing esp with all the equipment they have on stage when compared to most dance acts who perform with just one or two laptops and a midi controller.

[crazysugarboy]

Wow! What a couple of days those were. Gr8 to meet up again with Michiel, Joris, Janie, and Marc, but what a bummer Janie was poorly on Friday - big hugs from Witney.

The two gigs were truly awesome - Rick, Karl, and Darren seem to be flying. Right from the first song on Thurs (Croc, I think) I knew that this was gonna be special. Born Slippy on Friday - well, what can I say (?) - I have never been to a gig where the crowd has got soooo into a song - the energy was so intense, it was if every member of the audience was on a million drugs! Just awesome!! And the setlists (??) The ult classics, the current popular, and then some real oldies (confusion the waitress - never heard that live! - cherry pie, spoonman, twist (last heard @ brixton 2002))

Plus, if that wasn't enough, a support act of outstanding musical creativity. I never would have believed that a guy with an amplified acoustic guitar, his voice, and some repeat/sequencer thingeys could create such beautiful and complex sonic soundscapes. A truly innovative and gifted musician. His guitar playing, particularly during the last track with the ever intesifying appregio, is just truly awesome. His singing voice reminded me of Brian Molko of Placebo. And by some freaky coincidence, my local record shop today (I live in a small market town in Oxfordshire) had a copy of his record "Charmed and Strange" - I am listening to it as I type.

[Dirty0900]

I nabbed the setlist from mixing desk. The official one.

Confusion The Waitress
Rez/Cowgirl
Airtowl
Crocodile
Twist
Nuxx
Junatia
Two Months Off
You Do Scribble
Jumbo
Beautiful Burnout
King Of Snake
Mmm Skyscraper
Moaner

But let it be noted that this is how it panned out live:

Confusion The Waitress
Rez/Cowgirl with river of bass lyrics on outro
Airtowl / Improv
Crocodile
Pearls Girl
Nuxx /Billy Goat bassline after vocals
Twist/Javelin Boy/Junatia/Kitless/ Slight improv?
Two Months Off - long breakdown with no Juanita speech
Siren Intro/Small Conker/You Do Scribble
Jumbo
Poem/ Beautiful Burnout w/ Skym lyrics at end?
Can U Feel This Bass/King Of Snake - bleepy intro and improv lyrics
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Moaner

Absolutely amazing gig. Can't fault anything at all. Haven't read the entire thread as i've just got home so appoligies if this has been said:

- During Rez, Rick looked pretty worried as something wasn't working. Called on a tech guy to look at one of the laptops. Guessing the samples hadn't loaded in properly.
- I think Rick/Karls/Darrens children were by the side of the stage! Some youngsters definatly dancing around.
- The horsemen were around during KOS! One of the guys holding the spotlight on Karl was raving away as was someone else.
- Rick busy singing away during TMO.
- Best version of You Do Scribble i've ever heard. Third time i've seen it done and this one was very intense.
- Pearls Girl really strange the way it was done. Karl almost rushing through the main lyrics before the beats kicked in and Karl singing the chorus over the top.

Highlights for me are the mega intense KOS, NUXX with Billy Goat and You Do Scribble. I love the fact that they didn't even stick to their own setlist! Skyscraper would have been good mind, but with Confusion, Twist, Airtowel, Scribble, Newish Nuxx i wasn't complaining.

Im also sure i heard the lyrics to Skym somewhere, but need to listen to the gig in full and not skip around it like i have been. I can be more nerdy about anything if people want to know! Like the "I can't breathe" sample before Jumbo.

[swannman]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

and it was Twist and not Little Speaker? if it was Twist, did karl get spangly on the guitar?

I'm curious about this, too -- did Karl do a guitar improv like in the 7/6/05 Sophia, Bulgaria show (or either of the '02 Creamfields)?

[King of Snake]

It was Twist, and yes Karl did play guitar on it, although it wasn't quite the full on guitar solo of some of those ealier Twist live versions.

[Domel]

Originally Posted by m.g.

I agree with this setlist (was just checking with the liveherenow cd that I bought yesterday night) except that the Air Towel Improv (the whole track is lasting 8:08 min but after 3:20 it becomes "something" which is not Air Towel... & then, at 4:49 it becomes "something else" but I leave to better specialists than me to find out what's mixed with it (I'm not that good with titles...)

The gig last night was really great, far better imo than the day before. Was very cool to see you all, Janie, Joris, Michiel, Michal (& all the Polish gang), crazysugarboy &, very briefly, Steve...

JESUS LoVeS Me - i was there!!!!!
Piss 2 oll of u Dirtys And ofcourse U MarK !!!!!
nice1

[TheBang]

So, I was listening to Roundhouse 4 for the first time today, and I'm like "Air Towel doesn't sound like Air Towel, but it sure sounds familiar." After searching around for a bit, I realized that it's "Phonestrap 6 Meets Autotrader 4". I love how these web bits show up at unexpected times, like "Bboy & Bgirl" in Atlanta.

[nosajmunson]

Originally Posted by TheBang

So, I was listening to Roundhouse 4 for the first time today, and I'm like "Air Towel doesn't sound like Air Towel, but it sure sounds familiar." After searching around for a bit, I realized that it's "Phonestrap 6 Meets Autotrader 4". I love how these web bits show up at unexpected times, like "Bboy & Bgirl" in Atlanta.

Good Call. It is nice to hear these get worked in Live.
I really dig the BBoy&BGirl thingy at the end of Darc in Atlanta.