2010-11-18 Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam + MEETUP

[Geo]

Leen & I will drive like madmen to get there in time from Antwerp during the usual BE/NL traffic jams

See you tomorrow!

[froopy seal]

Hitting the rails for A'dam now. See you tonight.

W00t, w00t, chk-chk!

[gaborez]

have a good one guys

[stimpee]

Usual setlist minus Diamond Jigsaw. Encores Dirty Epic / Moaner. 2nd Encore: Pearls Girl.

Great gig actually. Banging versions of BS.nuxx, DE and PG.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by stimpee

Usual setlist minus Diamond Jigsaw. Encores Dirty Epic / Moaner. 2nd Encore: Pearls Girl.

Great gig actually. Banging versions of BS.nuxx, DE and PG.

cool...

anybody get video or sound recordings?
would be nce to see/hear pearl's girl...

on youtube, they have videos for almost all the
other sonsg except this one..

glad you enjoyed them..

later
-1

[swift]

a great show it was. i had terrible stress getting there, because i had to work late out of town and had delays getting back to amsterdam — so i missed the meetup, i missed goose and i even missed downpipe... i hurried in during alaf.

i did not manage to sell my two spare tickets, somehow, so i gave them away to a young couple passing by the heineken music hall which i thought might deserve them. they didn't know underworld, but after i explained a bit they went in. maybe this sparked two new fans we might see here on borndirty later

to be honest, i had to get in the mood, probably had to shake off the traveling stress, but from halfway on i was blown away. almost burst into tears during dirty epic — hadn't heard this live since my first two underworld concerts in utrecht and amsterdam, 1994 (which both still aren't in the gigography, somehow). the reworking is stunning. and of course, the second encore was an absolute surprise.

yesterday's travel stress was infantile compaired to today's. the context is: i didn't buy tickets for the eindhoven concert, mainly because of the 'similar setlist' thing... but yesterday morning i learnt i could be on the guest list (due to connections between work i do and the strp festival). so i kept that open. and after the hmh i really wanted to see underworld again, but i also knew i had to go to a funeral today somewhere else in the netherlands (the mother of a very good friend, not so heavy for me but important to him) so it would be difficult to get there on time. but the train system here in the netherlands came to a halt because of a fire next to the main control centre in utrecht. i had just passed utrecht when this happened, so i got stuck in an overloaded train in the middle of nowhere for over five hours. after that, it took me another six hours to get home to amsterdam. i missed the whole funeral, and there was no way even considering reaching eindhoven in time. i just got home, at 01.30, after twelve hours of travel without ever reaching any of my destinations. fuck public transport in the netherlands. i am going to buy a car again. (which gets me into other troubles concerning the seven year waiting list obtaining a parking permit here in the centre of amsterdam, where i live, but that's another story).

swift

[DwarfeD]

Great gig! Was a bit surprised that they did a 2nd encore (which was pretty awesome!). For now: trying to get some sleep after a euphoric night!

[TheBang]

second encore. nice

[King of Snake]

Yeah it seemed to become a pretty short gig when they finished with the regular encore so it was great to have them come back once more for Pearl's Girl.
That and Dirty Epic kinda made up for the same-set-list and almost complete absense of transitioning tracks or improvisation. And of course taking my gf to her first Underworld gig was pretty cool too

[stimpee]

Yeah they finished the main set after only 1hr20mins. And after a the encore and long Dirty Epic and a fairly decent Moaner there was still 20+mins to go before the curfew of 11pm (they have played 2hrs from 9pm to 11pm in 2002, 2005 and 2008 and ran out of time in 2005 and had no time to play Moaner - they finished with Jumbo). Maybe this is why they came back on stage and played Pearls Girl A very nice surprise and a fantastic version too.