uw gig utrecht 1994

[swift]

well, here's something i've been thinking about for a while:

my first uw gig was in tivoli, utrecht, netherlands, in 1994. i think this still stands out as the best concert i've attended in my life. dubnobass was just released for a few months, and i had probably not played any other record between the release and the concert. so i already knew every second of it. and some of the other releases, like spikee etcetera.

nevertheless, in my memory, i experienced this concert as nearly completely improvised. i remember i recognised parts of songs, snippets, but it seemed to be a long flow of on and on and on improvisation.

a month later (approx) they played in paradiso, here in amsterdam, but that concert (however great) was much more structured in recognisable songs, generally as we know them up to now.

the question is wether my memory serves me well: was this utrecht concert exceptional? i am not very deep into the bootleg thing, i know vaguely about very long performances at glastonbury or something like that around the same period... do these things relate to each other?

the gigography i found through rtsr doesn't mention both the utrecht and the amsterdam gigs (does anyone know the exact dates, btw? i lost them...). and does anyone know about the existence of any recording of the utrecht gig? listening to it would probably clear up a lot (i know, getting it i'd try through rtsr. just want to know). or, is there anyone here who was also there, in tivoli, in 1994?

so much for memory lane today.