Luxemburg / I Love Techno 11/12-11-2005

[lloyd]

Wow, just got home from a looong 4 days of Underworld live.
2 x tilburg, then drove down to luxemburg and from there to Gent for ILT.

First of all, Thanks to the band ofcourse. Thanks also the spotlightman, cameraman, busdriver and all technical crew for bringing this great tour.
Thanks also the nutty dirties that went with me on this crazy rollercoaster ride and saw all 4 (or 3 or 2) of the shows, we had a great time. I'm never gonna forget this tour.
Standup comedians at a chippie in Melle without them even knowing being funny. Very nice policeman that didn't give us a ticket when we where driving through the touristy pedestrian area of Gent. The really helpfull people pointing us in the right directions. Driving those hills up and down in Belgium and Lux. Powerdriving Dutch style to get in the right lane. The amazing maze Gent is, getting in is bad, getting out was even worse. Belgium roadsign designers and people who place them have the best job in the world (*sarcasm warning*). The guy who draw the layout of the hotel in Gent was inspired by the people who draw the road layout in the city. Thanks Raz for letting me stay in his hotelroom in Lux.
Big shoutout to a really great DJ at the Elevator in luxemburg, fab gig! We were not impressed by the smokemachine there without having a laser waving through the smoke :( Jason, it was nice to see you again. People if you want a pet partyanimal, buy a Jason.. man can he party!
Lots and lots more stories about lost memorycards, forgotten MDplayers, roadsigns, drinks, sweat, heat, flying cameras, ILT running out of cold water, best venue ever for a UW gig L'atelier in Lux, afterparties, afterafterparties..... etc

The gigs... well, we'll surely be rambling on about those in the coming days when people do get back home to Holland, Belgium, the UK and NY USA!

[Leon]

Well I was happy to be part of at least one of the gigs :) It was nice meeting you all again.

[lloyd]

Yeah, nice to talk to you too again Leon. And some others we saw again after we saw them at the HMH gig for the first time.

[Dj Foolproof]

Hey Lloyd

I'm the Dj who played in the elevator after the Underworld gig in Luxembourg.
It's good to hear that people enjoy the music I play! :-)

Hope to see you again at the elevator! Even if Underworld are not playing next door!

[lloyd]

Hello :)
Yeah, you kept the vibe we were in going, that was great. It was a great club for the afterparty. People, if you're ever in luxemburgcity, go there..
Greetings from Holland!

http://www.theelevatorbar.com/

[BeautifulBurnout]

Hey Lloyd

I'm the Dj who played in the elevator after the Underworld gig in Luxembourg.
It's good to hear that people enjoy the music I play! :-)

Hope to see you again at the elevator! Even if Underworld are not playing next door!

Hope to see YOU at I Love Techno next year, instead of Marco Bailey. :D Great set, (although I was too knackered that night to dance as much as I wanted), and fantastic to hear Cafe Del Mar dropped so beautifully as a finale. Thanks, man, you did us proud!

[Geo]

It were 4 nights/5 days that I will never ever forget.

I think I even changed.
I never felt so positive.
Neither do I regret that the trip is over.
It was just amazing, and I feel honored that I was able to live this experience
of enjoying and dancing and partying during four gigs of Underworld,
from which each one was simply better than the previous.
But I can't pick out the best, as every gig has its own special memories.
The first 013 gig, for giving me goose bumps when Spikee came out of nowhere;
The second 013 gig, because my dearest (girl)friend went there with me;
Luxemburg, for standing so close to the stage, and b/c I shook hands with Rick :D
And finally ILT, as it was a nice closure of the weekend in Gent, with the Dirts that I travelled with, for four days.

Janie and Raz, thank you so much, for driving the car all tru the Benelux,
and allowing me to be some kind of co-pilot.

It was so nice to meet all kinds of people, from all over the world,
like the Polish girl at the elevator, and another Jason, who came all the way
from Chicago to see Underworld in Tilburg and at I Love Techno.
And of course the Dirts, that I met at all the gigs!
We are Party Animals, capital P; capital A!
And above all, a group of amazingly nice people.
I hope I can call you all friends of mine :)

Over the last five days we took a lot of pictures and made a lot of movies,
which I collected on a mobile hard drive.

Underneath, you can find some of the pictures,
with a few lame comments from me, so you know what's going on and where they were taken :)

Enjoy!

http://users.telenet.be/geospot/dirtybeneluxtour/

[BeautifulBurnout]

Phew!

Day 1. Tilburg 10/11/05

After much shenanigans finding the hotel, we arrive to find Karl and Darren in reception, chatting to some guys! They are on their way out to a meeting, but they take the time to stop and talk to us for a good 5-10 mins. or so, about the new sounds, underworldlive.com, the tour, the upcoming Electraglide cd... what an amazing start to an amazing weekend.

That evening we all met up in a bar that played terrible music, but we were so pleased to be together we hardly noticed. The gig itself was great (don't ask me for setlists - I really can't remember what was played on what night). Three hours of awesomeness, but all of us too tired for an afterparty that night.

Day 2. - Luxemburg 11/11/05

Meet Stimps in Tilburg, drive down to pick Geo up, then the long road to Luxemburg (which would have been shorter had be not missed a turning on the motorway - Belgian sign-posts... pffff! ;) ). Eventually find the city and our hotel, Lloyd and Jason waiting for us. Pre-gig drink in the Elevator, a little bar/club next door to the venue.

The gig was the best I have ever been to in my life. Small venue, amazing to be so close to the stage, seeing every expression on the guys' faces as they played a fantastic set. Met up with A Lot of Poissons and Goatsucker too. The ambiance was fabulous, aside from one or two extremely drunk guys getting annoying with their moshing, but that got sorted. Oh, and the nazi security guard who tried to stop you taking too many photos!

And lager, lager, lager! Luxembourgeois beer that was absolute gut-rot, as some of us discovered in the wee small hours.

The guys so close they were able to shake hands with lots of people in the crowd at the end, which was lovely too.

The afterparty in Elevator was also awesome, with a really good DJ (see above) and a fantastic atmosphere (although a smidge too heavy on the smoke machine *cough splutter wheeze*). The driving had knackered me, but I was able to find somewhere to sit and dance in my chair towards the end of the night. ;)
..............

[BeautifulBurnout]

Day 3. - Gent, I Love Techno

Crawled out of bed so late I missed breakfast in the hotel, but managed to meet up with the others for brunch in a nearby cafe. Last leg of the journey to Gent was tiring, with one of our party more than a little worse for wear. (No names no pack drill). After managing to get so lost in Gent that I ended up driving through a pedestrian precinct (!), we find our hotel, which was absolutely awesome! (Sofitel Belfort, Gent, if ever you are there.)

Everyone crashes out completely in the afternoon, recovering from the madness thus far. Jason and Cej make it to the Dirty Meet rendezvous about two hours before we do (sorry guys!!)

We meet in the Rotonde restaurant/bar and eat good food ready for the onslaught of I Love Techno. The free tram service from the station to the venue is an absolute scream, just jam packed full of people ready to party, singing, shouting, banging on windows. Amazing.

ILT itself is incredible. Somewhere around 30,000 people in a huge exhibition centre with 6 colour-coded rooms plus a central "tent". We head for the Yellow Room where UW are headlining at midnight. The place is jam-packed and too hot for words - even Rick took his jacket off on stage! But the set was banging - I guess you would call it a "greatest hits", festival style, with one or two of the new tracks slipped in. I was a happy bunny cos they played Pearl's Girl, which is still my all-time favourite.

And at the end of the set, Karl gave a shout out to Dirty, which rounded off the series beautifully. (Lloyd and I holding the banner upside down, but, hey... they had seen it on three previous nights so they knew it was us).

Having sworn blind I was leaving at the end of the gig, I ended up seeing a bit of Richie Hawtin's set, and was on my third wind by the time Nathan Fake came on at about 3.15, so we didn't get away til about 4.30am, leaving Jason and Cej still partying.

Day 4. Gent - SLEEEEEEEP!

Got up for breakfast at 10.00, ate, then went back to sleep again. Room invaded by Geo and Stimps, watching Belgian infomercials and reading the papers. Eventually managed to find Raz, went out for a nice quiet lunch (Stoveriy met fritjes and huisgemaakte chocolademousse, Geo - I'm learning! ;) ). Geo and Stimps get the train home, Raz and I decide to move the hire-car to the hotel car-park, only to find that the Police have very kindly moved it for us, to the car pound! :eek: Still, what kind of a road trip would it be without some sort of brush with the law? So tired I can't even worry about it. Early to bed.

Day 5. - Coming Home

250 euros worse off thanks to the intriguing Belgian parking rules. But, the one benefit of having to get a taxi to the car pound meant that we didn't have to try and negotiate our way round Gent and its cobbled one-way pedestrianised random streets again, and found the motorway straight away. Arrived early at the airport - time to rest, reflect and remember the fantastic time I have had.

Big love and thanks to all the Dirts I partied with, but with extra special love and thanks to Raz for being my travelling companion, to Lloyd for being the world's best translator and guide for all things dutch, to Geo for his navigational skills, to Jason for being such a wild party animal, to Leon for thinking he could spend the night at the Police station, and to Stimps for... well, just being Stimps. :)

And an extra extra special thank you to Rick, Karl and Darren for making this one of the most memorable trips of my life. Ever.

[King of Snake]

Day 3. - Gent, I Love Techno
Big love and thanks to all the Dirts I partied with, but with extra special love and thanks to Raz for being my travelling companion, to Lloyd for being the world's best translator and guide for all things dutch, to Geo for his navigational skills, to Jason for being such a wild party animal, to Leon for thinking he could spend the night at the Police station, and to Stimps for... well, just being Stimps. :)

aren't you forgetting someone...?


;)

okay, I wasn't at Lux or ILT, but I was there in Tilburg!
Kinda sad we didn't get to spend more time together this time. I'll sure be coming over when they play in England though!

[BeautifulBurnout]

aren't you forgetting someone...?


;)


No..... I don't think so.....






Wait, hang on!

Who was that really YOUNG looking guy with blue eyes?

(Hugs, hon ;) )

[gaborez]

sounds like you guys had a fantastic trip :)
you must be exhausted. i was zonked after 1 show in luxembourg!
i dunno how KH does it...

[lloyd]

yeah, returning home at 5am on sunday from ILT to get to work at 2pm for late shift was bad after 4 days of dirtytour.
Deep respect for Karl the bouncing dancer.

[Jim Adorno]

Hey,

I was wondering ... Did you guys saw the performance of Tom Hades at ILT, and did you liked it?

Greetz,
Jim

[Céj]

aren't you forgetting someone...?
and by the time they made it to Gent she was to tired to remember me ;)

[lloyd]

Yeah I left some people out of my reports till now too I noticed. Most important of all, Janie. Great to have you with us on tour, translating and speaking french, keeping us men a little human and good confersation at times. And not to forget, getting tickets for us.

Luxembourg l'Atelier 11-11-2005.

I drove 270km from my house to the trainstation in Luxemburg city for this one. On my way there I noticed that the network on my mobile phone chanced and although at the website of my network it said I could use my pre-paid phone anywhere in the EU, it didn't. Hmm bummer, cos I wanted to call the others to join up somewhere on the highway. Holland is almost flat apart from the south, there are a few larger hills there. But when you get to Gent in Belgium, the road is going up quite steep (still no mountains tho). Addepting speed on these big hills is something you have to learn by doing it more often I guess so I was constantly trying to be under maximum speed because of the high tickets you get in Belgium nowdays for speeding. Pretty intensive drive all in all. Also because it was rushhour by the time I got into Luxemburg city and I trafficjammed all the way to the trainstation.
Good I wrote down the address of the hotel the others were staying at for the gig I couldn't ask them by phone. I parked my car at what I thought was the long-parking place near the trainstation. I walked down to the hotel after asking directions at the tourist stand. Found the hotel but couldn't find my way in! The enterance was a elevator up to the reception, it took me a little while to understand that. I went to the reception counter already racing my mind to remember the names under which the others would have made reservations.. We always use the dirty nicknames when talking to eachother. But I did remember Raz's and could ask if he did check in already, but he didn't. So I waited. After about 30 minutes they were there too and we went up to our rooms.
Because we were all bit tired from the day before and the drive to Lux and arrived later then we tought, we decided not to go to the meeting place. Stimp already had phoned/msg'ed the people who contacted him that we weren't going to make it far earlier. We gathered in one hotelroom and then left to find the venue and looked where we could wait till the doors were open and have a drink. This was at the Elevator bar where we found flyers of DJ gig by Darren at the Pub Club later that night. We had a few drinks, jason was showing off his new camera (everybody wants one now!) talked
dirty(.org) and other stuff. The barowener came to pickup the flyers and told us that the party was off but Darren was going to DJ in the backroom of the Elevator after the gig. Great!
Then we went next door to l'Atelier for the concert. After our tickets were checked we walked in the enterance hall with cloackroom and left our coats and bags there. Then went into the venue.
We already had seen pictures of it at their website (http://www.atelier.lu/handler.php?module=infos&op=gallery) and knew it was small, but it was even smaller then we thought! After the 2200 people that fitted in the 013, tilburg, this was a <600 people (still can't find a real number for it) venue! Cozy!

The stage is placed in one corner, a long bar at the opposite side allong the wall and there is a wide balcony with seats. The height of the stage is about 1 meter and there is a fench less then a meter away from it. We all found a spot at or very near the fench, drank some 1/2 liter Bofferdings (luxemburg beer) while waiting for what was coming and talking about this tiny place and how good it was to see Underworld here. The place filled up with people, it was crowded but not to much. We looked at the stage, not a big amount of lights hanging up, no place to hang the projectionscreens here either but to compensate that we could read the paperstrips R&D use on the mixers! We met a_lot_of_poisson there. Great to meet you!

Then the band came on stage, cheers, waves, applause... Rick and Darren and the stagehand did the last tweaks on the gear and Karl welcomed the audience. The spotlightman instructed the securityguards because of the very tiny workspace he had, about a foot wide, kicked it clean of bottles and plastic glasses. First tune kicks in.
This was going to be a night to never forget. The band and all the gear at armslenght, a concert that was going to last 3 hours Karl dancing just in front of you, very intimate club with most of the crowd that probably never saw them live. And you could notice the latter, it took some time before the audience to really get into it, also because the long pieces they played (when to clap???). But after the first mix ended the audience went pretty wild to cheer to their heros and the crowd reaction only got bigger each tune.
During the whole of the concert there was a videocamera pointed at the band, setup on a stand at the side of the stage and the stagehand was filming the band from all angles possible and also filmed the audience lots of times with another camera. At one point the camera was in my face for the bst part of a minute... it felt that long anyway.

They played some of the new tracks and a couple of pieces we already did hear at the HMH and 013 gigs in different mixes with Karl ofcourse adding his trademark samples with his pioneer cdplayer. Nice flow of tunes which got the audience really going by the time the big gun tunes blasted out of the speakers. I had the idea that the newer stuff was appriciated by the Luxemburg crowd real well, although the reaction took some time to come, the were big cheers like everywhere else we've seen them when a new one kicked in.
Karl had enough space to dance around and he did.. singing, cheering, shouting out to rick and darren and the audience
and all real close to us! Sad that the guitar never left it's stand, we'd have had a real good look at it there :( I LOVE that guitar.
Because we were so close to the stage there was a minus too. We had our left nostril on one and our right nostril on the other smokemachine. And it was used quite a lot.. This made me feel not to well at one point and I left the fench for a little more air, I saught a spot to have a good look and some fresh(er) air. I went up onto the balcony but the air was even thicker there but had a nice view of the stage. The balcony is above the long bar so the edge is some 5 meters from the stage at closest. I went downstairs again and found a spot at about 3 meters from the fench, enough space to dance, better airquality and in front of the speakers. When I looked around there, I noticed that the % of girls/women in the audience was far bigger then I ever had seen at any underworld concert! Luxemburg girls love you guys! :) Good to see more girls digging your music.

We got peggy sussed, lenny penne, juanita, spikee!, BS original!!, KoS, Moaner, cowgirl/rez, the Darren drops a dub track, dark train and dark train as encore (?) and some others flowing into eachother mixed over by the special underworld sauce with different lyrics and samples from everywhere making this a very special one. At all the time during this concert, a lot of things were happening in the sound, rick and darren tweaking more then ever, dropping in little sounds and variations everywhere.
Dark Train as an encore ended this one off show, if I never am able to see them again I still could die happy to have been witness to this one. Looong cheers, loud applause and a crowd that was treated to the best underworld show to date (I think). Karl thanked the audience and waved rick and darren to come to the edge of the stage, Rick adjusted his hairdo in great theatrical way and pushed darren who was minding the gear to greet the audience. Bows, clapping to thank the crowd, handshakes with the one at the fench, waves for the people a bit further from it and pointing out the ones at the balcony....
And then it was over. Left with a big chill because of this unique experience and all beefed up by the 'techno' roar we lingered about a few minutes and went back to the Elevator Bar again. I've reported about that in another post.
When that bar closed (Hey! no darren pricey DJ'ing there???) we went back into the direction of the hotel were Janie, Raz and I went into the hotel and the rest went on to party a little more. Sleep. Waking up pretty late and then we checked out of the hotel. Mister Ouwe? No, it's (raz's real surename). Close enough though ;) Then we went to the hotels lunchroom to wait for the others, found out that Stimp dosn't like Bofferding as much as he did the night before, eat some nice food and gathered our things to leave. I payed for my parkingspot, 30E for 19 hours, no long parkingspace after all :( and waited for the others to drive up to the trainstation to follow them to the highway. And so we were on our way to gig #4 at I Love Techno in Gent Belgium.

[Icke]

After the 5500 people that fitted in the 013, tilburg, this was a <600 people (still can't find a real number for it) venue! Cozy!

013 has a capacity of around 2200 people, iirc. Definitly not 5500. Thats about the size of the HMH i think.

[lloyd]

Sorry yes you are right, 2200 max. ILT was 5500.. edited, thnx

[elysiumamsterdam]

great story.........

[Leon]

Great story Lloyd! a great read.

It's just very very very very VERY great how people come here after an Underworld gig and see how uplifted they are!! It's just fucking amazing!
I myself was in some sort of extase feeling even 3 days after the second 013 gig! amazing!!!!

[lloyd]

Underworld @ I Love Techno Gent, Belgium. 12-11-2005

Another day, another gig.
The last one of the BeNeLux tour and by that the last one in our little dirtytour also.

We drove about 300km from Luxemburg to Gent, going up and down hill for a long time before the land got more flat and we were near brussels. Had a late lunch at a restaurant on the way to get some rest and get some life back into Stimpee. On our way again and arriving in Gent. Because the hotel close to the venue was full, the people who were going to stay overnight after ILT had a hotel in the centre of the city. What a bl**dy maze Gent is! One-way streets, a pedestrians touristy area where you can get with your car (we proved that) and lesser roadsigns then you want when looking for something. Finally we dumped the cars at a parkingspot we found and walked to the hotel. Checked in and then went to look for the rooms in another maze! Because of overbooking Raz got a mister president excecutive room with NASA lightningsystem, extra space with extra chairs and seats, walk in closets etc, oh and no CNN or NBC on telly.
We watched some television and little bits of the England - Argentina footy and waited for the others to arrive at the room so we could leave for ILT at the Expo. It took certain people somewhat longer then expected so we were late for the meeting at the Rotonde cafe. Getting there was another challance btw.
Finding the st. pieters trainstation where it should be close to was not easy, only roadsigns for it at roads close to it. At one point I saw a sign [Melle] of which I knew it was another town. I stopped my car in front of a friesshop just behind it. I went in to ask directions. The people behind the counter were very friendly but didn't know where it was, but: 'this is Melle, not Gent' yes miss I know, that is why I stopped. 'And what was the name of that cafe? de Ton? (ton means barrel in dutch so something completly differen then a roundabout which is Rotonde in dutch)' No miss, I know ton is part of roTONde but I really mean rotonde. 'Never heard of that one, sorry' Ok, another take. It should be near to trainstation St. Pieters. There are 2 trainstations in Gent and I need the other one, not the central one. 'Hmm I don't know... but! you can follow the tramrails. Follow them back in the direction of Gent and then euuhr,yeah just follow them, they all end at the trainstation!.' At this point I had to leave these comedians because I couldn't hold my laughter anymore and those people were so friendly and helpfull, so I thanked them and told them I was going to find it. :) And indeed... when driving back to Gent we saw the tramrails split into two directions...left and right! We knew the expo had the be to the left of us so we followed that one and stopped somewhere to asked again and got good directions.
Finally we were at the Rotonde bar, nice place with nice food where they served janie and me a big bowl of fries with our diner but refused to bring Jason one when he asked 'Do you have a big bowl of fries, just fries for me please nothing else' Waitress: 'If you want fries, go down the street 200 meters and go into a friesshop' uuuuh posh bar.. The food we ordered was great though and we had a good time being loud and telling Cej about the luxembourg gig.
Then we went to catch one of the free trams from the St. Pieter trainstation to the Expo. We had to wait for the tram only very brief while standing in a crowd that was all up for it. The trainride was fun, people banging on the walls and windows, singing, cheering and laughing. 'Wooing' through every corner it made :) Big cheers when the tram got to the tramstation at the Expo where we got out and then into the cue for the enterance. The stream of people didn't solve very fast because there were fenches set up to controle the stream of 35.000 visitors. At one point we did hear that someone (not one of us) lost his ticket when in the cue and was looking for it, another person had a spare ticket and gave it to him! Great people :)

The venue consisted of 6 large rooms which can hold up to 5500 people, one big central hall where the stands were of sponsers and merchandise, drink stands and the videostream tent with screens all around. There was also a chill-out space, another big hall. The dressing of the whole thing was nice with big balloons in wierd shapes hanging from the ceiling and lights all over. Videoscreens blasting commercials and big banners too.
We went straight to the yellow room where Underworld would preforme at 12 o'clock. Marco Bailey was playing around with some turntables and records when we got in. At first the vibe felt good and he played some hard techno tunes but by the time we went closer to the stage and waited longer it got bad. Not very much variation, bad mixing and very predictable drops etc. I got bored big time. Much of the other people in the room thought it was great though and danced and cheered all the time and heated the room very fast. By the time Underworld came on stage it was very hot.
Some tune was playing after Marco left the stage and Rick and Darren tweaked some things and Karl greeted the big audience soacking up the good vibe Marco had left in the room. The tune fades out and UW starts....
They started with the same ambient piece with the redlight background as they did at the HMH earlier this year. They mixed another tune in quite early and played a little with it. Rick took off his coat and while looking at Darren and Karl, pumped his fist in front of his chest over the mixingdesk meaning, harder, faster, higher... And it became a hard and fast concert.
All tracks were harder and the beats faster then at other concerts, synths tweaked more to reach the ILT vibe the audience gave back. Great! Although there were a few of the new tunes, this audience came for the big tracks and those were played. Because of the heat and the cooled water ran out in the yellowroom ,besides that it was a problem to get drinks anyway, I felt not well (yes, again) and went to the main hall to buy drinkingtickets and drinks. But the [in] door was closed so that when I had gone out there I wouldn't have been able to get back in :s. Well.. I went to the toilets area to get atleast a drink of water. The cue there was big and I walked a little further down that ally and noticed that I was outside the yellowroom in the mainhall. Stepped back quickly and looked for security people, non there! Great, I went for tickets and got back into the yellowroom, roared at the firts person I saw at the drinksstand that I needed drinks and got some dead cola's which I brought to our people.
Underworld time was blasting the big guns like KoS BS.nuxx/2003/nuxx and moaner and by the sight had a great time enjoying this crowd who had came to celibrate techno to the max. Long cheer and applause when it all was over. Karl talked to the audience again about the web release, thanks everybody for coming, big dirtieeeees shoutout. Darren and Rick bowing on the edge of the stage to thank the crowd and then they left.... On came a woman who asked, Do you want more??? euh well yeah ofcourse!!! but it wasn't more Underworld.. it was to announce a 5 minute chance-over for the next act.
We went to the back of the hall, toilet stops and waiting for Stimps and gathering some fresh and cooler air. After a while we left the yellowroom into the mainhall were we bought drinks and then some more drinks and chilled sitting on the floor. It was 3am then and I was leaving because I had a 2 hour drive in front of me and late shift later that sunday.
Said goodbye to all my fellow dirties I was on dirtytour with and the others we were with that day. I walked to the tramstation, got in the tram and then it drove to the trainstation. After looking at the map there where my car was, I walked to it. While I was looking at the map I saw a 'Antwerpsquare' so pointed my car in that direction because I thought the road to antwerp had to start somewhere near that. The map didn't show where the highway is. After driving around a while the only roadsign I saw was a green [ E17/N411], meaning highway in belgium. I drove that direction and followed that road for a long time driving through subburbia without a clue of where I was going because there weren't anymore roadsigns.. After some 15 minutes there it was, finally! the highway!! Then it was easy and I drove home to arrive at 5 am.
This was a great little holiday with friends I not see often. Touring the BeNeLux, seeing your fav band 4 times, experiencing foreign countries, it was a blast. Thanks Underworld, thanks underworlds troops, thanks people we've met all over the place, thanks dirties!

I'm never gonna forget this.

[Captain Najork]

Surprised there's no thread on here already, maybe not many off this board were there? (edit ---> :o :confused: :o )

It was the first time I've seen Underworld live so I was never going to be disappointed! After having troubles getting in the room (doors close, go in wrong way, turned away, vault over barrier, led away again, finally got in 40 mins into set...) I absolutely loved it.

Good set for the night I thought, I heard Jumbo which was the main thing for me personally, I reckon Two Months Off would have worked well that night too. Karl's energy was a wonder to behold - after so many years touring with so many people like me hearing them for the first time and wanting to hear their favourite songs I think it's pretty fucking amazing to be leaping around the stage like a loon.

I think this speaks worlds for the quality of the songs they have produced, and for the motives of the people who have made those songs - hearing them, and seeing the way people react to them.

Obviously it's difficult to put across how much you have enjoyed seeing a live performance, but the personal measure for me is that when Underworld had finished, Richie Hawtin had already started, and instead of rushing over there I just wanted to sit down for a good 20 minutes and take in what I'd just seen. Fucking brilliant.

Would like to hear from others that were there. I have some photo / video footage I could share if no one minds / anyone is intersted and knows where I can host it.

Paul

Mod Edit: Threads merged here.

Haha - thanks mod eyes/brain still not engaged :D

[potatobroth]

hi paul, and welcome. there were a bunch of ILT threads, just might have gotten bumped off the front page here.

sadly, i didnt get to go, but i know many others did. im sure they'll pop up :)

[lloyd]

Yes I was there with some fellow dirts. And started a topic about it too.
http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1672
I should have named it in full and not ILT but can't change it for now, my fault.

[elysiumamsterdam]

hey there ,i was at ILT too,it was my 10th UW concert,i had a great time...
it wasn ,t the best gig i ever witnessed,Karl sounded ..uhhhh real tired,
well it was the
fourth night in a row so you can,t blame him..
i loved it when they played that new song....dunno its name...
I saw them at werchter 2002 or was it 2003....?and that was the best UW gig I ve ever seen...

[King of Snake]

Ah, Werchter...we were there too (Lloyd, me and some others). Very cool gig.

[stimpee]

As I was with Lloyd for all the trip, I'm not gonna write that much if anything, as he seems to have covered all the bases, but read it all because some of it was highly amusing :D

[lloyd]

dirtytour tickets (http://mijeenrotz.org/dirtytour2005.jpg)
and
dirty banner (http://mijeenrotz.org/dirtydirtybanner.jpg)

;)

[stimpee]

Hey,

I was wondering ... Did you guys saw the performance of Tom Hades at ILT, and did you liked it?

Greetz,
JimActually, we did catch the last half hour of Tom Hades and he wasnt bad at all. Quite enjoyable in fact. I think we would have appreciated him a little more had we known that we were gonna be tortured by that shithouse of a "DJ", Marco Bailey afterwards.

[Jim Adorno]

Actually, we did catch the last half hour of Tom Hades and he wasnt bad at all. Quite enjoyable in fact. I think we would have appreciated him a little more had we known that we were gonna be tortured by that shithouse of a "DJ", Marco Bailey afterwards.

Then you saw me :o)))
I was the one standing left. (The VJ)