new classics: Best post 2000 live sets?

[WhiteNoise]

So much (deserved) nostalgia for the 'mk2' era shows, when they've had some incredible sets in the last decade and a half.

I'm listening to 2008-02-04 DocksCLUB at Hamburg Germany and what a raw playful show this is. Rough too, there's a number of mistakes (including 8 seconds of Puppies, interestingly!), but the performances are held together extremely well in spite of the "mistakes". Highlight is the nearly 14 minute long performance of Two Months Off. The interludes between songs are better executed than most sets from around this time too. Shame there wasn't a LHN of this gig.

What are your favorite post-Darren sets?

[jetpig]

02 creamfields
peel session (possibly their best set of all time? I certainly think it's a strong contender)
05 sofia/benicassim/exit
everything from LHN :P Heineken, Roundhouse 1, Birmingham are particular highlights for me.
09 oakland
'10 KCRW cause despite the static setlist, the sunday AM playtime for this gives it a VERY different vibe than the rest of the tour. K was /rather/ sick during this leg of the tour and you can hear the band's exhaustion in the set. It starts off slower (this is probably my favorite bird1 rendition) and by the time they get to rez/cowgirl they've completely reinvigorated themselves, or maybe just the tea/coffee had kicked in :P
'14 Maida vale

[potatobroth]

2002 Gatecrasher gets a lot of love in my headphones.

[spacejunk]

Ultra Festival 2003 gets heavy rotation.

[holden]

This thread has got me going through my old bootlegs, and remembering how great the 2005-era shows were. We got stuff from the RiverRun, and lots of Darren Price interludes like Five ft Five, Moroccan Meatballs, Shake That Higher, small conker and a twix, aquafunk, yard beat, and some early stuff from OWB, like Globe= early Holding the Moth.

Sofia, Bulgaria 6 7 05
Luxembourg 11 11 05
Electraglide Tokyo 25 11 05
Electraglide Osaka 26 11 05. All smashing!

I liked a lot of the 2002-2003 shows because if the interlude improvs.

Totally agree with above comments that a lot of the LHN setlists 07-08 were outstanding.

Basically, I love any UW gig when they preview new tracks in progress, tracks that never see studio release, or deep album cuts besides the expected. So, basically everything pre-2010

[darkvoice]

I love the Hugo D night in Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Around 1988. Playing in the middle of the huge venue. Tracks like 5 points. Early Push Upstairs. Original Born Slippy and the reversed Juanita. Starting with to dream... lots of improv as well.

I only have this vhs copy with bad sound, anyone has a better version. Maybe the one like: https://www.discogs.com/Underworld-Hugo-D-Night-Rotterdam-1998/release/1217135 ?

[TheBang]

I have that bootleg (I created that discogs entry), but I haven't had a chance to go through it yet. As mentioned, the CD is incomplete.

[darkvoice]

I would like to have a copy of this bootleg? Incomplete not problem. Would be nice to hear a better audio recording than the vhs version. Can you send me private email?

[King of Snake]

I love the Hugo D night in Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Around 1988. Playing in the middle of the huge venue. Tracks like 5 points. Early Push Upstairs. Original Born Slippy and the reversed Juanita. Starting with to dream... lots of improv as well.

I only have this vhs copy with bad sound, anyone has a better version. Maybe the one like: https://www.discogs.com/Underworld-Hugo-D-Night-Rotterdam-1998/release/1217135 ?

Great set but that's not post-2000 though :)

[darkvoice]

Ehum... yeah you are right... ��

[King of Snake]

Post 2005 there's two gigs from the Netherlands that were just awesome. 2005 Heineken Music Hall. The opening track, Darc (Parc) was something completely new and has only been played a couple of times (a slightly edited version of this live track was later released on the The Bells The Bells compilation). It then segued smoothly through 5foot5 into Juanita and an awesome Pear's Girl/Yard Beat. Great opening salvo :)

Then there was the Rotterdam Maassilo gig in 2008 which just had an great tracklist. It had original Born Slippy (the breakbeat version) and then in the second half a great sequence from Deep Arch into Air Towel/Mowed Path into Dark Train, with Price tracks/improvs in between.

[markreed]

I think we can add London 17-03-17 to one of the best post 2000 sets, even if no recording surfaces.

[negative1]

i'm not interested in any of the new shows, howevers ricks solo intro sets to the concerts seem a lot more interesting than the actual underworld shows.

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[Yannick]

time for a new lemonworld session on dirty radio ;)

[stimpee]

Everything from 2005 to 2009 that wasnt a shortened festival set was basically gold.

[jetpig]

That's something that struck me about the Obscura set (or at least the first bits i've listened to), was that it felt like a set from that era infused with the reworks they've made in the intervening time.

[Badger]

2003 Somerset House first night was outstanding. Brilliant version of Dirty Epic in middle of set then they went into Kittens and turned the volume control up to 12! Was a massive sound increase and the rest of the set didnt let go from there till the end...are there any bootlegs of these Somerset House shows?

31st December 2008, Shore Thing, Bondi Beach, NYE - fantastic show and i got two requests played including the full length version of Spikee where I went nuts! Underworld were only supposed to have an hour and a half festival set but Eric Prydz didnt make it so the set got extended to two hours and we got Born Slippy at midnight with fireworks to see in 2009...magical. I must remaster this audio and video from this night.

March 2017 Sydney Opera House - the same set that everyone had been hearing but it had been a while since I've seen Underworld plus I got to take my step son, Phil, to this and this was his first electronic music concert...an incredible night with incredible sound and a great crowd.

[proedros]

Hello ,

new member here , as i had a sudden huge urge/kick for UW live

can someone please inform me how to register at the Bootlegs tracker ?

is there a link ?

thank you in advance,

proedros

[Nuxx79]

02 creamfields

Having this on RTSR would be great :)

[TheBang]

That one's available here: https://tracker.rtsr.org/torrents-details.php?id=23

[jetpig]

It says there's no seeds, but you can get to 99.9% on it, which is enough to listen through without any audio missing. There's just a single jpg and a txt file you won't get.

[Nuxx79]

That one's available here: https://tracker.rtsr.org/torrents-details.php?id=23

Ah, that's why I couldn't find it! I had to include "dead torrents". Cheers.

[dubman]

reviving this from the dead!

probably my favorite post-2000 gig is the 02 creamfields, but the Ireland one. it's an absolute monster, but the rip I have is missing the first two tracks according to this (https://uwlive.rowla.com/gigs/view/194.html). is that the case for everyone else? would be a shame to leave this incomplete. I know the setlist seems generic but the sound is blown out in all the right ways and it just kills it for me every time.

[stimpee]

This gig was almost identical to the three warmup gigs in Utrecht which were 13, 14 and 15 March. These were all bootlegged (including Rick's warmup sets), and I agree they were fantastic performances (I was at all four).

I think we can add London 17-03-17 to one of the best post 2000 sets, even if no recording surfaces.