2019-07-05 Roskilde Festival

[robotusch]

Figured I'd get the ball rolling. 19 years after their last gig here, 25 years since their first.

Some of the Danish media have mentioned Underworld in their various "Go watch this" lists, with one site mentioning them in the "If you've had your fill of new, never-heard-of-them-before artists and just want to have a party, Underworld is where it's at" category.

Edit: Thanks to the mods for adding in the venue, I was on my way out the door when I posted, and thought I had put it in before hitting post.

[Resolute]

i'm there, hope it'll be good.

[mark3]

i'm there, hope it'll be good.

Say hi if you see me. I'm wearing the green Born Slippy shirt

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TMO into Dark Train

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KoS into Border Country

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ALF & Listen to their No

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Rowla!!!

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Rez/Cowgirl

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Nuxx. Massive party all round.

[jetpig]

Nuxx. Massive party all round.


Thanks for this setlist!

[mark3]

Loads of problems for Rick this evening. Probably had to shorten down the setlist. Just 70 minutes

[jetpig]

Loads of problems for Rick this evening. Probably had to shorten down the setlist. Just 70 minutes




Hard to see what's going on behind the desk from the crowd, but what sort of problems? drop outs? things not firing up right?

[robotusch]

Hard to see what's going on behind the desk from the crowd, but what sort of problems? drop outs? things not firing up right?
Samples dropping in the middle of other songs was what I noted the most. Happened twice iirc.

[Resolute]

didn't play rez itself, straight to cowgirl with the usual rez ending. started out on the same loop that went on for seemingly too long while rick kept going between laptop and console.
rowla accidentally came in during cowgirl briefly, cowgirl came in during the end of nuxx and led to a very small pause before nuxx continued.

[mark3]

Also, Listen to their no ended abruptly. Rick was shaking his head in frustration. It was a great night, though, just a bit short

[jose m]

75 mins was the contacted set time at the request of the festival :(

[Nico4]

didn't play rez itself, straight to cowgirl with the usual rez ending. started out on the same loop that went on for seemingly too long while rick kept going between laptop and console.
rowla accidentally came in during cowgirl briefly, cowgirl came in during the end of nuxx and led to a very small pause before nuxx continued.

That was strange. I wonder if it was an equipment error or if Rick made a mistake. I happened to catch the snafu here
(https://twitter.com/NicolajHatman/status/1147270778687303680). Idk if Rez/Cowgirl was shortened due to errors. At least Karl wasn't aware of it. He came back on stage being all "ohh you little joker!" towards Rick.

Not that it really mattered to the set in the long run. The Danish festival critics over here are calling it one of the best shows at the festival, handing out 5's and 6's. I myself thought it was miles better than what they presented at the Mad Cool Festival last year.

[robotusch]

I thought the set seemed a bit short, but in hindsight it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. They kept the tempo up all the way through, and given the slot time they had - 11.30 pm on day 3 of the festival (7 if you count the warmup period) - people were at a point where they just wanted to dance and party. And Rick & Karl let them do just that, throwing out banger after banger and finishing up with the one anthem to rule them all, however cheesy it may be.

I should add, Karl threw in a "It’s been a long time since we danced together. Do you wanna dance with me?" before Nuxx kicked off. Everyone around me took him up on that offer.

[jetpig]

I thought the set seemed a bit short, but in hindsight it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. They kept the tempo up all the way through, and given the slot time they had - 11.30 pm on day 3 of the festival (7 if you count the warmup period) - people were at a point where they just wanted to dance and party. And Rick & Karl let them do just that, throwing out banger after banger and finishing up with the one anthem to rule them all, however cheesy it may be.

I should add, Karl threw in a "It’s been a long time since we danced together. Do you wanna dance with me?" before Nuxx kicked off. Everyone around me took him up on that offer.


Everyone always does. :)


Thanks for the info on the slipups. Good to know our heroes are human.

[robotusch]

Some high quality videos recorded from the crowd:
Dark Train
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Rez / Cowgirl
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(Slip up is at around 3:30)

[jetpig]

Some high quality videos recorded from the crowd:
Dark Train
tE8VVP7qIs0

Rez / Cowgirl
xVJP-UvSths
(Slip up is at around 3:30)




Yeah that intro definitely seems unintentional. No matter how slick the technology gets, you just can't ever get away from the bugs, though I will note that they seemed to pop back up right as they are getting back to shuffling the setlist again.. Situations like this seem to make a good case for having pricey on stage.

[robotusch]

I somehow missed this recording of Listen to Their No the first time around, so I figured I'd add it for completeness (there's a recording of Nuxx as well, but I doubt anyone's overly eager to watch that...):
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Yeah that intro definitely seems unintentional. No matter how slick the technology gets, you just can't ever get away from the bugs, though I will note that they seemed to pop back up right as they are getting back to shuffling the setlist again.. Situations like this seem to make a good case for having pricey on stage.
To be fair, even with Price on stage, they still had slip-ups. I can recall two at the Hamburg gig during the small winter/spring 2008 European tour, when they threw caution to the wind and really mixed up the setlists. It's just the price of doing what they do live.