2014-10-11 Royal Festival Hall
 

Twitter suggests Bigmouth, Minneopolis,
NUXX, Rez and Dark Train as tracks played that aren't on the main Dubno album.

http://instagram.com/p/uB0EwDlYv6/
https://vine.co/v/OAIEOh1EhxZ

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Ed from Chemical Brothers in attendance.

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Well, that was one of the greatest shows I've ever been to...

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bigmouth was big.

Paul Morley was on the tube, I should have asked if he was there.

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Setlist was:
Dubnobass in full
Rez
Minneapolis
Dark Train
Bigmouth
BS Nuxx

Gig was incredible. Highlights for me were Skyscraper sounding fantastic, Dirty Epic, Cowgirl, M.E. which Karl introduced as "for those who were at Glastonbury in 1991"... Rez was fantastic, sounded awesome. Minneapolis had Karl doing a fantastic guitar jam... until the power went down for about 10mins! They got everything working again and did Dark Train and Bigmouth, Karl on the harmonica. I don't think they were planning to do BS but they did it anyway.
Tongue sounded a bit iffy on the vocals but the guitar was lovely. Apart from that, totally faultless.

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Were people dancing around? What about the performance of Dubno tracks, was it note-perfect or with parts of improv?

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Oh god yes. How could you not? I was right at the back in a corner up the top, and from where Rick and Karl were to where I was, everyone was dancing and having a great time. The crowd loved every minute.

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Dubnotracks - no improvs, just the tracks done faithfully. That goes for encore tracks too, pretty much.

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Did you get some lovely tee, poster/print?

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Yeah, got a poster and a t shirt. I got to the merch bit at 6pm pretty much and a queue for stuff formed rather quickly.

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envy (ˈɛnvɪ) n, pl -vies1. a feeling of grudging or somewhat admiring discontent aroused by the possessions, achievements, or qualities of another
2. the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another; covetousness
3. an object of envy

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:D

Why BS Nuxx though?

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Yeah, dunno why but the crowd loved it. Me too. Why not eh?
Why no Spikee is my question!

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No Spikee, no 2PAC but one BS. Strange, indeed!

A word about Emerson from Karl?

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i hope we can combine all these reviews in moments forums.

wasn't expecting to find comments here in this thread.

it's too confusing with all the threads requesting tickets.

later
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Let's hope a fair audience (soundboard?) recording will be floating around soon!

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Just found a fair sounding YouTube clip of M.E. from tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpERZACerE

Jason

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Setlist for the night. NUXX was indeed not on it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BztD3lkCMAAr7TH.jpg

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It started with some Underworld songs playing quietly, some Bungalow with stairs, 8 Ball, and then Thing In A Book played much louder, and then Most 'Ospitable, until Rick and Karl took to the stage. They started with the intro to Dark Train instead of Dark and Long, then stopped and corrected themselves.

Minneapolis cut out towards the end, Karl did some miming to try and explain they wouldn't be long. Darren poked around with the equipment for a while. Came back with Dark Train, the projector called it Dark Long. Karl played a harmonica for Bigmouth. They missed a chance to play Spikee for the encore and played Born Slippy/.NUXX instead.

The night ended with us all meeting Rick Smith outside. We only just got a group photo with him, he was whisked away straight after we met with him.

I posted some videos to my vine account, my phone was dieing so I thought that would be better than nothing from me. https://vine.co/u/1047325449400795136

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Sounds Lovely

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In terms of surprises, Minneapolis was the high point. Never heard it live before and Karl performed a rad guitar jam throughout. Bigmouth was just as much a surprise but was more faithful to the original.

Of the Dubnobass tracks, everyone seemed to agree that Surfboy came alive like never before. Rick seed to be having a lot of fun up there by himself and it sounded fantastic. ME was also a highlight. My only regret is that I was dancing so much that I didn't focus on the intricacies and performance that I know the band chose this venue to highlight. But I guess that's a hazard of being underworld; you can't not dance to it.

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A lovely gig, being seated was odd, but I don't like the crush so i kinda liked it. Perhaps I'm getting old.

From up front the boys looked kinda tense for the first few songs, I was kinda worried. Then Rick did Surfboy and then everything got relaxed, smiles and the groove.

Towards the end Rick was nae happy with something on right side of his desk, then boom, everything stopped. I heard afterwards someone from backstage say it was something to do with the dry ice.

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Loved the minimal production. Keeping it simple with the graphics and focusing on the typography.

Funny that everyone stood up as soon as they came on and were dancing in the isles after a couple tracks! The sound was amazing - was it me or was it loud (my ears are still ringing), maybe I am getting old.

I don't really have any highlights for songs at this point - I thought surfboy and spoon man were rocking and really picked up the atmosphere (which I think has been lacking a bit recently at recent London gigs except for the Forum show maybe).

Karl did not play guitar on dirty epic which was a bit of a surprise.

I go down to the Southbank quite a lot and it was great that from about 7.30/8 the bars were rammed and the music from the auditorium (overture) was being pumped into the foyer (quite loudly). A bit surreal!

I even managed to day hello to Danny Boyle in the bar before the gig and pick up one of the set of artist proofs for the prints :-)

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Found a few more YouTube clips of the gig.

Big Mouth (last few minutes with Karl on the harmonica) :D .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkP5h1vrj2A

Dark & Long (Dark Train) ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdodypUPow

Props to the video takers.


--Jason

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I doubt I will ever hear dunbo sound better sound quality was amazing some nice suprises on the setlist and yeah surfboy was superb . epic:D

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What a night:D. The best UW concert I have seen, and I have seen many!

We were in row F but wandered down to the front to join the others dancing around.

Rez was immense .... Both Ric & Karl seemed genuinely surprised at the crowds reaction to some of the tracks :)

Only disappointment was the number of woman (who had obviously been dragged along by their husbands!) talking loudly the whole through the slower tracks:mad:

Will try to put up some YouTube clips later.

Mistakes, equipment failure but this concert will long in the memory

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Been a while since I posted, but easily in my top 20 shows of the 1,400 I have seen by anyone anywhere (not just by UW) in the past 25 years. Have some photos : https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark-r...7648265355720/

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We saw the same, although it was as much lads with beers talking through Tongue and RoB as much as women. It was a good gig, but a failed experiment for me - I don't think an Underworld audience knows what to do during the more downbeat songs, which is why the band don't/can't play them live.

Interestingly, Karl didn't have this problem on his solo tour.

Overall though, it was brilliant to hear ME live, Minneapolis was awesome and I never expected to see Karl do the harmonica part all through Bigmouth. Shame they felt they had to finish with nuxx though!

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I was stood at the front and as far I could hear from discussions with the pair they were not meant to play it & only decided at the last minute?

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Indeed. Nuxx wasn't on the setlist. And why complain about them playing it. I know they do it at every gig, but it never disappoints.

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I'm not entirely sure it was a regular Underworld audience - perhaps because of the venue? In the lift at the end of the gig there were a couple of 40-something guys and a woman, and one of the guys said the gig had been "a bit more lively than he had thought" and when I smiled and said "Do you think you might have got the wrong tickets?" he laughed and said "Well it wasn't the same as Spandau Ballet".

The combination of early tickets for members of the Festival Hall/South Bank Centre and those who discovered UW for the first time at the Olympic Opening Ceremony may have played a part.

I don't think they could have escaped without playing NUXX in the scheme of things... (would have preferred Spikee though.)

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The audience reminded me a LOT of the late 90's-early 00's shows (just a bit balder and a bit fatter). If you hadn't seen them before, I imagine it might have been a shocker given how lively the crowd was. Best show of theirs I have seen since the summer 2000 minitour.

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Yes, we did think that might be part of the explanation for the chatting and visits to the bar during the quieter songs. It was a surprise though. Someone said the queue for the bar was 20 mins long - and that was while dubno was still being played!

I don't mind nuxx, btw. I just thought this gig was one chance to finish with something from the dubno era instead!

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Nuxx was played live on the dubnotour...

RFH aftermath thread
 

Wow, no-one got anything to say about the Royal Festival Hall gig? I'll kick off by saying we had a ball, I was rather disappointed they didn't play Spikee, and...

...there's at least one recording in the can!

Cheers,

Dr. Matt...

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Can someone post the set list please?

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Ah fair enough - I didn't see them live then. I just don't want them to think they *have* to play any song.

On the crowd noise thing - it's a double edged sword. The reaction during Dirty Epic was, well, epic, and the atmosphere overall was awesome. I just wish people who were claiming to love the album would shut up during Tongue!

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I wrote about last night :

http://www.thefinalword.co.uk/content/view/1285/35/

"It's like watching the music equivalent of Evel Knievel jump the grand canyon, in the Batmobile, whilst high fiving James Bond on a jetpack."

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Look over in the Moments part of the forum:

http://www.borndirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18071

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That setlist is incredible. I think I would've fell over to hear 'Big Mouth' & Minneapolis.' Can't wait to hopefully hear some recordings from some of these shows. Truly hope they come to the US next year.

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Guardian review:

http://gu.com/p/42ccy