[Closed] Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman tour

Wowsers, on it. Good PSA!

Edit - oh 🙁

where are you flatboy? I can still get a hold of tickets for Glasgow despite seetickets showing them as sold out after 10 seconds...

That album is their finest work. That and Leftfields Leftism are probably my two all time favourites. A bit jealous now lads

I did try. It sold out in milliseconds. That album still sounds as good today as it did when it was released. And the Tomato artwork still looks brilliant too. Love it!

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Got tickets for that London - now, how to explain this to the better half?

Missed this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got 4 London tickets...wondering who to take other than the gf 🙂

Got tickets for Glasgow, has fair made my week... A pivotal album from my yoof thats for sure.

Just got 2 tickets for the Sage, Gateshead, Seems they had about a hundred left at 12:30.

Bugger...I forgot all about this after reading about it months ago.

ARSE!

I'm in London - I could feasibly make it to Bristol for which there still seem to be tickets, but in fairness my wife's expecting our second baby mid-March so it may be a bit of a stretch!

my wife's expecting our second baby mid-March so it may be a bit of a stretch!

😆 well played 😀

🙁 Why didn't anyone PSA this last night 😥

My mate text me this morning to say he has got me a ticket for the Hammersmith gig. Oooohhh weee!

Dunno where the other venues are but the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow put me off. They're amazing live, Everything Everything is an all time favourite and the last time I saw them in the academy was one of the best gigs I've been to. The place was going absolutely mental and it was rammed. Can't see the same vibe happening in the concert hall 😕

With an attitude like that, I'm glad you're not going to be there to ruin it for me bob 😉

I know what you mean though, I'm thinking the same. But, I've got standing tickets so my thinking is that there's enough of my mates at least for me to be able to stand there and not care about what's going on behind me.

I went to see Orbital in Academy 2 in Manchester a few years back and it was half empty, with the majority of people stood around with their arms folded. Fortunately, I was absolutely smashed 🙂

I had a presale link but the standing tickets were gone by the time I got in so didn't bother with the general sale.

Couple of Mortal Kombats and you'll be fine 😉

I'm seeing the concert hall as a plus really. The acoustics should be top notch.

Couple of Mortal Kombats and you'll be fine

I'm hoping it will go down a bit like Kasabian at the Palace in Killie. I reckon I could get up on the terrace no bother 🙂

I love Underworld. Seen them live a few times.

BUT dubheadnobassmonblah has never grown on me. Apart from Dark & Long and Cowgirl. I just tried listening to it again. Most of it is depressingly slow, repetitive and boring.

I'll be steering clear of a full live performance of that album 😉

Here comes christ on crutches 8)

I would have to be off me barnet to make that dive. Dove anyone?

With whiplash willy the motorpsycho

[i]I went to see Orbital in Academy 2 in Manchester a few years back and it was half empty, with the majority of people stood around with their arms folded. Fortunately, I was absolutely smashed [/i]

I saw them at Brixton Academy a few years ago and I was one of the folk stood around with folded arms. I wasn't smashed. So maybe this says something about Orbital?

I saw them at Brixton Academy a few years ago and I was one of the folk stood around with folded arms. I wasn't smashed. So maybe this says something about Orbital?

Yup folks you heard it here first...dance music is better with drugs - revelatory.

I was at (one of) the brixton academy gig(s). I wasnt' stood rounfd the edge with my arms folded. Would sir have been dancing if it was Crosby Stills and Nash?

And we all went mental...
And danced

Thanks to the OP for posting this.

This is a real classic album. Memories of 1st year at university watching Underworld supported by The Dust Brothers.

Fun times. Messy times. Dancing for days...

Not sure I wanna replace those memories.........

Cowgirl is playing now......

Memories of 1st year at university watching Underworld supported by The Dust Brothers.

Ditto. Megadog tour perchance? I remember watching it with a 4 pack of IPA!

Ditto. Megadog tour perchance? I remember watching it with a 4 pack of IPA!

It was indeed Megadog.

I look back in fondness on that night/weekend. Such happy memories..

It just seems sooooo long ago...

Not sure if got the 'quote' function quite right.. 🙂

 

Got tickets in there pre-sale for Manchester. Always worth signing up to newsletters! Excited already.

I am also an underworld lover.
Glad to get it of my chest tbh.

Got a mail through from Underworld this morning saying that they're adding a few more dates to the tour, inluding one in the UK - Brighton Dome on 7th March. Tickets go on sale on Friday, though dome and underworld mailing list members can get presale tickets from tomorrow:

[url= https://tickets.brightondome.org/online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=C2A88B28-102B-44FB-8F8F-FFEE1531D9D2 ]Presale
[/url]
[url= http://brightondome.org/event/6791/underworld/ ]General Release[/url]

Cowgirl was just the best tune ever.

But I don't want to go see them live now.

Well that came around quickly! Glasgow gig tonight 🙂

Was in Laaandan on Friday with stevestunts of this parish. Was PROPER. He was poorly though (not booze - got a bug of his eldest, puked in the street and everything).

Saw them in Brighton last Saturday...
"They" were good. But I've seen them much much better in the past.
I say "They" because it wasn't really Underworld. It was Rick and Darren Price. Which is only 1 bloke out of Underworld.

It was at Brighton Dome which has a massive sound system, but it was nowhere near loud enough.
Now, I go to a lot of gigs and most are new bands.. I'm not used to walking into a bar full of middle aged folk milling around discussing who was baby sitting Tarquin tonight and which Le Creuset pans they'd been using that day. Ok, fine if they do that in the bar, but they were doing it ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE GIG too. Ignorant bastards. Twice I turned to people and, politely as I could muster, told them to shut the f up.

They didn't ruin Dirty Epic or Rez though, I danced like a monkey to those.

Overall, pretty average. And the last re-union/album anniversary gig I ever do. Why do people pay £30+ to go to a gig and not even watch/listen? Is it just so they can get their shitty photo on Facetwit to [i]show people they were there[/i]??

Dez, I thought the exact same thing last time I saw Orbital. Loads of middle aged guys standing around with their arms folded, chatting and looking pretty bored. Seemed they'd manage to blag a free pass from the wives for the night and then realised they just don't like clubs any more.

Well the standing in the apollo was bouncin' and it was definitiely loud enough(OK it's never loud enough but it was. I'm 38 you know.)

Dez, I agree I had to have words with the wife at one point.

They were ok but not amazing. When they were good I was younger and off my face. Good night out tho for us tho, babysitters etc..

To be fair it's a tour on a 20yr old album. Therefore everyone is going to be about 40 At the gig. I was there for retro kicks. Haven't listened to underworld in about 19 yrs.

Hoping for better things from the super furrys later this year...

I'm off to see them in Manchester tomorrow and have now had my expectations lowered slightly, still very excited though. One question -Dez - surely it's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, Underworld without Karl's lyrics would be like a bike without wheels....

I'm looking forward to tomorrow at the Manc AllbertHall, also a free after party thingy for tickets holders (so not really free).

I've a ticket going it anyone is after one.

[i]One question -Dez - surely it's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith[/i]

It's Karl (yeah sorry I said Rick, meant Karl!). He's singing, playing bass, playing guitar, dancin'... but Rick Smith is ill, so Darren Price stands in on the CD player 😉

River of Bass was completely drowned out by audience hubbub 🙁

I was at the Hammersmith gig and I had a great time. OK there were issues like it being way too quiet, River Of Bass was more of a trickle, but it was still a lot of fun. We were upstairs in the circle but I don't think anyone was sat down. I was lucky to be on the end of a row so spent the whole time dancing in the aisle. I'd definitely go again, but I've never seen them before so have nothing to compare to.

On the subject of talking through a gig, Bonobo in Birmingham was the worst I've ever been to. It was like people had gone just so they could say they had been rather than see the act. I am not confrontational at all but I told one bloke to "STFU". When he replied I was being rude I pointed out I had paid good money to see Bononbo, not listen so some boring chump witter on at his bored looking bird. That seemed to do the job. If you want to chat, clear off and do it somewhere else!

Loved this album at the time, still do, but no interest at all in going to see some of Underworld play it live in 2015, even though the Glasgow show will probably sound pretty good, given its in the royal concert hall.

Really dislike this whole anniversary/reformation/whole album retro gig thing. Your youth was your youth, and the reason it was so great is because you didn't have the adult life you have now. It just won't be the same now, let it go!

I try and apply the Creative Peak Rule for gigs - don't go and see a band once they're past their creative peak, it'll most likely just be disappointment and could end up tarnishing the times you saw them before they'd reached it.

I've ignored this for a couple gigs in recent years, and all its done is remind me that the rule is a good one. Public Enemy performing Nation of Millions was undeniably good, but compared to the impact they had on the 16 year old me the first time I saw them play it was just a bit hollow. I saw My Bloody Valentine loads of times in the Creation days and it was only the fact that MBV was imminent that persuaded me to go see them a few years ago, but I wish I hadn't bothered. Standing in a crowd full of 40 year olds nursing a single pint and checking their phones for babysitter updates - despite being that age myself, having a phone and using a babysitter that night too - was just crap compared to the intoxicated haze that previous MBV gigs had been seen through. Urgh.

Was tempted for a bit by JAMC playing Psychocandy last year at the Barras, but nah.

Pretty much my policy - won't go see anyone charging £20 or more per ticket. But Underworld are special. I've loved everything they've done from dubnobass and since. I'll be looking forward to their new stuff too. I don't think there's one single other band I can say that about.

[i]Was tempted for a bit by JAMC playing Psychocandy last year [/i]

If the gig I saw 5 years or so ago was anything to go by, that would be even worse. Going through the motions, sums it up.
Especially compared to how Psychocandy was played originally (check the youtube vids).

won't go see anyone charging £20 or more per ticket

£12 was my ceiling for years, but even £20 is getting difficult now. Tame Impala later this year is something like £25!

I blame the Flaming Lips for that, ticket prices when they toured for Yoshimi were a good jump higher than average and they blamed their elaborate set, but everyone just seemed to follow suit and suddenly gigs were more expensive.

Nick Cave wants £65 this year! I'd expect him to cook me a meal for that.

My sister went to see Noel Gallagher the other night, for the ticket cost I'd be wanting Elvis Presley himself, back from the dead.

A £20 limit would stop me seeing most of the acts I want to see. I don't know if London prices are higher than elsewhere but I'd struggle to see many folk under it.

[url= http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2015/nils-frahm/ ]Nils Frahm at Camden Roundhouse from £20[/url]

[url= http://www.soundcrashmusic.com/the-cinematic-orchestra-hammersmith/ ]Cinematic Orchestra in Hammersmith from £27.50[/url]

I'd still get to see [url= http://www.soundcrashmusic.com/ulrich-schnauss-2/ ]Ulrich Schnauss[/url] if the booking fees are not too bad.

Suits me. Small bands in small venues. Last time I paid £20 it was for MF Doom and it was shit.
Glass Animals Monday - £10 (well, I actually paid £20 for 2 tickets and my mate bailed on the night, so I guess that cost me 20!)
Sleaford Mods tonight - £11 🙂

A mate lives in Amsterdam, so with a tour date there I'd hoped to get tickets and go and see them. It seems tickets for that gig were as common as snowballs in hell........