warb Escribi�:

i should have gone with you sb, after the chems i wanted to go see josh wink and fc kahuna but with me being with a bunch of hard house lovers i ended up mostly in the tidy tent, i was still on such a high from the chems i really didnt care where we went but now i am a little gutted.

the tidy tent, that sounds harsh!!!

if i could go back and change things i definately would X-D

sneakerbeater Escribi�:

I turned round to one of my friends and in my infinite wisdom said ?if sunshine underground is red then this is blue?. While I?m on the subject wouldn?t it be great if the Chems released the live version as a b-side to one of the new singles??

I always felt it as a bright purple :-? . It's quite interesting as half the music I listen to evokes colours in my mind! Strange! The mention of the Life is Sweet B-side is a very good idea, the Chems may have recorded some of their recent gigs, so we could be treated to some upcoming B-sides like GYH live (with plenty of bass) and the mix up of BRB and SttS/Leave Home.



The new material is getting me very excited, particularly because they seem to draw on the strengths from all over their music and introduce new ideas, Acid Children being classic chems sound, 'underwater song' drawing itself from SG and TSU (with SG being a big and unexpected hit on CWU) and 'would you like to' which has a brass breakdown (something they haven't done yet) and female vocals (something they've done with Beth Orton and Hope Sandoval). Then there's the Tim Burgess collaboration (not done since EPD) and the other track that a member of the Charlatans drums on. Very exciting!



Those pics are cool, again I am crestfallen 'cos as of yet I have not seen the Chems live. I was quite intrugied by some of the visuals...







Are these the visuals for BRB? They look really cool but not sure how they move?







Very strange!







It doesn't matter?







Star Guitar?



Also, when does the big screen visuals kick in, 'cos on the BBC coverage HBHG and GYH only have visuals on the small screens, but later on the giant visuals are present.

When it first started they only had the small lights on the stage but later on the big screen came on for the visuals. I feel it would have been more effective if it was at the start.



The robots are for it doesn't matter, I love that one. Can't rememer what song it is where there's this guy who keeps shooting himself in the head.



My favourite visual from creamfields/glasto would be the barbed wire, just in the way it matched and followed the music perfectly.

Warb Wrote

i should have gone with you sb, after the chems i wanted to go see josh wink and fc kahuna but with me being with a bunch of hard house lovers i ended up mostly in the tidy tent, i was still on such a high from the chems i really didnt care where we went but now i am a little gutted.

You're not alone, Warb! I too ended up in the Tidy tent with my hard-house loving friends & i wish i'd seen more of FC Kahuna & Josh Wink! I saw Josh Wink at T in the Park & he played an awesome set a couple of hours b4 the Chems. I would've loved to've seen him again. I did see a lil of FC Kahuna & the intimate layout of the Strongbow Rooms meant that i got to shake Jon's hand while he took a lil break from performing some very tricky stuff on the turntables. :D Seen the Chems twice now & i need to see them again asap! Has their next performance been announced yet? Whether in the UK or not, i don't mind, i'm willing to travel. :)

TheChemicalBrother Escribi�:

I always felt it as a bright purple :-? . It's quite interesting as half the music I listen to evokes colours in my mind! Strange! The mention of the Life is Sweet B-side is a very good idea, the Chems may have recorded some of their recent gigs, so we could be treated to some upcoming B-sides like GYH live (with plenty of bass) and the mix up of BRB and SttS/Leave Home.



Those pics are cool, again I am crestfallen 'cos as of yet I have not seen the Chems live. I was quite intrugied by some of the visuals...



Also, when does the big screen visuals kick in, 'cos on the BBC coverage HBHG and GYH only have visuals on the small screens, but later on the giant visuals are present.

purple?? i call sunshine underground red cos the visuals would start red and go through orange and yellow on previous tours. for some reason the visuals would remind me of a bbc television program form the early 80's called 'tenko'. know one at this point knows what i'm on about, the joys of weed!!



as for the screens. the chems have always had progression through the show with there visuals. like the first 20 minutes or so of the set would be in black and white. and then at some musically breaking point you would get the full mulicouloured experience. i seem to remember 'it doesn't matter' used to be the colour switching tune. and it's the same with the screens, as the show progresses the more screens would appear, maximising visual impact.



the main screens kicked in very early on this tour, the third song 'music:response' (the visuals with the silhouette men). and the colour kicks in with the green and yellow video in the 'would you like to?' new tune.



my photos are of



music:response

song to the siren

under the infulence/it doesn't matter

star guitar

hoops

private psychedelic reel

sneaker, thanks very much for clearing up the mess I started back on the other page. It's nice to read that the Chemicals are progressing, or evolving with their live sets. I really cannot wait until I can see them again. But I guess I'm gonna have to! :P



It's strange but not surprising when I read people here who see colors in their mind's eye when listening to music. For me, warm sounds in songs invoke not only feelings of warmth, but warm colors in the mind. I Think Sunshine Underground has a lot of warmth to it (plus the womb like rhythm throughout) so no wonder the red description seems to fit in my mind's eye. And that's without the visuals from the live shows - but you know the vegetable visionaries are always on to something! Songs that have higher pitched tones, or cool tones like, say... The Private Psychdelic Reel tend to invoke cool colors like blues and purples, for me.



I'm off on a tangent now, but record sleeves aside, I'd say the music of Exit Planet Dust, Surrender and Come With Us are "warm" records, and Dig Your Own Hole is a "cool" record in comparison. What do you guys think - or do you just get rainbow explosions in your head when you hear the Chemicals? X-D



Which brings up another thingie that's related to the Chems. Anyone in London going to see the I See Music exhibit that's going to have a lot of Chemical Brothers' artwork from their records? I would totally dig this, it's so up my alley. But alas, the geographical setbacks...

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Which brings up another thingie that's related to the Chems. Anyone in London going to see the I See Music exhibit that's going to have a lot of Chemical Brothers' artwork from their records? I would totally dig this, it's so up my alley. But alas, the geographical setbacks...

sounds very intresting, but google is not telling me much about this!!

It's the "latest" on the homepage of this site! ;)

i never use the conventional way of entering this site, just as well other people do and get to see all the latest news!!



looks keen, may have to go up to that, camera in hand obviously!!



this talk kinda reminds me of the artical of q magazines 100 best album covers. surrender was in there. it had the original picture of london's olympia halls music festival of 1975 which was used for the screen prints. i would love to have the original print for that!!! i have tried lookin with no luck :'(

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I'd say the music of Exit Planet Dust, Surrender and Come With Us are "warm" records, and Dig Your Own Hole is a "cool" record in comparison.

I totally get that.

iguanapunk Escribi�:

I feel like a right cunt saying this, but are we 100% sure they're mixing live and not just pretending. It seems exactly the same as Glasto and how do they get the visuals to match the beats properly? I don't know how that side of it works.

I am 100% sure they're mixing live and not just pretending. I don't have time now to explain -- perhaps tomorrow?

Yo,



They also played their remix of new orders temptation before star guitar.



I'm so peed off i can only remember half their set. Does anyone know how to get a copy of it.

The memories are all we have, well, apart from you who was high on pills probably. I can't find anything on P2P networks, I think I read somewhere on here that someone got the glasto performance video which was exactly the same.

Maybe,



I was at T in the park and the set was slightly diffrent from the one they played there.



They were great both times tho

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

iguanapunk Escribi�:

I feel like a right cunt saying this, but are we 100% sure they're mixing live and not just pretending. It seems exactly the same as Glasto and how do they get the visuals to match the beats properly? I don't know how that side of it works.

I am 100% sure they're mixing live and not just pretending. I don't have time now to explain -- perhaps tomorrow?

well saying things like that are gonna anoy the boys. people have said that they are pretending to mix in their dj show, like sections of brothers gonna work it out. the truth is they make special edit of tunes fused together. why do they get bashed when they go to great length to put on a good show??



well if i thought they were 'pretending', then i wouldn't have seen them live so many times. the way i see it is its a bit like djing on a grand scale. instead of having records playing through a couple of channels, you got that giant multi-track mixer running pre sequenced and on the fly sounds. now if you imagine each sound running through the mixer you can effect, like volume and EQ's also you can send them to external effects like delays a echos. then there is the mpc sampler/sequencer to the right of the stage which you see tom hunched over. watch tom hit one of those pads and listen to something like the drums get ripped up!



as for the visuals. i notice that the veggies have a video camera on the mixing desk, they can watch what tom is doing on the desk. it wouldn't be to hard to communicate when need the visuals change through a bit of sign language.



i not saying what i have said is right, but that is my spin on what they are doind

Calm down, I was just asking, it was difficult for me to ask you realise. It's just I don't know how they get the visuals matched perfectly, but Glako said he'll be back to explain, and I guess I knew it was live, I just wasn't 100%.

Well, I don't know jack poopie about how they do anything live, so I'm not going to even try and explain the technicalities of it all.



But exactly as sneaker said, (during Come With Us) it sounded to me as though they were mixing on the fly, djing their own material on a grand scale. The Surrender show I saw had a different feel than Come With Us, the songs felt like they more... crashed into each other. Again, maybe this was a time constraint issue. A friend I was with for Surrender said the show sounded canned - I wanted to slap him, but instead on the drive home made him listen to all the Chemical Brothers records then come back and say their show sounded canned! He didn't. Heh.



Anywho. I don't see anything wrong with having a set list or how this would lend itself to critics saying the Chems preprogrammed their shows and are just up there pretending - I'm not knocking you iguana because I really do think your question is an innocent one - but I have heard the accusations in this regard and I have to wonder if it's people knocking the Chemicals' approach, or just a lack of understanding or even imagination as to how all those sequencers and mixers are pulled off live. Set lists are just a format to follow and all those sequencers and mixers are the instruments to do their bidding and flesh out the basics. I'm sure like any live band, there will be some things that are the same each night, but there will most definitely be variation. That's what makes the shows human!

Well no other band plays a set like it, they stop and pause inbetween every track, they dont build it up the same way the chems do. I have been going to raves and festivals for over 10 years now and the Chemicals live is the best thing ive ever seen.



Did anyone see the lasers right above our heads. Awesome.



Could anyone please help me find any live recordings of the brothers especially the live version of the golden path i know it was on TV from Glasto but i never recorded it but i would really like a complete live set from this tour but i guess we'll never get one.



TA

Ar! Sneaker explained some of that! Time to hit my girlriend's place, I'll post my godly reply tonight unless miloco2forum comes and does a better job before then...