Thank u tom and ed...

had an amazing night!

Rocked the fucking socks off portrush

Im very well tubed off my face! plenty of tablets tonight!

I would write a set list... but no... the main thing is.. they fucking blew away my expectations!

i cant get to sleep im that happy about it all

omg

loveee u

whatever dude. no setlist, no care.

wicked!!!

Not the most eloquent of reviews, but I'm glad you had an awesome time!

:)

galvinise

burst generator

do it again

get yourself high

hey boy hey girl

all rights reversed

out of control

dont fight it feel it

temptation - star guitar

Surface to air

cant remember what order the rest were in.. thats wen i completely started dancing like a winged fool...

saturate

believe

leave home

chemical beats

block rockin beats

the pills wont help you now

we are the night

jesus im still well tubed!

Everybody standing round me thought i was psycic, because i told them what song wud be next, due to mass amount of youtubage!

but aye, cracker time... bring on oxegen! theyre playing same time as rage against the machine, but fuck that, chemical brothers no doubt.

nearly forgot... under the influence.. fuck me them robots were insane

and the Golden path

hey they are still doing pills. YAH!

LH to CB! . . then to BRB! (a little switcharoo there :)

glad you had a wicked night mate!

That's awesome, dirtchamber! I'm so glad you had such a great time at the show. :)

Hopefully now you're resting and dreaming with visions of Tom and Ed dancing in your head.

Maybe when you're feeling more up to it - like, after you've gotten some sleep and regained your bearings - you can post more about your experience at the show. But I think you're thread title sums it up in a nutshell. :) Nice one, brotha.

no Come with Us ?

Other than Pills, looks pretty much same as setlist from last year... Still good, all the same.

yeah i was quite disappointed actually. like i read on here about a brand new light and laser show with new effects and stuff for the songs....but the set list was nearly identical to when i saw them in prague last august, and the effects were the same as well pretty much, infact they werent even as cool! very few lasers, 1 short strobe! it was still cool but when the set is so predictable it kinda takes away the excitement. i was expecting come with us to open things then into galvanise, but it started with galvanise as they have been doing for like a year now. kinda sucked. all we got for come with us was the opening words when the 2nd half of the set kicked off, not the full song. in fact, just checked back to the prague setlist and i think it had even more songs than this set did! and checking youtube the visuals that were in spain definitely were not the same as what we got in portrush. i know i sound a moany bastard here like, i was just expecting something new and different and that didnt happen. they were still decent.

drpepper - thanks for your honesty... other than the omission of Come With Us (opening words aside) what would have made the show better? Was it just the overall setlist that was a disappointment, overuse of Galvanize as an opener, was it the order of the songs, or did this gig feel more or less like a re-hash of the Prague set? As for visuals, did you notice anything new or was the only thing "new" the 1 short strobe and few lasers?

It's easy to say "OH man the Chems were fantastic and good as ever" but constructive criticism is not always a bad thing. I'm not trying to be snarky with my questions - I'm just curious.

Well im back to life and can speak properly again lol.

Last night blew me away, along with the rest of portrush. I am a major fan and I have watched alot of their vids on youtube, and it was more or less the same. But it didn't matter, the sound is unbelieveable. The experience is like the first time you take acid.

Being high of my tits on mdma and my girlfriend singing the Golden Path to me, will stay with me the rest of my life!

Here a wee video lol

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=EYlg28STp_s

I think we should do a topic to ask to tom & ed to change the setlist...

Setlist

Galvanize [Dont Hold Back Samples]

Burst Generator

Do It Again/Get Yourself High

Hey Boy Hey girl

All Rights Reversed

Out of Control/It Doesnt Matter

Dont Fight Control

Star Guitar

Surface To Air

Under The Influence/Doesnt Matter

Saturate

Believe

The Pills Won't Help You Know

We Are The Night

The Golden Path

Acid Children

Chemical Beats

Leave Home

Come With Us/Block Rockin Beats

No Sunshine to finish... unlucky! Must be the "festival" set this year.

hey whirly, thanks for your response and for not having a go at me!

yeah it honestly felt like it was just a routine re-hash of the same set they must have played a zillion times now. i appreciate that the chems havent played here since WATN was released and so maybe the setlist chosen reflected the fact that probably about 95% of the crowd had not seen this set before, which is fair enough.

what would have made it better? new visuals, more lasers and strobes and a few different songs thrown in - full songs not just wee snippets - that was also annoying, when they just throw like one line of a great song on top of the song already playing. immense stuff like the big jump, hold tight london, denmark, three little birdies thrown in would have just set it off!!

I totally agree with drpepper3k

I repeat : sorry if my english look strange, I'm french...

I would know opinion of everybody ; it's the We Are The Night tour 1 years ago. Like I said in an old topic, for me the time has come to... change the setlist.

I'm going to see them to Arras in France the 4th of july (with Justice & Underworld ^^), I will be very disappointed if they played more or less the same set than in Paris last year...

In comparaison I've seen Underworld change their set all days and adapt it to the gig or the concert hall. Why not the Chemical ?

@Chemicalmat--I had some of the same reactions hearing their We Are the Night tour set for the first time. Hearing the "YOU ARE ALL MY CHILDREN NOW" bit from EBW7 and not having them play it was a huge tease, and a big disappointment as I was expecting them to bring it in.

As far as comparisons go, though, you have to admit that while their setlist hasn't changed, they create a far more seamless experience with their music than anyone else out there, save for possibly Simian Mobile Disco, but we'll have to see how the new duo deals with incorporating their sophomore album into their live set before making any judgment calls.

Underworld does a great job of creating a more in-the-moment on-the-fly sort of experience with their live set, but there are gaps in their performance and slight mashups that sometimes don't fit, where the audience is just left to connect the experience for themselves. Perhaps the reason the Chems don't change their setlist up as much is because their style and attention to flow doesn't necessarily lend itself to the dramatic setlist changes one might see with Underworld.

Having written all that, I will say that the transformations that the set has gone through since they started touring We Are the Night have been admirable, and the small additions have been enjoyable. I think if you're looking for changes, try paying closer attention to what they do with the songs, and how they change since the last time you heard them. Having heard their sets countless times, I can tell you that nearly each time I listen to them I hear something different.

Yes Madpooter, if I don't understand all you said, I understand your feeling in the comparison with Underworld and I totaly agree !

More inprovisation ---> more error

But I think a live must be like that.

I enjoy all the little additions by the chems too (in Do it Again etc...) but i think to keep the same playlist (less or more) during one year is too much.

When I see the transition into Hey Boy Hey Girl with "get yourself high" it's not a surprise when the synth come on ; and one year later this part of the live become a bit boring for example.

More : the fact to do more or less the same live during 1 year can ask questions about what is sequenced or not. Ok we have seen the soundcheck videos on youtube, they were reasuring... but I'm asking me questions...