I just want to say that Madpooter just used a really great term: "Butt-hurt."
I use this with my friends, but I wasn't sure whether it was common enough that I'd see it other places. Thank you for this confirmation

::laughs::

Glad to be of service. I find that this term is interchangeable when commenting on how someone might get "sand in his vagina."

Butt-hurt is a new one I think. I feel like I've used it on the forum before just to test drive it

Biff, on 23 June 2010 - 06:46 PM, said:

Indeed you have. Just do a search for butt - it's all in there, lol (hooray for forum search!)

http://www.thechemic..._1&#entry182427

rotfl

I :heart: search feature

Hi Guys,

I had the fortune of making it over to Sonar too. It's a great festival in my favourite city in Europe.

I have to say I was a little disappointed by the set. As mentioned earlier in the thread the sound at the very start was absolutely awful, we moved from the back of the room (under the back set of speakers) to the middle set of speakers but still no sound at all, then from the middle we had to walk outside and walk up to the front and come in the side door and push through the masses to get any kind of decent sound on front of the speakers at the front. Really disappointing as snow is one of my favourite chems songs and it was pretty much inaudible as were the first few songs. However sound aside, I'm a huge fan of the new album, I think it's excellent, but I was expecting a bit more than to just hear the album play straight through from start to finish mixed EXACTLY as it is on the album, I understand that there is a visual show to go with it and I understand that there were some tweeks made to Horse Power and Swoon but overall I thought the chems would have done what they do best, mix it up new and old, re-arrange it and change it etc. Like when they played Sonar in 2005 after releasing push the button, that was a visual show also but they managed to play most songs off the new album and still fit in loads of the back catalogue but it was all mixed up - as with every other time I've had the fortune of seeing the guys perform. In sonar this year we got 1 hour of the new album and then 30 minutes of the classics which in my opinion isn't enough to do the back catalogue any justice. There was so much omitted that I felt disappointed after it. Which is annoying considering I went to Sonar primarily to see the Chems as they had no Irish dates booked.

The last half hour the place was going nuts and it was good fun, the guys were obviously tied for time at that stage and were trying to fit in as much as possible so they were playing half songs, samples etc which I suppose left me wanting more, playing clips of 'it doesn't matter' and 'electronic battle weapon 7' but not playing the songs was a little frustrating as they are two of my favourites.

That said I've been to see the chems enough times to know how good they really are live so I won't take too much negativity from this, plus it was their first festival performance so I'm sure there will be a lot of tweeking and changing done over the next few months.

I've heard a rumour that the guys are playing in the o2 in Dublin in November so I'll have to keep an eye out for tickets, perhaps the disappointment of Sonar has left me wanting for another chems performance, hopefully things are structured a bit better come November.

the brothers gonna work it out! (sorry I had to!!)

GuerraRelampago, on 21 June 2010 - 07:51 PM, said:

In all fairness there is absolutely no hate or prejudice displayed at all in Whirlygirls comments nor does it instigate either.

Like it or not Spain does have a reputation for petty crime and I think it was a fair comment to make given it is a genuine and serious problem. However, Spain is also known for many other positive things which well outweigh the negatives but unfortunately you can pick any country on the globe and not all affiliations with that country are going to be positive. Every country has it's problems and it's nothing to get embarrassed or defensive about.

Barcelona is particularly bad for this kind of crime but for me that doesn't take away from the charm of the place, you just need to be extra vigilant and careful, a small price to pay to spend time in such an amazing city. As mentioned above it's my favourite city in Europe by a clear mile, crime or no crime.

When I was over at Sonar I heard numerous stories of people I know having things stolen from them whilst out and about and to be honest I wasn't at all surprised, partly due to the fact that outside Sonar in 2005 I witnessed two children steal a mans phone while pretending to beg for money, only for the fact that I saw it happen and alerted him, his phone was gone. These kids were no more than 8 or 9 and were thought to be professional pick pockets. This is a problem experienced in many large touristic cities worldwide, Spain unfortunately is one of these countries affected by this. Sure our land lady in Barcelona (a spanish lady) upon checking said it embarrasses her to say it but they have a huge problem with pick pockets and that we were to be extremely careful of our possessions when out walking.

In contrast I heard of someone who got pick pocketed on a tram in Dublin last week and I was genuinely shocked, because I had not heard of this type of crime in Dublin in years, Dublin used to be very bad for petty crime throughout the 80's and 90's but crime has decreased year on year in Dublin which is a welcomed change, that's not to say it's still not a problem, far from it but petty crime like pick pocketing was tackled and seems to have been almost eradicated. On the flip side gun crime and gang lands feuds are on the sharp increase. So whilst we might not be the worst country in the world for gang crime if someone on this or any forum said that Ireland is known for crime, whilst my opinion might not favour this statement, it is a genuine problem and I cannot deny that. I'm not saying in Dublin is in any way great, Dublin and Ireland in general have more problems than most countries worldwide, but the point I'm trying to make is that whether your agree or disagree Spain IS known for it's crime.

Your opinion is your own and no-one can deprive you of that but I think you are being a little sensitive, I'm sure you're proud to be Spanish and that's admirable but you cannot deny that Spain, like all other counties worldwide has it's problems and crime is one of the most prominent.

welcome, jay nyquist!

good review of the chems gig. man, those soundproblems also appeared in the back of the floor?! what is snow without this massive sub bass? rain? what is a chems set start without mindblowing power? the prodigy? (LOL)

i was standing in the front (near the ice explosion tubes). during escape velocity the soundlevel began to increase.

also the thing with the empty ice explosion tubes...not so nice! i hope they will fix those things in the near future. after sonar, my very first chemsgig in vienna (open air), is still the best so far, and i think it will be forever. hopefully they will come back to austria as well and rock the shit out of me. hopefully 2h long with their excellent back catalogue.

@Jay Nyquist: Thanks for the reviews, man! Too bad about the sound. Welcome to the Forum!!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and give a well thought out review of the show, Jay - there has been some banter (some of which got quite heated) about the setlist in other threads but it's good feedback to get some fresh perspective on what's what, too. I hope you get a chance to see the Chems again this tour. I can't imagine they wouldn't plan on making a stop in Dublin!

Amen to that Whirly.Amen to that!

At the very beginning, there's such a great harmony/chord... I could imagine a whole song around this ...it's like the rise of an epic one.

Csar, on 08 July 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

Did you see Ed's jump at 2:50

I'd been meaning to post a review of the Chems at Sonar too but completely forgot until now!

I really enjoyed their set. Yes it was more or less exactly the same as their Roundhouse set(s), but it was amazing to see it in such an immense environment in the Sonar Club arena. And yeah the sound issues at the beginning were annoying but that's live music for ya, things are never perfect and that's what's so great about live music I guess! I was near the back of the middle, if that makes sense, so thankfully away from the munters, but the atmosphere was great. Most of the crowd seemed to love the new stuff and by the time the encore kicked in everyone was going nuts.

One last thing I want to say too is that was my first time at Sonar and it's an awesome festival. Really well organised but it manages to avoid the staleness of most other well organised corporate festivals and keep a brilliant laid back vibe. I thoroughly recommend anyone who has the chance to check it out. I'm deffo gonna be going back next year

For anyone who's interested, I wrote a little Sonar 2010 review on my website here: http://hubiesounds.c.../my-sonar-2010/