Hi all!

I'm new here but hello!
I hope it's okay to start a topic like this ... le me say first.

I'm 27 and I bought the second album first when it came out ... Dig Your Own Hole ... I used to listen to it while doing a paper round! All my girly friends thought I was odd and I hated boybands, but loved the cool dance music at the time.

so when ... a few brilliant albums later I got a chance to see one of my first fave bands... well I've been building up for it fro weeks.

I went to see the Chems at the Roundhouse Last Sunday and I was major disapponted.

As we know the first set was the new album and I thought it was okay, but the second was simply a medley of the good songs....but not very many of them1 I heard the beat to 'It doesn't Matter' and thought ...wahey were on!!! But all they did was play the beat then mix it in with another song...

Basically I consider myself a die hard long life fan and I feel really let down.

If you look at the set list, and compare that with all the material pver the last 15 years I think you'll see what I mean.

Very Upset.
Rachel
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It was only an hour long set - what were you expecting, their whole discography? The Roundhouse shows were all about Further. Get that.

yawn

So, you bought Dig Your Own Hole when it came out and you just got around to seeing them tour now.

You missed a bunch of great tours. Their live show right now isn't their live show five years ago, ten years ago, or fifteen years ago.

Each tour has brought new energy, a new album of music, and new experiences. The Brothers aren't going to focus on a past album, or a past era. It's the same with any good artist, or group.

If you want to see an electronic act that has stayed in the past, check out Orbital. No offense--it was an awesome show--but the experience was straight from 1996. Ooh, yeah, it was a good one, though.

If you will, some advice: you like other bands, right? If you like the album you're listening to, don't wait nearly two decades to see them and expect that you're going to get the experience you would have had you gone to see one of their shows when they were touring with that album.

RACHEL KNOWS WHAT IS WHAT. EVERYONE HERE HAS SUCH LOW EXPECTATIONS! WITHOUT A DOUBT, THEIR BEST ALBUM IS DYOH!!! SO IT SHOULD BE THE MAIN FOCUS AT EVERY SHOW!!! DUH!!! GET WITH IT PEOPLE!


BIG BEAT RULES!!!!!

hehe, what funny replies. I'm still stuck in the 90's big style, with alot of music. Someone did tell me that when bands tour and the have just brought a new album out they tend to focus on that.

I explained my age coz when dig your own hole came out ... I was 14. Sorry I did't get to the tour of that year ... I was quite young thoogh, you have to give me that.

and I have seen plenty of bands that play older music ... 2 years ago Ian Brown was playing Stone Roses songs from the 80's ... so you think that's a bad thing?

We've had posts like Rachel's before. I suppose the debate is (and has been before) do the Brothers stick with the bigbeat sounds of DYOH which many people loved or do they change/evolve their sound and risk upsetting fans? I admire Tom and Ed's boldness in doing what they did on Surrender, moving on from the big beat/bass drum orientated sound of DYOH to acid house/psychedelia. With any band it's something that can either backfire or earn them new fans - if they stuck with the same thing the reaction may well have been "Tom and Ed have run out if ideas". The Kaiser Chiefs (sorry I can't think of a better example) changed their sound on their most recent album and sales turned out to be poor when it was released. I suppose in the end it depends on the individual listener's tastes.

The Brothers have worked well with the changes in their sound according to the changes in their lives. I think it's clear they have grown as spirits, and their music reflects that.

@Pumisher: She didn't double post. Her 2nd post was different.

If they had kept on making big beat, I'm pretty sure that the fans would have got fed up with it.

i was 13 when dyoh came out and i went to see them on that tour...you may consider yourself a die hard fan, but others may not....

you also obviously dont understand how a band may promote a new album. the roundhouse shows were not the tour, that will come at the end of the year, the roundhouse shows were a showcase of the new album. the first place in the world to hear further. thats why i went...3 nights in a row (die hard fan) unfortunatley thats only why about 3% of the crowd were there, to hear further, they expected a "normal" chems show, because they obviously didnt decide to use this new fangled doodle called the interwebs to find out what the show might actually entail.

dyoh and epd are 2 of my favorite albums by the chems, and they have aged amazingly, unlike alot of other electronic acts from the 90's electronic genre, and if you listened to the set they played, there were actually tunes from both thos albums in the set. if you want to hear big beat, go find a warehouse somewhere and set a rave up.

RachelstarFish, on 01 June 2010 - 12:01 PM, said:

ive seen bands play albums for 10,15,20 year anniversarys, its nice to hear an album like that live, but you cant expect a band to play a whole set like that, it would get very stale very qucik.


im not going to feed any more idiot trolls who are "dissapointed" with the roundhouse shows. they were great shows. full stop

MadPooter, on 01 June 2010 - 04:10 PM, said:

Exactly, they were contiguous posts.
"Yay" for increasing our collective vocabulary!

Yo, respect.

OMG I have been totally murdered LOL. If I was a sensitive person I might cry.
Actually, I learnt something. I'm not really that big of a fan as I waited til now to see them and going to a fan site to say you didnt like somehting is a bad idea.
I guess you all think Tom and Ed read this and it's a competion to see who can stuff their heads furthest up there ass.
Me, I say what I feel and feel and mean what I say. It gets me murderded on fan sites ...

Au Revoir
xx

RachelstarFish, on 02 June 2010 - 04:00 AM, said:

Yawn.
Giving up and leaving is worse than crying.

Have you heard of trolling? It's pretty much what you did. But how could it not have been trolling? Well, you could have said: 'I really only like songs from Dig Your Own Hole, and the Chems played only 2-ish songs from that album at Roundhouse. Hence, I was disappointed with the show.' Of course, that is up to interpretation from what you said in your first post. "Many albums later..." could mean you listened and liked those albums, but then you mention that you were excited specifically to hear 'It Doesn't Matter', and you were disappointed that they only partially played it. So, since you did not say clearly say what you meant/felt, and because you merely implied the reason(s) why you were disappointed, most of the regular forum member were annoyed by your post.

And why did I write this? Because I'm bored, and I'm tired of people who are unclear and act like it is the forum's fault for responding negatively to their own negativeness.

Just because our opinions differ from yours doesn't mean you're not welcome here. Unless you came just to troll. In which case don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Otherwise stay and add to the discussion here.

Nobody took the time to tell him/her that the Roundhouse shows were not regular gigs, but shows to promote the new album, so that's why it didn't match his/her expectations.
If i was at the Roundhouse as well watching the Chems for the first time and not knowing what those shows are really for, i would feel the same way, dissapointed.
Their live set will change much when they start touring regularly, so i recommend you Rachel to go and see them again when you have the chance.

chemdup, on 02 June 2010 - 12:13 AM, said:

igorchete, on 02 June 2010 - 01:22 PM, said:

see above