nuff said!!



more to follow

too right. i just got home, absolutely knackered. and somehow i managed to get right at the front, on the rail for the chems (to the right of the stage). Ed even gave me a thumbs up during star guitar. setlist was



Hey Boy, Hey Girl

Get Yourself High

Music Response

Block Rockin Beats

Leave Home/Song To The Siren

Yellow song

Under The Influence/It Doesn't Matter

Out Of Control

Star Guitar

Underwater song

Hoops/EBW 6

Acid Children

Setting Sun

The Golden Path

Elektrobank Outro

Got Glint

The Private Psychedelic Reel



Partway through the show a glowstick hit Tom right in the eye, I thought for a minute they were going to stop playing but thankfully he just ignored it and carried on.

leterel Escribi�:

Partway through the show a glowstick hit Tom right in the eye, I thought for a minute they were going to stop playing but thankfully he just ignored it and carried on.

Are you serious? what a prick i would have kicked that fucker out of the show, locked him up and then let the all the chem's fan deal with him

Aww, poor Tom. What a trooper. I hope his eye is OK!! I'm sure it was an accident, but still. Your mamma was right when she said not to wave that shit around cuz you'll put someone's eye out!



Plus points for the thumbs up from Ed, leterel!



sneaker, that picture is wicked as all get-out!!! Where's my droolie smiley, admin? *wink wink, nudge nudge*



Can't wait until you're rested and refreshed so you can bring on more piccies!

Awesome, glad the gig went off bigtime. Fooking glowsticks though, what a nonce to do that to a performer, no matter who it is eh. Prob too late now but the raw steak on the face actually works for saw eyes.

how'd yall know he got the glow stick thrown at him?

well it flew from the crowd somewhere towards tom's head

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Aww, poor Tom. What a trooper. I hope his eye is OK!! I'm sure it was an accident, but still. Your mamma was right when she said not to wave that shit around cuz you'll put someone's eye out!



Plus points for the thumbs up from Ed, leterel!



sneaker, that picture is wicked as all get-out!!! Where's my droolie smiley, admin? *wink wink, nudge nudge*



Can't wait until you're rested and refreshed so you can bring on more piccies!

he have a elastic eye ;-)

just beautiful. i almost pee'd myself with excitement.

Sneakers personal account of Creamfields



So this weekend has been and almost drawn to an end. I have been looking forward to it for months, and it didn?t disappoint. I partied hard, I know how to have fun!! Started the weekend off on Friday, I did my makoosa thing, which as always is a lot of fun. A great start to my weekend!!



Saturday ?the main event?, made sure I had a good sleep cos I knew it was gonna be a long day. I was the nominated driver of the day, what fun. We didn?t hit the road till 3pm. And I tried to nail the 250 mile journey as quick as possible. As I have said previously the weather in the UK has been frankly shit for the last month. It was overcast all day but luckily we didn?t have any rain. As we crossed the Mersey bridge at 7pm the sun just managed to break through for the first time for the day. I have been very lucky and not had bad weather at the 3 previous Creamfields I have been to at Liverpool. We tuned in to Judge Jules for the start of his show, just for a bit of anticipation for the night ahead. I could only tolerate his show for about 10 minutes before I went channel hopping. He really winds my up, I can?t stand him!!



We got out of my car to find the old speke airports ground to be quite spongy and soggy. Sneaker?s white sneakers were in for a mud bath. When we got in to the festival site we didn?t bother surveying the site and have a look around. Instead we made a b-line to the Subliminal tent. Former cream resident Seb Fontaine was on the decks, he was pumping I absolutely loved his set. He also played a few tunes I played the previous night, which I find reassuring. I?m going to have to make sure I go out and catch him a few time now he has left radio one. After that Subliminal supremo Erick Morillo graced us. It?s the 4th time I have seen him this year, I must admit he has been a bit hit and miss this year which is a shame. His whole technique for mixing records has been hugely influential on my style of mixing. Luckily Morillo was having a good day. Only got to enjoy an hour and a half of his set cos it was time to go and watch the brothers working it out!!!



The Chems were due on stage a 10.30 and as we got to the out door stage we saw the scissor sisters finishing their set, when the brothers should have been starting. We were speaking to some people earlier who said the site opening was 2 hours late this was because the health and safety people didn?t grant the festival its licence till some adjustments were made on the festival site. This meant the bands were pushed back by half an hour. The stage turn around was quite impressive, it didn?t take long for the studio to be wheeled into place.



?Leterel? got the track listing of the show spot on. Obviously they started their set with the familiar Junior Parker rework of ?Tomorrow Never Knows?. I gotta say the sound levels at the beginning of the set were very quiet and it wasn?t till a few songs in that the sound improved. I really loved the ?block rockin beats? and ?song to the siren?/?leave home? part of the show. It is a total broken beat assult. For someone who loves a 4/4 beat and not so keen on breaks it is a testament to the Chems production skills. And the new tunes are certainly really are doing the business, as I have previously posted that ?would you like to?? track is fantastic!! You guys are gonna love it!! I really find it hard listening to tunes for the first time, I really need a few listens for it to sink in. ?would you like to?? really has sunk in!!! As for that underwater song, the song with warmth and beauty. I turned round to one of my friends and in my infinite wisdom said ?if sunshine underground is red then this is blue?. Which might be obvious with the visuals but I think I kinda like that thought. It?s like the moon reflecting on a lake on a summer morning. ?Acid Children? went down a storm. I think it is the lynch pin of the entire set. The way that vocals comes in with a total presence. As I said earlier I heard that tunes 3 times at Creamfields, it?s a real sign the boys are back in business. As for the encore we were lucky to have ?Got Glint?. I was wondering if we might get Tim Burgess turn up for a final rendition of ?life is sweet?. I had checked out the Charlie?s web site to see if they were playing anywhere that night, but they weren?t. As it was there was no Tim anyway, I guess I?m not that lucky. 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 feel quite privileged to have seen the first and last show of the tour. I thought on Saturday you could really tell they had been playing for a while. There was total fluidity to the set. Not that there was anything wrong with the Wolverhampton show, far from it cos that got to be one of my top 3 shows I have been to. I think musically It was one of their best tours they have done. Visually I don?t think it was as good as the come with us tour. It?s not a criticism cos I love the way the visual presentation has always evolved over the years and the new visuals to the new tunes are great. It?s just the way the visuals on the 2001 tour were projected in such away that Tom and Ed, and the studio were silhouetted by Vegetable Vision mad videos. Class



After the Chems we and saw Josh Wink for an hour. More acid house for us kiddies!! It kinda reminded me why I love going to these dance festivals. You can see a wide array of DJ, people you wouldn?t ordinarily go and see. Then we Went to see FC/Kahuna who were my second must see people of the night. I must say I thought they were going to play a live set, but as it was they played a 2 hour dj set. But who cares cos when we got there they were romping the joint!! They actually play in the Strongbow bar, not a main arena. But the sound system there was devilishly loud!! There mixing was so tight, and they loved to abuse the resonant filter on the mixer. I love the fact that as dj?s they managed to make a set that if you were blind folded you would know it?s them, a set that sounds like Kahuna. These boys deserve to have a greater profile, but in away its also nice that they are lords of the underground. And I always say it, they are the closes thing to the Chemical Brothers. I really hope that they are working on a new album. When we left the Kahuna?s it was raining hard which was unpleasant. But you don?t half get to see some funny sights. I remember one girl rather miserably running across the field in a tiny bikini top and hot pants!! The rest of the night was spent back at the Subliminal tent, caught a half of Harry ?choo choo? Romero?s set, which was a bit disappointing. Then at 4am the Audio Bully?s came on. They are a dj and mc set up. I hate people mc?ing, its not my thing. As for the dj, I thought his skills were far bellow average. Fair play that they played ?Acid Children?, but after that they played something really funky after it. Shocking programming skills. We lasted 30 minutes before we decide it was time to go home. I couldn?t wait to drive home for the next 4 hours!!



I love Creamfields, it?s the best dance festival in this country. And this year was another great party. It?s a great way to finish the summer. As for the Chems they were faultless as always. I hope this tour has been great fuel for them when they return to Miloco. Next year is going to be great!!!!



I thought I wasn?t going to write a review?? Never mind.

I knew I could count on you to write a descriptive review that makes me feel like I was right there soaking up the music! When you said you weren't going to write a review I admit I was disappointed - but your reviewing skills prevail! Thanks for that, as always your reviews are a pleasure to read.



The pictures are a nice touch, too. Their stage setup does seem quite streamlined, more space onstage and very much like the Come With Us tour (minus the sort of mushroom shaped podium) - less like when I saw them during Surrender when they were hidden behind all their gear onstage, which looked like some fantastical electronic explosion with wires going this way and that.



I am very excited about this underwater song. If it sounds like morning moonlight reflecting on a lake, then I'll be darn. I can't wait to hear what this is all about!



One thing I am curious about, and I apologize in advance for being nitpicky. ;) I noticed when I saw them during the Surrender tour, their songs sort of melted into one another, not a whole lot of time for intros and outtros (festival time constraints, I'm guessing) - whereas during Come With Us, their songs were built up slowly and they had these long, gorgeous intros (using bits and pieces from other songs, like they were dj mixing their own material) and outtros which gave each song a very epic feel. Overall, I felt their approach to this build up/break down of songs/song transitions differed from Surrender to Come With Us. Would you say the songs' transitions this time around are reminiscent of the Come With Us tour, or have the boys completely reworked their approach when it comes to the transition between songs?

i'm having right difficulty answering that question!!

I figured as much. My wording is terrible! I should be ashamed of the English mincing that took place in my last paragraph! :-//



I guess to simplify, music-wise and song transition-wise how was this tour different than Surrender and Come With Us?



I just wanted to hear your thoughts on this, because the Surrender and Come With Us tours felt so much different to me in this aspect... yet other people I know say the Surrender and Come With Us tours were too similar.

loving your wording now!!!



i am one of those who say surrender and come with us tours were too similar, but then again the surrender tour was phenomenal!! it seems those 2 tours were a natural progression rather than a radical reworking.



i suppose the latest tour is again a progression. hey boy hey girl is the show starter like the surrender days. we still have music:response > block rockin beats > song to the siren. but the again song to the siren and leave home have been bastardized together in this crazy breaks work out!! we still have out of control > temptaion/star guitar, but wasn't that just awesome in the come with us tour?? and the underwater song sits in the place the sunshine underground sat. and of course the mighty psychedelic reel was at the end.



it's quite funny thinking about the trasitions. after star guitar there is a brief pause. you know you have just had the first 45 minute wave of music and its just enough time to get your breath back!! my mate turned round to me and said 'what they doing??' he found it strange that they had actually temporarily stopped. but i don't know of any other dance band that actually mixes they music live. i think that was the most dissapointing thing i thought when i saw underworld live for the first time, the fact they paused after every tune.



but it maybe a progression of a previous tour but there were so many highlights. get yourself high is a bass heavy gut renching stomper that was mixed beautifully from hbhg. the golden path was a beautiful progressive synth bleeping monster. and the new tunes!!!! it was a fantastic tour. i think when they go back on the road propper next time they are gonna have to get out to the rest of the world before the uk leg and show you guys what you have been missing. you'll be in for a good ride

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 did type big long paragraph about how ace the chems live @ creamfields was. and i cant be bothered doing it again..



so.



The chemical borhters live @ creamfields was the best thing ever. BLEW MY MIND.



loved that new yellow song, im guessing that aint its given name. but it had the big yellow lips singing it.



one of the best bits was the psychadelic reel when they turned everything off for a few beats...........even the lights.......THE WHAM !!



and that mad noise when they come on for the en coure'



:D good stuff.

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.



i too wondered about how they get the visuals intime if its not a programmed set, as they seemed to do quite a bit of adlibbing here and there tweaking filters etc



how good was the 'you are all my children now' visuals with the guy looking around woop woop! 8)

awesome pics btw, oh the memories are flooding back :D

8O omg wtf are you saying!!!! is almost imposibble to have a different set everytime come on iguana.

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.

That's what i'm saying.