Ben_j Escribi�:

Ok :D i think i'm gonna have good time then. I hope she'll mix some chemical brothers stuff...



I'm not so happy to see U2. I don't like their latest album. But I would die for going back to the past and go to a Popmart Tour live...

Tell me about it - How To Dismantle A Brilliant Music Career is what I've dubbed it. There's a couple of good songs on there, but the album didn't catch my interest. Same with All That Your Can't Leave Behind and most of POP. I guess we've parted ways but they've given me great music over the years and I got so much out of it.



I think you'll have a good time regardless. They are so good live, they really are. Last I saw them was during the Achtung Baby tour and it was an overload of the senses from all fronts. Just amazing. And this tour, they've been breaking out the old tunes from their earliest albums. I think they've finally realized how much relevance their older songs have live, and it's sort of bridged the generation gap and included some of their older fans back into the fold.

I dunno, I like enough songs (mainly the singles) off Pop: Discotheque, Staring at the Sun, Last Night on Earth. They lost me after that, though.

Pop, Achtung Baby and Zooropa are my favorite albums cause they are near the sound of Big Beat (still pretty far ^^). Popmart was their best tour (with this huge screen) and I think i can remember that the chems were doing the warm up (if they used this huge screen, it must have been something incredibly GREAT ^^)

The Chems opened for U2 ? And I didn't get a flyer in the mail??? }:-@



The only time I've heard of the Chems opening for U2 was a few years ago when U2 played a charity concert at Irving Plaza in New York City. The Chems were in town doing a gig at Centro Fly, and apparently Bono was in attendance (would've loved to have seen him groovin to the tunes!) Anyway, I would've given my right arm to be at either of those gigs! I'm still searching for any kind of review of the Chems opening for that U2 show... I would love to know how it went and what the crowd was like.

I heard that but I have no idea of when and where it was. I think it's the show you said. Maybe they where only DJing and mixing some Beatles tunes

Yeah, when the Chems opened for U2 in New York, it was a dj set. I be very surprised if the Chems didn't drop the Beatles - but it would be cool to know what kind of music they played for the U2 crowd.

they can play any kind of music in their sets.



Today, D-Day : Mylo, Vitalic, Hexstatic, Miss Kittin and Eric Truffaz :D

And tomorrow Amon Tobin and The Hacker :D

I'm so excited

Even though I'm not a huge fan of U2's recent album, U2 are to die for live! Tickets were so expensive here in the UK, I'm seriously thinking of buying some tickets for a show somewhere in europe and just easyjet over for a night...

I know girlelectric ;) And i'm verry happy to see them :D



Anyway, i just came back from Scopitone. It was excellent :D Little reviews from the lives :



Eric Truffaz : a little boring, i did not stayed a long time.



Sebastien Shuller : very good, looks like a lot Radiohead



Mylo : Very good live performance ! Mylo was with a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer (who was his brother) and really interacted with the audience. Mylo was always having fun with a seashell-horn btw the different songs.



Hexstatic : He has been fantastic ! Mixing music is a hard thing, but mixing Video AND Music is very hard ! And I Thought Hexstatic were 2 but there was only one person ! Doing both video and music. His set was great, and it was a good vibe to hear the audience of Scopitone shouting "Led Zep ! Led Zep !" with the audience of the Led Zepelin live from the video on the screen. Then came AC DC and Queen, and after that, Nancy Sinatra's music from the Coke ad (I don't know the name of the track), and Hexstatic's Salvador. The whole set was very cool to hear and to see.



Vitalic : Certainly the most greeted and succesful from the first day. He played a very good live, very powerful, but something miss in his music, in my opinion...



Miss Kittin : good set, but i did not like so much. And she had a problem with one of his vinyls and had to stop it and play the next one. After that, some people in the audience jeered her. A girl next to me said her to kill herself :-/

Anyway she was greeted at the end, and we wanted her to continue, she wanted to and began to play another track but they stopped the sound...



SECOND DAY :



Blonde Redhead : good music, did not like it that much



Le Peuple de l'Herbe : a fuckin excellent band live ! They turned us crazy, and interacted a lot with the audience. Their sound is really great.



Modeselektor + Pfadfinderei : Modeselektor sounds a little like Aphex Twin, it was very good and it "put the fire" lol but in my opinion they should have been more violent. The VJs from Pfadfinderei were very good aswell.



Amon Tobin :

check my full review on the "Amon Tobin : what do you all think about him" topic ;)



The Hacker : pure electro, marvelous live but I was so tired after Amon Tobin... Anyway i liked a lot !



Chlo� VS Superpitcher : I got out before the end, it was not very good and Superpitcher often had problems with his vinyls...

decide not to go to global gathering this summer. cant be arsed with festivals this year.



so i'm gonna go and see jon carter and justin robertson djing in bournemouth that weekend instead!! should be good



i have just purchased tickets to see the prodigy in august. i have been very critical about the new album, but it does stink!! but im kinda intrested in seeing them again, have not seen them live of 7 years. and the idea of seeing them out doors in the middle of london on a summer evening seems rather appealing!!

They still put on a clinic live, Sneaker! And AONO has grown on me quite a bit over recent months, but perhaps that is because I never was really into them before.

sneakerbeater Escribi�:

i have just purchased tickets to see the prodigy in august. i have been very critical about the new album, but it does stink!! but im kinda intrested in seeing them again, have not seen them live of 7 years. and the idea of seeing them out doors in the middle of london on a summer evening seems rather appealing!!

May see you there sneaker, are be at the back by the Glolsh bit, before going near the front. I was actually really annoyed as tickets had sold out everywhere, so ebay was the only option, we payed �35 for each ticket, the next day the release some more tickets for that gig and a few days after announce a tour, of which im going to Brighton show!



If you have never been to Somerset House your be really impressed Its a very special gig venue, hence the fact I payed that price to go there. Saw Underworld there once, the atmopshere was brilliant. I hope the Chems play there one day.



My gigs and festivals this year



10th July Sigur Ros -Somerset House

23rd July Will Young -Beaulieu Motor Museam

6th August The Prodigy -Somerset House

28th August Get Loaded In the park -Clappam Common

9-11th September Bestival -Robin Hill

29th November The Prodigy -Brighton Centre

16th December Fatboyslim -Brixton Academy

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

My gigs and festivals this year



23rd July Will Young -Beaulieu Motor Museam

what the fuck!!!!!! are you sure you want to brag about that??? still what a wonderful place to have a gig

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

28th August Get Loaded In the park -Clappam Common

i may be going too that too!! looks like a good line up. flowered up and the happy mondays will be keen. juniour boys own sound system and armand and fatboy having a fight again. it'll be a good day out and set me up for the evening. on to ministry of sound with another subliminal sesssions 'good by summer' party with erick morillo. who said he wasnt gonna play again this yeay at mos, he must be loving it there!! and pete tong. its gonna be a sweaty night

sneakerbeater Escribi�:

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

My gigs and festivals this year



23rd July Will Young -Beaulieu Motor Museam

what the fuck!!!!!! are you sure you want to brag about that??? still what a wonderful place to have a gig

Yeah its not a typical gig i would go to, my gf is a fan so we decided to go as she has been to a few gigs to watch my bands so my turm to do the same back.



Im looking forward to AVH and FBS, but didnt know it was at actual fight again? Following onto subiminla sounds excellent. Im looking forward to the Infadels and Grandadbob, cant be assed with Oakie.

just got back from seeing oasis. what a bunch of arse that gig was. i got to learn any gig over 4000 people is automatically shhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiitteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! they would have done a great favour and dropped a bomb on tonights crowd and helped wipe out the chav scum that went. i would have been a marter to the cause.



getting a beer was a joke, no a health hazzard. sell beer tolkens at one stall, then at the beer tent laugh at the people trying to recreate the hillsborough disaster. its not funny hearing people saying i cant breath while they are getting squashed when they are just trying to get a drink.



as for the sound, i couldn't hear it. might as well just stayed in tonight and watched channel 4's recording of oasis last weekend

Yeah I would just stick with Chems gigs. I watched it on channel4 last night and it was actually really good, but im still glad i didnt go to the rosebowl gig as i herd the crowd was very rough and also full of chavs.



Sold my Sigur Ros ticket as Im so skint and need the money to fund better bands gigs. Really hopeing to see Chems again this year. If ur reading miloco, then any dj or live dates would be a brilliant christmas present for us all.

Seen U2 yesterday night. It was awesome ! I was on the 3rd row at the target of the left brigde. The show was great, thougth I don't like the songs taken from their latest album. I nearly cry when the "Coexist" symbol (see hereunder) appeared on the giant screen during Sunday Bloody Sunday



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Ben_j Escribi�:

Seen U2 yesterday night. It was awesome ! I was on the 3rd row at the target of the left brigde. The show was great, thougth I don't like the songs taken from their latest album. I nearly cry when the "Coexist" symbol (see hereunder) appeared on the giant screen during Sunday Bloody Sunday



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Glad you had a good time! I knew you would. :)



I'm really digging the coexist symbol.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I'm really digging the coexist symbol.

dunno this expression... :?

what does it means ? (please... for a poor little french who would like to be bilingual :))

Ben_j Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I'm really digging the coexist symbol.

dunno this expression... :?

what does it means ? (please... for a poor little french who would like to be bilingual :))

It means "to like', as in "I dig the Chemical Brothers" ;)



This from urban dictionary.com:



1. dig

v.

1. To perceive and comprehend the nature and significance of; grasp; gather. ?Ya dig? Yeah I can dig it?



2. To find attractive, pleasant, to enjoy. ?I dig on that Trim, man; girl is fine!?

"U see that honkey mofo be messin with my old lady?" 'Yeah man I can dig it, that brotha be pickin up on you man.'

-Airplane