This is my experience well the bits I can remember at this stage.

The Roundhouse was excellent but the Chems mixed with the festival vibe makes the whole experience other worldly.

Initially we saw Cold Cut in the dance tent. They were pumping and warmed me up nicely for an evening with Ed and Tom. We made our way to the other stage at about 9.15 and arrived after wading in the mud to the haunting taunt of 'there's no path to follow.' It seemed pretty apt but hey who needs a path. We somehow made it just as Galvanise was kicking off. The next One Hour Twenty minutes was going to blow my mind an burst my ear Drum (again Chems, My ear nose and throat Specialist is unimpressed).

Although not one of my fave songs on 25.6.07 Galvanise certainly pushed my buttons. To try and be there in spirit at this stage you need to close your eyes and try to imagine the smell of bonfires, fireworks, caramel nuts, weed, electricity in the air. If you have put yourself too close to the porta loos in this vision also add the aroma of chemical pooh.

Burst generator nearly caused me to actually burst. At times I thought I couldn't be any happier then it would take my excitment levels to critical.

I taught anyone who was standing too close to me in the crowd the words to star Guitar. For that they were very appreciative!!! Sorry if that were you.

'We are the night' Yes we are! Party all night and sleep all day. Dark, yet rocking. Not sure if they did this or not. Could have been blasting it in the field later.

'Get yourself high' If you insist brothers. What a rush. That clown is just wrong yet so right.

Hey Boy, Hey Girl. Pumping as ever. Here we go. Oh yes over and over again.

'Do It Again' Oh yes in a heart beat. Hearing this track live convinced me that I love it. Dark and primative it commands you to the dark side. I

was way 'Out of control' by now. Lost the plot. I had been dancing wildly in the mud from the knees up as my feet were stuck but my feet needed to jump. I landed squarely in the mud. 'Don't fight it feel it' I did and mud feels good. I wanted all my friends to feel it too.

Led off in disgrace back too the naughty tent. On the way home I met a man in a 'I'm a cunt' T-Shirt. Was That Slipvin? He seemed friendly enough. It was raining heavily by now so back in the naughty tent played Lemon Jelly and sang all the ducks are swimming in the water very loudly. Sorry to anyone who had the misfortune to be any where near a very over excited Tinystar on that day.My memory is only patchy sorry and can't remember the order of play just wanted to share my experience. There are no words.

Wow!!!!!! the glasto show was fookin amazing! I took aload of videos and im gna upload them all soon, heres one of electrobank/ebw 7/chemical beats! proper bo!

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=27pjXiqqRVs

I'll do a proper review as usual peeps but I can't type at the moment.

yesterday (monday) was a bit a beast - getting off site was the worst it's ever been - five hours to get out of the car park! and that was before the drive to taunton train station and the protracted journey back to brighton. lets say I got up about 9ish at glastonbury and I got back to my front door in brighton at midnight last night.

not house.

anyway - ace festival as always and as has been said already/some of you saw on the bbc, tom and ed in bistering blistering form. just wish it went on a bit longer :(

anyway. I'll do a glastonbury review tomorrow and christ all mighty, we gots some photos!!

love is all

chebbers x

CHEBBERS! Ive been waiting for you to come online!!!

Yay! Youre still alive! Hows Charl ?!

hello jeanie my dear :)

both really shattered - partied a bit too hard but well worth it. wouldn't change a thing - still the best party anywhere, ever...

charie's just cooked me roast beef and all the trimmings. about to hit the cheesecake and watch a movie....and forget I have to go to work tomorrow :(

anyway - will be online tomorrow for catch-up and proper review. you must be excited - you've got mips, rich, hayley and the crew over pretty soon for chems in the dam!!!

cheb

xx

Sorry Tom and Ed, but I simply don't agree. I think the 2004 Glastonbury set was better and the visuals from the 2005 tour were much better.

The weather and the somewhat less than up-for-it crowd didn't help matters much, admittedly, but I have definitely seen much better Chems performances than this one.

TinyStar thank you for your review. I got a good feel for how out of wack you were and I'm so glad you had a good time, mud be damned!

Chebbers, looking forward to your review. I am glad you made it out of there in one piece (relatively, haha)

Tyler, wah! But I see what you're saying. When the weather is tough, it's tough on the crowd.

Whirly, I think my problem is that I'd just arrived from Pendulum's jaw-droppingly awesome set in the East Dance Tent where the crowd had been absolutely ballistic.

That also meant arriving slightly too late at the Other Stage to get a really good position (was just a few rows forward of the mixing tower, not as close to the front as I would have liked).

The crowds at the outdoor stages at Glasto sometimes aren't really as up-for-it as a more dedicated Chems crowd. They tend to just stand there like statues, not really letting themselves go as much as they should. I remember people saying the crowd at the back at Orbital's farewell set in 2004 were a bit like that too (I was right at the front then, so didn't notice).

I think the contrast between that crowd and the one for the Pendulum set kind of made me wish I'd stayed on in the dance tent for Carl Cox, who as I'm sure you know is a legend himself.

But leaving all those allowances aside, I still think those performances of the 2005 tour were a cut above what I saw at Glasto. My friend Lucy, another long-time Chems fan, felt exactly the same way at Rock Ness.

I totally get what you're saying! The first time I saw the Chems do a dj set was in a sweltering tent out in the desert. They were the last act on, and came up after Fatboy. We were all dead tired and exhausted from being in the heat all day (it was in the triple digits fahrenheit all day) - it was near excruciating. I was up at the front but the look on Tom's face said it all at some points. He'd look up at the crowd and make these gestures, the crowd would let out an exhausted cheer and then Tom would get this "aawwwww, come on!!" look on his face to coax the crowd into cheering a bit louder. The set was so good, too! Had the weather been a bit more kind, the crowd would have been better imo.

I also saw them do a dj set in Los Angeles. It was a weird crowd, a hip hop festival with the garden variety of trance acts downstairs which was where the Chems played. Everyone around me were totally into it, I was up at the front and my husband and I were on our own chemical planets, but Ed was eyeing the crowd farther back and at some points I didn't get the feeling he was getting the response the Chems wanted. Nevermind poor Ed having to put up with these anti-indoor smoking laws we have here in California, when all you can do is pace and put on a brave front in the face of nicotine withdrawal!!

I think watching Pendelum before the Chems is just a horrible idea. I'm not a Pendelum hater, I quite liked the album in parts - but they'r too fuck heavy sometimes with their drum machines, and the vibe u carry into a Chems performance outta a Pendelum set would have definitely affected your experience Tyler. I don't know if that made sense but I'm sure there'd be many more dates for u lucky UK folks to have a blast.

Everyone else - awesome u had fun - damn, i haven't even seen the online vids yet - they somehow don't do it for me - I really wish the Chems'd put out a full fledged dvd for us fans who'd prolly not get to watch em in a long time yet. Godspeed Glasto 08!

god tyler got to say you got poor(different to me!)taste.pendulum are so crap.those cheesy euro trance riffs with old prodigy beats,weak ozzie take on hardcore.well whatever floats your boat i suppose.i was at glastonbury and saw both to,had a mate who wanted to see penducheese.the crowd at chems was wild and big.pendulum just full of boys with shirts off!thought the visuals were best ever ,the vibe was incredible, maybe your lameness brought the crowd around you down!only joking.music is music lets agree to disagree

hehe - i saw this coming - with the freestylers being so dissed here (who I think are brilliant musicians with great albums), Pendelum would get raped here. I honestly enjoyed the album for exactly 3 or 4 listens (some tunes) and then got really cheesed off by that disc. The only good thing I could think of is that they became really big in London clubs which I thot was a good thing - taking drum n bass to the regular club junta, which of course was because they added loads of cheese to sell, but they sold - the album's got some really hard and crazy drums in parts - I remember once turning it off midway because my sid battered (on the comedown) brain couldn't take that drum battering anymore.

yawn @ tex. It's very fashionable to say "Pendulum are really cheesy blahblahblah", people have been saying it on my own board for over a year.

But the girls I went to see them with wanted to go, so naturally I thought with my pants and went along with them. Pendulum's music isn't particularly good, but the CROWD in there was a far livelier one than the one standing like showroom dummies outside the Other Stage for the Chems.

The Pendulum crowd was full of pretty young girlies where I was standing too - maybe you're just the opposite of a babe magnet, tex. ;-)

One more time, it was a better CROWD in the dance tent than the Other Stage, and that's an important factor. I also found the sound mix uninvolving and not being conducive to raving even with chemical help. That's not the Chems' fault, that's the mixing desk's fault - the Other Stage often has poor sound at the sides and back.

I still prefer the previous tour's visuals though - and I'd rather have the extended version of It Doesn't Matter that they played in 2005 too.

I think it might have just been where you were standing Tyler, we were on the rail at the front and people definitely seemed up for it! They weren't proper havin' it like the crowd I can remember at Brixton on the December 2005 tour (though the excitement from Bernard Sumner probably helped with the mania on that night!), but people were certainly lively.

I think you have to bear in mind two things, firstly that in a festival crowd you will have lots of people who are not necessarily die-hard Chemical Brothers fans, maybe they have just wondered over out of curiosity or they didn't want to watch The Who?

The other thing to take into account is that we had approximately 6 songs from the new album scattered throughout a set of an hour and fifteen minutes from a record which has not even been released yet. People are bound to be a bit more subdued when they don't know the songs. My wife and I got plenty of strange looks from people down the front because we knew the likes of 'We Are The Night' and 'Burst Generator' as well as all the lyrics to 'All Rights Reversed' inside out :)

Plus you simply cannot beat a Chems show outside in the dark! With the rain! and the green lasers!

I agree that the fact it was not mainly a Chems crowd made a difference, which is something I mentioned (indirectly) in my first post in the thread.

It's always better at the front, of course, but they didn't look that animated from what I could see either, otherwise I'd have talked our lot into trying to get there.

Looking forward to seeing them in front of a real Chems crowd again. There's very few UK dates at the moment - I hope they put that right soon.

Late November / early December tour I would imagine, I think I've seen them at Brixton Academy during December about five times now.

Of course there's that pesky mythical US tour to get out of the way first ;)

@ Tyler. It doesnt matter who was there - how do you know everybody there wasnt a massive chems fan? I am guessing the majority were. It was raining and everyone was knackered, but all i saw were smiles. The sound at the back was bloody great as well. It was bouncing back off the burger vans. It was that loud we werent sure whether to watch as our 10 month old daughter was with us but she fell asleep when the view came on and only woke up when we got back in the car at 3am.

Anyhoo, It was a great set with great visuals. For the first time ever at a chemicals gig I was striaght headed and it was the best i had seen.

Galvanize was so awesome live I didnt think they could top it but "Out Of Control" with the Primal scream thing went on for ever and then they played "Believe" which i dont think is the greatest but along with the sound and the visuals made it a great live track. I liked the way they used even more snippets of other tracks to make it more of a "whole" thing, I dont remember them stopping at all. Absolutley top drawer. Anyone who says different is WRONG

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i captured the bbc feed as an mp3 in case anyone wants it for their ipod - i do!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PX9EUFD0

Thanks for the link.

IMO the best set the boys have ever done - absolutely brilliant !

Does anyone know where to get the actual footage of the set, saw the BBC coverage when i got home & would like to have it permanently

:( oh god it sounds so beautiful.... you all rock hard...

I hope they come to Toronto... eventually... :(

are you in toronto?