Group hug, Tim. Group Coachella Hug!!



I don't remember Morning Lemon at Coachella - ashamed to admit I haven't listened to the Coachella set in a while. But it's on the London bootie and of course it's wicked!

No, Morning Lemon wasn't added until the next round of shows. We got a pretty stripped-down set, shorter transitions, no Morning Lemon, no Hold Tight London...



.... but it was tight, concise, and mindbending. One of those nights that changed my life. Big hugs back at ya! Fucking animals in Eric's house!



Listening to it now, it's not giving me the chills anymore like it used to, but I still remember every special moment from that set. And I think if I bring it out to the car in the morning, it'll do it again, set those hairs on end. I definetly need to sort out seeing them live again though. Just when I was beginning to think I would rather see another DJ set.... :D

What about Chico's Groove? Would be nice to hear that.....

zonk34 Escribi�:

What about Chico's Groove? Would be nice to hear that.....

There really aren't that many tracks I don't think would be cool to hear incorporated live in some way.



'Three Little Birdies Down Beats' kicks ass.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Listening to it now, it's not giving me the chills anymore like it used to, but I still remember every special moment from that set.

I take it back. The transition from Surface to Air to Hoops/EBW6 and now the intro to EBW7 are doing it again. I've got the glint and it's almost inducing a flashback gurn.

i can see 4/5 new album songs

new intro possibly ebw9, ptb songs being cut to believe,galvanize, surface to air,

a exit planet dust mash up.

some more dyoh especially piku playground,

music response staying in the set, it doesn't matter/temp/starguitar staying as well .

tppr to finish

I'd like to hear Giant/ the Duke mash up, Surface to air has to stay in the set, both EBW 8 & 9 please, It doesn't matter with the robots and F#?king loud.





But if you guys go on stage with a accoustic guitar and a small drum kit I will come too :)

I take whatever Chemicals are served!

But if i had a say.....



THE TEST !

apparently on the come with us tour they were finishing with like a 10 min extended techy-house mix of the test - i missed these shows but mchebne said it was outstanding, im sure copies of these sets exist somewhere because i remember him playing me one.



would def like to hear it out.

The Pompey set finished with TPPR, although they had The Test where Star Guitar is now - the last song before the encore. And it was a techy-weirdness affair, top notch stuff! 8)

PLEASE OPEN WITH COME WITH US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This is the best opening track to an ablum and the live shows ever!

Am I the only one who doesn"t want The Test ? :-//



I want :

Come with us

The Sunshine Underground

Dig your own hole vs Base 6



And some new stuff ! a lot !

mippio Escribi�:

apparently on the come with us tour they were finishing with like a 10 min extended techy-house mix of the test - i missed these shows but mchebne said it was outstanding, im sure copies of these sets exist somewhere because i remember him playing me one.



would def like to hear it out.

It was actually quite stunning, very funky! I don't remember it that long, maybe that was later shows though. It was completely danceable, ditching most of the bits from the original and pouring an offbeat tune on a very rhythmic synth, a hard beat, and the the pads from the track turned up real loud, real intense. Most of the vocal bit was thrown out too. all in all it worked miles better I think than the original could have.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

PLEASE OPEN WITH COME WITH US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This is the best opening track to an ablum and the live shows ever!

2nded I want to listen this in person!!!

eh it was cool but Hey Boy Hey Girl better no?

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

eh it was cool but Hey Boy Hey Girl better no?

I dont think so, ilike more HBHG in the middle of the set.

Regarding The Test - I remember was this feeling like I was being swallowed by the giant whale that was on the screen!! That swimmy intro along with the opening wails of Richard Ashcroft were gorgeous. I thought this was stunning live, and it is one of my favorite Chems tracks. I was not expecting to hear this at all, so when it began, stash and I looked at each other and said, "wwoooooah, oh yeah fuck yeah" X-D And yes, for the most part the vocals were thrown out so as to tweak a bit more with the beats and melody. It's a wicked album closer and was a wicked set closer as well. I would love to get my hands on a full Come With Us set that included The Test.





As for Come With Us as an opener, yes it is really an exciting thing. It really pumps up the audience good and proper! And plus, what better way to start a Come With Us gig than with Come With Us!! But I am partial to Hey Boy Hey Girl - maybe it's because I associate it with those first moments of my first Chems gig which will forever be burned into my memory. Also, it's such a great opener - superstar dj's here we go! And Tom and Ed are so into it too. It's one of those audience pumpers! It's such a rollercoaster hearing that fly buzzing and the build before the beat drops and the ride takes flight.



Personally Tom and Ed could fart into a microphone and lay some phat beats behind it and maybe adjust the pitch and I think the crowd would go nuts. OK, maybe not - but maybe there will be a new track on the album that will be the perfect opener. I'm all ears and up for anything.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Regarding The Test - I remember was this feeling like I was being swallowed by the giant whale that was on the screen!! That swimmy intro along with the opening wails of Richard Ashcroft were gorgeous. I thought this was stunning live, and it is one of my favorite Chems tracks. I was not expecting to hear this at all, so when it began, stash and I looked at each other and said, "wwoooooah, oh yeah fuck yeah" X-D And yes, for the most part the vocals were thrown out so as to tweak a bit more with the beats and melody. It's a wicked album closer and was a wicked set closer as well. I would love to get my hands on a full Come With Us set that included The Test.





As for Come With Us as an opener, yes it is really an exciting thing. It really pumps up the audience good and proper! And plus, what better way to start a Come With Us gig than with Come With Us!! But I am partial to Hey Boy Hey Girl - maybe it's because I associate it with those first moments of my first Chems gig which will forever be burned into my memory. Also, it's such a great opener - superstar dj's here we go! And Tom and Ed are so into it too. It's one of those audience pumpers! It's such a rollercoaster hearing that fly buzzing and the build before the beat drops and the ride takes flight.



Personally Tom and Ed could fart into a microphone and lay some phat beats behind it and maybe adjust the pitch and I think the crowd would go nuts. OK, maybe not - but maybe there will be a new track on the album that will be the perfect opener. I'm all ears and up for anything.

FTP---->Live @ Open Air Field Festival.



One of the best sets, if not the best set of CWU era.

Doesn't matter to me whether they open with Come With Us, HBHG, or EBW9, so long as 'Tomorrow Never Knows' preludes it.



I just get chills even thinking about that moment at Coachella when "Turn off all thoughts, surrender to the void" droned out at us. Up there with the finest moments of my life. (I was coming up on my first ever pill at precisely that moment...). I'll never, ever forget that feeling.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

PLEASE OPEN WITH COME WITH US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This is the best opening track to an ablum and the live shows ever!

I'll second that, Come with Us was amazing as an opener during the 2002 tour, i really missed it last year. It has to be said though that the 'Atom Dance' track they opened with this time last year was pretty dam fantastic, the bass in it felt like getting globbered round the head with a breezeblock, top stuff. I looked and sounded really dynamic and powerful, I can't wait to see what they do with this track.



The live show does need a bit of a make over i think, the visuals are amazing and some of the ideas truly inspired (the slow gymnastics to Surface to Air - genius) but I'd like to see them change stuff a bit, maybe I've just seen them to often but some tracks have had the same visuals for about 7 years now.



Some tracks either need updated or dropped entirely, I'm sorry but much as Star Guitar is a great track its pretty much the only time in the recent Chems gigs where I've thought things have lost momentum. Its a long track and I always thought Surface to Air deserved a bit more time spent on it.

And yeah I agree with those that want the Sunshine Underground brought back though perhaps with a bit of a make over. I know Surface to Air fills that spot in the gig but Sunshine Underground deserves its place somewhere. And whilst we're at it Leave Home deserves more time spent on it too. I'll never forget them playing a proper full version of Leave Home as the encore when i saw them at the Barrows in Glasgow in 1999, it was incredibly powerful, I've never seen them do it like that since.



Tracks that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should be dropped



the Intro - Tomorrow Never Knows, still the best there is and arguably the best ever live intro for any band I've seen. The Chems drop this I stop going to their gigs.



Out of Control - The 2004/05 version is still possibly one of the greatest full on live dance tracks ever writen, my heart rate increases just thinking about it.



Surface to Air. But make it longer, it deserves to be



Believe- Unbelievably full on, amazing good live track with stunning visuals



Tracks that I don't think will ever be dropped



Hey Boy Hey Girl - Still their biggest track well deserving of its hallowed status. Could do with a make over though.



Galvanise. Probably their second biggest song, still think it lacks something having most of the vocal part removed live.



Block Rockin Beats - not Ed's favourite but still a huge crowd pleaser and the new intro rocks.



TPPR- Still an awsome closer after all these years, I can't see them losing it.



I guess the problem does arise when you get a really consistantly geat band like the Chems in that they just have to many great tracks to fit into a 2hr gig, some favourites simply have to be dropped.



they could of course play for longer but I'm not sure my already well battered hearing could take it



Just some thoughts