[tour 2022]2022 Live Shows (the year live music gets revived!)

[hstn]

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They've had BRB as closing song for so long that it seems strange it's spot was switched.
However, it's DYOH 25 anniversary and BRB is the opening song there, so it would kinda make sense?

I wonder what caused your suspicion? I've only seen short clips of BRB where it is impossible to guess its place in the setlist.

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the video here feels like they only *just* started playing, and then there's other videos that show a weird sequence of events that seem to imply they transitioned into go

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I hear "I feel like I'm dreaming"
The source of the sample seems plausible. Good find Wolkenkrabber!

it is "I feel like I'm dreaming" btw!

[Champiness]

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First proper look at some new visuals! Appears to be the end of the "Woo Track" (with a clear segue into HBHG - incl another clip where these figures were drumming along to the intro on the side screens), and Smith+Lyall filmed at least one person gesticulating wildly to it so I'll call it a win.

[Csar]

These effing social media sites get on my nerves. On twitter I can't enlarge images anymore and get redirected once I click twice and Instagram is the most annoying of them all not letting me see anything but the timeline unless logged in.

Definitely EV visuals. The balloons look yellow/orange/pink/red, while for Saturate they were yellow/green, so it's not just ballons leftover from a previous song.

I believe they are the same and it's the lights that change their hue.

[hstn]

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the video here feels like they only *just* started playing, and then there's other videos that show a weird sequence of events that seem to imply they transitioned into go

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it is "I feel like I'm dreaming" btw!

My suspicions are correct it seems https://www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/c-tangana-the-chemical-brothers-y-foals-responden-a-las-expectacivas-en-la-primera-jornada-de-o-son-do-camino-CA11448864

[Wolkenkrabber]

I hear "I feel like I'm dreaming"
The source of the sample seems plausible. Good find Wolkenkrabber!

it is "I feel like I'm dreaming" btw!

Heh and yet I must admit I can't hear Loleatta singing that line in the track I posted. But y'know even when I heard that vocal on the Printworks footage I thought it sounded like Loleatta...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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the video here feels like they only *just* started playing, and then there's other videos that show a weird sequence of events that seem to imply they transitioned into go

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Yeah your logic makes sense. The crowd isn't "warmed up" yet in that footage. Also it seems to be a new (longer?) version of BRB! It feels weird not to have it as a crowd-pleasing end-of-night track

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First proper look at some new visuals! Appears to be the end of the "Woo Track" (with a clear segue into HBHG - incl another clip where these figures were drumming along to the intro on the side screens), and Smith+Lyall filmed at least one person gesticulating wildly to it so I'll call it a win.

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Ah yes. I saw the flag waving/drumming visuals segueing into HBHG and couldn't figure out what it was. Of course it's "Woo" aka No Reason.

So at this point we know there are a couple of new tunes in the live set.

These effing social media sites get on my nerves. On twitter I can't enlarge images anymore and get redirected once I click twice and Instagram is the most annoying of them all not letting me see anything but the timeline unless logged in.

Ha! On twitter have you tried right-clicking the image (on PC) and opening in a new tab? Works for me in Firefox. On Insta (again using Firefox) once I'm logged into Insta the first time, it always seems to remember me after that.

I believe they are the same and it's the lights that change their hue.

That's a bold claim. I can't see any green balloons from last night, but I guess we'll see more pics/videos soon enough. Sonar is tomorrow.

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First proper look at some new visuals! Appears to be the end of the "Woo Track" (with a clear segue into HBHG - incl another clip where these figures were drumming along to the intro on the side screens), and Smith+Lyall filmed at least one person gesticulating wildly to it so I'll call it a win.

LMAO I remember that comment, and it would appear you are right! I really, really like the neon marching band look for NRTL, although we've only seen the one bit with the flag guy and the drummers for HBHG intro. I really like the way they transitioned the two, and I also think it's just so cool that they decided to pair those two together - like, one of their old, most popular, classic tracks, mixed with this new, mysterious, awesome track; it's really cool, I think.

Also, BRB being the opener is an interesting choice, I like how it reflects the album itself but I kinda preferred it as a closer and some of the other songs as an opener. The perfect, perfect opener to me though, would have been WDIB - imagine, instead of the Tomorrow Never Knows guitar, its the Where Do I Begin guitar, and then the vocals kick in, and it goes crazy. It would have been a perfect commemoration for the DYOH anniversary. 

Here's hoping tomorrow will bring some more new clips of sick stuff!

[Stefan]

BRB has been at the end of their show for, how long now? It's indeed a brand new show if they made a change here 

[ThePumisher]

Tonight new chance at Sonar

[inchemwetrust]

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NEW TRACK @2:30

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Sounds monsterous! Can't make out the male vocal at the end

[inchemwetrust]

Setlist: courtesy of Brian Dub (insta)

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Spoiler setlist


Block Rockin Beats
Song to the Siren
C.H.E.M.I.C.A.L.
MAW
New - Neon drum Troupe
HBHG
Eve of Destruction
Chemical Beats
New -Feel like I'm Dreaming
UYI/ Get Up On It vocal
DYOH new outro
Setting Sun vocal synth popping (New?)
Got To keep On
New intro/ Wide Open
No Geography vocal intro/ EV
Free Yourself (new version/Hoops)
EML beat (Tuba granddad)
OOC/Do it again
Temptation/ Star Guitar
Swoon
Galvanize

[Champiness]

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That... certainly is the promised changeup, setlist-wise.
Although it might not be 100% accurate - "Go" seemed conspicuously absent considering it definitely came after "Block Rockin' Beats" a few days ago and sure enough I just found a post that seems to confirm they played it at Sonar in some tantalizingly altered capacity. Still, though - for a set that appears to have just the two new songs we heard in December, and only one new visual, there's a lot to talk about here! "Setting Sun" as a standalone! Opening and closing tracks literally inverted from the template that started all the way back in the We Are The Night era! "Dig Your Own Hole" and "Wide Open" and "Out Of Control/Do It Again" all surviving into 2022! The new tracks seemingly don't have titles locked down yet! And most pertinent to my interests "Free Yourself" not only survived but escaped its status as a 2-minute prelude to "Chemical Beats" and is apparently a "(new version)"! Mysterious!

[hstn]

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That... certainly is the promised changeup, setlist-wise.
Although it might not be 100% accurate - "Go" seemed conspicuously absent considering it definitely came after "Block Rockin' Beats" a few days ago and sure enough I just found a post that seems to confirm they played it at Sonar in some tantalizingly altered capacity. Still, though - for a set that appears to have just the two new songs we heard in December, and only one new visual, there's a lot to talk about here! "Setting Sun" as a standalone! Opening and closing tracks literally inverted from the template that started all the way back in the We Are The Night era! "Dig Your Own Hole" and "Wide Open" and "Out Of Control/Do It Again" all surviving into 2022! The new tracks seemingly don't have titles locked down yet! And most pertinent to my interests "Free Yourself" not only survived but escaped its status as a 2-minute prelude to "Chemical Beats" and is apparently a "(new version)"! Mysterious!

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They mixed Free Yourself and EML Ritual with EBW6!!!! Via a story I cannot access right now but we're working on it, brian_dub confirmed too!

[ThePumisher]

Is "Maw" something new or short for something i should know?

[Stefan]

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Conspicuously absent: TDTYF
Would've taken a bet that it will be part of this tour

In the shows leading up to NG in 2018, they also had two new songs (GTKO and MAH, with short sample teasers of EOD and NG) and in the following year more songs of the then-released album. 

[Stefan]

Is "Maw" something new or short for something i should know?

Pretty shure that's a typo and it should read MAH

[inchemwetrust]

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Well well well! You can pretty much throw out the 'guess the next chems setlist' out the window. I would've never have seen this coming!

SG near the end? Wtf!! and 2 new tracks come into play!

Sacrifices have been made: no TPPR, GLINT, Saturate

there's a vid out there with CWU vocals out there.

My mind is still in a state of shock. I'm gonna assume that the setlist will be tweaked at sometime down the road, but for now, this is a complete overhaul for the shows.

We haven't even mentioned the new visuals yet! Damn...so much ground to cover!

[Stefan]

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Well well well! You can pretty much throw out the 'guess the next chems setlist' out the window. I would've never have seen this coming!

SG near the end? Wtf!! and 2 new tracks come into play!

Sacrifices have been made: no STA, TPPR, GLINT, Saturate

there's a vid out there with CWU vocals out there.

My mind is still in a state of shock. I'm gonna assume that the setlist will be tweaked at sometime down the road, but for now, this is a complete overhaul for the shows.

We haven't even mentioned the new visuals yet! Damn...so much ground to cover!

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STA already wasn't part of the 2019 tour, and Glint/TPPR were in the Encore, we can't know anything about that yet. I'm 100% sure they keep the Reel to close the show.

[hstn]

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Well well well! You can pretty much throw out the 'guess the next chems setlist' out the window. I would've never have seen this coming!

SG near the end? Wtf!! and 2 new tracks come into play!

Sacrifices have been made: no STA, TPPR, GLINT, Saturate

there's a vid out there with CWU vocals out there.

My mind is still in a state of shock. I'm gonna assume that the setlist will be tweaked at sometime down the road, but for now, this is a complete overhaul for the shows.

We haven't even mentioned the new visuals yet! Damn...so much ground to cover!

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We still have an encore to cover! These are just the festival shows so it's not the full treatment, I'm imagining Darkness will be a part of the encore

Also there's been wayyy much new shit, including some newly recorded visuals for Golden Path's vocal

[Champiness]

Three cheers for social media conglomerates that specialize in long-form video hosting!

A real treasure-trove here!

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Including some hugely unexpected validation for a crank theory of mine about the onetime-scrapped "Star Guitar" visuals!

[Champiness]

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And also because we'd somehow managed to get this far without any footage of someone just pointing their camera at the screen while the "Woo Track" played:

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It may just be one person but through the power of Movie Magic they create the effect of multiple people wildly gesticulating to it!