Obvious things first...
Free Yourself, Gotta Keep On and MAH stay, of course. I think we get AT LEAST Eve of Destruction if not another new one.
What makes room for it? No idea. Maybe shorter versions of other tracks?
I personally could survive if Saturate, Go, Believe or Chemical Beats were replaced (I know Chemical Beats is going nowhere) but if you touch my Star Guitar I'm gonna be mighty upset.
I'd like to see more little nods to other songs, perhaps in slightly more fleshed out forms? I've never had the pleasure of Got Glint? or Piku. Those would be a treat.
And heck if I wouldn't loose my shit hearing Galaxy Bounce or Come With Us (new opener please!).
What do we think?
I want EOD near the 2nd half of the set since the other 2 new tracks are in the first half.
Maybe it should replace Acid Children! Besides, that's where the visual is right now!
Im a begger so i'm gonna hold a cardboard banner at the Shrine show that says PLAY LOOPS! and then the other side says PLAY HOOPS! :))
Quote from: Enjoyed on Nov 29, 2018, 22:42
And heck if I wouldn't loose my shit hearing Galaxy Bounce or Come With Us (new opener please!).
CWU would be great, but not as an general opener - I see it more as an opener for the encore.
Other tracks I'd like to hear are Life Is Sweet or Music:Response
EBW7 was pretty long this tour (yeah buddy), I could see it being cut down a bit for Eve of Destruction, or a mashup with all of the different vocals.
I could see Free Yourself as the opener, or them going back to a tried+true one
The more new and different stuff the better basically. So you get more bang for your hard earned buck for the fans that have seen them every time.
Mad As Hell/Setting Sun please (minus Out Of Control)
Eve Of Destruction could be a plausible opener, if not made the opener midway through the tour like Another World was.
and perhaps Keep On/AMMC
my setlist prediction (doesn't change much from last years prediction)
1-Tomorrow never knows
2-Eve Of Destruction
3-GO!
4-Do it again/Get yourself High/Direkt Buki
5-Free yourself
6-MAH
7-Chemical Beats, Feel so deserted (vocals)
8-Swoon
9-Temptation/Star Guitar
10-EML Ritual
11-Let Forever Be
12-Gotta Keep On
13-It Doesn't Matter (original)
14-Tuba/Acid Children
15-Out of Control/Setting Sun
16-Hey Boy Hey Girl
17-Saturate (shortened to make room)
18-Believe(With acid children drop)
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29- Got Glint? (It should not belong in the encore, period)
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20-Snow/Surface to air
21-Escape Velocity
22-Under the Influence (Robots mix)
23-Galvanize
24-C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L (Full)
25-Block Rockin' Beats
26-Piku/Playground/Music:Response
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27-Hold Tight London
28-The Mystery Track (From Alexander Palace)
29-Wide Open
30-Dissolve/The Private Psychedelic Reel/Sympathy for the Devil (Vocals)
not getting to see them. :(
QuoteAt some point during the recording of No Geography, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons pushed the reset button. It began with the construction of a studio within a studio - a tiny makeshift room that housed the kind of kit they'd previously used to record the bulk of their first two albums; equipment that had sat gathering (freestyle) dust in Tom's attic for the last twenty years. That experimental space offered a freedom and the chance to create music and tell their own story in a way they hadn't done for years.
Older equipment used to produce new album, maybe a hint towards the comeback of older material in setlist? Probably not the case, but would be fun to see!
Quote from: Bosco on Feb 01, 2019, 20:05
Older equipment used to produce new album, maybe a hint towards the comeback of older material in setlist? Probably not the case, but would be fun to see!
New album should have the freestyle logo on the back!
Hope they do a big ass interview during the album realease and expand more to detail about Tom's attic!
Finally, my only expectation for the album is that the other 6 tracks are just as good than the first 4 we already listened to. Looking for solid 7's and 8's (or higher) but no 5's or 6's!
As for the tour, maybe TSU, Don't Think,and CWU!
HBHG needs new visuals..
ENOUGH!
Quote from: Explud on Feb 07, 2019, 21:43
HBHG needs new visuals..
ENOUGH!
May I also add that "Do It Again/Get Yourself High" should be put to rest
Quote from: hstn on Feb 07, 2019, 23:25May I also add that "Do It Again/Get Yourself High" should be put to rest
Also agreed.
My guess so far, and sketchy at best.
go ( no longer opener but still will be played)
Dia/gyh
FY*
mAh*
Believe
EML
CB
Swoon
Sg
GTKO*
Hbhg
Saturate
Elektrobank/piku
Ev/gp
Acid children/EVE vocals (replaced now with EOD + new opener)
Uti
?
?
Galvanize
Stts/CHEMICAL
BRB
* = new tracks
? = Tracks to be added aka maybe STA,TSU,TPPR,ETC.
NOTE: (duh) it seems the chems are always shooting for 2 tracks per album to play)but if this is the case, why can't we get 2 from CWU?
You all are so funny with your tour expectations. I love it, though! ❤️
I just expect to have a great time and hear great music that may force me into hearing aid territory sooner than anticipated. 🤪
They better play the fucKING SALMON DANCE
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Feb 22, 2019, 18:01
They better play the fucKING SALMON DANCE
This Is Not A Game with Miguel on stage
Not that this has anything to do with setlists... I wonder where "This Is Not A Game" ranks amongst the rest of their songs in net revenue in the digital age. I think it's safe to say the track is not well liked amongst Chemical Brother fans, but aside from that, it was well received amongst the utes (youths). It even got heavy play during the 2016 NBA draft, which if some of you are not aware is highly watched by a lot of younger, and influential people. I know Miguel was starting to make a name for himself around that time, but I'm curious who was behind the push of this song to be featured on such a large stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDygQp-J2I
This footage doesn't even do it justice how much the song was used. At every commercial break the song could be heard via ESPN NBA Draft promo commercials, it was truly crazy. I've never been exposed to so much Chemical Brothers music on such a mainstream event, yet it's perhaps my least favorite Chemical Brother track.
Quote from: Bosco on Feb 22, 2019, 23:44
I wonder where "This Is Not A Game" ranks amongst the rest of their songs in net revenue in the digital age. I think it's safe to say the track is not well liked amongst Chemical Brother fans
I would love the song if the vocals from Miguel where different. Lordes small part ("There it is") fits in perfectly, but Miguel somehow sounds wrong. So with different Vocals i could have the same amount of love for it like i have for Keep My Composure (both versions). But TINAG is still better than Taste Of Honey
Quote from: Bosco on Feb 22, 2019, 23:44
Not that this has anything to do with setlists... I wonder where "This Is Not A Game" ranks amongst the rest of their songs in net revenue in the digital age. I think it's safe to say the track is not well liked amongst Chemical Brother fans, but aside from that, it was well received amongst the utes (youths). It even got heavy play during the 2016 NBA draft, which if some of you are not aware is highly watched by a lot of younger, and influential people. I know Miguel was starting to make a name for himself around that time, but I'm curious who was behind the push of this song to be featured on such a large stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDygQp-J2I
This footage doesn't even do it justice how much the song was used. At every commercial break the song could be heard via ESPN NBA Draft promo commercials, it was truly crazy. I've never been exposed to so much Chemical Brothers music on such a mainstream event, yet it's perhaps my least favorite Chemical Brother track.
Having worked in TV, it can just simply be a matter of the producer's choice to use it once they get approval from the record company. This producer might've known like you said that it was gaining momentum and wanted to use that to appeal to the younger audience and maybe just the fact that it had 'this is not a game' in it. It also might've been cheaper to licence due to miguel not being too popular at that time and that its not a big chemical track coming from just a movie soundtrack as well.
Quote from: MIKL on Feb 23, 2019, 08:07
Having worked in TV, it can just simply be a matter of the producer's choice to use it once they get approval from the record company. This producer might've known like you said that it was gaining momentum and wanted to use that to appeal to the younger audience and maybe just the fact that it had 'this is not a game' in it. It also might've been cheaper to licence due to miguel not being too popular at that time and that its not a big chemical track coming from just a movie soundtrack as well.
It's probably something simple like that. It's just rare to find The Chemical Brothers featured in any form of US media, then all of a sudden a "main event" like the NBA Draft uses a pretty forgettable Chems track so heavily in their broadcast. It's hard for me to ignore.
In acknowledgement of the fact that no era of The Chemical Brothers truly comes into focus anymore until we see what kind of wild rave-whirligig they've whipped up for the concert halls, I've decided to forego an album review or setlist prediction in favor of a track-by-track assessment of this album's prospects for the forthcoming tour (the three 2018 festival premieres excepted), followed by several mini-essays cataloguing my expectations and desires for the 2019 tour. Enjoy.
- They've literally already filmed the visuals for "Eve Of Destruction", so unless Tom & Ed specifically want to make Adam Smith very sad that seems like a shoo-in. Who knows, maybe for the first time in awhile we get a track from the album they're actually on tour to promote as the opener instead of just whatever their most recent hit to draw festival crowds in is.
(Important to note that this probably wouldn't displace "Go", just shunt it elsewhere in the set to displace something we hold even more dearly.)
- Maybe "Bango" at a stretch, if they're really committing to "this is the No Geography tour" at the expense of something else, since it's so good coming out of "Eve Of Destruction".
- I'd personally like to see "No Geography" get some play - and especially see what Smith & Lyall could do with it visually - but they've also got the Michael Brownstein sample on its own trigger, which might suffice for them in a crowded setlist.
- "Gravity Drops" probably no, but *that snare roll* deserves at least a cameo somewhere in the set. Really that should be the new "Believe" teapot explosion moment.
- "The Universe Sent Me" deserves to mop the floor with audiences during the encore and I'll be actively offended if Tom & Ed deny it that place of honor. This could be a keeper for the rest of their touring years if they play their cards right.
- "We've Got To Try" is a single, but then again so was "The Salmon Dance". Let's say 50/50 considering that.
(Really I envision this eventually making its way to the "Music: Response"/"Song To The Siren" breakbeat cameos spot regardless, it's just a matter of whether it finds a place of dignity on the proper setlist first.)
- Maybe "Catch Me I'm Falling" gets amped up for a spot in the encore; all I know is that spot better not be the one that belongs to "The Universe Sent Me" by birthright.
Really I think the ideal spot for it would be that kind of chill-late-in-the-main-set spot they occasionally carve out for album cuts like "The Pills Won't Help You Now". Give it a modest backbeat rather than the full "Wide Open" amp-up treatment and let everyone bliss out for like five minutes during the typically-hectic back end of the concert.
If you even have those five minutes to spare, of course.
"Go" probably isn't headed anywhere because it got into an NBA playoffs commercial, and that's pretty much the ceiling for what The Chemical Brothers can expect in terms of popular success in the 2010s. Inasmuch as your average concertgoer is going to expect anything after 2002 when they come to a Chems show it's pretty much this, "Galvanize", and maybe "Do It Again" once it's devoured some ambient goodwill from the never-getting-played "Salmon Dance" like a vanishing twin. If you want to know why "Go" was the one to get pushed to the front of the setlist with fancy new visuals, that's the explanation.
To their credit Tom & Ed seem aware that it doesn't quite have the sense of occasion to carry this level of focus on recognition alone, which is why they added the "Burst Generator" build right before all the "Edge Of Control Mix" drop stuff for their 2018 shows - it's a hype moment for a set-opener that doubles as a kiss to the hardcore fans. If "Go" is staying around - and it almost certainly is - I'd like it if they committed just a bit more to that. I'm not asking for a full-on mashup or anything - although they are in the same key - but there's a bit right before the build at 5:05 in "Burst Generator" that Q-Tip could easily be saying "everything getting harder to find" over at some point.
Still, that unlikely circumstance notwithstanding, I'd really appreciate if they at least put it, like, second in the setlist. If I were dreaming it'd start serving the job "Do It Again" has for a decade - even speaking as a devout evangelist for We Are The Night that song deserves a rest it's probably not going to get.
The past few tours have seen the Chems experimenting with The Prodigy's patented (and now, sadly, orphaned) "play one or two songs you haven't done live in at least a decade to get a pop from the diehards while the rest of your set is concert staples and cuts from the new album" technique, with classics like "Got Glint?" and "Piku" feeling the benefit. Who could be next?
Well, first off it's my hope that after testing the waters with exactly one performance at the start of the 2018 tour - a rare non-festival gig, which is probably why they abandoned it and hopefully why they'll reintroduce it on a tour with some more concert halls - they'll put "Let Forever Be" back in the setlist between "Believe" and "Chemical Beats", "I'll See You There" visuals or not. If nothing else it would provide a needed relief in the midst of what's otherwise probably the grimmest continuous stretch of tracks in any Chems setlist. Like, for pretty much the whole of 2018 that part of the show was "MAH", "Believe", "EML Ritual", and "Chemical Beats" all back-to-back. I'm not really a fan of the 7 minutes "Swoon" has taken up in every Chems setlist since 2010, but it almost seems medically necessary after a pummeling like that.
Otherwise it's just a game of playing grab-bag with past setlists. Like, root for "Orange Wedge" all you want, but previous blasts-from-the-past tend to be tracks that had proven themselves in a live environment before, and by extension were probably considered era highlights by Tom & Ed. So if they're feeling frisky we might get, say, the return of "Come With Us", or maybe at a stretch something like "Come Inside" (I harbor a theory it'd work well coming out of "Free Yourself", which should itself never leave the setlist because the live version of that song might legit be the highlight of the entire Chems discography).
Will they keep "Eve Of Destruction" as a vocal sample over "Acid Children"? Unlikely, it's the lead-off track of the album they'll be promoting and we've seen photos from a shoot for the visuals that clearly extend past what was used in the 2018 shows.
Use it as a setlist-opener? Possibly - and I'd like that - but when was the last time the Chems kicked off a tour with a new song as the setlist-opener (as opposed to switching midway like with "Another World", and "No Path To Follow" vocal samples notwithstanding)? Come With Us-era?
Play the full "Eve Of Destruction" coming out of "Acid Children"? Not out of the question (and better than the key change into a different acid line on this dolled-up new version of "Under The Influence" they've got), but where does that put the songs around it? They've got a good thing going with "Acid Children" coming out of "Escape Velocity", and that song's never leaving the second half of the setlist.
What's getting cut? Something has to be - we're at least getting one or two more No Geography songs - but, also, the darlings that have to be killed to make room only get more and more darling as the amount of past the Chems need to service in a setlist accumulates. The rest of Come With Us has basically been sent begging because "Star Guitar" is never going anywhere and that's sufficient representation at this point. "Do It Again" might feel extraneous to a lot of us but it's still there on the assumption that it represents post-2005 Chems to someone out in the crowd. It hurts me to say, but if it's not "Do It Again" I think we might - might - be losing "Saturate". "Believe" has a new job now so it's sort of orphaned on the front end; they've repurposed the drums at the end to go into "Elektrobank"-"Piku Playground" etc. but that bit of fanservice might also be on the chopping block. Just put the mid-setlist break on "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (or some new No Geography song after it) and I don't think the average concertgoer feels the loss.
The stunt with real-life versions of the balls from the visuals bouncing around the crowd may keep it safe, because of course the Chems love their concert bells & whistles nowadays, but also they don't do that all the time and they've still got the robots so it's not like they're short on logistical issues to worry about.
Also I imagine that "EML Ritual" isn't long for this world, regardless of whether "Let Forever Be" comes back in its place. It barely made the cut last time, there's almost certainly a No Geography song that's going to need that space more.
It'd be nice if they could use some of this prep time to give "Block Rockin' Beats" actual visuals, instead of just the pulp of sepiatoned bits from visuals that didn't make the cut for this tour like they've been doing (especially since some of those visuals might be back on the cut with the new room offered for the encore).
Based on two factors - the recency of the 2018 festival tour, which was mostly just an expansion pack of the Born In The Echoes setlist with some No Geography trial runs and aforementioned Prodigy-esque fan kisses thrown in, and the relative strangeness of the album they're setting out to promote, with its "listen to me as a whole" sequencing and sense that we might be getting a closer-than-usual glimpse at Tom Rowlands' soul - suggest to me that they might get a little bit genuinely frisky with the setlist alterations. Of course what those might constitute are beyond the scope of my prediction, without getting into full-on self-indulgent concert fanfic territory. But I can nonetheless feel the iron grip of Q-Tip, Ali Love, and the Big Beat era slipping just a bit - will this finally be the year we see the return of "The Test" in all its glory?
(No! Because they programmed the Big Robots to say that one line from it, and once you've committed to the logistics of bringing Big Robots along on tour you could be doing two-hour poetry recitals and still find a spot for "Under The Influence" in the proceedings.
"I'll take you along with me," Tom says tenderly to one of the robots looming over him. He softly caresses it, just once. "I'll take you along with me.")
今年是《Surrender》发行20周年，而我真的很希望能在setlist里出现Surrender。
个人的最爱是Star Guitar，2016年也看到了Swoon/Temptation/Star Guitar，可能是一个针对2002年演出的复刻？对许多歌迷来说意义非凡，我相信一定能看到Star Guitar。
如果出现Hoops也很棒。
Pills 或者 Salmon Dance如果能出现我会高兴疯了。
实在太期待即将到来的#No Geography Tour，我已经完全准备好投入化学兄弟的魔力中，无论有多少老歌有多少新歌。我相信从未听过化学兄弟的人，只要在现场就会被化学兄弟的魔法捕获。
2017年9月，化学兄弟来到上海，这是一场在EDM音乐节的DJ set，许多年轻的歌迷几乎没有听过化学兄弟。我在机场有机会和Tom短暂交谈，他也表示有点担心EDM音乐节的歌迷有可能不习惯化学兄弟的音乐。
当晚，化学兄弟演出时，突然出现强烈的暴风骤雨，演出只进行了90分钟，之后音乐节被迫取消。在化学兄弟演出的90分钟内，习惯了EDM观众一开始不太清楚状况，我身边的人甚至从未听过化学兄弟，没过多久，这些听众开始意识到这是他们从未想象过魔力音乐，在暴风雨中，观众渐渐"Out of Control"然后"Get Themselves High"，整个音乐节的气氛好像一个炸药，最终在暴风雨的高潮戛然而止。事实上，那时候化学兄弟还播放了Free Yourself。
第一次在ChemBase发言很兴奋。我的发言是用软件转换成英文的，希望没有什么不恰当的用词。 :) :)
This year is the 20th anniversary of 《Surrender》, and I really hope to see Surrender in setlist.
They Played "Swoon/Temptation/Star Guitar" in 2016. May it be a remake of the performance in 2002? It means a lot to many fans. I believe I can definitely see Star Guitar.
It would also be great if "Hoops" appeared.
Pills or Salmon Dance will make me crazy if they show up. ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
No matter how many old songs and how many new ones there are,I am fully prepared to be involved in the Chemical Brothers's wizardry.I believe those who have never heard of the Chemical Brothers will be captured by the magic of Tom and Ed as long as they are present.
In September 2017, Tom and Ed came to Shanghai play a DJ set on a EDM Music Festival. young fans know nothing about Chemical Brothers. I had an opportunity to have a short talk with Tom at the airport. He also expressed concern that audience of this EDM music festival might not be used to the Chemical Brothers music.
That night, when the Chemical Brothers performed, there was a sudden strong storm. The performance lasted only 90 minutes, and then the music festival was cancelled. Within 90 minutes of the performance of the Chemical Brothers, the audience was used to not knowing the situation at first. The people around me had never even heard of the Chemical Brothers. Before long, all the audience began to realize that this was magic music they had never imagined. In the storm, the audience gradually "Out of Control" and then "Get Themselves High". The atmosphere of the whole music festival seemed like an dynamite, and finally came to an abrupt end at the climax of the storm.
In fact, the Chemical Brothers also played Free Yourself at that time. ;D
I'm very excited to reply in ChemBase for the first time. The speech was converted into English by software. I hope there are no inappropriate words.
Mind Bending Chemicals，Love Is All. ;D ^-^
Welcome Guo1jiang! Happy to see you're not a bot and you're actually posting and also glad you were able to catch the brothers in Shanghai! Stick around and have fun with the loveliest peeps around that is the chembase!
Quote from: Champiness on Apr 12, 2019, 05:58
- "The Universe Sent Me" deserves to mop the floor with audiences during the encore and I'll be actively offended if Tom & Ed deny it that place of honor. This could be a keeper for the rest of their touring years if they play their cards right.
THIS This is everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Csar on Apr 12, 2019, 15:25
Welcome Guo1jiang! Happy to see you're not a bot and you're actually posting and also glad you were able to catch the brothers in Shanghai! Stick around and have fun with the loveliest peeps around that is the chembase!
:)) :))hello Csar!Yes I'm actually alive,and will not alive alone in Chembase.Happy to be here,Thank you ;D
Quote from: Guo1jiang on Apr 13, 2019, 01:50
:)) :))hello Csar!Yes I'm actually alive,and will not alive alone in Chembase.Happy to be here,Thank you ;D
You've got the track names as puns thing down, so you will do well here!
Quote from: Guo1jiang on Apr 12, 2019, 15:14
今年是《Surrender》发行20周年，而我真的很希望能在setlist里出现Surrender。
个人的最爱是Star Guitar，2016年也看到了Swoon/Temptation/Star Guitar，可能是一个针对2002年演出的复刻？对许多歌迷来说意义非凡，我相信一定能看到Star Guitar。
如果出现Hoops也很棒。
Pills 或者 Salmon Dance如果能出现我会高兴疯了。
实在太期待即将到来的#No Geography Tour，我已经完全准备好投入化学兄弟的魔力中，无论有多少老歌有多少新歌。我相信从未听过化学兄弟的人，只要在现场就会被化学兄弟的魔法捕获。
2017年9月，化学兄弟来到上海，这是一场在EDM音乐节的DJ set，许多年轻的歌迷几乎没有听过化学兄弟。我在机场有机会和Tom短暂交谈，他也表示有点担心EDM音乐节的歌迷有可能不习惯化学兄弟的音乐。
In September 2017, Tom and Ed came to Shanghai play a DJ set on a EDM Music Festival. young fans know nothing about Chemical Brothers. I had an opportunity to have a short talk with Tom at the airport. He also expressed concern that audience of this EDM music festival might not be used to the Chemical Brothers music.
That night, when the Chemical Brothers performed, there was a sudden strong storm. The performance lasted only 90 minutes, and then the music festival was cancelled.
I remember that. Ed put pics on his instagram before they played and then afterwards the Chems tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/chembros/status/911943360897830912
Welcome to the forum Guo1jiang, I hope you don't get too frustrated having to translate our English words into Cantonese (it is Cantonese isnt it?).
记住，没有地理
Got Glint -> The Universe Sent Me/No Geography (I Cave In/Help Me Become Divine during No Geography's buildup) with Hold Tight London's beats -> The Sunshine Underground
Is it normal for them to mash new songs together during promotion for a new album or no?
I'm hype to hear No Geography live. It struck me as the kind of song they might not play live, but they confirmed they're "excited to play it around the world" in a Billboard article.
I really don't know what to expect, but I think for sure we'll get:
Eve of Destruction
No Geography
Got To Keep On
Free Yourself
MAH
And I very much hope
Bango
We've Got To Try
The Universe Sent Me
but I doubt we'll hear
Gravity Drops
Catch Me I'm Falling
I'm not sure if they'll play the title track live, but I would be shocked if the Brownstein quote doesn't find itself featured in the set somewhere with at least a little bit of fanfare (and not just snuck in Snow/Surface2air like Champiness displayed).
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Apr 16, 2019, 03:17
I really don't know what to expect!
I honestly have no clue what to expect. I'll tell you this though. The energy that this album has now is gonna bring way more energy to the live show than I've seen in the past 1O years. I don't care what the setlist is, or what tracks from NG are gonna play live, or what visuals are going to premier for the first time. The album is a godsend, and all this momentum is gonna reflect off of Tom and Ed and toward the crowd!
All I want from this tour is that I hope they sell those dog t-shirts at the merch stands! That's all I want really!
My predictions about the setlist:
Spoiler
1. Eve of Destruction
2. Do it Again
3. Free Yourself
4. MAH
5. EML Ritual (or Chemical Beats)
6. Go
7. Swoon
8. Star Guitar
9. Got To Keep On / Fantai
10. Hey Boy Hey Girl
11. Saturate (maybe with excepts from Believe and House Nation).
12. Elektrobank / Piku
-- (fag break)
13. Escape Velocity
14. Under The Influence (or Out Of Control / Setting Sun)
15. No Geography (or Surface to Air)
16. Galvanize
17. Song To The Siren / C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L / Block Rockin Beats
-- (if encore will be played)
18. Got Glint (or Hold Tight London)
19. The Universe Sent Me
20. The Private Psychedelic Reel
Pretty sure Gravity Drops will be here, given what Tom said
Quote from: Ben_j on Apr 16, 2019, 16:27
Pretty sure Gravity Drops will be here, given what Tom said
what interview?
I feel like opener will go
Eve -> Go
I am gonna dodge all Mexico live footage and be surprised for 1st show
Quote from: androidgeoff on Apr 16, 2019, 19:29
I am gonna dodge all Mexico live footage and be surprised for 1st show
Chemical celibacy starting on may 11! No YouTube and forum for you young man! (Granny voice)
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Apr 16, 2019, 03:17
I'm hype to hear No Geography live. It struck me as the kind of song they might not play live, but they confirmed they're "excited to play it around the world" in a Billboard article.
I really don't know what to expect, but I think for sure we'll get:
Eve of Destruction
No Geography
Got To Keep On
Free Yourself
MAH
And I very much hope
Bango
We've Got To Try
The Universe Sent Me
Damn that's like almost the whole album, but then again, that would be pretty cool if they did that, I mean more emphasis on the album than the usual 3-4 tracks played for the tour including the greatest hits mixed in.
But if for some reason, if they play all the ones you mentioned, than alot of tracks from the usual tour playlist will get cut!
I don't know about you guys but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to take!
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Apr 16, 2019, 17:08
what interview?
The Apple Music page for No Geography has Tom going through the album track-by-track, and when talking about the origins of "Gravity Drops" he says "it all comes from setting up the studio to play it live".
I think this just refers to their process of jamming to come up with neat elements for the studio versions of songs, though (and I can certainly believe it in the context of "Gravity Drops" - that snare roll was definitely the result of hitting the right button at the right time while a flanger was on).
I have no reason to expect this or grounds for this demand but BRING BACK NUDE NIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQO6wNmb9gg
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Apr 29, 2019, 22:27
I have no reason to expect this or grounds for this demand but BRING BACK NUDE NIGHT
I hope they do change up the setlist with one or two songs while in the states!
I am hoping for a few surprises here and there.
One thing I'm excited about with this tour is that it's usually the second leg of a Chems promo cycle where the live shows really kick off - think about how they stepped things up, both visually and in terms of the setlist, for the long tail of the WATN tour where they kept on the road to promote Brotherhood, or the leg of the Further tour that doubled as prep for Don't Think. That break to reconsider and improve an existing setlist has consistently been of great benefit to them. But for No Geography they've already done a considerable amount of that legwork ahead of time, with the 2018 festival tour. Three No Geography tracks already have full visuals (or, well, 3.5 if you count "Eve of Destruction") and the BITE set structure has gotten a thorough rinsing, so I really expect them to come out the gate with something impressive once they've added a whole additional layer of tour prep on top of that.
On that note please feel free to examine this still of a Smith+Lyall tour visuals shoot from three weeks ago for evidence of "Nude Night":
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKAX3VljaG/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=gatzkx73ijhb
Quote from: Champiness on Apr 30, 2019, 20:14think about how they stepped things up, both visually and in terms of the setlist, for the long tail of the WATN tour where they kept on the road to promote Brotherhood, or the leg of the Further tour that doubled as prep for Don't Think. That break to reconsider and improve an existing setlist has consistently been of great benefit to them
Yes! The 2004-2005 tours I'm reminded of as well - start by touring mainly festivals ahead of the album being finished or released, with a set of hits and a few unreleased songs. Then come back the next year after the release prepared with new songs and ability / desire to tweak the hell out of the setlist after touring it the same way for so long. 2005's average setlist changed at least 4 times over the year and had so many weird surprises pop up. Would be amazing to see that in 2019 and I feel it's much more likely now that Ed's wholly on board again.
Though the number of dates on a tour probably plays into how much they tweak the set too. In 2005 they had about 50 stops on their tour. This year it's 26 (and counting of course).
ed's instagram story today has a rehearsal clip of
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escape velocity & golden path vocals
Quote from: GLAKO-FAHN on Apr 30, 2019, 22:18ed's instagram story today has a rehearsal clip of
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escape velocity & golden path vocals
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hearing this vocal sample is just a constant reminder that I'll never hear actual Golden Path live
and that's enough spoilers for me! Need to go into this knowing as little as possible!
Quote from: WhiteNoise on Apr 30, 2019, 22:30and that's enough spoilers for me! Need to go into this knowing as little as possible!
Me too but it's gonna be so hard!!
ngl I've been checking Smith+Lyall's not-updated-in-weeks Instagram page with the specific and remote hope that they'll slip up and include some visual spoilers in a post, so thorough is my inability to wait until May 11, so I can't really relate
Last tour I had a little personal job of scouring Instagram for any interesting clips of every show they played in the year since their Rockhal debut.
I'm trying not to spoil the show for myself this year either so would anybody like to carry the torch for me? (or should I continue archive?)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7UROynb03/
Maybe worth noting, on the day before the tour kickoff at Corona, that this photo ostensibly taken at some point during rehearsals has synths labeled with names like "Hoops", "Reflexion", "Eve", "Wide" and "Glint" amidst the more familiar stuff
Also one that might, through the heavy compression, read "TBJ", but that seems implausible to me
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Most likely Hoops will be the transition between S2A (they already tackled the classic blend from S2A so I doubt they'll change it up) and Galvanize
So, today is the day to stay off YouTube and social media for this ruckus.
I will preserve my eyes and ears.
But eventually, I just wanna see 'Hold Tight Los Angeles' when shit does goes down.
That is all!
My prediction: they open with Eve of Destruction.
Quote from: Csar on May 11, 2019, 14:52My prediction: they open with Eve of Destruction.
I mean, they kinda
have to don't they? It's such a killer album opener, imagine that fading in from tomorrow never knows!
I spoiled the part of the 2020 setlist by photos from the Matt Cox twitter:
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https://sun9-12.userapi.com/c854324/v854324212/20ac22/-jDWz5HATlc.jpg
Quote from: Explud on Mar 06, 2020, 18:25I spoiled the part of the 2020 setlist by photos from the Matt Cox twitter:
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https://sun9-12.userapi.com/c854324/v854324212/20ac22/-jDWz5HATlc.jpg
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RIP Eve of destruction & IM BLIND EML Ritual/Bango
Quote from: Explud on Mar 06, 2020, 18:25
I spoiled the part of the 2020 setlist by photos from the Matt Cox twitter
Your list is not complete. I've got a spy in Ed's house (Frank The Boss, if anybody wants to know) and he told me that they will definitely play a mashup of Power Move and These Beats Are Made For Breaking between Star Guitar and GTKO. Also they will start the third part of the show with Loops Of Fury.
Quote from: Explud on Mar 06, 2020, 18:25I spoiled the part of the 2020 setlist by photos from the Matt Cox twitter:
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https://sun9-12.userapi.com/c854324/v854324212/20ac22/-jDWz5HATlc.jpg
Can't say for sure this is official, Reflexion was slated to play in 2018 and Hoops in 2016 going by some previous posts from Matt and Ed, it's likely this is just a list of cues rather than a cohesive setlist for now.
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however hey boy hey girl being an intro again is possible, i looked at adam's pinterest posted on the forum before and there seems to be an interesting board https://www.pinterest.es/flatnosegeorge/hbhg2020/
Quote from: ThePumisher on Mar 07, 2020, 09:23
Your list is not complete. I've got a spy in Ed's house (Frank The Boss, if anybody wants to know) and he told me that they will definitely play a mashup of Power Move and These Beats Are Made For Breaking between Star Guitar and GTKO. Also they will start the third part of the show with Loops Of Fury.
God, I wish
pumisher's info not solid. good authority that third part of the show starts with dust up beats
Quote from: GLAKO-FAHN on Mar 08, 2020, 13:36
pumisher's info not solid. good authority that third part of the show starts with dust up beats
which version?
and by sayin' my info's not solid you call frank the boss a liar...
I found where the inspiration for EML Ritual's visuals came from:
(https://media.tenor.co/images/67396d5a3c8b9b8d777fb62d454e86fe/tenor.gif?riffsid=TVRnMk9UVTNNemxmWWc9PTB61xdXsfy0YtMZweGcY1T5pqoY0yKwna8eS4AdF1TzM1WkIKizlVFH0v7GF98W2HX90RlF&fbclid=IwAR1WyYefMWQXU2rmrOiAINh0wHTopuh9yH_QTuNC3jKrpEU2-uKcWRq5Ph4)
Wait. All the time it was Julian?
Chula!
Quote from: ThePumisher on Oct 27, 2020, 18:47
Wait. All the time it was Julian?
pulls out pistol: "Always Has been"
Dr. Bashir, I presume?
Wait...does that mean Vic Fontaine is going to be giving us advice soon?
That'd be holo-sweet!
Quote from: ThePumisher on Oct 27, 2020, 18:47
Wait. All the time it was Julian?
Quote from: Csar on Oct 28, 2020, 10:03
Chula!
Quote from: Conn6orsuper117 on Oct 28, 2020, 16:17
pulls out pistol: "Always Has been"
Quote from: rynostar on Oct 28, 2020, 19:11
Dr. Bashir, I presume?
Wait...does that mean Vic Fontaine is going to be giving us advice soon?
Quote from: Csar on Oct 28, 2020, 19:20
That'd be holo-sweet!
No idea what any of you crazy kids are talking about but I'm very happy that you're all happy :)
Quote from: Enjoyed on Oct 28, 2020, 22:02No idea what any of you crazy kids are talking about but I'm very happy that you're all happy
Me too :)
K+D+B stands for Ketracel-White + Dominion + Bashir
ewwww trekkies
Captain, set phasers to eviscerate
That's not a setting on phasers
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phaser#Sidearm_settings
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/665/DpQ9YJl.jpg)
Quote from: androidgeoff on Oct 30, 2020, 06:11
That's not a setting on phasers
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phaser#Sidearm_settings
Shsh, you make us look like a bunch of nerdy Trek dudes!
Oh, that's what was in my mail today by the way:
If You Klingon to me, I'll Qapla' at you
:D
It doesn't anti-matter.