i was aprehensive about it but i was really impressed and i thought they where excellent. the trilogy was fantastic.

yes, agreed. the trilogy was my highlight from friday . . and schizophrenia.

diamondsea told me the previous night, Thurston hadn't spoken a word during the DDN set.
It happened again friday (to repeat itself saturday).
That was a bit odd.
When the encore got played, he then spoke to the crowd.
I really enjoyed the show. The sound for me was great, Steve Shelley's performance wonderful (Cross the Breeze and more).
Highlights were Breeze, Joni, Kissability, Jams (Steve Shelley one more time) and Pink Steam, the into of which seems to stretch more and more in a beautiful way.
I liked Providence by the way; it was Thurston playing with the Watt tape. "Thurston?" was repeated quite a few times, which was funny.
On the whole it was a bit (I mentioned that the following night to _slavo_) as if we were watching a wrestle game. On one side, the audience favourites, DDN, on the other, the band's new faves, the RR songs. No winner, but I felt the RR show was a tad better in that band members enjoyed that a lot - not that they played DDN badly - far far from that.
To lalie : Kim was wearing the same outfit she was wearing in Paris.

I saw them on Friday and Saturday...the Saturday show was definitely being filmed...there was a camera on a tripod in the soundman's box...I dunno if there were other cameras around though...

Thanks for the infos, and welcome on the board!

Agree with with everyone's thoughts here. It was a great show. The guitars sounded awesome - really loud but crisp.

Lots of highlights - first couple of tracks, total trash sounding funky(!), the trilogy. I was impressed with the RR tracks. They sounded really good live. The only downside for me is that I've not had the chance to see a RR set (and I doubt I will). But then again RR live wouldn't have pulled 9000 punters.

Schizophrenia was a bit lacklustre. Lee seemed to mess it around a bit.

It was great, i got to meet Phil (h8kurdt) finally after years of talking on msn, Danny (Dannyhimself), Jon (jonboy), Racehorse who has the prettiest eye's and greatest hair ever! and Tom (toilet and bowels).

I beleive i would have been smacking into the back of your head for most of the second half of the gig Danny.
Looking at some of those videos makes me kinda wish i hadnt been jumping around and stuff but had just stood somewhere and listened a bit more. Still, once in a lifetime eh.

HA danny is that my head in the way there ^ ??????

:) Merci Bertrand. Et aussi merci pour le cd, c'était vraiment une gentille attention de ta part.
Fais moi signe quand il y a un concert intéressant à Paris, je suis sûre que tu connais beaucoup de bons groupes.

hey thank you :)

i was skeptical about these shows, and i only got a ticket at the last minute on the day of the show itself, but i'm so glad i did, i loved it, it's totally reinvigorated my love for SY which had waned considerably after the last 2 LPs, anyway, i thought the RR songs sounded totally bog standard in comparison to the DDN stuff, and it was obvious which the crowd enjoyed more.
i briefly got to meet racehorse, danny, screaming skull & co after the show and was a bit disappointed that you guys all scarpered so quickly.

Toilet & Bowels is intimidating and tall in person!

You bet. I was nestled in between you and that other guy with Jon Boy behind me, but I forgot you were there and you eclipsed Lee. No worries though..


We had to catch our last tube to the hotel, sorry about that. Your midnight snack looked truly disgusting, though I've never met anybody that can look so nonchalant and suave as you in a chinese chip shop in the middle of night.

A cheapo (well, not exactly cheap, but nothing professional) Samsung D75. It's not really built to be a video camera but you'd expect Samsung to pick up on that zoom/vol problem. I'm really pissed off because my Turquoise Boy footage is sorta useless without the audio.

oh, I see, well, there's always the "synch your video with the audio of a nice bootleg when it will surface" option.

OK d'acc !
A +

I didn't see any cameras on stage or at the front during any of the nights... so maybe just that one camera then.

hey i was there on friday most amazing gig i saw them perform both nights at ATP but this was even better
highlights for me were the sprawl cross the breeze and the whole of trilogy
specially everyone shouting along with cross the breeze
does anyone know if there is any decent audio or video recordings of it cos i will love to hear it
not sure how if these pictures will work i got a whole tonne of them if anyone is interested...

(turns out they dont work)

heres a facebook link if u have it
http://oxford.facebook.com/photo.php...99&id=36817556

A recording exists- as far as I know every show is taped at the sound board. Keep checking here and the dimeadozen news thread in 'sonic sharing', it should surface soon..

I have video for everyone to see but without a decent audio clip to sync it I'm witholding it for the time being. You can have a sneak peek at www.youtube.com/jrnls80s to see what the video quality is like.