James Lavelle
Pablo Clements (with a tan)
James Griffith (Phileas Fogg)
Gavin Clark (Heaven)
Joel Cadbury
Mike Lowry (Badger Boy)
Wii World: The Band
Saturday
Hello all,
This is Mike Lowry, I play drums with a UNKLE live and the whole ”writing-the-tour-diary” thing has been hefted onto my shoulders so…….hello..again. Anyway, after weeks of stressful rehearsing, trying to work out the new set, new songs and driving ourselves mad, (especially Pablo, James and Joel……but ESPECIALLY Pablo)we finally played our first show last night in Lyon.
Now, before I get to the show I want to first take the opportunity to thank Chloe, who did a great job looking after us and was just super super lovely so thank you Chloe (clap, clap, clap) and thanks also to everyone that came and saw us play (clap, clap, clap). That being said, the show didn’t run so smoothly from our side, I am trying to stay positive so I will just say that we had a really hard time.
Nothing was working properly, we couldn’t hear anything, the audience could barely see anything, and Restless crashed in the middle of the song. It was one of those times where you just have to sit back, watch the train wreck, and satisfy yourself that it is out of your hands. But man, it was an EPIC train wreck, Gavin said it was something straight out of Spinal Tap. (Consequently we decided that the next time a track goes down in the middle of the set we’re just gonna bust into “Hell Hole” so if you’re hearing us play that…you know why)……
However, today is a new day and we are really looking forward to the show tonight to redeem ourselves from last night and we had a good long time to iron out our sound issues so fingers crossed. Apologies to Midnight Juggernauts for Pablo walking out when you started, he had no idea…he just came running into the dressing room, going “Fuck, me I just walked out onstage with the opening band and hadn’t even realized they were starting!!!”….Anyways, I am new to this writing thing, so I hope it was OK.
Mike
PS.- Pablo’s quote of the day——“I got a corn on me foot”.
Clash have teamed up with mflow, the UK’s newest social music app, to bring you 5 FREE tunes as chosen by UNKLE. Songs include an exclusive remix of Natural Selection from Where Did The Night Fall plus tracks from favourite artists Ian Brown, DJ Shadow, Public Enemy and Carl Craig. Download them now!
July 10th sees UNKLE perform live with Heritage Orchestra at the De Le Warr Pavilion on the south coast of England in Bexhill. UNKLE will present Variation On A Theme, a collaboration featuring Heritage Orchestra, who recorded brass and strings on four tracks for Where Did The Night Fall and also performed with UNKLE at Somerset House and Union Chapel in 2008. The two collectives are set to once again unravel the textures and sounds of UNKLE by reinterpreting, remixing, and rejoining the electronic and orchestral worlds. Tickets are on sale now. Get them here!
Check out some video footage from Union Chapel here.
