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Next up on the 2007 tour is wild in the country


There'll be a lot of dirties there so if you see T's or a banner, say hello for me ;)
have fun! And report back with pix etc.

Here's the tracklisting of the upcoming album Oblivion with Bells.

01. Crocodile
02. Beautiful Burnout
03. Holding The Moth
04. To Heal
05. Ring Road
06. Glam Bucket
07. Boy, Boy, Boy
08. Cuddle Bunny vs The Celtic Villages
09. Faxed Invitation
10. Good Morning Cockerel
11. Best Mamgu Ever

There was a tracklisting on the loud.jp site but it had an error. This one comes from UW HQ.
afaik there will be an extra track on the .jp release.b

There are a few phonecam vids of the Efes One Love festival concert now on youtube
All these things
pearls girl

Someone posted a MTV party zone massive megamix on youtube, containing some underworld.

Screengrab of the clip played at the end of the Culture Show on BBC telly. They played Born Slippy. I think this must have been very funny to see. Since they used in-ear monitoring (and headphones) and no PA there was no sound other then karl dancing and the dogless-dog sniffing around.

News about the new album and tour is spreading fast now.
Prefixmag.com
angryape
Billboard.com

And if that isn't enough....
A load of new dates are added to the tour schedule. Full list now is:

date	event/venue	location	country		url
june 2007
30-june-07	wild in the country	knebworth	uk		click
july 2007
05-july-07	super bock rock	lisbon	portugal		click
07-july-07	monegros festival	monegros	spain		click
sept 2007
09-sept-07	hollywood bowl	los angeles	usa		click
11-sept-07	red rocks	denver	usa		click
14-sept-07	central park	new york	usa		click
oct 2007
08-oct-07	guildhall	southampton	uk		pre-sale
09-oct-07	academy	birmingham	uk		pre-sale
10-oct-07	uea	norwich	uk		pre-sale
12-oct-07	northumbria university	newcastle	uk		pre-sale
13-oct-07	academy	glasgow	uk		pre-sale
14-oct-07	rock city	nottingham	uk		pre-sale
16-oct-07	apollo	manchester	uk		pre-sale
17-oct-07	roundhouse	london	uk		pre-sale
26-oct-07	tonhalle	munich	germany		click
27-oct-07	electronic beats festival	prague	czech republic
30-oct-07	gasometer	vienna	austria
31-oct-07	electronic beats festival	bratislava	slovakia
nov 2007
01-nov-07	cocoon club	frankfurt	germany		click
03-nov-07	columbiahalle	berlin	germany		click
06-nov-07	paladium	koln	germany		click
08-nov-07	the docks	hamburg	germany		click
09-nov-07	heineken music hall	amsterdam	holland		click
10-nov-07	i love techno	gent	belgium		click

Japan will see some live dates in November too, TBA.

Most pre-sales started today or later this week.

After all the sad news of last weekend, great news today!

First of all, UW let us know that Rick is doing well again.

Then the other good news.
Underworld proudly present "Oblivion with Bells" to be released October 2007
A new album (link to press release in pdf/zip)

from the press release:
"Oblivion with Bells" draws heavily on Rick and Karls’ vast array of musical
influences (Nick Drake, Def Mix, Ricardo Villalobos, Can, James Holden, Eno)
and experiences performing worldwide to create a truly unique Underworld
journey. The album kicks off like Saturday night with Sven Väth, Simian Mobile
Disco and Frankie Knuckles all fighting to get on the decks, then takes you over
the flat fields of rural Essex, through Kings Cross with its olympic dreams and
piss stained alleys, ending blissed out in a hidden cove in Ibiza. Epic techno
nestles next to frail acoustics, beatific prose next to sharp urban observation,
amazing sound texturing mixed with mobile phone recordings, rarely has the
Underworld palette been so rich.

I can't wait!

There's now also a statement by the promotor, Detox, at their myspace website.
Since it's a jpeg, I can't use my online translators to try to translate it.
So.. if somebody would kindly give it a go, please put it in the comments.

Underworld have released a press statement about the incident.

Heineken Ejekt Festival 2007 16th June 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UNDERWORLD MEMBER INJURED AS GANG STORMS STADIUM. Underworlds’ Rick Smith, Karl Hyde, Darren Price and crew were caught up in trouble reportedly caused by “anarchists” at the Eject Festival in Athens on Saturday night (16/06/07). Underworld were scheduled to close the festival that also included Madness and The Beastie Boys. It is reported that a group of around 30 masked individuals, armed with CS-gas, iron bars and baseball bats stormed the stadium at around 11.20pm as The Beastie Boys were performing. As cars were burned and property damaged, the stadium was evacuated. Underworlds’ Rick Smith was one of the injured. He was hospitalised for a time in Athens, but has now returned to the UK for further treatment. Several other people including security guards were seriously hurt. ENDS. Update: NME reported about the incident here.

Well... Underworld didn't play there. Sofar the news is that The Beasty Boys were on stage and about the end their concert when riots started on and around the festival grounds. 'Anarchists' set fire to cars etc...
pictures on a site in greek.

Online translation:
' Inconceivable finishing (before few hours) [bradias] that had the better conditions. Above that was [enthoysiasmenoi] from the organisation of Ejekt Festival and prepared [dithyramboys] for the two appearances of foreigner names, we were rolled up… And basically, we remembered in who country we live…'
' Little before the appearance of Madness it began first traditional “[ntoy]” those who they waited for patiently their line. Afterwards, the battle with [eiselthontes] follow the did decision of (need? him we will learn tomorrow) is left free the space of entry - pray, however, in the hands those who they came in order to they cause villain. In this cases comes first the safety of big mass of world, conform. However: the absence of any element of control can deter from potential episodes, but it allowed the predominance of anarchy. From and afterwards the surrounding space was at some time dominated from [koykoyloforoys] and [kranoforoys] with [gklomp], that burned cars, threatened even the world that was in the toilets, chased even persons that simply had the vip [paso] (him we saw also this with our eyes!). Lack of culture?
Something bad and of this…'

More here, again in a online translation.

There's news from different sources now (non official sofar) that it was announced at the festival that Underworld weren't going to play because one of the members got hurt during the attacks at the backstage area. :( Let's hope everybody is fine.

update 2
report by someone who was there
' so I wish those responsible for Underworld not playing lose their genitals in a weird accident.'

Here you can view a 7 min. phonecam video of the Turkey concert. Sound is terrible as you would expect.

First picture I did find

Right now UW is on stage in Istanbul, Turkey. There isn't a livestream :(

Next concert is tomorrow, june 16th in Athens, Greece at the Ejekt Festival.
http://www.rockradio.gr is mediapartner, dunno if there will be a live stream, let's hope there will be one.

Today there was news about a concert on a festival in Ireland. More details will be released soon.
info sofar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/news_specific79265.shtml

The gear is packed, as you could see in a picture at uwlive a few days ago. It's been send to Istanbul for the Efes One Love festival.
http://www.efespilsenonelove.com/
Friday june 15th the first concert of the new worldtour will happen.

Underworld have been filmed by the BBC for the Cultureshow program. This will be broadcasted in the near future. I'll post details when I have them.

UPDATE!
***FROM UNDERWORLD HQ***
Just to let any of you Brits know (or anyone that can view BBC2)...

The Culture Show are doing a British Film Special on Saturday 23rd, 7pm, BBC2......with an Underworld element (apparently, so I'm told)

Here's a piece of the 1998 Arte docu called Universal Techno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53BNYvSZKB4

The archive has been updated again, this time with more video from Moscow and in the audio section 2 tracks of the fabulous Zurich concert have been posted.
There's also some news about the concerts in the near future.