Chemicals - Know Your Enemy! — Forum Archive

25 Jan 2002, 18:00

Whilst I'm waiting with baited breath as much as the next man for 'Here To Stay', there's one little tit-bit of info I picked up at the Hordern on Wednesday, which should be of interest... .

The same team who 'support' New Order on tour; right from the tour manager (Mark Gosling) to the lighting man (Andy Liddle), are all the same crew who do the Chemical Brothers live ... ... So, whenever the Chems are playing live this year, we won't have a chance of seeing the Order. I know they've defo got same dates planned around March/April(?) here, Down Under, and back home in Blighty but not sure how much they've got pencilled in beyond that? However, I do know that the previous Chemicals world tour lasted FOURTEEN MONTHS, which is where all New Order's current crew got together!

Let's just hope the Chems aren't planning a big one this time around! Heavens forbid.

25 Jan 2002, 18:33

There's always the prospect of a double a header or a joint festival performance, or would the crew not be able to manage that?

25 Jan 2002, 18:35

Lifted direct from the Chems' Official Site....

FEBRUARY

Sun 24

Tokyo NK Hall

Tue 26

Osaka Zepp

MARCH

Fri 01

Melbourne Festival Hall TBC

Sat 02

Melbourne Festival Hall

Mon 04

Brisbane Festival Hall

Wed 06

Sydney Hordern Pavillion TBC

Thu 07

Sydney Hordern Pavillion

Sat 09

Auckland North Shore

Mon 18

Birmingham Academy

Tue 19

Portsmouth Guildhall

Thu 21

Manchester Apollo

Fri 22

Brixton Academy

Sat 23

Brixton Academy

Fri 29

Paris Zenith

Sat 30

Amsterdam Heineken Hall

APRIL

Mon 01

Koln Palladium

Tue 02

Offenbach Stadthalle

Wed 03

Munich Zenith

Thu 04

Milan Palavobis

Sat 06

Barcelona Pavello Olimpic

Sun 07

Madrid La Cubierta

27 Jan 2002, 00:18

well just a big thank you for that set of news :( just what us USA folks need to see but a double header would be nice :nod:

27 Jan 2002, 13:34

hhmmm...Chems with the Order???...that could do quite nicely...but I ain't getting my frigging hopes up this time!!!!

28 Jan 2002, 13:15

Anyone going to see the Chemicals in Manchester in March?

29 Jan 2002, 06:22

If we can crash at your place afterwards maybe !

29 Jan 2002, 07:36

I saw them on NYE and wasn't mega impressed to be honest.

29 Jan 2002, 07:42

May go and see them in Offenbach in April, so I can coincide it with a Kickers home game.

29 Jan 2002, 13:07

Kickers'never a dull moment in homematches'Offenbach!Sounds promising, Sloppy. Reminds me of some news from yesterday: Ewald Lienen, remember, the one that got half his leg cut open, got fired by FC Koln. So much for off-topic talk!

29 Jan 2002, 17:50

Bieberer Berg, the New Den of the Regionalliga :)

4 Feb 2002, 08:15

Originally posted by Seb Briggs I saw them on NYE and wasn't mega impressed to be honest.

I saw them at Creamfields last year, and I wasn't too impressed then either. Suppose I must be an optimist.

4 Feb 2002, 11:10

Kickers Offenbach at Creamfields ? Shit !

4 Feb 2002, 11:36

Originally posted by Sloppy Giuseppe Kickers Offenbach at Creamfields ? Shit !

Ho ho......!

What/who hell Kickers (do excuse my ignorance)?

4 Feb 2002, 11:55

Kickers Offenbach are a piss-poor German football team with a silly name and a bad reputation for hooliganism. I look out for their results every week, even going as far as translating their websites !

4 Feb 2002, 12:18

Originally posted by Sloppy Giuseppe Kickers Offenbach are a piss-poor German football team with a silly name and a bad reputation for hooliganism. I look out for their results every week, even going as far as translating their websites !

Ah, now I see. Why the fascination? Do they have mullet hairdo's? Although they weren't at Creamfields :), I did see the stars of Hollyoaks playing footie, and their football and hairstyles were probably just as bad ;)

4 Feb 2002, 15:52

Are they bad then these Hollyoaks players ? I'm playing against them and Emmerdale in a few weeks, looking forward to elbowing Eric Pollard and a 50-50 with Kathy Glover !

5 Feb 2002, 06:12

Didn't pay too much attention to their footballing prowess to be honest. Was distracted by the terrible greasy mop of the muppet who plays the recently paralysed Adam :\puke: