the chemical brothers
KOKO
Thursday 25 October
Masters of block rockin' beats, The Chemical Brothers were joined by Beth Orton and Tim Burgess to create a one-off performance at Camden's KOKO filled with stunning psychedelic visuals.
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set list
- Galvanize
- Burst Generator
- Do It Again
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Control
- Don't Fight Control
- It Doesn't Matter
- Star Guitar
- Surface To Air
- Under The Influence
- Believe
- We Are The Night
- The Boxer (with Tim Burgess)
- Where Do I Begin (with Beth Orton)
what happened
Minute by minute report, via text message, by the BBC's Matt Walton.
- 22.39 - The Chems enter stage right and start a low rumble. Someone throws a pint in the air.
- 22.42 - 'Galvanise' bursts into life. No one makes a noise quite like The Chemical Brothers.
- 22.45 - The entire back wall is a screen of light currently filled with spinning dots.
- 22.48 - The noise and lights are astounding. It's an anthemic beginning.
- 22.51 - The hook for 'Do It Again' goes down a treat. A man in electric colours demands we do it again from screen.
- 22.54 - A horrific, terrifying clown screams from the wall.
- 22.55 - The squeal of 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' begins.
- 22.56 - The beat kicks in a everyone's jumping.
- 22.58 - Lasers are bouncing off of KOKO's enormous glitter ball and the crowd are moving as one.
- 23.00 - Seamlessly we move into 'Control'. The lasers have turned from green to purple.
- 23.03 - There's a very good reason someone coined the phrase big beat. These beats are ENORMOUS.
- 23.08 - 'Out of Control'. Bernard Sumner's disembodied voice accompanies the silohettes of dancing members of the gistapo and bowler hatted busine
- 23.10 - Monkeys, tigers and elephants adorn the wall.
- 23.16 - 'It Doesn't Matter'. There are balconies of people dancing and punching the air. Euphoria is everywhere.
- 23.18 - Giant eyes blink at us from the back wall.
- 23.19 - The sound cuts out to disappointed cheers.
- 23.20 - Tom chem looks at his knobs and shruggs. The crowd are clapping expectantly.
- 23.21 - A single beat echoes around KOKO. The crowd cheer. Nothing else happens.
- 23.25 - Someone announces that the show will recommence in a couple of mins. The crowd are clearly agrieved at having their dancing interupted.
- 23.26 - The chems are back on stage and making noises!
- 23.28 - We're back in action. Tom acknowledges the crowd. A butterfly flutters onto the screen.
- 23.33 - The party goers have refound their dancing mojo! Tin robots stride from the screen.
- 23.38 - Someone is playing a massive beautiful game of pong on the rear wall. It turns into exploding paint.
- 23.40 - The crowd are waving euphoric hands in the air to 'Believe'.
- 23.44 - Blueprints of religious buildings adorn the walls. 'I need you to believe in something' rings out.
- 23.49 - We are entering a 'Doctor Who' style time vortex. 'We Are The Night' begins.
- 23.51 - The lasers are going mental. It's too early for fireworks night.
- 23.52 - Ed chem takes a bow. Tom chem nods at us like a vicar. And they are gone.
- 23.54 - And they are back!
- 23.57 - And Tim Burgess has joined them for... 'The Boxer'.
- 23.58 - Tim punches the air. The mosh pit mirrors him.
- 00.01 - And with a clap to the crowd Tim is gone in a sonic hail of noise artillery.
- 00.02 - Silence. Apart from the cheers. The loop of 'Where Do I Begin' starts and Beth Orton joins the stage.
- 00.05 - Clapping builds. Bubbles skitter up the screen. More and more.
- 00.09 - Beth leaves to the squeltchy sound of a landing tardis.
- 00.11 - Suddenly it's got noisy again. At high speed we travel through a castle to block rocking beats!
- 00.13 - Forays of extreme dancing is breaking out everywhere. The lasers flutter across the seething mass.
- 00.16 - The lasers go mental. Knobs are turned to eleven. The noise ends to flood light and the chems leave the stage with their arms a loft. The crowd want more but that's it.
also at bbc electric proms
Performed alongside The Chemical Brothers: - Justice
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audience reviews
Tim
Hi, for such a full on gig shouldn't the whole thing have been broadcast live? Great to have the highlights but I thought these "Proms" were suposed to bring a rush of performance to enthuse us all to go more to live gigs, unfortunately technical gremlins got in last night, but a broadcast or webcast may have brought it over better. Still brilliant though!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee Craven
Absolutley Blinding night, what more can you say other than Justice awesome and the Chemical Brothers were out of this world with some stunning vocals from Tim and Beth hooorah !!!
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richard whitlock
as always they rock.no one comes close to the chemical brothers.keep it up masters of sound.x
Mark & Leez
The Bros came & they tore the Koko down. The Beats were massive. Tim & Beth.....Ah...... Even Zane before hand spun some awesome tunes. 10/10 but what was the fire alarm all about?
Anna
The Chemical Brother were amazing. Highlights include Dan Deacon, Add N to X and block rockin beats. Shame about Tim Burgess though...