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who has seen aphex live?.......
 

discobickie from i wear the cheese. on 2001-09-07 09:17 [#00029982]



does he put on a good show visualy?
what does he use to play? computers, desks?
i want to see the man at work..


 

al>< from dublin on 2001-09-07 10:41 [#00029993]



4 times!
4 utterly different shows
1 class artist


 

Sound Assassin from Patent Office UK on 2001-09-07 12:34 [#00030015]



4 times aswell, and as above!

Last one was the Eat your own Ears Rephresh Braindance
sponsered by Rephlex....RDJ, Bogdan, Ovuca.....

Fukkin awesome!!!

Have fun.


 

Sound Assassin from Patent Office UK on 2001-09-07 12:36 [#00030016]



That one was a DJ set, do it was laptops and decks!

A gig a while ago in Birmingham, he used a laptop, but had
all his hopmemade stuff etc... aswell, although it only
really looked like he was using the laptop + newish looking
gear!

Have fun


 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-09-07 13:25 [#00030020]



Yup, on that 'holy' day of September 25-1997 here in
Vancouver me and my late best friend SPACEBOY
www.squeakie.com/spaceboy saw Aphex live at The Rage,
It was brilliant, confusing and exhilarating and bizarre at
the same time.
He was the headlining act ofcourse , but since this was
North-America and his music too intelligent and esoteric I
guess he needed The Sneaker Pimps and The Crystal Method to
get the people to come and see his show.
Thank God the Sneaker Pimps lead singer was sick and it was
horrible seeing the Crystal Method emberass themselves with
their "Get Busy Child"set-hoopla acting all arrogant and
corney behind their keyboards .
It was a horrific hour of bullshit me and my friend had to
withstand until "God himself finally came on.
The feeling ( and I'm not lying or exxagerating) was that
when the place was waiting for Aphex to take the stage it
felt like the 2nd coming was about to arrive.No shit! (
sounds juvenile but true).
Remember this is 1997 , the Aphex sound is a little more
commonplace nowadays but then it wasnt ( not in North
America anyways).
But the whole show itself was dark as he lay flat on stage,
the big huge teddy bears stomping through the audience, the
person who got his hair shaved onstage in bondage, lights
away from the stage when there was no action onstage to the
audience instead, at the end of the show when one of the
teddy bear dudes took all of his outfit off and stood
starknaked onstage.
The music too bizarre for the staff of the establishment
looking in sheer bewilderment and after Aphex left stage
with NEVER EVER once looking at the audience the yelling for
him to comeback started.
But I've never seen such bizarre worship EVER!!
People were calling Jesus and God to come back over and over
for 15 minutes straight.
The word GENIUS was yelled a trillion times in between songs
etc..etc.
Ive been to many shows but I have NEVER seen anything like
it before or since.....
Trust me..
Oh btw, Aphex live is AMAZING....



 

al>< from dublin on 2001-09-07 14:33 [#00030024]



PostModernVancouver ....like yer style, sounds amazing
alright.
Maybe out your waynbefor chistnas to see a mate (Seattle
then Vancouver for a weekend)...any Braindance venues out
there?

The gigs i saw:
1) 1999ish..Dublin..corner dj box, hidden, about 10 dancers
on a theatre stage and SAW2 type sounds all the way...great
but insanity

2) Dublin: Last summer he played hidden (crouched) for most
of it except at the end when he went nuts with punching the
air. Played a lot of Squarepusher which made me wet. The
triumph was he had dj mates on stage dancing, Clob dressed
as a banana and some great visuals.
3) Sonar this year in Barcelona. Fucking brilliant set > see
www.joyrex.com...discography/live shows/Sonar.......banging
stuff altogether. A real refresher after Carl Cox in another
part of the Arena.
4) Two weeks ago, Dublin.
No visuals, no stage show...just Bogdan, Ovuca, RDJ hanging
out playing pumping tunes....fucking 'A'!



 

Lithargoel from Denmark on 2001-09-07 16:07 [#00030028]



Does he still perform live?


 

Loogie from Oxford UK on 2001-09-07 16:23 [#00030033]



3 times

1993 Brighton, Event club
Played after Orbital behind a mass of machine and wires. Did
not emerge once. Had his mental dancer.

1996 Brighton, Paradox club
Played after Cylob who in my opinion stole the show that
time, simply awesome. Aphex performed lying down on stage,
watching TV style, while twiddling knobs on some MUCH
smaller equipment.

2000 London, The End
Aphex just played tracks from a Mac laptop, very hardcore.
He was looking quite fat actually. Probably my least
favourite time.



 

al>< from dublin on 2001-09-07 16:42 [#00030037]



yeah, Cylob in Dublin a few months ago kicked
ass!....probably my favourite gig of all time ...and i've
seen squarepusher too, who is very hard to beat


 

rodney parade from Cambridge on 2001-09-07 20:44 [#00030076]



Saw him in Glasgow in winter 96 - on after Luke Vibert/
before Andy Wetherall. With hindsight, he played (more or
less) all of the tracks off Come to Daddy plus Heliosphan -
but with a differnt baet. I spent the first 5 minutes
laughing my head off. A-tonal nonsence from start to finish.
He was lying on a dodgy old matress looking bored out of his
head while the great and good of Glasgow (piissed up on
booze) went ballistic. A very good gig.


 

digitalbubblebeth on 2001-09-07 21:07 [#00030080]



I've only seen him DJ -- after the Bjork show in 95 in
DC....I don't like Bjork, and waiting for aphex was one of
the most torturously long and bothersome stretches of time
EVER>>>his set was quite good though


 

chris on 2001-09-08 03:54 [#00030156]



i've never been to a show of any kind except shitty rock
concerts. so for the naive idiot like myself, it would be
great if someone could describe what he plays? does he
usually play his own shit? original shit? other people's
shit? can you dance to it?


 

Vampire Angel from San Juan,Puerto Rico on 2001-09-08 06:15 [#00030166]



Postmodern and al><, you two are my heroes. I will do
anything to see my God RDJ playing live as Aphex Twin. Have
to stay alert at the web sites to see whenever he starts a
USA tour to see. Because I will fly to the states if I have
to, in order to finally see this Genius at work, doing it
live.......Take care guys....


 

al>< from dublin on 2001-09-10 09:54 [#00030475]



chris!..check out the Sonar set and all the other live
sets..Mt Fuji is great, at www.joyrex.com..discography/live
shows..
Can you dance to it? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Have you heard his
gabba stuff yet?!!.....
ps i'm no hero, but i do appreciate how fortunate i am to
have seen him live AND squarepusher, AND luke vibert next
week, AND Cylob AND maddog wallace at a beach rave 2 weeks
ago....and .....
Bogdan too......Indeed i AM blessed!..better practice my
kata and lose the ego


 

poe from the uk on 2001-09-10 12:27 [#00030499]



yeah, I havent seen the Twin live, but I would love to (I am
already saving money for a ticket of he does london or
something)

did any one else see warp100 98? that was good, played come
to daddy and stuff, seeing autchre live there has been my
best live experience... all dark, just little red lights on
the stage, and seeing orbital is always good, especially
their mtv one they did a few months back (the
slideshow/light show prodded major buttock during imapct
wich laste d 15mins)


 


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