its interesting as i remember that a guy wearing a PearlJam shirt at one of her gigs got kicked out?! anyway...tagesanzeiger wrote an review which said nuff: sh.i.te.

Oh, come off it.
It was a line up that might have filled up the Saturday night slots on about 1, maybe 2 stages at Glasto before the evenings main big guns slot.
Also, the headliners were all rather has been/festival circuit old schoolers:
Groove Armada, Placebo, Hole, Prodigy, Faithless, Underworld, etc - (Sterobloodyphonics??)
Not saying they're not good, but ZH open air is just another stop on a non stop summer european festival trawl for most of them.

Glad you enjoyed it & all, but lets not get carried away, eh?

UW were just sooooo nice.
Last 3 days i'm really enjoing the last single:

http://stereogum.com/373471/underworld-scribble/mp3s/

Sorry, each to there own, I know, & I loved Underworld, but I find it's quite depressing to think that's the same force that produced Cowgirl, Dirty Epic, Pearl's Girl & Born Slippy etc.

It's a little bit different when comparing a festival with 45 stages and 177,500 capacity over 4 days that's sold out and one that's only got 3 stages and 20,000 capacity per day that didn't get anywhere near that. The point here is that even at this year's Glastonbury you'd never have be able to see any of them in such small crowds, and even seasoned (meaning good?) festival acts still get to play the big stages at Glastonbury The ratio of act to maximum attendance works-out pretty keen I'd say, I can't remember the last time I watched Underworld, or indeed most of the main acts, perform at any festival with less than 10,000 people in front of them......that's very, very special in my book

Have to say I tend to agree with you on this. Their new direction seems to be pitched at trying to be relevant to the younger crowd who were probably only just born when they first stepped-out on a festival stage. Perhaps it's a strategic effort to get the old material another hearing by hooking them with something of the more lightweight pop-oriented dance stuff of today?

Totally agree the quality of the lineup was undeniable. Not only the acts on the main stage but also on the other stages. Top notch open air.

I follow UW since the very beginning and i'm happy they still progress and continue in their work. As i'm also a fan of dnb, especially all the Hospital Records stuff, the combination Underworld + High Contrast just suits me precisely. But agree - it's not dark and long anymore.

Decent openair, but for me top notch is the likes of Primavera (best in the world) Leeds & Reading,lollapalooza, Glastonbury etc

+1 for that. Huge fan of all things Hospital and loving the HC UW collaboration, as well as all of their older work. The new Underworld album will have lot of other collaborations including another track with HC. Looking forward to it.

mirko - I only found out on Sat day that London Elek and MC Wrec were playing in Bern that evening. If you ever hear of any others over here give me a heads up, I'll always be up for checking it out.

Yes, i knew about that one. Saw Tony Colman this summer at home and 2 years ago in Zürich Moods. Would like to see him again. Will keep my eye on that!