Wireless Festival, London June 23, 2006
About the gig: It was awesome - started off with some classics like Midnight...., Stem, Walkie Talkie, then 3 Freaks, then brought Lateef on stage, bit of Mashing on the Motorway, Number Song and Organ Donor. Amazing stuff - He Also played the new track with David Banner - brilliant..... big thanks to Andrew Lane for this.
Papalaz, from the DJ Shadow message-board says: Shadow is still as awesome as ever live. He said at the outset this was the first proper show in 3.5 years. The stage set up is cool - Shadow is on an elevated platform about 10 feet above the stage. Images are projected onto the front of the platform and also onto a screen behind. Looks fab when it worked (there are still some tech glitches to work out!!). As for the music the first part was a great mix of Entroducing, Private Press, UNKLE and Quannum. Lateef was there too - it was #### great (rapped a bit of Lady Don't Take No too). Last bit of the show was good - ending with an extended (Extended Overhaul) Organ Donor.
DJ Shadow tore the fuckin' place apart.The tent was rammed and really up for it.After all the talk of unwanted "New Direction" and Shadow selling his soul to the Devil, I was very curious to see what was going to happen.I'm sorry if I offend "Purists" here, but the live rapping took the set up a notch.Keak Da Sneak and pals didn't overplay their parts and Lateef kept us dancing and smiling.The new material is different- but who wants it to be the same - Onwards and Upwards.The beats were razor sharp and the bass Kicked my stomach. I enjoyed every last minute of it.
I saw it all go off in Leeds! I was so pleased at the reception that Shadow got - I really wasn't expecting to hear such total adoration. The crowd wouldn't shut up when he came out! He looked almost embarrassed at the reception, but he so deserved it, and we all know that. Anyway, when that set started, we all went mad. Still, the two tunes he did with that guy from Leeds were pretty poor. I was going crazy for the whole show, but when they did those tunes, I didn't move, didn't clap, and didn't shout. I don't know what the rest of the crowd were thinking, but they seemed a little surprised too. It's just not my style of music - for a fan of British indie rock, though, it may well be pretty cool. Mind you, that said, I think that some of the crowd didn't quite get the hyphy section of the show either. And that, to me, was absolutely fantastic. I wasn't expecting to see Keak, but then his cheeky face appeared. Still, it was when Lateef came on that things got really hot. The version of 'Lady Don't Tek No' that they did was ill. In fact, like I've said, virtually all of the set was totally out of sight. The way Shadow is driven to constantly rearrange and remix is simply astounding.
Papalaz, from the DJ Shadow message-board says: Shadow is still as awesome as ever live. He said at the outset this was the first proper show in 3.5 years. The stage set up is cool - Shadow is on an elevated platform about 10 feet above the stage. Images are projected onto the front of the platform and also onto a screen behind. Looks fab when it worked (there are still some tech glitches to work out!!). As for the music the first part was a great mix of Entroducing, Private Press, UNKLE and Quannum. Lateef was there too - it was #### great (rapped a bit of Lady Don't Take No too). Last bit of the show was good - ending with an extended (Extended Overhaul) Organ Donor.
DJ Shadow tore the fuckin' place apart.The tent was rammed and really up for it.After all the talk of unwanted "New Direction" and Shadow selling his soul to the Devil, I was very curious to see what was going to happen.I'm sorry if I offend "Purists" here, but the live rapping took the set up a notch.Keak Da Sneak and pals didn't overplay their parts and Lateef kept us dancing and smiling.The new material is different- but who wants it to be the same - Onwards and Upwards.The beats were razor sharp and the bass Kicked my stomach. I enjoyed every last minute of it.
I saw it all go off in Leeds! I was so pleased at the reception that Shadow got - I really wasn't expecting to hear such total adoration. The crowd wouldn't shut up when he came out! He looked almost embarrassed at the reception, but he so deserved it, and we all know that. Anyway, when that set started, we all went mad. Still, the two tunes he did with that guy from Leeds were pretty poor. I was going crazy for the whole show, but when they did those tunes, I didn't move, didn't clap, and didn't shout. I don't know what the rest of the crowd were thinking, but they seemed a little surprised too. It's just not my style of music - for a fan of British indie rock, though, it may well be pretty cool. Mind you, that said, I think that some of the crowd didn't quite get the hyphy section of the show either. And that, to me, was absolutely fantastic. I wasn't expecting to see Keak, but then his cheeky face appeared. Still, it was when Lateef came on that things got really hot. The version of 'Lady Don't Tek No' that they did was ill. In fact, like I've said, virtually all of the set was totally out of sight. The way Shadow is driven to constantly rearrange and remix is simply astounding.