Sunday Music: Seeing Underworld Live
November 23, 2025·0 comments·zg
When my wife started freaking out about a limited date Underworld tour in the US, I knew we'd be going. I didn't really know the group, but we are very good at evangelizing music to each other, and like with so many things, seeing and experiencing it live is the best way to get a person into something.
But, before you get into it, you have to make fun of it. At least a little. We both do this, for the record.
But the commitment to remembering that’s the car that drove them around, before he got it, and before they used it to make their first movies together - that’s a real piece of personal and professional history right there.
So, Underworld. What did I know about them when she pitched it? First thought was - dance, four-on-the-floor, not techno but, not sure what Oakenfeld-y place to place them? I figured they were one of the groups my buddy Jim showed me (and genuinely got me to appreciate) when we were in college. I've never been an electronic music superfan, but I'm down to casually listen and even critically think about why so many other people love them.
Then I found out our buddy Kenny loves them too. Like, "Guys, I have this live version of a song somebody caught on their phone in 2004, and I have it saved on my phone so I can't share it except directly with you, so - just come listen to it in my car, it's the best" level of love. I appreciate that passion. I will try anything if somebody is passionate like that.*
My wife had tickets to see them in February or March of 2020. You know, right when the pandemic cancelled said tickets. They were one of her missed shows like that. Conveniently, on this tour, they were going to do a tour stop in Denver, and seeing as her brother, Braunsen, is out there, I said, "let's do it" and she booked the tickets, got the flights, etc. etc.
Now, perhaps unfairly, or less-than charitably, but - remember that you have to make fun of it part? Because my wife and Kenny were really into it, I started jokingly saying I was going to a goth rave. They're not goth, per se. At all. But, they have some mutual goth-esque appreciations and I liked how annoyed they were when I said it so I kept saying it.
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