On stage › 26 September 2003

Waterworld

Performed Confirmed as performed.

26 September 2003 · Montreal, Canada · promoted by Split Productions

Listed among past performances on the 2005 site. In his forum diary of 4 October 2003 Alexander wrote that the computer crashed about ten minutes before the set, which began two hours late, at about 5 am, after Indica's acid set, and that the band had never had such a response from a crowd.

Blue flyer for Waterworld by Split Productions, Montreal, 26 September 2003, with ticket outlets on the left and the event logo over rippling water on the right.
Waterworld, Montreal, 26 September 2003
The back of the Waterworld flyer: the Trance & Acid room with trance[]control at the top, and the Hard room.
Waterworld, Montreal, 26 September 2003: the line-up

The story

Before

The band took the place of Blank & Jones, who had cancelled their booking. On 24 September 2003 Alexander posted the booking as "100% confirmed". The band flew to Montreal and stayed with a friend, Tim; Andreas wrote of "beeing back in Montreal", and on the day Alexander wrote that the promoter had arranged for the whole night to be filmed. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The night

A computer that was not powerful enough crashed about ten minutes before the set: the audio driver failed and Logic crashed several times. The band had to postpone for about two hours and let Indica play first. When it was ready, at about 5 am, the mixer's outputs had gone dead, though they had worked at the soundcheck, and the crowd waited five minutes in silence. Then "ppl started screaming & cheering, and they wouldn't stop until we where finnished". [1]

After

During the trip the band asked its agent in Canada to find two more shows that year, and a three-week tour of Australia in March 2004 was mentioned; neither came about. The band later reported that its fee for the night was never paid. In March 2004 it put a recording of the set in the MP3 Vault, and in April a separate "High Society [Waterworld Mix]" in the VIP Vault. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Line-up

As the flyer printed it.

Trance & Acid

  • trance[]control (hard progressive trance, Sweden)
  • Indica (acid, Montreal)
  • Lady Melodie (acid, Montreal)
  • Mad (hard trance, Montreal)
  • Axel Klein (progressive trance, Montreal)
  • Omni (progressive trance, Montreal)

Hard…

  • Phosphor vs. Justrich (freeform hardcore, Winnipeg)
  • Tilz (freeform/trancecore, Minneapolis)
  • Cham & Juniah (hard trance, Montreal)
  • Merku (hardcore, Québec)
  • Deepspace (freeform, Montreal)
  • Nutron (nu-NRG, Montreal)
  • TranceFuzion (hard trance, Montreal)

The set

Live @ Waterworld · 58 min · 128 kbps; in the MP3 Vault from 24 March 2004 [1]

High Society [Waterworld Mix] · in the VIP Vault from April 2004 [1]

  1. Intro
  2. Gothenburg Sound
  3. Crystal Dreams
  4. Haunted Souls
  5. Perfecto
  6. Progression
  7. Lobotomized Unicorn
  8. Imported Nightmare
  9. Intelligent
  10. Nation 911

As a listener identified it from the recording; 58 min. [1]

Sources

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