At 14:05 12/03/96 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 12 lines The Los Angeles Times reported today that Orbital are considering
>The Los Angeles Times reported today that Orbital are considering
>playing this years Lollapalooza festival. If this doesn't make your
>heart sink, I don't know what will. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news,
>hell, downright evil news. If Orbital played Lollapalooza it would be an
>utter disaster. They'd get booed off the stage, which they would
>probably end up playing in the middle of the day (not the best time to
>see orbital live), by an endless sea of American Highschoolers and
>meatheads who came to see Metalica and Soundgarden. It would be the
>worst kind of publicity for them, since they'd be torn apart by every
>god damn back water rock critic for not playing 'real' insturments. And
>of course, we'd all be forced to endure a full day of hell since we
>wouldn't want to miss seeing Orbital live.
I think it sounds like a total scream. The idea of P&P pissing off loads of
teeny yanks and getting paid a bucket full of cash for the pleasure made me
tingle with delight.
On the other hand they will probably go down brilliantly, 'cos, urm, they
always do. They rocked Glastonbury and that's all guitar wank. (slight
generalisation).
g.
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