not having been to glastonbury, the atmosphere at this event was like a
mixture of five slightly differently musically orientated megadogs, a kid's
funfair and a trial marajuana festival. Bonus. :)
i spent a fair bit of time with 808 state, helping at their stall and
backstage, so i didn't catch all that i wanted to, but i did see...
808 State :- excellent new songs with a few hip-hop numbers (featuring MC
Tunes! What a guy...) and lots of mellow stuff. The crowd seemed a bit
pissed off at the first few mellow songs (the previous dj played
higher states of conciousness) but got into it later on. Smart.
Orbital :- already heard about these, but i missed most of it, only caught the
last 45 mins, but never stopped dancing or smiling. You have to love
Orbital live.
Air Liquide :- i actually relaxed to this, sitting down in a tent
full of dancers, sleepers, lovers, junkies.... ahh, the diversity of
life. :)
Plastikman :- technical hitches my arse. he made everything sound exactly
the same, but completely different, did ridiculous things with the tempo
and the eq and fucked with our heads just the way we wanted. Again, the
previous dj played wink to warm the crowd up. He was walking around like
he didn't give a shit, while we all danced our wigs off. beautiful soundz.
Jeff Mills :- right after richie (even mixed into his last song) jeff seemed
to have one thousand mixes of the same song for two hours over and over and
over... which is boring as foo in a club when your resident dj plays it, but
with jeff's mixing, and throwing the odd scorcher in, and his mixing, oh and
his mixing! it was ace. oh yeah, anyone know those crazy dancers?? :)
as for the prodigy, they were stopped short when someone got on-stage and
knocked all their equipment over, poor guys. don't like to think what happened
to the interloper though...
oh well, here i am now. back in the computer center at bradford. shite.
jAmz
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