On Mon, 13 May 1996 16:56:51 +0100, you wrote:
quoted 4 lines Here's a brief review of the Orbital / Mikey P gig last night;>
>Here's a brief review of the Orbital / Mikey P gig last night;
> (Glasgow Barrowlands) :
>don't expect track names or equipment lists - I'm not sure!quoted 3 lines Hopefully Greggy-303-meister will give you all the correct>Hopefully Greggy-303-meister will give you all the correct
>transcription, but for now if you can catch this tour do,
>and make sure you give the support some support!
heh, well I saw them at the Octagon... Don't have time for mucho
detail, but:
Mike P played a nifty set, opening with upcoming Slaz tracks, moving
into newies, including a rather good junglesque number and a reworking
of a track from Tango'n'Vectif (Burnt Sienna?) and similarly mixed up
Bluff track. And yes the sound engineers did keep the sound level
down, but this is not unusual for opening acts...
And then on came Orbital against a background of the James Bond 'Moon
Raker' (the bit when they're in space) sound track. Nice.
The set up was standard Orbital, high keyboard stands fencing in the
brothers, above one huge video projection screen, left and right of
that two slightly less huge screens and out high up on the wings left
and right two more screens. More abot those in a sec.
The stage filled smoke, everything disappeared, then, cutting through
the smog, the trademark twin beam Hartnoll headlamps, but Paul sported
an updated model with what must have been a pretty powerful
headmounted red laser which he zapped everyone in the crowd for a bit.
Bang, the crowd blinded with a blanket of strobe, then bang, the
music.
They started with for me the best track off the (for me) disappointing
Insides the anthemic(ish) one... But I was busy taking in the visuals.
Wow. And wow again. Easily the best (and most expensive) I've seen at
a live event. Simple Fultano picture wibbled and gyrated and fell and
and twisted gracefully across the stage, Zener cards, egg timers all
kinds of household objects pefectly filmed in perpetual motion. Almost
distracted me from the music.
Which was good. Of course. But maybe not their best. 3 versions of the
Box was self indulgent, or maybe they have misplaced faith in the
tune. Satan was awesome combined with the mad accompanying visuals.
Missing were Belfast , Chime and Impact. I think Belinda Carlisle is
well past her sell by date now. The crowd loved it all of course - in
fact it was the crowd who annoyed me more than anything else, 99%
student couples, probably the same crowd who went bonkers to Leftfield
the previous week. All a bit too sickly sweet for me in the end,
which is sad because Orbital are still the best live package.
g.