So for those of you who missed it, The Orb's set on Sunday night went quite well... for 2 songs. Plagued by more technical difficulties, the main artery for their sound feed from the live mixing on stage went dead leaving the remainder of their 70 minute set to live drums, vocals and LX DJing. They began with AHEGPB to Towers Of Dub. Blueroom was next when the audio from Fil's live mix disappeared. They continued on regardless making for a thin sounding versions of DDD, Little Fluffy Clouds, and Mother Nature. Even worse was the Gobi Tent's proximity to the Dolab Dome so the heavy bass emitting from there interfered with little sound The Orb had. Many people in the crowd had given up listening at this point and left to check out the other stages, some saluting the stage with middle fingers. I checked with the sound man in the back of the tent and he told me he was getting no audio feed from the stage, but those up close could hear some from the stage monitors. LX continued on with spinning some odd records before finishing with the Kris Needs mix of Toxygene, accompanied by Keith's drumming and The Corporal working the crowd. The lighting and visuals worked appropriately at least. The set from My Bloody Valentine was great and had no problems. They played a 70 minute set with no real variation from their other shows other than removing 2 songs from their set. They still did their 20 minute version of "You Made Me Realize" to the delight of some (including me) and to the confusion of many. Throbbing Gristle had some early sound problems which delayed the start of their set on the Mojave stage, but quickly got settled in to their set. Genesis looks more androgynous than ever but performed to the best of his ability switching between treated bass guitar, violin, new year's-style noise maker and vocals. The lighting was pure white with no effects, but with the sounds that the 4 original members created was more than enough to captivate the sparse, mostly older crowd. Persuasion, Hamburger Lady, What A Day were some of the songs played along with the set closer, a 10+ minute version of my personal favorite "Discipline". I caught the tail of The Cure's set, and what a great ending it was. I don't know what encore they were on when I arrived, but I clocked in about 45 mins of their set. For their final encore, Robert told the crowd "I was told we can do only one song" then proceeded to do 2 (when they turned on the exit lighting). then 3 (when the P.A. was cut on "Boys Don't Cry"), then 4 (when they turned off the projection screens on "Jumping Someone Elses Train), then 5 (when they cut the stage power). At this point the crowd had moved as close as they could to hear them continue and cheer them on. Happy Birthday Mr. Smith Gavin