Hi all.
Just got back from the KoKo gig. My wife
couldn’t join us as my parents are still working and couldn’t take
our son for the night so her ticket went to a friend who’d never seen the
Orb before. The place was about ½ - ¾ full.
The evening was great and the music was
brilliant. I arrived at about 8.30 whilst Adrian Sherwood appeared to be DJing.
I don’t know if I missed the live stuff earlier on. I had a great time
dancing to the mixture of down and up tempo music coming out of the system.
At 9.30, Thomas came out onstage to loud
applause with an expectant crowd waiting. Most of the people there knew the Orb
of old and were really looking forward to the night. Thomas played some really good
music, concentrating on his laptop and Alex waited in the wings or came to the
front to place flowers on the table on-stage or give them to punters. A while
later Alex came on to join Thomas and the party was in full swing. Mostly it appeared
to be Alex DJ’ing and Thomas doing some technical wizardry on his laptop.
Later on Thomas left and Alex continued until 12.30 on his own. I also bumped
into Justin from the list. By the end, the crowd had thinned out considerably as
it was a school night. The people left cried for more and got 1 more tune out
of him. To a big applause, he finished, shook hands with a couple of people in
the crowd and then went off to the wings to chill out.
Whilst it took me 2 ½ hours to get back
home via night bus and taxi, it was a great night. I only wish I could see more
of them because even though it appeared to be technical stuff on a laptop and DJing,
and the show of the past has got less, the music is absolutely brilliant. I
hope they do the Big Chill one year and pull together the sort of show they had
at
Chris AKA DJ InteraX AKA DJ Baron Samedi
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Sent: 18 September 2006 19:28
To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: [Orb] ORB BRIGHTON and
hey folks.
just a quickie to let people know door times for this week's shows
- especially
** Doors @ 8pm **
With special guests:
Waxed Apple (live)
Kliks (DJ set)
its an early one for The Orb - kick
off early, final whistle early approx 11.30pm - so you can use good old
public transport home (well thats the plan, anyway, so forgive us if the
plan goes awol) - don't be late!
** Doors @ 7.00pm **
with Special Guests Adrian Sherwood (live)
cheers,
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Smiley