THE ORB - GLASGOW BARROWLANDS 14-4-93 My 2nd Orb gig in 6 months (at the same venue though). Glasgow Barrowlands is always good for this type of gig since the audience tend to be so mellow that you can be at the front and not be crushed (unlike at Public Enemy, etc.) Total playing time (for the Orb) around 2hours 15 minutes Thrash was definately out his face, there was some fucking weird mixing going on, especially near the end of the set. First 20-30 minutes was completely new stuff, very ambient, but not-gig orientated : this would have been great at home but you just couldn't boogie to it. At this stage the audience were starting to want DJ Lewis back... And then, as if be MAGIC... Ahhh----ahhhhhh-ah-ah-ah The loudest "FUCK_OFF" mix of Huge-Ever-Pulsating you've ever heard in you're life. There were many brown trousers in the crowd after that. Next hour or so was you'r basic Orb gig: Blue Room/LFC/Majestic, etc though more ambient than before mixing (but still dancable), then a 15 minutes of weird mixing: bit of Satellite Serenade (about 90 seconds), bit of Ploy, bit of Orbular Bells then as the audience started to mellow out yet another "FUCK_OFF" as we got into a January Mix of Perpetual Dawn.... God it was long.... Spanish Castles in space and then off... I can't say if it was as good as the previous gig : it was very different, especially since Thrash for the last 15 minutes kept playing "I'm off my tits on drink and drugs" sample at full blast. So there. One satisfied customer... Stephen. From <@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk:MSC9315@geovax.edinburgh.ac.uk> Fri Apr 16 03:07:40 1993 Received: from asylum.sf.ca.us by triton.unm.edu (5.65/0.1) id ; Fri, 16 Apr 1993 03:07:40 -0600 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by asylum.sf.ca.us with SMTP id AA19296; Fri, 16 Apr 93 05:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.castle; Fri, 16 Apr 1993 10:06:46 +0100 Received: from geovax.ed.ac.uk by castle.ed.ac.uk id aa04991; 16 Apr 93 10:06 WET DST Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 10:08 GMT From: MSC9315@GEOVAX.EDINBURGH.AC.UK To: KLF <<@CASTLE.EDINBURGH.AC.UK:KLF@asylum.sf.ca.us>> Subject: ORB RE-REVIEW Message-Id: <9304161006.aa04991@castle.ed.ac.uk> Status: OR ORB GIG REVIEW II ================= Glasgow Barrowlands 14th Apr '93 --------------------------------- The Orb get going just after 11:30 pm, after two or three false alarms. Play all through until 2 am - this has to be what makes an Orb gig the experience it is. Downside - there seemed to be many more people there than the Nov. gig, and personal space was hard to come by. Very, very hot on the floor - 2 people pass out near me alone. Upside - an Orb crowd is always a good crowd. Lots of good mj floating around, and whatever else you wanted .... The set was definitely different and more ambient than the last tour. 'Ever-growing .. Pulsating' 'LFC' 'Majestic' 'Blue Room' 'Assassin' 'Perpetual Dawn' in no particular order, and other mixes [which included some new stuff] Music built up really nicely - they kept everyone just swaying around for what seemed like ages, before putting any sort of beat in. The last hour was just hot - rhythms would cut in and out, then pause enough for you to get your breath back, then kick in again, only harder. On stage, they had one VERY large orb in the centre of the stage, as opposed to two medium orbs either side on previous tour. Flanking this orb were two video screens, onto which were projected images and lights of at least several million different colours. I mean, it was a great gig, and everyone enjoyed it hugely ;-) but compared to November, something was lacking, missing. Don't know what this was, maybe some of the mixing, maybe the crowd, maybe just me ... have to only give it a 9/10 ;-) There were some nice T-shirts to buy ( 11-15 pounds). Heck, I can't describe what was on them - but most seemed to feature a small cartoon-type dog with something wrapped around it. Somewhere else on it, it read } THE ORB IN BRIEF } or similar - someone verify ! MCMXLIII } Joy and clouds, Jon [PS was anyone untrashed enough to attempt a track-listing ?]