LOOPZ (The ORBITAL Zine) V3.0

Location : Glasgow Barrowlands, Glasgow. Scotland - UK

Date : 21st March 1999

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Feedback / Comments - Email by Jim Martin

Steve, You need to get yourself up to Scotland mate to see Orbital. I was at the Barrowlands on Sunday and the boys got the whole place bouncing. Big Pipe Style got an excellent reception as you could probably imagine. The new tunes sound great, but the climax to the evening with Satan, Doctor Who and Chime was fucking mental, bodies were flying everywhere and I thought the floor was going to collapse. I hope Paul and Phil enjoyed it as much as everyone else did. Please pass on a big thank you from me and all my friends who thoroughly enjoyed a great gig. I hopefully will see them again at Glastonbury.

Feedback / Comments - Email by Paul Graham

I went to the Orbital concert last night in Glasgow, which was absolutely fantastic, esp. Satan and Halcyon.

Feedback / Comments - Mailing List Entry by Trym Asserson

18 hours ago, was there at the Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow. Felt a tingling as I walked there and couldn't wait to see Orbital again (now I was aware I was going to watch them, not get the same experience as my first concert with Orbital in Roskilde 95 whree I didn't know until a year later. ;) Booze has its effects...) So, thanks for the zine Steve, I will enjoy reading it today as my flight goes back to Norway. The concert, loved it, refreshing new sound, totally love Orbital's new twists to their old tracks without saying anything more to those of you who have still not been to a concert. As for the surprise track, I still have to be surprised as to which one you mean.. Plaid, loved it too, they sounded like a great mix of all music I like; one second they were remixing David Holmes and then they were sounding very Autechre'ish, only to go on to sounding more like housey, ambient-housey. Great supporting act!...now, if only the deafness and ringing in my right ear would subside.

Feedback / Comments - Email by Alistair Roylance

I've finally recovered, and have written about all I can remeber ! Hope this is some use. Glasgow was better than Leeds hands down. It just seemed to go smoother.

Feedback / Comments - Email by Andy Cowan

I expected Plaid to be fairly mellow however they certainly seemed to liven the crowd up in time for Orbital. By the time Orbital came on the venue had filled right up.

Was surprised that the gig finished so early but they were on for a good 2 hour set and played pretty much everything I wanted to hear. Plus new stuff that I'm looking forward to getting my paws on. It was only the second time I've heard them use their sample of Belinda Carlisle which was just the best. Heard it first down at a Tribal Gathering down south and it brought back some fantastic memories! Also that Doctor Who carry on at the end was a laugh. Took me a while to work out what sample they were using but that was great to finish off with.

The crowd were well up for it! Even though the dance floor was mobbed there didn't seem to be any barging for dancing space.......which occasionally happens down the Barrowlands. Plenty of smiling faces all round :) Satan (as always) and Bagpipe Style appeared to be particular crowd pleasers on the night.

Also picked up a copy of Steve Loopz' Orbital Fanzine which was well worth a read. For all those that didn't manage to lay their hands on a copy.............you should have got there earlier!

Feedback / Comments - Email by Tim Bland

I was at the Orbital Live gig just a few weeks ago in Glasgow Barrowlands. I also saw the Hartnoll brothers play live in the Barrowlands as part of a PURE party a couple of years ago. The exact date escapes me but I recall that Laurent Guarnier was also in attendance.

The 1999 date was the first time I had visited the Barrowlands in over a year. The atmosphere was highly charged and from chatting to other punters you tell the expectations were high. Unfortunately I missed Plaid playing there set but from all reports it was top quality.

I won't go on and on about individual tracks but suffice to say that, when the lights went up and the music stopped, there were people who couldn't find words superlative enough. Oh, one other thing, love the Dr Who segway.

A night to be savoured and remembered...

Feedback / Comments - Email by Liam

I saw them in Manchester a fortnight ago and the new stuff is a demon live. Expect Bigpipe Style to become a live staple, as it was well cool when they wound up the set with it. There were also nice live touches that throw the album into sharper relief, i.e. coming on stage to the theme music of Clockwork Orange and covering Dr. Who for the encore. Wondered if the CO theme had been planned prior to SK's death?

The background projections also add a lot to the music. Clever bits and pieces like when half of the background screens show a binary digital stream (1's and 0's), whilst the other half show a random stream of A's T's C's and G's. Presumably this is a reference to the four base nucleotides, the logic being that we are the digital transmissions of our ancestors.

Feedback / Comments - Email by Phillip Teale

Firstly, Orbital... what a band, Loopz... what a site. I was a the Barrowlands concert and quite frankly it blew me away. The best night ever.

Feedback / Comments - Email by Michael Thompson

This is the first time i've seen the site. I like it. I went to the gig in Glasgow and it was good. The last time I seen Orbital at 'the barras' it wasn't even a sell out. Now three years later, with nothing to show, they manage to sell the place out. The crowd gave them a very warm reception and they seemed to respond accordingly. The names of the tracks are a mystery to me as I have not heard the album. Obviously the old favourites came through clear. They done about four encores and done two tracks each time. The best of which was Satan. The sound system didn't seem as powerful as the last time as I seen them and the light show didn't seem as intense. But maybe that was because i hadn't taken a microdot this time. I have been a big fan since the beginning and have travelled all over to them, Amsterdam(gasholder), Brixton Academy(Megadog with Aphex Twin) to name but a few. Subsequently my musical tastes have altered and although I still have a soft spot for Orbital and the fact that they are excellent live i'm not the fan I used to be. I prefer the more minimal qualities of Pan Sonic, Faust and Plastikman. At the gig they would be like playing really heavy tones and drones and I would be like going mad, jumping up and down while everybody stood and waited on a beat. Then the beats would come and then more beats and more rhythyms and more, until it was too saturated, y'know. I prefer it to be stripped right down, i like to see other punters getting really pissed of cause they cant dance to the sounds that are tearing their heads off. Besides all that I did enjoy the gig it was a right good atmosphere and it was Orbital for fuck sake.

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