Orbital Manchester Apollo 2nd December 2017

Orbital

Manchester Apollo

2nd December 2017

 

When I heard that 'Orbital' the old skool rave duo and 'Dance Kings' of Techno were coming to 'Manchester', I thought I would love to see them, I remembered when they headlined a dance stage at 'Glastonbury' seeing the crowd response it looked Fantastic !!.

 

 

This would be a wild show I thought but standing in the front of the stage watching the support DJ do their thing mixing mellow chilled dance toons I'm not so sure.. for the first time in gig history I'm bored!! and hoping the main act will be better than now.

 

 

The duo come onto the stage on their platform up on the stage at high level, the 2 light antenna headsets glowing on their heads, they are waving their arms at us below,I think Wow its gonna be 'Amazing' right ?

 

 

A Slow start to the set building up to the classic 'Halycon' only to the tapered out with more new material mellower than their old skool stuff,I'm once again pondering what am I doing here when the crowd were as bored as me,I waited for 'Impact (Earth Is Burning) to come on,its eventual surface didn't even get started, it was ridiculously short, I thought it would be a ravers heaven, it was the total opposite!!

 

 

'Satan' came on you'll remember it was part of the soundtrack to 'Spawn' back in mid 90's, yes at last a tune!! the screens on the front depict people and that of an image of a Revolver this is the most exciting part of the show all night be it.. apart from the light beams on the Ceiling.

 

 

Until 'Chime' which again I feel was cut short in the encore quite uneccessarily so,no wonder the crowd were practically still, are we in 'Manchester' tonight ???, the DJs shrugged shoulders and beckoned the crowd for a response ,it just wasn't that good,my memory is of this drunk posh girl yelling "Come on play The Box'' in actual fact we got hardly any tracks from the album 'Snivelisation' or earlier albums.

 

 

 

Finally after after much hoping it'd get better I thought I was leaving earlier to get my taxi but it had finished anyhow.

 

 

 

 Everyone was on the street and no sign of that Taxi I booked no answer on the telephone customer service 40 mins later after my last train left the station and is freezing cold they promised they'd get me home although the driver  chose a longer route to hell and a much stressful journey back arguing with him and I was refusing to leave the cab til I spoke to his manager, all wasn't going to plan I'm still waiting to be re-imbursed for his pathetic de-tour  it's now 4 days to Christmas.

 

So yes this is the worst gig I've been to with that in mind, there's a first time for everything..Oh well got some good photos at least   :0(  

 

 

 

 

Lmi  xo

 

Next time...

 

 The Kings & Queen Bitch ..as Leicester's finest descend on a Tour across the UK !!