Hi,
got to agree it was a brilliant night. It was great to hear the Metropolis
soundtrack in context, and just to see the film for the first time - very
impressive for a 1926 vintage film, definitely ahead of it's time. It was
good to see all of the usual UK 313 suspects (hi Nick, Alice, Anya ) and a
lot of the familiar UK techno faces getting down to Jeff's set at the end of
the night. If you get the chance to see Metropolis I'd recommend it.
It was a very strange experience seeing it all go off at the Royal Festival
Hall - the only other time I've been there was when I went to see Placido
Domingo with my Mum (don't laugh ;-), I don't remember there being any stage
diving and people jumping off of balconies on that occasion - and there was
definitely no funk. In fact I don't even remember anyone dancing either.
That was pretty damn good for a school night.
sImon
From: "Langsman, Marc" To: "313 Detroit" <[email protected]> Subject: [313]
Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:28:48 +0100
Just a quick report on Jeff Mills / Metropolis at the Festival Hall in
London last night....
Although Si Begg was orignally on the line-up it looks like he was replaced
by Matthew Herbert, giving it some crazy Radioboy stylings... this was
fairly quality as matthew herbert proceeded to sample/loop crazy sounds
from tearing up gap boxer shorts to chucking cornfalkes around to throwing
McD's burgers in a wheelie-bin !
This was followed by a healthy yet equally crazy set from super-collider.
Never seen them live before but it was quite cool to seem them pulling off
some cool visual effects using projectors and a variety of props while
knocking out quality beats :)
Jeff Mills came on after super collider to introduce the metropolis
screening, and then played a quality set when the film finished. The
festival hall was going fairly mental at this point - loads of people
dancing on seats / rushing the stage / generally going for it :)
overall a top event - tho will be interesting if the RFH agree to do
something like this again ;)
MaRc
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