OZRIC TENTACLES /THE ORB
VENUE O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON
DATE 07/12/2024
The Orb set the controls…
Outside the venue tonight, a street lamp has been ripped out of the ground by Storm Darragh, lying perpendicular and purposeless against a damaged roof on the Highgate Road. Such biblical weather will make the interior of the O2 Forum feel all the more womblike and safe when The Orb and Ozric Tentacles are at the helm for the evening. Sounds will bend rather than break, and visuals will twist and morph and disintegrate before the audience’s collective eyes.
Aside from being filed alongside each other in any discerning record collection, these artists beginning with ‘O’ are strange but complimentary bedfellows, both seeking to achieve similar psychedelic ends by different means. There’s a strong sense of continuity, too, with the audiovisual sensory overload they promised in the announcement of the tour coming in the form of animated pictures generated by a giant, mind-melting AI-powered screen behind them.