While I had not intended to go to the Chicago show, it is still sad to hear – the Orb has cancelled their U.S. tour:

Due to personal reasons, the upcoming tour for The Orb will be postponed. All within the camp are looking forward to making their long anticipated return to the US and plan to deliver nothing less than an experience their fans deserve. With a new album on the horizon, The Orb hope to provide newly rescheduled dates as soon as possible and are excited about what is to come.

I hope all is well with the group.

There is no secret, I am a HUGE fan of Erasure.  I have been for roughly 17 years now.  One thing the group has always managed to do is take care of their fans.  Be it with small, private concerts for fan club members to special issue CDs, Erasure has always managed to show fans how important they are.

In this live recording of Erasure’s Oh L’Amour I belive you can see that mentality. Make sure you listen to the entire track.

Erasure – Oh L’Amour Live

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Thanks for the years of music, guys!

It’s day 7 of “31 Days of Music” and we have anohter rare case – The Orb Live @ Glastonbury 1997

The track listing is:

1. Majestic
2. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld
3. Little Fluffy Clouds
4. Bedouin
5. Toxygene

Welcome to day 5 of the 31 days of music!  Today is a really, really rare recording – The Orb Live at Glastonbury back in 1993.  Finding this one really triggered some memories for me.

I hope you enjoy.

The tracklisting:

1. A Morphine Drip
2. Little Fluffy Clouds
3. Sunburst
4. Blue Room
5. Towers of Dub

Day 3 of 31 Days of music brings a great live show…This is a very, very rare find.  

Today we have the Chemical Brothers Live at Lollipop Festival in 1996.  The sound quality is top notch and has a great version of “It Doesn’t Matter” included in the recording.  

Track Listing is…

1. Dust-Up Beats
2. Loops Of Fury
3. Prescription Beats
4. Block Rockin’ Beats
5. Leave Home
6. Song To The Siren
7. Three Little Birdies Down Beats
8. Fuck Up Beats
9. It Doesn’t Matter
10.Get Up On It Like This
11. Elektrobank

Download it here.

Thanks to the original poster.

Found this on a message board this evening – Meat Beat Manifesto Live at Maritime Hall in 1997.

The sound quality is quite nice, 11 tracks in total.

(as always, I have no connection to this upload – it was found via search engines and patience)

Here is a 23 min Prodigy concert I found on pandora.tv – interesting watch if you have some time to burn.

This is another rare find, one I pulled off of an FTP server overnight.  I know nothing about this recording, except for the fact that it is the earliest Orb concert I’ve ever seen.

Interesting to notes – “A Huge Ever Growing…” is unlike any other recording I’ve heard, it’s significantly faster and the arrangement seems to be different.  Also, “Towers of Dub” was released on the U.F. Orb album (1992), so I wonder if they were testing this live in 1991 to see fan reaction.

Track listing:

• Intro
• Little Fluffy Clouds
• Towers of Dub
• Perpetual Dawn
• Star 6 & 7, 8, 9
• Outlands
• A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld

Now *THIS* is a rare treat.  

What we have here is (not a failure to communicate) but a live Orb show from 1997 recorded at The Avalon in Boston.  God, the last time I heard this was almost a decade ago.  

I do not believe this is a soundboard recording, one can hear too many comments in the crowd, but the quality of the songs themselves is outstanding.  The recording is in stereo and centered quite well and includes a number of tracks I’ve never heard live before.  A must have for any fan of The Orb.

The track listing is:

1. A Huge Ever Growing…
2. Bedouin
3. Blue Room
4. Delta MK II
5. Little Fluffy Clouds
6. Outlands
7. S.A.L.T
8. Spanish Castles in Space
9. Terminus
10. Toxygene