Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Morcheeba
(1)
Jazzworld Stage
23:10 24th June 2000
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slot on Saturday night at Glasto. There were plenty of festival
goers who had left Travis, Fat Boy Slim and Leftfield in order to
soak up the mellow vibes of Morcheeba on the Jazz Stage. More than
Skye might have thought judging by her delight (and bearing in mind
that this was their first major gig for 18 months).
They
launched straight into Friction, which had the audience swaying
and singing along in no time. The beautiful voice of Skye melting
over the audience and the classic dreamy sound complemented by strings
and horns and a range of old Morcheeba style sliding guitars to
the new more stax style prevalent in the new material was not at
all disappointing.
Next
was Totally and Blindfold before mixing some tracks from the new
album, Fragments of Freedom, with old favourites like Part of the
process, Who Can You Trust, Just Be Yourself and Trigger Hippy before
reappearing for The Sea and the soon-to-be-released new track You
& Me as an encore.
Skye
and crew were clearly enjoying themselves and so were the audience.
There were some comments that the set was too downbeat but the reception
suggested that the mood was just perfect for such a polished performance
by a great band. After all if you can't have a chilled out boogie
on the jazz stage late on a Saturday night something would be wrong.
It wasn't.
review by Stuart McCandlish
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