Tortoise + Lee Perry + Coldcut + the bees at Meltdown

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oops i bought tickets for this already. never saw tyhis thread before, where was it hiding?

i only posted it yesterday, so i guess u bought the tickets before that?

one taken, one still available...

boooo! this was pretty rubbish.
coldcut = 1995
lee perry = very quiet
tortoise = the same as ever. except they playing some new stuff. and it was rubbish!

but at the end, lee perry came back with mad professor to play with tortoise. and it was cool...just liked seeing these totally earnest musos trying so hard to make some crazy jazzdub or something, but getting it really wrong. and they looked really nervous. but lee perry just skipped around going 'we're jammin' over and over again. best lyric of the night 'i have no fear, look at my hair' (removes hat to reveal bright red hair). if mad professor had just caned the delay and drowned tortoise out with snares and stuff it would have been better. but it sweetened th blow of 20 pounds almost wasted.

watching coldcut struck me as a bit like 50 yr olkds watching status quo at wembley or something. like, when that bit from the jungle book came on, all these 30 yrs started cheering. gotta play the classics...over and over and over again...

The Bees - Good, but verging on Corduroy at times.
Coldcut - Agree, sounded very dated and I'd like to know how much they're doing live and how much is preset - If they're so good at live audio-visual mixing why couldn't they improvise while they were waiting for Perry and the Mad Prof to come on.
Tortoise - Enjoyed them, suprisingly so actually though better when they're loud than quiet.

I disagree about Lee Scratch Perry though, I thought he spoilt both Coldcut and Tortoise - Alright he's a genius and a living legend, but lets sit him down behind a mixing desk and let him make sounds, not dance around like some pissed up uncle at a wedding.

Best thing about the night - The 2 lads dancing at the front to Perry and Coldcut - Fantastic, if I had rythm like that I'd never even try and walk let alone dance.

"Lee Scratch Perry though, I thought he spoilt both Coldcut and Tortoise"
yeah thats why the end was wicked, it was like, total tastemakers meet some sort of legend, then he just turns out to be some old dude mumbling away which was well funny. mainyl there was little of tortoise and absolutely nothing of coldcut to spoil, so in my mind anyway, lee perry fucking around could only enhance shit.

i'm not sure why you thought going to this was a good idea

dunno. i dont reallysee my brother very often, and just asked me if i was oging. didnt get a chance to talkt ohim very much anyway.
and i reserve the right to continually like tortoise!
even if they are a bit lame.
well, kinda like them anyway.