Live At Glastonbury 1994 - 2004 CD

When Orbital first took the stage at Glastonbury on July 25th 1994 they arrived with a reputation as innovators of live electronic music. They were armed with a recently completed album no one outside of their studio had heard. By the time they had finished what has since been critically and generally acclaimed as one of the greatest live performances of all time (Q magazine voted it as one of the top 50 gigs of all time) it was clear that there was something going on between Orbital and Glastonbury that went beyond the realms of just being in the right place at the right time. "It was one of the all time great Glastonbury sets," says festival organiser Emily Eavis, "it's gone down in festival history as a really special moment. Over the years there have been a few sets which have somehow transcended the normal 'band-audience' relationship, and Orbital did exactly that."

In ten years Orbital would return to Glastonbury five times, delivering stunning, euphoric performances that stretched the possibilities of what a 'dance' act was capable of bringing to the live arena - both visually and sonically - and providing the defining moment for several hundred thousand people's midsummer weekends. In the same way as the great bands and festivals of the 60's and 70's combined to define their era, so Orbital's shows at Glastonbury have come to represent that time in a way that only a very singular unison of artist and arena can. When they played there in 2004 for the last time The Guardian acknowledged them as "the best live act dance music has ever produced - this generation's Kraftwerk".