a field under the stars, ten thousand people, very loud music and lazers.

I've recently aquired the ten years of Orbital at Glastonbury double CD and its reminded me how astonishingly amazingly incredible Orbital were! CD2 culminates with their rendition of Chimes at the end of their last ever set. Fuck me. How they did what they did is beyond me. What I do know is that they were absolutely instrumental in helping me 'understand' dance music and I had one of the most euphoric experiences of my life losing myself utterly in their waves and beats and lazers and positivity at Glastonbury!

It begs the question, though - where does live dance music on that scale stand today? The stalwarts of the scene, the people who absolutely knew what they were doing and were genre-defining craftsmen, are no more. Orbital are gone. Leftfield are gone. Underworld are more or less gone. The latest Chemical Brothers album is, apparently, their weakest to date.

I wonder who's left to fill their shoes?