…then all the
lights went down…
A deep,
pulsating, throbbing noise emerged through the speakers, gradually getting
louder and louder. From the backdrop at the back of the stage out squeezed
firstly Kilph Scurlock, then Steven D, Michael Ivins and finally Wayne Coyne to
a massive cheer from the crowd. I couldn’t at first place what they were
playing-was it something from Dark Side of the Moon? It sounded a bit like it;
with that chiming instrumental, but it slowly dawned on me that it was a track
from Embryonic. A big transparent balloon was being inflated on the stage and
before too long Wayne Coyne was clambering inside and being rolled over the heads
of the crowd. At the same time the music was carrying on getting louder and
more frenetic and dozens of coloured balloons were shooting out from the stage
into the crowd. On the screens I could see Wayne Coyne bouncing inside the
balloon, grinning wildly and being carried by everyone’s hands, at first deeper
and deeper into the centre of the crowd and then back towards the stage. This
was simply amazing and I could sense that it would be a magical night. There
was, already, a genuine sense of happiness in the air. The mad jam of music
carried on swirling until the balloon reached the stage and Wayne emerged out
of it, bounding back on and picking up a megaphone/bullhorn mike thing. They
then launched into Worm Mountain whilst he exhorted the crowd to “come on
motherfuckers, come on!!!” and firing multi-coloured streamers over everyone’s
heads from a sort of adapted water super-soaker type gun thing again and again,
falling gently like ribbons in the night sky. Even more primary coloured
balloons were thrown from the stage into the audience; orange, blue, white,
red, yellow. Bouncing from hand to hand, syncing with the bouncing music, it
was a magical spectacle.
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