Orbital converts Glastonbury to dance music

25 June 1994: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicYou barely notice pivotal moments when they're happening. Not so at the Glastonbury festival on the night of Saturday 25 June 1994 when the NME Stage experimented with dance music in the face of an indie crowd still sceptical of music without guitars. I remember dragooning a parade of dehydrated, disoriented walking wounded into yomping across baked earth with the exhortation: you have to see Orbital.The sho...

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Orbital converts Glastonbury to dance music

Guardian Music — 25 June 1994: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicYou barely notice pivotal moments when they're happening. Not so at the Glastonbur... more info