On 31st October my brother and I went to a Halloween party with a difference. We went to Roundhouse in Camden to see Chris's favourite band Shpongle perform a rare live concert in London. Shpongle are an English band made up of Raja Ram and Simon Posford and yet this was their first full UK gig ever!!! They are extremely popular and the best way I can describe their music is psytrance or goa trance. So instead of witches and wizards, there was lots of neon and bright lights and lasers. There were also lots of people dressed up for a masked ball, looking like pre-French Revolutionary courtiers. Not surprising when you see this back stage photo of Simon and Raja:
Photo courtesy of Shpongle's MySpace
The gig was absolutely amazing. It was really lively, colourful, energetic and psychedelic and we enjoyed every minute of it. We even managed to gain a little on the crowd and get closer to the stage.
We took this short video of the song "Around the World in a Tea Daze". As you can imagine, with the lack of proper light, interspersed with a fantastic laser light show, it was near impossible to get any decent photographs. So luckily we have this little video and a couple of photos but mostly we have the memories of an excellent night out and Chris will be able to tell his grandchildren he saw Shpongle perform live.
These are the only partly salvageable photos we did manage to take:
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