ORANGE TOUR VISIT SUNDERLAND

This was the second visit to Sunderland by the Orange Tour, and my third time of experiencing it as I also caught it last year in Sheffield, so as a wee bit of a veteran I was expecting a lot of this years 'Enjoy Music - V2, and, I'm happy to say, wasn't let down. Once again, those crrrrazzzzy people from Orange took over the Manor Quay, transforming the lovely 'purple/blue/yellow/Fitzy hired a painter on acid' type décor into a clubbers heaven, with mad strobe lights, a mental sound system, and plasma screens galore to keep even the most mashed out clubber entertained.

The main room of the club was decked out in a sea of black with enough twinkly lights to get the bloke from 'The Sky at Night' excited, and the obligatory 'text screens' were dotted about all over, causing much mirth and puzzlement for those attempting to use them. Those who succeeded were able to project a message for all to see, and such pearls of wisdom as 'LUV U HA HA' beamed onto the dance floor, read by no one other than those who had wrote them, off their head dancers who hoped the message was, and worried that it wasn't, for them, and wanna be journo's looking for words to fill up their pages…

The Roker bar also came in for a changing room style make over, with strange slides projected onto white linen lined walls, and array of orange footstool type seats which proved so popular that one of my mates said he saw two boys legging it out the main doors with a couple tucked under their arms. So, somebody, somewhere, is sitting on guilty mans furniture.

The reason for the attack of the Laurence Llywellan Bowen's upon MQ was the visit of the Wiseguys DJ Touché, hip-hop DJ Cut La Roc, and DJs from Manchester's Grand Central Records.

DJ Touché, or Theo Keating as his mam knows him, is probably best know as the man behind the Budweiser beer commercial theme, 'Ooh La La', and yet he is a DJ of international quality that has DJ everywhere from Australia to Ibiza, where not so long back he engaged in transcendental turntable battles with Fatboy Slim at Manumission.

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