Groove Armada – Last Night in Brixton

Label: Ministry Of Pies
Catalog#: GACD003
Source: СD, Live Album
Release date: 17-12-2013
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 173 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Big Beat, Electronic

Tracklist:

1 Introduction
2 Look Me In The Eye Sister
3 I Won’t Kneel
4 Fogma
5 Warsaw
6 My Friend
7 Song 4 Mutya
8 Paper Romance
9 Lightsonic
10 Easy
11 Time And Space
12 Get Down
13 At The River
14 Cards To Your Heart
15 Chicago
16 Superstylin’

14th March 2002. Sound check at Brixton Academy for the first time. An unforgettable moment to see an iconic venue from the stage. Brixton tops all expectations. Old school cinema scale, fantastical carvings, towering doors. Who could have guessed then that we would spend over 16 hours playing on that stage, to more than 70,000 people; that it would become home, and that it would be here where the GA Live experience ended, 8 years later, on the 16th October 2010.

Memories come so fast they merge and disappear. Fresh off the tour bus and the smell of the catering in the back corridor, looking out of the dressing room window at the VIP queues snaking round the corner, walking those long corridors on the 5th night of a 5 night stand – first name terms with everyone in the building, home from home, Richie Havens eyes closed, sweat pouring as Going Back To My Roots explodes, hugs and highs in the wings listening to the roar as the lights go down, chaotic smoke filled post gig dressing rooms, the dying notes of Superstlyin for the last time…

Don’t look back, they say, but leaving the Brixton stage for the last time, that wasn’t so easy. Something special had come and gone.

Leaving the venue for the after party, don’t remember which year, we were behind a group heading out after the gig, and overheard a phrase that has always stuck. “It’s the only time in my life everyone was together”.

Andy & Tom

20.11.2012