Oxegen 2010 - Earth, Wind & Fire
Main Stage, Sunday 11th July, 3.30pm
Describe in a Tweet: Oxegen, welcome to BOOGIE WONDERLAND!
What Happened: If funkiness can be measured by trouser flamboyancy, then Earth, WInd and Fire's bassist has enough funk for everyone here. This garment truly is a thing of wonder, red velvet, with knee patches displaying some kind of intergalactic space journey (or something), tassells up the side, and flared at the ends. And powered by this funk, the band tear into 'Boogie Wonderland', whipping the crowd into a disco funk frenzy.
It goes down an absolute treat, provoking serious grooving, audience participation, and a fully fledged conga line that weaves its way through the crowd, getting longer and longer. The band have some serious chops, and get locked into a funk groove so tight that even the security staff start dancing. As the sun breaks, 'Let's Groove' explodes out of the speakers, spreading some seriously strong good vibes to the festival.
As Van Morrison once sang/spoke, "Wouldn't it be good if it was like this all the time?"
Crazy in Love: It's got to be the bass player's trousers. If ATL knew where one could purchase such a garment, we'd never take them off.
99 Problems: Coming on late and then starting off with a boring jam session wasn't the best opening gambit of all time.
Oxegen Rating: 8/10
Describe in a Tweet: Oxegen, welcome to BOOGIE WONDERLAND!
What Happened: If funkiness can be measured by trouser flamboyancy, then Earth, WInd and Fire's bassist has enough funk for everyone here. This garment truly is a thing of wonder, red velvet, with knee patches displaying some kind of intergalactic space journey (or something), tassells up the side, and flared at the ends. And powered by this funk, the band tear into 'Boogie Wonderland', whipping the crowd into a disco funk frenzy.
It goes down an absolute treat, provoking serious grooving, audience participation, and a fully fledged conga line that weaves its way through the crowd, getting longer and longer. The band have some serious chops, and get locked into a funk groove so tight that even the security staff start dancing. As the sun breaks, 'Let's Groove' explodes out of the speakers, spreading some seriously strong good vibes to the festival.
As Van Morrison once sang/spoke, "Wouldn't it be good if it was like this all the time?"
Crazy in Love: It's got to be the bass player's trousers. If ATL knew where one could purchase such a garment, we'd never take them off.
99 Problems: Coming on late and then starting off with a boring jam session wasn't the best opening gambit of all time.
Oxegen Rating: 8/10
Comment number 1.
At 19:38 22nd Jul 2010, JasmineSoul wrote:EWF were and still are amazing! Just read an article (https://bit.ly/9lORi5%29 that reignited my memories of this great, great band!
I also just saw SoulSummer.com's Maze ft. Frankie Beverly concert in Bronx, NY...which was by far one of the best I've seen!
I miss the good ol' days.
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