Welcome to stoner-rock central. Your hosts for tonight are London’s [a]Orange Goblin[/a], who sing about deserts, motorbikes, time travel and (quite important this one) smoking shedloads of ganja.
They worship [a]Black Sabbath[/a] and [a]Kyuss[/a] for their huge, sky-filling riffs. And ganja references. So Goblin‘s bear-like frontman
Ben Ward plays his air guitar, headbangs and exhorts his minions to do likewise and sell their souls to rock’n’roll. “We’re all in this together. Come on!” beams Ward, as the band begin their assault on their ‘Time Travelling Blues’ album.
Songs like ‘Aquatic Fanatic’ and ‘Quincy The Pig Boy’ can’t help but impress tonight just because they sound so relentlessly HEAVY. Then you’ve got ‘Shine’, which starts off like The Verve at their ‘A Northern Soul’ peak but ends up as dribbling RAAWK, and new song ‘Scorpionica’ which takes a look at the phenomenon of sex with a scorpion. Oh yes.
They encore with a cover of Sabbath‘s ‘Into The Void’, not as an ironic gesture but as a tribute to the band that spawned their smoky, spaced-out genre. In a world of angsty, corporate Korn-clone rock, Orange Goblin want to drink beer, headbang, sing about interstellar time travel and get completely chonged.
Sounds alright really.