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Friday, 8 March 2002, 1215 GMT
Spiritualized - Review
Spiritualized
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Urban space-rockers Spiritualized beamed down to the unfamiliar surroundings of Southampton Guildhall. BBC Southampton's Indy Almroth-Wright went along to check them out.
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It seemed to take a while for Spiritualized to get going, or maybe they were just pacing themselves, it was a two and a half hour extravaganza after all.

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The sounds are supported by a spectacular strobes and shafts of light.
As soon as they play 'On Fire' with its buzzing guitars, the crowd starts to move and the seven spacemen seem to unravel.

Captain of the ship, Jason Pierce stands stage left with his eyes closed, immersed in his music and almost oblivious to the crowd as he guides his fellow spacemen from one track to another without uttering a word to the audience.

Above the stage the mother of all glitterballs spins and twinkles, but it's the light show that really grabs my attention.
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Jason Pearce

Hypnotic shafts of light twist and twirl, the back-drop lights up like a golden desert sky before turning into the deepest indigo spattered with twinkling stars.

At times you feel like a rabbit caught in a car's headlights as a bombardment of strobes shoot out at you from the stage before turning into hundreds of thin columns which resemble a UFO.

Masterfully crafted, slow simple ballards with waves of gentle trippy sounds drift out over the blissed-out audience - the music travels into alarmingly perky funky-grooves and full-on guitars with heavy riffs.

For the encore they delight the crowd with a rip-roaring rendition of Come Together before they effortlessly float off stage.




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