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Paul Oakenfold b2b Carl Cox Live At Stonehenge

I don't get it.. You get the chance to play at this fantastic location and you play this shitty music.

The bigger question is, why did they set up the booth outside of it?

actually thats genuilly funny. Back in the day Oakie used to play godly music with shitty mixing, now his mixing is pretty decent but the music is boring as fuck. If I had to choose, I would stick with track selection any day, really.

It's always cracked me up that Oakie acolytes bring up his daft postcard sets live from the Great Wall/Everest Base Camp /surface of the Moon as though they're something to be respected, rather than further evidence of his descent into the realms of faded circus monkey. It's good to see that he's now solidified the Spinal Tap comparison by playing Stonehenge.

Awesome venue but they could not look more disinterested!

Hey Paul, Carl, can you play the most boring set ever for us at this amazing setting?
"Yeah why not, we'll give it our best."

Track that Carl drops at 35 is dope, I want. But, seriously, what a waste of possibly great acoustics inside the actual structure.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J It's always cracked me up that Oakie acolytes bring up his daft postcard sets live from the Great Wall/Everest Base Camp /surface of the Moon as though they're something to be respected, rather than further evidence of his descent into the realms of faded circus monkey. It's good to see that he's now solidified the Spinal Tap comparison by playing Stonehenge.

This is so on the money.

He became obsessed after the U2 tour when he was named the first DJ to play to 100k people (which is bollocks anyway as some of the raves back in the late 80's surpassed that) and then wanted to have all of these tacky "firsts" which were an attempt to become something bigger/better than his "talents" would have ever allowed.

This just reeks of a bed post notch event and you can tell they're literally just ticking the box. Carl looks at his watch several times as I flicked through. It also looks cold as balls and on one skim, you can see Oakey complaining about the deck setup.

And Kenny, the DJ can't be inside because the site is too fragile/protected. You can't even get within half a mile of it these days and I'm surprised they did it that close.

I read an article about this set a couple of weeks ago. Due to noise restrictions it had to be a silent disco event, so no music was played out loud anyway. There were also only 50 people there, most of them Oakey's mates from the acid house era. The whole thing is deeply embarrassing.

Serious fucking waste, what's the point at that point? Stupid.

edit: those look like booth monitors in the stills, that's what I thought they were.

I'm wondering when do you start to not give a shit about what you play and where.. I believe that most of djs would at least try something else and play something not generic.

Maybe we all take it too serious...I know I am, obviously, but I just can't help myself

Seriously the music is not THAT horrible compared to what you'd hear Oakey play a couple of years ago, I'm surprised he can even pull it off with a legend like Carl Cox after years of just being irrelevant and washed up. It's just that the concept is fucking stupid and a blatant money and attention grab.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I read an article about this set a couple of weeks ago. Due to noise restrictions it had to be a silent disco event, so no music was played out loud anyway. There were also only 50 people there, most of them Oakey's mates from the acid house era. The whole thing is deeply embarrassing.

Well that explains a lot, I almost posted that I thought they needed to be careful with the rocks, which wasn't that far off.

A crumbling prehistoric curiosity that to this day no-one quite knows the origin or purpose of, Paul Oakenfold is 55.

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Originally posted by hoopoe A crumbling prehistoric curiosity that to this day no-one quite knows the origin or purpose of, Paul Oakenfold is 55.

Savage

you guys are so old, jaded, and crusty hahahhaa


The music isn't THAT bad. Silent disco sucks, and Cokenfold still can't mix, but still pretty cool none the less

Oh come on, the music is pretty shite, not the worst but it's the fact you have two of the longest serving and biggest names in DJ history...and that's what they end up doing?

I mean, I'm a die hard Cox fan and will argue he's the greatest DJ there is and ever was, but that was shite compared to the several dozen times I've seen him since the 90s'.

I never expect much from Oakenfold so it's no surprise but even he had his moments over the years. This wasn't one of them lol.

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