**EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE!**
**THE ORB PERFORM BAGHDAD BATTERIES LIVE IN CLAPHAM**
thursday september 10th, 7:00pm-1:00am
at the-situation modern
arch 635 : lendal terrace : london SW4
tickets £10 [includes free white overall & badge]
Malicious Damage Records, in association with the-situation modern is proud to present the first ever live performance by THE ORB of the forthcoming album, Baghdad Batteries featuring Dr. Alex Paterson and Prof. Thomas Felhmann. Full support will be supplied by dynamic female duo SHE IS DANGER and dynamic male duo CANED & ABLE. The evening will also feature eight projectors, two large screens and the audience will also be used as a human screen. Throughout the proceedings v-jays the Rev. Gary Oldknow "The Scunthorpe Samurai" and St Michael of Coles "The Kilburn Kamikaze" will battle it out for the eye of the beholder. This will all take place in the gallery side of arch 635, but of course the bar side will be open for the whole of the proceedings. T
Tickets are limited to 250, cost £10 each
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On entry each ticket-holder will be given a numbered white hooded overall to wear during The Orb's performance. You will then be part of the human screen.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
The Baghdad Battery was first described by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1938 after it was found, with several others, at Khujut Rabu, just outside Baghdad. The jars are thought to be about 2,000 years old and consist of an earthenware shell, with a stopper of asphalt. Sticking through the top of the stopper is an iron rod. Inside the jar the rod is surrounded by a cylinder of copper. Konig thought they looked like electric batteries and published a paper on the subject in 1940. Several years later, Willard Gray of the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, made some reproductions. When filled with an electrolyte, like grape juice, the devices produced about two volts of electricity. In 1953, Remington Records of the USA began taping some of its sessions in stereo, eventually releasing the first stereophonic phonograph discs to the public in 1958. Lemons like plenty of water but they prefer to be flooded at watering time and allowed to get dry between waterings.
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