ORBITAL - CHIME - Top of the Pops - BBC - March 22nd 1990

Orbital first appearance on Top Of The Pops (BBC) performing "Chime" First broadcast on March 22nd 1990 To celebrate "30Something" and the recent release of the ‪@elibrownbeats‬ remix of "Chime" (orbital30something.lnk.to/ChimeEliBrown), we looked deep into the archives and found Orbital's first appearance on Top of the Pops where they play "Chime" Paul said “I told the manageress ‘I can’t work on Wednesday.’ ‘Oh, why?’ ‘I’ve got to go and do Top of the Pops ‘. Well, she just screamed. ‘Are you joking?’ I said ‘Do you know what? I don’t think I’m coming back.’" “Top Of The Pops insisted that we mime, however, when they provided us with flashy keyboard stands we sent them away and got trestle tables from the canteen. In our minds, flashy keyboard stands just wasn’t us. We were used to performing on tables at the backs of pubs and we just had to set things up the way we knew. Still, we were so embarrassed to be miming." “I’d always complained stroppily whenever I saw people doing the same on Top Of The Pops, and now here we were, miming while some woman danced next to us in leggings, a silver top and a silver hat. She looked bored, we looked embarrassed and Top Of The Pops said ‘We’ll never have them back again.’ “As it happens, they did, but only once the staff had been replaced by people who’d forgotten they would never have us back again!” Note: the plug on top of the equipment! #ORBITAL #TOTP #TOPOFTHEPOPS #BBC #CHIME #1990