DJ Shadow. Photo / Supplied
He could have turned up and played some records - or whatever they scratch and mash-up tunes on these days.
But DJ Shadow - the pioneering one-man hip-hop machine and beat freak from California - has taken inspiration from Lady Gaga it seems and tours with his own space-age looking
sphere which he plays inside of, and beams images on to.
It has to be said, it looks a little hokey sitting there unlit and all on its lonesome, but the visuals transform it into a trippy and dizzying focal point for his Live from the Shadowsphere show.
It is a set of old, some new, and "things you've never heard before" - but perhaps not surprisingly the stands out are those tracks from his 1996 landmark album Endtroducing .... There's the simmering Building Steam With A Grain of Salt, the rolling thunder of Stem is given a happy clappy drum'n'bass work out, and then there's the big bopping beats of Organ Donor.
They are far from pure interpretations of the originals because what makes them better 15 years on are his drum'n'bass versions of these classic tracks, with the gorgeous vocal-driven Six Days off 2002's The Private Press also getting the knees-up treatment.
