Travelling down on the coach to Bath, I was filled with much excitement. Not only would I get to see a beautiful city, but I would also get to watch Kinetik perform live in a location where they had always wanted to play - the home city of band member Andrew Slegt.

At the Windows Art Centre, Kinetik performed a 105 minute set which for me, was a very exceptional performance. I have had the pleasure and honour of attending every Kinetik (and Elektro Kinetik) performance since 1992 and this performance seemed to be highly enjoyable for the band. The sound quality was very good - which was surprising since the concert hall had a very high roof.

The band opened the set with a brand new track (which unfortunately as Colin later told me, had a few gremlins - some keyboards didn’t seem to operate at first, but this was soon fixed). Kinetik had a large projection screen behind them, which (as usual) displayed the band’s interesting video graphics. For this first and only live new track of the evening, the video graphics were really good - consisting of various rotating 3D shape designs. This new track (“Digital World”) was of a dance type structure and struck me as being really good if it were played in a discotheque.

As the band performed through their set, which included the tracks “I.S.D.N.”, “Go Elements, Go”, “In-Novation” and “Generation”, one of the highlights of the evening was the dance re-arrangement of “Sounds Of Industry”. With the sound system the band were using, this sounded really good. Another highlight for me was the track “Trans - Continental” which was originally written by Andrew along with an old musical colleague of his who was actually present in the audience. For the evening, Andrew’s performance was note-perfect, and a different approach to this track made it really enjoyable.

By this time, Shirleyann was dancing away as people in the audience shouted ‘Go Shirleyann, Go !!!’. Colin and Andrew were all smiles and actually looked as if they were really enjoying the concert. Normally, they (especially Colin) tend to look as if they really take it all seriously (just like Kraftwerk), but on this occasion they looked so relaxed that this added a special feeling to this concert for me. It was obvious that this evening’s performance was also very special for the band themselves. The concert came to its end through tracks such as “Dance Machine”, “Kinetik Energy” and “Refined”.