It’s easy to see why Zorbing was Stornoway’s breakthrough song. Starting off simply with lead singer Brian Briggs a melody that is just catchy enough to tease you into singing along as the folky tune about ”lying in your attic, I can feel the static” is sung in a sort of schoolboy choir tenor. So far so good, but the song doesn’t take off until after the second chorus when they whip up a most surprising and wonderful rendezvouz between stirring drums and trumpets. It whips up the spirit of the listener and while so far you could feel the static of the song the next verse brings the emotional release where one can really picture the exuberance of a new love as zorbing together. These lines are the core of the song and paired with the semi-pastoral melody becomes an emotional tidal wave of positive vibes. Thrilling. I suppose this is the closest you can come to the feeling of zorbing without actually zorbing.
I’ve been singing you this song
Inside a bubble
Been zorbing through the streets of Cali
We were always meant to be
Zorbing together, and I think its high time we started
Listen to Zorbing on Spotify!
Or watch the music video, which for some inscrutable reason features absolutely no zorbing through no British hillside landscape whatsoever, below. Waste of marketing opportunity, for both the zorbing experience companies and Stornoway.
