The British electronic band, Orbital have announced a 2024 UK and Ireland tour, in which they will play the entirety of their 1991 self-titled debut, also known as the Green Album. Tickets can be found here.
The band, which formed in Sevenoaks in 1989 by brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, will be playing the album across the isles, at venues such as the Troxy in London and Barrowland in Glasgow. The Green Album features iconic track ‘Belfast’ as well as tracks like Chime and Desert Storm, which would serve as a precursor for the direction the duo would go in musically.
Talking about the upcoming tour, Phil Hartnoll said: “To play The Green Album live will be a wholly new experience for us and you, it’ll be a bit of an adventure. This will be new territory that I can’t wait to explore. As the saying goes… There is the theory of the Möbius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, and when we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again. That time, it would appear, is now,”
Tickets for the tour will be available on general sale this Thursday (October 20th) at 10am, and the presale tickets also being made available tomorrow (October 17th) at 10am also. Tickets can be purchased here.
The band released a retrospective remix album, 30 Something, last year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the duo’s debut. The album feature re imaginings of songs across their entire catalogue including tracks like ‘Belfast’, which feature on The Green Album. The duo have also been working on collaborations, as last month they remixed ‘In ár gCroíthe go deo’, a track from Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C.
Orbital earlier this year released their latest album, Optical Delusion, in which they also collaborated with British post-punk band Sleaford Mods on the song ‘Dirty Rat’. About the collaboration, Paul Hartnoll said: “This track is a giant capital letter, like in the Book of Kells, where the very first letter always gets the big treatment from the monk when he’s doing his illustrated borders. It’s got that old school dance music vibe with bits of Cabaret Voltaire in there, even bits of The Shamen. It’s a little bit punk rock, nice and loud. A really refreshing, ‘wake up’ kind of track. And Jason is just brilliant!”
Tour Dates:
24/04/2024 – Exeter University Grand Hall – Exeter, United Kingdom
25/04 – 02 Guidehall – Southampton, United Kingdom
26/04 – 02 Institute – Birmingham, United Kingdom
27/04 – Troxy – London, United Kingdom
28/04 – Rock City – Nottingham, United Kingdom
02/05 – Beacon – Bristol, United Kingdom
03/05 – Barrowland – Glasgow, United Kingdom
04/05 – 02 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester, United Kingdom
05/05 – Vicar Street – Dublin, Republic of Ireland
