Orla Gartland has announced she will be releasing her newest single Pretending this Friday, the 16th of October. She teased the announcement throughout the week on her social media accounts, including videos of her at a residential studio and also hopping on a social media trend to hint that her debut album is also on the way.
how it started: how it’s going: pic.twitter.com/pyFGXTGd4h
— orla gartland (@orlagartland) October 10, 2020
Orla will also be hosting a virtual Zoom listening party for some lucky fans this Wednesday. She announced it on her Instagram saying; “so it begins: my new single ‘pretending’ comes out next friday, october 16th. pre-save it now at the link in my bio. then click the 2nd link down – if you pre-save + follow me on spotify/enter your email address there you’ll be entered into a comp to join a zoom meet i’m doing next wednesday where we can freak the hell out together & you’ll hear the song before anyone else. beyond excited to welcome you into this new era.”
This will be Orla’s first single since the release of her EP Freckle Season earlier this year. Freckle Season has five songs, including her big hit, Did It to Myself, which featured on the BBC show that took the world by storm, Normal People.
Orla is also a part of the 39-piece Irish group, Irish Women in Harmony. The group joined together this summer to release a cover of The Cranberries’ hit Dreams to raise money for SAFE Ireland. They raised €250,000 for the charity and remained in the Irish charts for over two months.
The group also formed to highlight the inequality that exists in the Irish music industry. Following the release of the song, Gartland posted to Instagram saying: “growing up in Ireland there were so few female musicians on Irish radio & TV, billed at gigs and festivals.. it’s hard to imagine yourself doing a job when you don’t see or hear others that look like you.”
Pretending will be out everywhere on Friday 16th of October.
