ORBITAL CONFIRMED FOR GLADE FESTIVAL

Birmingham - 17th September 2009
Photo by Craig Earp

Glade Festival announces its initial headliners with Orbital, Simian Mobile Disco and
Tricky being the first out of the bag.

Nick Ladd, Glade Festival Creative Director says
“there are lots more big guns to come especially as the Glade Festival line-up has been
evolving in the past couple of years to embrace more crossover styles and different flavours.
This year, we will definitely taking that a step further with lots of surprises in store.”

Following their dramatic reunion shows at RockNess and Big Chill festival last year, Orbital
have been re-conquering the dance world with triumphant performances in Manchester,
London and Ireland. Twenty years after they first recorded their anthemic hit ‘Chime’, the
Hartnoll brothers will be bringing their signature head-mounted torches to Glade Festival for a
headline set of floor-filling classics, from the euphoric ‘Halcyon’ to the irresistible ‘Doctor Who
Theme’. Named Best Live Act of 2009 by IDJ Magazine, they’ve proved that a five-year
hiatus hasn’t left a scratch on their ability to get a crowd moving - they’re sure to be one of
the highlights of Glade Festival 2010.

Date: Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th July 2010
Tickets : www.glade.ticketline.co.uk

Legendary grandmasters of elecronica, ORBITAL have been confirmed to headline the Main Stage at Guilfest on Friday 16th July 2010.

After storming the UK festival circuit in summer 2009 with headline performances at Big Chill, Get Loaded, London Freeze and Global Gathering, playing to over 350,000 people in a year which saw the brothers Hartnoll return to playing live after a five year absence, they now look to continue their thrilling performance run in summer 2010.

Guilfest, the award winning familt festival known for its incredibly electic line ups takes place in the scenic surroundings of Stoke Park, Guildford over the weekend of 16th - 18th of July.

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Birmingham - 17th September 2009
Photo by Craig Earp

The iconic Isle of Wight Festval, Friday 11th - Sunday 13th June is back with a bang for 2010 as a host of international superstars including Jay-Z, The Stokes, Blondie, Pink, ORBITAL and Squeeze are set to descend on Seaclose Park, kicking off the festival season in true Isle of Wight stlye!

Now in its ninth year since its reincarnation, the Isle of Wight Festival is steeped in musical heritage and magical momories. The Festival is renowned for bringing in the biggest names as well as showcasing new and upcoming talent and this year will be no exception.

www.ticketzone.co.uk - 08444 99 99 55
www.redfunnel.co.uk/iwfestival - 0844 844 9988
www.wightlink.co.uk/iowfestival - 0871 376 1000
 
Adult camping £150
Adult non-camping 130
Child camping £75
Child non-camping £65 *
Campervans £250

* This year all children 6 and under will be free of charge, but will still need to book in advance in order to receive a wristband

Tour Shirts come in Small, Medium, Large, and X Large and there is ladies shirts in Medium and Large in the Light blue Elipse logo and the 2Orbital shirts (these shirts are Navy for the men and black for the ladies). The Silhouette t-shirt is black.

All shirts are £18.00 plus £3.60 P+P in the UK (£4.50 Europe).To order securely you can call TCB on 0207 511 5775. TCB will be able to advise on availability and sizes. If the staff are busy then please leave a message and they WILL call you back. You can also email questions or orders to orders@tcbinc.co.uk  

We have setup a Loopz / Orbital video channel to capture some official videos plus some very unique live and backstage footage. Link is below - feel free to leave comments!

Loopz Orbital You Tube Video Channel

Brighton Dome - 10th June 2009
Photo by Scott Gair

It started in Birmingham and ended in a heaving sold out crowd in Brixton, London. The UK Tour was fantastic and every night pulled in a superb crowd!

Delphic

Delphic, who supported Orbital on the UK Tour in September are still offering 2 live tracks and a remix FREE to all Orbital fans that sign up to their mailing list. It's ideal for those who havent heard Delphic before. Follow this link to grab those mp3s!

DELPHIC MAILING LIST MP3 OFFER

Free Delphic tracks
01. Counterpoint (Live in Amsterdam, 19/02/2009)
02. This Momentary (Live in Berlin, 14/02/2009)
03. Counterpoint (Paul Woolford Remix)

Also check out Delphic on their myspace page.



10th June 2009 - BRIGHTON, UK
Set list and photos

11th June 2009 - LEEDS, UK
Set list and photos

17th September 2009 - BIRMINGHAM, UK
Set list and photos

18th September 2009 - MANCHESTER, UK
Set list and photos

19th September 2009 - MANCHESTER, UK
Set list and photos

20th September 2009 - GLASGOW, UK
Set list and photos

21st September 2009 - NEWCASTLE, UK
Set list and photos

23rd September 2009 - SHEFFIELD, UK
Set list and photos

24th September 2009 - LONDON, UK
Set list and photos

25th September 2009 - LONDON, UK
Set list and photos

Festival dates are shown further down the page.

2009 Pre-Gig Loopz Website Meetup

Orbital - The Big Chill Festival
Photo by Steve Price

We have opened up the 2009 Tours section and there are various photos + videos capturing the boys in action. If you have any your would like to contribute then please get in touch.

Orbital - Global Gathering - SATAN
Video by Steve Price

Orbital - Belfast live at The Big Chill
Video by Steve Price


Orbital - Get Loaded in the Park Festival
Photo by Steve Price



Orbital - Birmingham 2009
Photo by Steve Price

Orbital - Global Gathering - SATAN
Photo by Steve Price

2009 FESTIVAL Live Dates now confirmed are as follows:-

5th June 2009 - Planet Festival
Venue: Letiste u Capova Dvora (Airfiled by Capuv Dvur)
Location: Tabor in Czeck Republic
Set list and photos

6th June 2009 - Selecter Festival
Location: Krakow, Krakowskie Btonia
Set list and photos

13th June 2009 - Rock Ness Festival - Second Stage Headline
Location: Dores, Nr Inverness in Scotland - UK
Set list and photos

20th June 2009 - Sónar 2009, Barcelona's International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
Venue: Sónar by Night, Fira Gran Via M2
Location: Barcelona - Spain
Set list and photos

3rd July 2009 - B'estfest - Romania
Location: Romania
Set list and photos

4th July 2009 - Global Gathering
Location: Istanbul - Turkey
Set list and photos

11th July 2009 - Balaton Sound Festival
Location: Zamárdi in Hungary
Set list and photos

18th July 2009 - Monegros Desert Festival 2009 - Headline
Location: Fraga, Huesca - Spain
Set list and photos

24th / 25th July 2009 - Global Gathering - Headline Main Stage
Venue: Long Marston Airfield
Location: Stratford upon Avon - England
Set list and photos

2nd August 2009 - MTV Dance
Venue: Privilage
Location: Ibiza, Spain
Set list and photos

6th August 2009 - Lokerse Feesten
Location: Belgium
Set list and photos

8th August 2009 - The Big Chill Festival - Headline
Venue: Eastnor Castle
Location: Eastnor Castle, England
Set list and photos

15th August 2009 - EH1
Venue: Royal-Highland Centre
Location: Ingliston, Scotland
Set list and photos

30th August 2009 - Get Loaded in the Park Festival - Headline
Venue: Clapham Common
Location: London, England
Set list and photos

4th/5th/6th September 2009 - Electric Picnic Festival
Venue: Clapham Common
Location: Stradbally Hall, Co Laois, Ireland
Set list and photos

30th October 2009 - London Freeze Festival
Venue: Battersea Power Station
Location: London
Tickets:  Official Website

After unveiling headline performances at this summer’s hottest dance festivals, as well as a UK headline tour, dance pioneers Orbital announce the release of their most well known tracks plus some new mixes. Simply titled ‘ORBITAL 20’ the compilation celebrates 20 years of ground-breaking electronica, reworked and remixed onto 2 CD’s of generation-defining dance music, to be released on June 8th via Rhino Records.

“This compilation is the most definitive summary of our work since ‘Chime’ came out in 1989”, says Paul Hartnoll on the release of their definitive collection, “It's a great introduction, or indeed a reminder, of the story so far...”

The full track-listing unfolds as follows:

CD 1

CHIME (LIVE STYLE MIX)
BELFAST
SATAN
HALCYON (TOM MIDDLETON RE-MODEL) MP3 SAMPLE
LUSH 3
IMPACT (LIVE FROM ROYAL ALBERT HALL)
ARE WE HERE (WHO ARE THEY)
THE BOX
NOTHING LEFT (MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING LEFT)
ONE PERFECT SUNRISE (RADIO EDIT)

CD 2

OMEN
CHOICE
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
SAD BUT TRUE
STYLE
FUNNY BREAK (ONE IS ENOUGH)
THE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER HEAD
REMIND (LIVE FROM NEW YORK)
LUSH (HERVE’S ‘TREE AND LEAF’ REMIX) MP3 SAMPLE
IMPACT


iTUNES EXCLUSIVES

LC1
IMPACT (JAMES ZEBELIA MIX) MP3 SAMPLE

Pre-Sale is now online and the earlier you buy, the cheaper it will be. At time of writing the price is only £5.99 for CD and £3.99 for Digital. These will go up 20p every 12 hours until the official release date (June 8th). Normal price is £9.99 per CD and £7.99 for Digital. Get in quick!

Please visit the Rhino Orbital shop website

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Phil Hartnoll / Miss U

Phil Hartnoll DJ dates will appear here. Please email for any booking requests.

Tormented [DVD] 2009 - BUY

Paul has finished the score to the film "Tormented". Below is a few words from the man himself plus the link to the trailer.

"I wrote the score to the film, Tormented which is out on May 22nd. It's a comedy horror kind of film and the score is totally electronic with guest vocals from Lianne Hall. The score takes it's influence from the Malcolm Clark era radiophonic workshop (basically first analogue synth era), also the score to Children of the Stones (Look it up on YouTube) and the score to the Legend of Hell House (Delia Darbyshire and Brian Hodgson). Look that up on YouTube as it has a big smatering of good old fashioned break beat dance music. I also played holywood style drums recorded with one mike in a log cabin, so it's not entirely electronic."

"Completely low budget with a short lead time but i think it is all the better for it, both the film and score. No release dates for the score as yet.".

Paul has kindly passed me some samples from the score. Below are 5 pieces for your listening pleasure. My personal favourite is 3m3 which has lots of Plaid-like elements!

1m1 mp3
1m2 mp3
1m4 mp3
1m11 mp3
3m3 mp3
5m3/5m4 mp3

Tormented Trailer - 18 Cert

A few week's before the 2009 tour, Paul has sent through some images from the currentl live hardware setup. Paul said "These pictures are of our current working live set some bits will change but it is the basis of what we are bringing on the road, all synths are analogue , using live for a sequencer and sampler... ". It's a trainspotters dream. Enjoy the pictures and feel free to discuss in the Forums.

We get a lot of messages on myspace asking if the offical Orbital Myspace is associated with the official Orbital website? Well, we decided to get this cleared once and for all. I will let the picture answer the question (Thanks Paul)

Official Orbital Myspace Page

When Orbital first took the stage at Glastonbury-on July 25th 1994-they  arrived with a reputation as innovators of live electronic music and armed with a recently completed album no one outside of their studio had heard. By the time they had finished what has since been critically and generally acclaimed as one of the greatest live performances of all time (Q magazine voted it as one of the top 50 gigs of all time) it was clear that there was something going on between Orbital and Glastonbury that went beyond the realms of just being in the right place at the right time. “It was one of the all time great Glastonbury sets,” says festival organiser Emily Eavis, “it’s gone down in festival history as a really special moment. Over the years there have been a few sets which have somehow transcended the normal ‘band-audience’ relationship, and Orbital did exactly that.”

“In terms of playing live I think of Glastonbury as Orbital’s spiritual home, in the same way as a football team has its home ground,” says Paul Hartnoll. “When we started touring I assumed all festivals would be equally amazing, but they’re not. Nothing compares to it. They were absolutely the favourite gigs of my career.”

In ten years Orbital would return to Glastonbury five times, delivering stunning, euphoric performances that stretched the possibilities of what a ‘dance’ act was capable of bringing to the live arena-both visually and sonically- and providing the defining moment for several hundred thousand people’s midsummer weekends. In the same way as the great bands and festivals of the 60’s and 70’s combined to define their era, so Orbital’s shows at Glastonbury have come to represent that time in a way that only a very singular unison of artist and arena can. When they played there in 2004 for the last time The Guardian acknowledged them as “the best live act dance music has ever produced-this generation’s Kraftwerk.”

A decade earlier, reporting from the same field the NME recounted a meeting between two friends, one of whom had just seen Orbital, and one who hadn’t . “‘What did I miss?’ asked the one who'd seen Paul Weller on the main stage. ‘You missed- you missed- you missed the whole f**king vibe, man!’ replied his pal.” For those who missed it, and for those who were in the thick of it every time on the 11th of June, a collection of these performance is available for the first time on CD and DVD as ACP Recordings release ‘Orbital Live at Glastonbury 1994 – 2004’

CD1 / DVD

1. Walk Now (1994)
2. Are We Here? (1994)
3. Attached (1994)
4. Kein Trink Wasser (1995)
5. Impact (The Earth is Burning) (1995)
6. Remind (1995)
7. Halcyon (1999)
8. The Box (1999)

CD2 / DVD

1. Style / Bagpipe Stye (1995)
2. The Girl With The Sun In Her Head (2002)
3. Funny Break (Weekend Ravers) (2002)
4. Belfast (2002)
5. Frenetic (2002)
6. Satan (2004)
7. Dr Who? (2004)
8. Chime (2004)

Listen to tracks online at the Official Orbital Myspace page.

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Paul Hartnoll has completed the music for the next VW GOLF advert. He flew down to South Africa to bring together the element of sound and vision and the results are astounding.

Paul explains "I made the song by writing a simple instrumental song with very basic sounds then when I was happy I replaced every note with a tuned random real world sound , engine noise for the bass car doors for the drums any bits of vocals for the melody and found this really brought the song to life".

"After that it was a case of trying to make sure that I had all the right sort of sounds and tones from the film shoot to then replace all the random sounds I used for the demo. It really is a case of what you see (in the ad ) is what you get".

The result is shown below

The track in its full entirety is called "Gob Smack" and can be purchased via the following websites.

iTunes . Napster . HMV . Tesco . Juno . Nokia

Paul Hartnoll has started work on not 1, but 2 albums. The 1st is a solo album which is so far geared towards electronica but the 2nd album is being written alongside Lianne Hall who was the guest vocalist on his debut album, The Ideal Condition.

Late last year, Paul was asked to co-produce The Music's next album alongside legendary producer, Flood! "Strength by Numbers" will be out hopefully in late spring.

Continuing his love of score music, Paul has also composed some music for the episode "An Officer and a Lady" as part of the new Cutting Edge television series. He also completed some work for a film by Jes Benstock entitled "The Man with an Extended Mind". This can be viewed via the popular YouTube website. Links are shown below:-

The Man with the Extended Mind
Part 1/4, Part 2/4, Part 3/4, Part 4/4

July 31st and rehearsal's continue in a studio in London. Sunday August 5th was the first Paul Hartnoll gig at The Big Chill in Eastnor. There are a few photos shown below plus a special video of "Belfast". There are 2 special September gigs in Manchester and London, scroll down for special ticket offer...

Paul Hartnoll - Rehearsals - July 31st 2007

On May 28th ACP Recordings presents The Ideal Condition, the solo album from Paul Hartnoll - his first major release since he and his brother disbanded their group, Orbital, three years ago. From their early success with, ‘Chime’ in 1990, Orbital became one of the most acclaimed electronic artists of the next decade. They made seven albums, and their live shows-groundbreaking both in terms of performance and production-became a legendary fixture of the festival circuit around the world and particularly at Glastonbury, where they performed for the final time in 2004. Work on The Ideal Condition began that same summer. “I wanted to do something different from what I’d done before, that was the point of not doing Orbital,” says Paul, “It just took time to discover exactly what that was…”

What evolved, whilst recalling the cinematic sensibilities and crowd-shaking rhythms of Paul’s earlier work, is a collection of songs that takes those instincts and moves them into new and at times experimental terrain. “I started trying to piece it together like a novel, each song being a chapter and building it up in the same way a plot line might do. I can’t honestly say it has a narrative from beginning to end, although it does strangely feel like a concept album without a concept.” The most obvious conceptual shift is that the balance of this record is tipped in favour of acoustic (as opposed to electronic) sounds. As Paul explains, “I wrote the whole album and then realised there were aspects of this that weren’t gonna work unless it was done with real instruments.”

With arranger Chris Elliott, Paul set about reversing the usual process - whereby electronic music might mimic the sounds of traditional instruments - and presented his compositions to an orchestra. “It’s intimidating at first. You’re looking at 40 people-virtuoso string players and thinking, ‘I’m now going to ask you to play two notes for five minutes,’ and you think they’re going to turn round and say, ‘this is ridiculous!’ But they don’t. They’re all very discreet, they just get on with it.”

The fruits of this union-full orchestra, 32 piece choir and “the whole compliment of electronics” are heard to dramatic effect on the album’s opener, ‘Haven’t We Met Before,’ “the fullest track on the record in terms of the amount of people playing on it and number of different parts.” It’s a deliberately grand opening and one that contrasts with later songs like ‘Patchwork Guilt,’ “the only track on the album that’s entirely electronic and entirely played by me.”



Between these extremes The Ideal Condition takes a remarkable journey into the realms of the possible while also recalling the familiar aspects of Paul’s previous recordings. “This album’s got a lot of film influences on it,” says Paul, “all the old favourites the Michael Nymans, the John Barrys, Ennio Morricone, and you can hear a lot more of Danny Elfman on this one, I think. But it still finds its way back to the rhythm. I’m always trying to find a harmonic or melodic narrative-if you like going with the emotional side of it-and then as soon as that starts happening it’s like a gut instinct I can’t stop myself thundering in with the drumbeats. I almost do it for fun. Sometimes I manage not to, but I bet you on all the ones where I’ve managed not to I’ve tried it and it didn’t work!”

When “the emotional side” wins out the results, like the almost “synth-free” composition for strings ‘Dust Motes,’ are extraordinary. More remarkable still is that The Ideal Condition is an album where such songs sit comfortably with the punkish electronic squall of tracks like ‘Aggro.’

One attribute Paul carries over from his Orbital days is his nose for a great collaborator. Guests on the album include The Cure’s Robert Smith on the forthcoming single “Please.” “He’s got that whiney-bendy voice which was a lot like the lead lines I’d written for that song. I wanted someone who could do that naturally so I asked him, and he was up for it.” In addition to Metro Voices choir vocal contributions are also present from U.S singer songwriter Joseph Arthur (“Aggro”), Brighton’s Lianne Hall (“For Silence”) and South London’s Akayzia Parker (“Nothing Else Matters.”)

From what Paul calls the “Boadicea moment” of the album’s opener to the “steam driven synthesiser” of “Simple Sounds” via the old school electro of “Patchwork Guilt” and the neo-classical coda of “Dust Motes”, The Ideal Condition is a vivid testament to the scope and sensibility of one of modern music’s most innovative and resourceful minds.

Paul now has an official solo website which can be viewed at www.paulhartnoll.com

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7" Version (KIDS013)
Preorder from HERE
A. Please
B. Please44 (Culprit 1 Remix)

CD Version (KIDS013CD)
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1. Please
2. Old School Tie
3. Please (Statik remix)
4. Please (KGB remix)

12" Version (KIDS012RMX)
Preorder from HERE
A1. Please (Remember 1992?) (Paul Hartnoll Remix)
A2. Please (The Whip Remix)
B1: Please (Boss Boss Remix)
B2: Please (Delafonz Remix)

You can order the release from the Kids Records website or from various online stores listed below:-

Amazon

iTunes : Virgin : Napster : HMV
HMV.Com : Tesco : 7 Digital : Audio Jelly

PAUL HARTNOLL VS THE CRAVATS


The Cravats

Paul Hartnoll has collaborated with The Cravats on a track called "Seance".

Redditch Post-Punks Cravats provides vocal duties in a post-punk / post-rave crossover track. The link came through a mutual respect/admiration of each others previous work-and a connection with Crass Records.

The result is nothing less than a mighty Post-Punk/Rave sledgehammer of a cut that boasts a hook of mighty proportions. On this remix Paul gives the cut a prime Orbital’esque makeover that makes this a potential crossover dancefloor track of the year. Like a liaison between Joy Division and Jello Biafra at the rave this is the best meeting of minds since Leftfield and Lydon’s “Open Up”.

To hear a sampe of "Seance" then please click here.

The Cd will be released on January 29th 2007 via Caroline True Records and contains an edit, the original demo and Paul's Dance remix.

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