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 – Global Gathering – SATAN
Photo by Steve Price
2009 FESTIVAL Live Dates were as follows:-
5th June 2009 – Planet Festival
Venue: Letiste u Capova Dvora (Airfiled by Capuv Dvur) Location: Tabor in Czeck Republic
6th June 2009 – Selecter Festival
Location: Krakow, Krakowskie Btonia
13th June 2009 – Rock Ness Festival – Second Stage Headline
Location: Dores, Nr Inverness in Scotland – UK
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
3rd July 2009 – B’estfest – Romania
Location: Romania
4th July 2009 – Global Gathering
Location: Istanbul – Turkey
11th July 2009 – Balaton Sound Festival
Location: Zamárdi in Hungary
18th July 2009 – Monegros Desert Festival 2009 – Headline
Location: Fraga, Huesca – Spain
24th / 25th July 2009 – Global Gathering – Headline Main Stage
Venue: Long Marston Airfield Location: Stratford upon Avon – England
2nd August 2009 – MTV Dance
Venue: Privilage Location: Ibiza, Spain
6th August 2009 – Lokerse Feesten
Location: Belgium
8th August 2009 – The Big Chill Festival – Headline
Venue: Eastnor Castle Location: Eastnor Castle, England
15th August 2009 – EH1
Venue: Royal-Highland Centre Location: Ingliston, Scotland
30th August 2009 – Get Loaded in the Park Festival – Headline
Venue: Clapham Common Location: London, England
4th/5th/6th September 2009 – Electric Picnic Festival
Venue: Clapham Common Location: Stradbally Hall, Co Laois, Ireland
30th October 2009 – London Freeze Festival
Venue: Battersea Power Station Location: London
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…”
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!
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!
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.
