Sad, sad news.
It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the following news:
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP the “Blue Album” will be their last. Following the album’s release on 21st of June, Orbital will play a couple of gigs in the UK including a few festivals.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now–and studios are always confined spaces–I think it’s time for a change.”
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With the album complete the band are turning their attention to their final show at Glastonbury. An appropriate venue for a farewell as it was here, exactly ten years before that Orbital delivered a live show that Q magazine listed as one of the fifty greatest live show of all time. “It’s nice to know that we’re finishing, it’s not many bands that do that. They tend to just fade away. And it’s nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It’s gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We’re not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we’re gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we’ve done. And that’s what we’re gonna do, play all the stuff that’s stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones. This will definitely be our last ever live shows,” confirms Paul, “Although I’m sure Status Quo keep telling themselves the same thing.”
Blue Album release dates
UK CD / Limited Edition Vinyl - 21st June 2004
Japan with bonux track "Initiation" - 3rd July 2004
Spain - 14th June 2004
Ireland - 18th June 2004
America, Australia & New Zealand - release dates t.b.c
More information can be found at Loopz.co.uk. I'm actually on the border of tears over here. I desperately wanted to take Sabrina out to an Orbital show, but it appears that they won't be back in the US before they dissolve. I'm simply floored.
Seeing Orbital in Worcester, MA, first in 1999 (I think), and again in 2001, mark as two of the best shows of my life. Paul and Phil have provided the auditory backdrop for much of my life, as well as the lives of my friends, and their work will be missed.
Let's hope they both move into solo territory and continue to make music.
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP the “Blue Album” will be their last. Following the album’s release on 21st of June, Orbital will play a couple of gigs in the UK including a few festivals.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now–and studios are always confined spaces–I think it’s time for a change.”
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With the album complete the band are turning their attention to their final show at Glastonbury. An appropriate venue for a farewell as it was here, exactly ten years before that Orbital delivered a live show that Q magazine listed as one of the fifty greatest live show of all time. “It’s nice to know that we’re finishing, it’s not many bands that do that. They tend to just fade away. And it’s nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It’s gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We’re not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we’re gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we’ve done. And that’s what we’re gonna do, play all the stuff that’s stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones. This will definitely be our last ever live shows,” confirms Paul, “Although I’m sure Status Quo keep telling themselves the same thing.”
Blue Album release dates
UK CD / Limited Edition Vinyl - 21st June 2004
Japan with bonux track "Initiation" - 3rd July 2004
Spain - 14th June 2004
Ireland - 18th June 2004
America, Australia & New Zealand - release dates t.b.c
More information can be found at Loopz.co.uk. I'm actually on the border of tears over here. I desperately wanted to take Sabrina out to an Orbital show, but it appears that they won't be back in the US before they dissolve. I'm simply floored.
Seeing Orbital in Worcester, MA, first in 1999 (I think), and again in 2001, mark as two of the best shows of my life. Paul and Phil have provided the auditory backdrop for much of my life, as well as the lives of my friends, and their work will be missed.
Let's hope they both move into solo territory and continue to make music.
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