Brighton Dome - 10th June 2009
Photo by Scott Gair

After selling out Brixton Academy in hours and with a second well on its way. Orbital have also confirmed more of their own indoor shows for September and two special warm-up shows in June. Festival dates are shown further down the page.


10th June 2009 - BRIGHTON, UK
Venue: BRIGHTON DOME
Price: £23.00, 14+, Doors: 7.00pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0871 2200 260

11th June 2009 - LEEDS, UK
Venue: LEEDS ACADEMY
Price: £23.00, 14+, Doors: 7.00pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0844 477 2000

18th September 2009 - MANCHESTER, UK
Venue: MANCHESTER ACADEMY
Price: £22.50, 14+, Doors: 7.30pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0161 832 1111 24HR HOTLINE : 0871 2200 260

19th September 2009 - MANCHESTER, UK
Venue: MANCHESTER ACADEMY
Price: £22.50, 14+, Doors: 7.30pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0161 832 1111 24HR HOTLINE : 0871 2200 260

21st September 2009 - NEWCASTLE, UK
Venue: NEWCASTLE ACADEMY
Price: £23.00, 14+, Doors: 7.00pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0844 477 2000

23rd September 2009 - SHEFFIELD, UK
Venue: SHEFFIELD ACADEMY
Price: £23.00, 14+, Doors: 7.00pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours
Box Office: 0844 477 2000

24th September 2009 - LONDON, UK
Venue: LONDON BRIXTON ACADEMY
Price: £22.50, 14+, Doors: 7.30pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours : Ticketweb
Box Office: 0844 477 2000 / 0207 7734 8932 24HR HOTLINE : 0871 2200 260
(NOTE: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult in the circle)

25th September 2009 - LONDON, UK
Venue: LONDON BRIXTON ACADEMY
Price: £22.50, 14+, Doors: 7.30pm
Presale Tickets: RecordStore Other : GigsandTours : Ticketweb
Box Office: 0844 477 2000 / 0207 7734 8932 24HR HOTLINE : 0871 2200 260
(NOTE: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult in the circle)

2009 Pre-Gig Loopz Website Meetup

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

19th June - Jamm in Brixton
£12 in advance with booking fee - www.ticketweb.co.uk

17th July - The Remix All Nighter at Matter
Ladytron, DJ Phil Hartnoll (Orbital), Eddy Temple Morris, Japanese Popstars, Alex Metric, Burn The Negative + more - www.myspace.com/theremix
Tickets - online

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

It's week's away and 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.

Paul and Phil have just been confirmed as this year's headline act at London's GET LOADED IN THE PARK FESTIVAL. It's going to be the perfect way to end what is shaping up to be a truly fantastic festival season... and what could be better than an outdoor summer show in the heart of the capital! The date for your diaries is Bank Holiday Sunday 30th August and the all important park is Clapham Common!

There is a number of Limited Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now exclusively for the website (while stocks last) before they go on general sale on Thursday 26th Feb. These are the cheapest tickets available for the whole festival (£32.50!) and are available to buy from Ticketmaster.

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For more information please visit the official Get Loaded in the Park website.

Global Gathering today reveals the magnetic headliners set to make waves at this summer's festival. Set to cause a commotion this year will be time lords of techno ORBITAL, electronic heavy weights THE PRODIGY and bullish beat maestros PENDULUM.

Expect some heavy beats and high energy hooks at this year's Global Gathering festival as 55,000 people congregate at the Long Marston Airfields for a two day, non-stop electronic music weekender that brings together the world's greatest live and DJ talent. The festival takes place at the height of summer and is set apart by it's commitment to next generation technology with inter-galatic visuals and sound systems guaranteed to take the crowd to "another dimension".

Techno time lords, ORBITAL, will be celebrating their twentieth anniversary with their headline show at this year's Global Gathering. With fifteen years of active service and a back catalogue of roof-raising anthems such as "Chime" and "Belfast", Orbital are masters at building crowds into a frenzy of excitment. Mixing euphoric dance gems with perfectly placed samples of Bon Jovi, Belinda Carlisle and Ian Dury, they deliver a wicked sense of humour to their sets that never fail to impress.

Global Gahtering throws open it's gates from Friday 24th until 25th July. Electronic music aficionados and the world's most glamorous clubbing cognoscenti abandon themselves to a euphoric marathon of aural ecstasy from all ends of the dance spectrum including House, Trance, Leftfield, Breaks and so much more.

James Algate, Global Gathering Festival Organiser: "This year's festival once again promises electronic music fans a stellar line-up. With the live stage, eight musical arenas, including the Godskitchen marquee, the biggest in Europe holding a staggering 15,000 people, this summer's weekend is set to be a crowd pleaser. The festival has always been pioneering in improving the customer experience and listening to feedback through the busy online community. This year is no exception and we are pleased to announce a depositi ticketing scheme for this summers festival."

More information will be release over the comming weeks. Check out the website www.globalgathering.co.uk for information, behind the scenes interviews and regular podcasts. To find out more ticket information, head to www.globalgathering.co.uk/tickets or call 0844 847 1551

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
Tickets:  Ticket Portal (Direct link is here)

6th June 2009 - Selecter Festival
Location: Krakow, Krakowskie Btonia
Tickets:  Tickets

13th June 2009 - Rock Ness Festival - Second Stage Headline
Location: Dores, Nr Inverness in Scotland - UK
Tickets:  ONLINE

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
Tickets:  UK ONLY : OTHER

3rd July 2009 - B'estfest - Romania
Location: Romania
Tickets:  English website

4th July 2009 - Global Gathering
Location: Istanbul - Turkey

11th July 2009 - Balaton Sound Festival
Location: Zamárdi in Hungary
Tickets:  ONLINE

18th July 2009 - Monegros Desert Festival 2009 - Headline
Location: Fraga, Huesca - Spain
Tickets:  Tickets

24th / 25th July 2009 - Global Gathering - Headline Main Stage
Venue: Long Marston Airfield
Location: Stratford upon Avon - England
Tickets:  UK

8th August 2009 - The Big Chill Festival - Headline
Venue: Eastnor Castle
Location: Eastnor Castle, England
Tickets:  ONLINE Phone: 0844 888 4411

30th August 2009 - Get Loaded in the Park Festival - Headline
Venue: Clapham Common
Location: London, England
Tickets:  ONLINE

4th/5th/6th September 2009 - Electric Picnic Festival
Venue: Clapham Common
Location: Stradbally Hall, Co Laois, Ireland
Tickets:  Official Website

2009 Pre-Gig Loopz Website Meetup

The Big Chill: 7th – 9th August 2009

Festival Tickets on sale 1st Dec 2008

www.bigchill.net

Electronica pioneers Orbital will headline The Big Chill 2009 - with the
Hartnoll brothers returning for their first live show in five years.

Orbital split in 2004 after establishing themselves as one of the most influential acts in dance music history. Tracks such as the classic ‘Chime’ and later number 1 hit ‘The Box’ helped shape the UK’s burgeoning club scene.

As their 20th anniversary approaches; their live return will rekindle memories of their era-defining Glastonbury performance in 1994; and the raucous live shows that introduced an improvisational element to live electronic music.

Orbital took live performance beyond the realms of standard DJing; with spontaneity and experimentation setting a blue-print for noughties electro-darlings such as Simian Mobile Disco and Justice.

Their plans for the Big Chill are under wraps for now; but expect wall-to wall anthems, expansive audio-visuals – and the return of Paul and Phil’s trademark torch-glasses.

“It’s not an exercise in nostalgia, the time just seems right,” says Orbital’s Phil Hartnoll. “Everything just seemed to fall into place. I’ve played at the Big Chill before, I DJed there and had a really good time - it’s an amazing festival. The timing is also good: 20 years of being together.”

“We’ve got 15 years of active service, making song” comments Paul Hartnoll. “If you boil that down to a 90-minute festival set you should get something thoroughly exciting from beginning to end. Let’s put some fun back into it.”

Big Chill Festival Music Programmer Guy Morley commented that “Orbital’s return is a massive coup, and a great way to kick things off for next year’s festival.

I’m delighted that they have chosen to reform for the Big Chill - I’ve been badgering them for years! Orbital have been one of the most important dance artists of the last two decades, and a huge influence on today’s electronica scene.”

2009 Loopz Website Meetup at the Big Chill

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)
Preorder from HERE
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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Phil Hartnoll is working with another producer, Nick Smith. The collective project is called Long Range and musically will be chilled out home listening through to night time club tracks.

The new album "Madness and Me" was released on August 27th 2007. The follow up album is now under production...

Longrange have an official website which can be viewed by clicking on the following link : www.longrange.tv

Live Dates will appear here when they are confirmed ...

Phil Hartnoll of Orbital fame frees from its straight jacket his Long Range debut album Madness and Me.  Three years in the making, Phil returns alongside Nick Smith for a project which features vocal talents including Australian folk singer Kelly Malone and the home-grown Senor Mick.

Madness & Me sits like a road trip album… not unlike a Massive Attack, Moby or a Fleetwood Mac, but has that feel of a total experience ebbing and flowing from the blissed out to the broken beat; like a hitch hiker you picked up a few miles out of Seville.

Long Range delivers big soundscapes, (check Just One More for starters), textured techno and even energised rock!  There’s experimentation through experience.  Many miles have been clocked with record boxes and equipment dragged to reach this point.  With Phil one half (with brother Paul) of one of the most influential and creative dance/electronica acts in the world, he’s always known how to transport the listener.  Alongside Nick this journey for the listener has been refined, or even redefined with the addition of a more acoustic, atmospheric and filmatic take on the songs.

Whilst Phil has headlined festivals and dance stages throughout the world Nick has executed music for numerous ad campaigns and even notched up film credits with legends such as Ridley Scott, as well as a recording career with Dragonfly and Atomic Records.

An album birthed in the back streets of Brighton it evokes some diverse emotions from the cinematic leanings of title track Madness & Me, and equally filmatic Which Way Now, through to the more synth Just One More.  The feel of the organic is never far away and with Your Face an element of defiance perhaps a nod to the rockers or appreciation of the guitar.

The bonus track is a collaboration remix with Loopz, taking his original track to another place and a good one at that.

Release date - August 27th 2007

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1. "Lie Down"
2. "Madness And Me"
3. "Which Way Now"
4. "Run With The Rain"
5. "Dispell The Clouds"
6. "Three"
7. "Your Face"
8. "Just One More"

9. Bonus Track : Long Range vs Loopz : "Punky"

Longrange are giving away a Free download of "ONE MORE TIME (EDIT)". To grab this mp3 please visit the following link.

LONG RANGE GO LIVE IN THE REAL AND VIRTUAL WORLD

Long Range played live a few times in 2006 and finished off the year in style performing on the throbbing PA at Cargo in London. Nick and Phil were joined on stage by a highly accomplished group of musicians, who consist of rising star Kelly Malone on vocals, Mick Mula on vocals, Jimi Mula on keyboards, Sarah Tunnel playing violin and the legendary Will White of Propellerheads fame taking on the drumming duties. In a continuation of the high live production values established by Orbital, the Long Range show features amazing visuals by the subversive www.c6.org and lighting and sound by members of the former Orbital crew.

The gig was due to be streamed in the Virtual world of Second Life but technical difficulties prevented this from taking place.

The virtual gig was re-arranged and Phil, Nick and co preformed via their studio on December 20th 2006. The location was a 16-acre island, designed especially for this unique online event. Music and video was streamed live and the feedback was very positive. We have a few pictures taken at the gig below. These taken by myself and James (thanks).

Sunday, May 7th 2006 saw the first live airing of Long Range material as part of an event entitled Sound in Motion. This was created for the Brighton Festival at the Corn Exchange.

The Visual, Sound & Spoken Word collabaration has received great reviews not only for its appropiate dark electronica tunes but also for the disturbing & gross antidotes read by Irvine Welsh(Trainspotting) & Chuck Palahniuk(Fight Club). The Lighting Design was by Jonny Gaskill who used to contribute Orbital's famous live shows with the stunning visuals created by C-6.

The highlight of the event was the final piece played by Long Range which featured Sarah Tunnel on violin and Kelly Malone on vocals.