“Tonight In Belfast” is a perfect piece of electronic music, with DJ Helen mixing David Holmes’ remix of “Belfast” with Manchester street poet Mike Garry’s track “Tonight”. Mike's spoken word piece brings a heartfelt human connection to the uplifting atmosphere of the original, resulting in a passionate, fast-paced pace of thoughts and emotions.
Orbital, David Holmes and DJ Helen’s new single featuring Mike Garry, “Tonight In Belfast”, will be available on February 2nd via London Records. This new song reinterpolates their 1991 classic “Belfast” and heralds the start of a new campaign celebrating Orbital's self-titled debut album (known as 'Green Album'), which will be reissued on multiple formats on April 19 ahead of the headlines in the United Kingdom. tour, which will see the pioneering duo perform the seminal album in its entirety for the first time.
Speaking about how the collaboration came about, Mike Garry explains:
“I met DJ Helen in 2019 in my capacity as an educator. She told me she thought my poem 'Tonight' would fit wonderfully over Orbital's 'Belfast'. I wasn't familiar with the song, so she played it for me and I made the poem silently in my head, and she was right: it suited her very well.”
“But then I discovered the David Holmes remix and thought it worked even better. Helen got to work: mixing, chopping, slicing and splicing magic wands with very sophisticated ears. The result was 'Tonight in Belfast'.”
DJ Helen continues: “The melody goes on a journey that perfectly complements the emotion and story of 'Tonight.' “It is an honor for me to have connected with such established artists.”
The orbitals agree: “Like all good collaborations of this nature, this one changes the whole picture and creates much more than the sum of its parts.”
David Holmes adds: “It was a beautiful surprise to hear the dulcet tones of Mike Garry lyrically over my Belfast remix. Pure joy.”
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Some 33 years after its initial release, and more than ten years since it was last pressed on vinyl, Orbital will reissue 'The Green Album' on April 19 in a 4-LP box set, a 4-CD box set, a 2 LP in black and color, a 2 CD and a cassette. .
Fans will be able to purchase the album ahead of 'The Green + Brown Album Tour', in which Orbital will revisit and reinterpret the album and its successor, the so-called 'Brown Album', in their entirety, including performing several of the tracks on I live for the first time.
Since reuniting with London Records, Orbital released the 2022 compilation '30 Something', which contained reworkings, remakes, remixes and reimaginings of their iconic tracks, and last year's critically acclaimed new studio album, 'Optical Delusion ', which gave Orbital their first Top 10 album on the UK Albums Chart since 1999's 'Middle Of Nowhere'.
Orbital UK + Ireland Dates
April 24 Exeter, The Great Hall
April 25 Southampton, O2 Southampton Guildhall
April 26 Birmingham, O2 Institute Birmingham
April 27 London, Troxy
April 28 Nottingham, Rock City
May 2 Bristol, Bristol Beacon
May 3 Glasgow, The Barrowland Ballroom
May 4 Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
May 5 Dublin, Vicar Street
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Mike Garry UK Dates
Tuesday March 12 – London Palladium*
Saturday 15th March – Wolverhampton Civic **
Monday 18 March – Cardiff New Theater **
Friday 22 March – De Montfort Hall, Leicester **
Sunday, March 24 – The Lowry, Lyric Theater**
Wednesday 27 March – Cymru Venue, Llandudno**
Friday 29 March – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall**
Sunday 31st March – The Lowry, Salford **
Wednesday 3 April: Blackpool Opera House**
Thursday 4 April – Leeds O2 Academy**
Saturday 6th April – The Glasshouse, Gateshead**
Sunday 7 April – Sheffield Town Hall**
Wednesday 10 April – Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe**
Friday 12 April – Queen's Hall, Edinburgh**
Saturday 13 April – Queen's Hall Edinburgh**
Wednesday 24 April – Scunthorpe Bathing Rooms**
Thursday 25 April – The Lowry, Salford**
*with Linton Kwesi Johnson
**with John Cooper Clarke
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