ORBITAL announce Optical Delusion UK Tour for March-April 2023

Orbital

Pioneering electronic music duo Orbital have today announced an extensive UK tour to follow the release of their new studio album Optical Delusion, out February 17, 2023, via London Records. Orbital’s Optical Delusion UK Tour will kick off on March 28th in Glasgow and culminate in Brighton on April 8th. Stand by for news of Irish dates.

With Optical Delusion, their tenth studio album, Orbital dig deeper into the unquiet psyche of our increasingly surreal and disordered world. Sketched out partly during lockdown but fully recorded in the uncertain After Times, the album summons up conflicting emotions and beguiling images from recent times, when the science fiction doomsdays that the Hartnoll brothers watched on TV as kids finally came true. The album’s lead single, the BBC6 Music playlisted lead single ‘Dirty Rat’, is an incendiary collaboration with Sleaford Mods whose brilliant video has swiftly racked up half a million views. This week, the band released a second track from Optical Delusion, ‘Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemic Folk Song)’, in which a classic, cyclical Orbital groove gives way to an unnerving past-meets-present timeslip as goth maenads The Mediaeval Baebes materialise to sing ‘Ring O’Roses’, the innocent nursery rhyme whose roots are in the Black Death.

The new album is the latest in a burst of renewed post-pandemic creativity for Orbital, who’ve stayed at the top of their game longer than anyone from the post-1988 Class of Acid House. Earlier this year an Orbital thirtieth-anniversary package 30 Something – featuring reinterpretations of ‘Chime’, ‘Satan’, ‘Belfast’ and more by fans ranging from Jon Hopkins to ANNA to David Holmes, plus studio versions of Orbital live favourites – reintroduced Paul and Phil Hartnoll to a worldwide fanbase.

Optical Delusion Tour

March 28th – Glasgow, SWG3
March 29th – Newcastle, NX
March 30th – Manchester, Albert Hall
March 31st – Bristol, O2 Academy

April 1st – London, O2 Academy Brixton
April 5th – Leeds, O2 Academy
April 6th – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
April 7th – Nottingham, Rock City
April 8th – Brighton, Brighton Centre

TICKETS ON SALE THIS WEEK:
O2 Presale: Wednesday 14th December 10 am
Artist Presale: Wednesday 14th December 10 am
Live Nation Presale: Thursday 15th December 10 am
General On Sale: Friday 16th December 10 am

Orbital Optical Delusion

Orbital Optical Delusion – Track List:

01 Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemic Folk Song) (feat. The Mediaeval Baebes)
02 Day One (feat. Dina Ipavic)
03 Are You Alive? (feat. Penelope Isles)
04 You Are The Frequency (feat. The Little Pest)
05 The New Abnormal
06 Home (feat. Anna B Savage)
07 Dirty Rat – With Sleaford Mods
08 Requiem For The Pre Apocalypse
09 What A Surprise (feat. The Little Pest)
10 Moon Princess (feat. Coppe)

Release Date: February 17, 2023

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