British electronic music giants Orbital have been revealed as the first act in the line-up for Perth Festival 2019’s Chevron Gardens.
The celebrated techno pioneers will head back to Australia after a long hiatus to play a show on Saturday 2 March to celebrate the closing weekend of the Festival.
The band’s Australian tour will celebrate 30 years since the Hartnoll brothers, Paul and Phil, first hit the decks as Orbital in 1989 in Sevenoaks, Kent. They took their name from the M25 orbital motorway that connected the early acid house party networks across Greater London’s south east.
Orbital’s early albums helped shape the sound of dance music in the early 90s but their spectacular live shows set the bar for epic festival experiences.
Since reuniting last year, the dance duo have announced they’re back for good – with their first new music in five years and an upgrade of the legendary live show that transformed festivals across the world.
Their new album Monsters Exist is a more classically structured Orbital album than their previous release Wonky. Taking their signature sound forward into a new and fascinating phase, it’s been described as drawing inspiration from the international political landscape all the way back from Paul and Phil’s pre-rave squat-punk roots right up to the volatile tensions and erratic rhetoric of today.
The band released their first album in 1991 and they’ve put out nine albums of material since then, plus they’ve created the soundtracks for the feature films Event Horizon, Pusher and Octane. Additionally Paul Hartnoll has released a solo album and a side project named 8:58.
The band’s first release in 1989 Chime was recorded at home and soon became a rave party anthem. In 1992 their track Halcyon, which featured vocals sampled from the Opus III hit It’s a Fine Day was a huge club hit. Throughout the 1990’s and into the next decade the band was a music lovers favourite.
Friends of the Festival priority tickets will go on sale 7am (Perth time) Wednesday 19 September and general sales 7am (Perth time) Friday 21 September. Head to Perth Festival to snap up tickets.
OIP Staff
