Preview – The Orielles to play Bristol this Saturday as part of Ritual Union

Plus NEW LIVE ALBUM and UK Spring tour

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This Saturday The Orielles hit up Bristol as part of RITUAL UNION BRISTOL 2023

This comes on top of the recent launch of a digital live album. And plans for a full UK tour this spring.

Live At Stoller Hall is OUT NOW and features 10-tracks recorded at the very special one-off show in association with Piccadilly Records where they performed with full orchestral backing from The Northern Session Collective.

Drawing heavily on their most recent album, Tableau, which was released in October of last year on Heavenly Recordings, the album also features tracks from their debut album, Silver Dollar Moment (2018) and the follow-up, Disco Volador (2020).

Talking about the album, the band said:

When we first started planting the seeds for Tableau, we never could have imagined its album release show taking place at Manchester’s beautiful Stoller Hall, accompanied by 8 strings players, and to a room full of our most loved ones and other kind listeners, intent on consuming Tableau with the same attentiveness of which it was performed. Even more ridiculous is the idea that songs such as Sunflower Seeds from SDM, and Bobbi’s Second World from DV, could have been reworked into melancholic string magic back in the days when they were written – but having the chance to perform it all together that night felt like a milestone moment for us. Not only did it fulfill a life goal of ours (one which we hope to relive again and again in the future!), but it bookmarked the end of a fairly gruelling period of adapting Tableau into its first live incarnation, a difficult set of tracks to do full live justice to due to the improvisational and experimental processes of recording it. We’d like to share some songs from that night, with those of you who couldn’t make it to the show, and we hope that you hear it with the freshness of listening to Tableau for the first time, as did most people that night. The extended live version is paired with beautiful artwork from Ben Thompson featuring handycam stills he took on the night, that really capture the dreamlike quality of performing on that stage, and additional mixdown by Joel Anthony Patchett, whose presence in the audience that night made us feel at ease.

The track listing of Live At Stoller Hall is as follows:

1.   Chromo I

2.   Chromo II

3.   Airtight

4.   Bobbi’s Second World

5.   Beam/s

6.   Sunflower Seeds

7.   By Its Light

8.   Transmission

9.   The Room

10. The Instrument

Also, having played 2 sold-out β€˜home-coming’ shows at Hebden Bridge Trades Club at the end of last year, the band return for a full U.K. headline tour in March.

22.03.23 – MASH – CAMBRIDGE

23.03.23 – Concorde 2 – BRIGHTON

25.03.23 – Ritual Union – BRISTOL

27.03.22 – Engine Rooms – SOUTHAMPTON

28.03.23 – Academy – OXFORD

29.03.23 – Clwb Ifor Bach – CARDIFF

31.03.23 – The Foundry – SHEFFIELD

01.04.23 – The Mill – BIRMINGHAM

02.04.23 – Sugarmill – STOKE ON TRENT

04.04.23 – The Electric Brixton – LONDON

05.04.23 – Rescue Rooms – NOTTINGHAM

06.04.23 – New Century Hall – MANCHESTER

08.04.23 – The Garage – GLASGOW

11.04.23 – Le Pont Ephemere – PARIS

12.04.23 – Paradiso – AMSTERDAM

13.04.23 – Vera – GRONINGEN

14.04.23 – Motel Mozaique – ROTTERDAM

16.04.23 – Merleyn – NIJMEGEN

17.04.23 – Rotones – LUXEMBOURG

19.04.23 – Bumann & Sohn – COLOGNE

20.04.23 – Urban Spree – BERLIN

09.06.23 – St Anne’s Park – DUBLIN (with Pulp)

Tickets for the tour are on sale now HERE.

 Recent praise for Tableau:

Who wouldn’t want to feast at a table so richly laid with ideas? – 4/5 The Guardian

What we have here is brave, innovative, unexpected and brilliant – 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit

A bold endeavour with genuine thrills – 4/5 Uncut

What has emerged is their most experimental and exhilarating release to date – 9/10 Clash

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@thebristolnomad / @bristolnomad_gigphotography Role: Photographer / Reviewer / Interviewer Chief, the one that bugs the team for team for their reviews and images. Creator and founder of The Bristol Gig Guide. Can usually be found swamped in admin or getting cramp kneeling at the front of a gig. Available for: Gig Shoots, Gig Reviews, Photo Shoots, Album and Single cover shoots, Videography work, Interviews and Touring First attended gig: Republica, circa 1996. First gig shot: Hands Off Gretel, at The Louisiana! Dream gig: Huge metalhead and my ultimate dream gig would be shooting my heroes Slipknot at a huge stadium gig, or as festival headliners. And to experience shooting a headline tour outside the UK