Techno legends Orbital are playing their entire Green Album live in Manchester

Techno legends Orbital are coming to Manchester next year to play the whole of their Green Album live, after confirming 2024 tour dates.

The Hartnoll brothers, aka Orbital, will play the Victoria Warehouse on May 4th 2024, as well as shows in Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Exeter and Southampton.

This tour coincides with their last album, Optical Delusion, which was released last year, featuring input from Sleaford Mods and Mediæval Bæbes.

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Paul Hartnoll said: “I’ve always been sceptical about going back but when we thought about playing The Green Album live I rolled the idea around for a bit, how could this work? The way we perform is always free and full of improvisation in production and arrangements.

“This approach will give us a chance to take these fabulous old tracks, written by young versions of ourselves, and perform them with a modern sensibility. Intrigued, I gathered all the original gear, set it up and switched on.

“As I dusted off the old floppy discs, samplers, and an Atari ST computer (Google it), I discovered the ghost of my past in the machine. It was like collaborating with my 22-year-old self. As the songs broke free from their original form, it quickly became clear that I really did want to take these songs on the road, many of which have never been played before.

“We love playing live, the most exciting thing is to take a whole bunch of music we haven’t played before and discover how to play it, to see how people respond to it and shape it as we go along together.

“To play the Green Album live will be a wholly new experience for us and you, it’ll be a bit of an adventure. This will be new territory that I can’t wait to explore. As the saying goes…

“There is the theory of the möbius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, and when we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again. That time, it would appear, is now.”

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The so-called Green Album was the band’s self-titled debut album, first released back in 1991.

It’s generally considered to be one of the most influential British electronic albums of all time, but due to the Hartnolls self-titling their first two albums (the second Orbital album, released in 1993, is known as the Brown Album), it’s commonly named after its green cover.

ORBITAL – THE GREEN ALBUM – LIVE – 2024:

April 24th            Exeter, The Great Hall

April 25th            Southampton, O2 Southampton Guildhall

April 26th            Birmingham, O2 Institute Birmingham

April 27th            London, Troxy

April 28th            Nottingham, Rock City

May 2nd              Bristol, Bristol Beacon

May 3rd              Glasgow, The Barrowland Ballroom

May 4th              Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse

May 5th              Dublin, Vicar Street

Tickets are on sale now – you can grab them HERE.