The Orb to play East Village Arts Club Liverpool

Legendary ambient house progenitors and international club favourites The Orb are set to return to East Village Arts Club in Liverpool on Saturday 29th March for a special late night show.

With dancefloor friendly chart hits like ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ and ‘Toxygene’, alongside more experimental works like 17 minute classic 'Blue Room' from the 'U.F.Orb' album, The Orb were at the forefront of ambient house, securing their place as icons in the electronic music history books.

The Orb was born on a warm, Sunday summer's afternoon when original members Dr Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty [Rockman] had driven back from a Shoom party in Brighton to Transcentral. Using an OBX and decks, the pair cooked up the idea for 'Lovin You' [aka 'A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld'] and history was made.

Having collaborated with everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Pink Floyd's David Gilmore, The Orb are still seriously in demand, and continue to produce top-notch original material, but their euphoria-inducing sound really comes to life on stage.

Don't miss these ambient dance legends at the Arts Club.

For more information please visit: www.mamacolive.com/eastvillageartsclub
To buy tickets please visit: www.ticketweb.co.uk / 0844 847 2472

The Orb
Saturday 29th March 2014
East Village Arts Club, Liverpool
£16.50 stbf

The Orb Live – 25th Anniversary Show Saturday October 12th 2013

The Orb Live – 25th Anniversary Show

Saturday October 12th 2013 – Doors 9pm – 2.00am

Manchester Academy 2

Biography

The Orb is celebrating its unique position as one of the few names to emerge from the 1988 acid house revolution still creating vital new music with a special 25th anniversary show at Manchester Academy 2, a venue which is without doubt their northern home having appeared there no less than 11 times since 1992, repeatedly selling out show after show!

Over the last 25 years, The Orb has charted one of the most idiosyncratic paths in music, notching up hit singles and albums, sell out shows all over the world and an impressive string of collaborations, most recently reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry.

Initially formed by Alex Paterson and the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty in 1988, The Orb has since consisted of the former plus different collaborators, springing to prominence with 1989’s ’A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain Which Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld’ before 1991’s The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld created a new genre called ‘ambient house’ but stretching into dub and avant garde.

‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ [co-written with long-time collaborator Youth] was a hit single, followed by 1992’s U.F. Orb reaching number one in the album charts, spawning a top ten single in the epic 40 minute ‘Blue Room‘. The Orb went on to release a string of albums, including Live ’93, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion, Cydonia, Bicycles and Tricycles, The Dream and Baghdad Batteries and collaborating with Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour on 2010’s Metallic Spheres.

Alex, who played a pivotal role in the creation of Primal Scream’s epoch-making Screamadelica, has also pursued side projects, run his own record labels and remixed names including Primal Scream, Erasure and Front 242, while DJing all over the world and for BBC Radio.

The silver jubilee shows are both testament to the longevity of a uniquely original British musical talent and a guarantee of an evening of floor-shaking grooves, warmly-surreal humour and the original euphoric spirit which turned acid house into the biggest youth revolution since punk rock.