Beth Orton Releases New Single Friday Night, Confirms First Headline US Shows In Five Years
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Eliot Lee Hazel
Beth Orton has released a new track called Friday Night.
Following Forever Young, it serves the latest preview of her upcoming album, 'Weather Alive', due out on September 23 through Partisan Records.
Recorded with The Smile drummer Tom Skinner, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and The Invisible's Tom Herbert on bass, Friday Night is described by Orton as "someone reflecting on and trying to decide what to give up or what to surrender to. Passion or ambivalence? Whether to 'bleed or rust in the rain'."
She added: "Most of us are struggling to make sense of where to put the love we have for those that are lost to us, let alone the ones that remain. Sometimes there is no right answer except to find the wisdom in the spaces between the endings and beginnings, in the remembrance of things past or in search of lost time, there are always repercussions to the choices we make. We are listening to the internal dialogue of someone living it out, what is futile and what is worth fighting for, and trying to do as little damage along the way. Friday night being the night that makes the week more bearable, there is hope. Coming to realise what is real and what is out of reach can be unbelievably painful, waking up to the love that remains can be the greatest gift and the most wonderful surprise. Even in absence there is presence, there is no escape but to look for where the love is still alive within us."
Orton will play Beautiful Days festival later this week, before a run of dates across the UK in October. Following that, she'll head over to the United States in November for her first headline shows in five years. Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on August 19.
NEW // Singer-songwriter @beth_orton will support her new album, 'Weather Alive', with a North American tour this November!
Fri October 07 2022 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy2 Birmingham
Sat October 08 2022 - BRIGHTON St Bartholomew's Church
Sun October 09 2022 - LONDON KOKO
Mon October 10 2022 - NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
Wed October 12 2022 - BRISTOL St George's
Thu October 13 2022 - GLASGOW Classic Grand
Sat October 15 2022 - MANCHESTER RNCM Concert Hall
Sun October 16 2022 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Tue November 01 2022 - WASHINGTON District of Columbia - Sixth and I (USA)
Wed November 02 2022 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - World Cafe Live (USA)
Thu November 03 2022 - MONTCLAIR New Jersey - First Congregational Church (USA)
Sat November 05 2022 - NEW YORK New York - Bowery Ballroom (USA)
Sun November 06 2022 - SOMERVILLE Massachusetts - Crystal Ballroom (USA)
Mon November 07 2022 - MONTREAL Quebec - Le Studio TD (Canada)
Tue November 08 2022 - TORONTO Ontario - Great Hall (Canada)
Thu November 10 2022 - CHICAGO Illinois - Mayfield (USA)
Sat November 12 2022 - MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota - Cedar (USA)
Mon November 14 2022 - DENVER Colorado - Oriental Theater (USA)
Wed November 16 2022 - PHOENIX Arizona - Musical Instrument Museum (USA)
Thu November 17 2022 - LOS ANGELES California - Teragram Ballroom (USA)
Fri November 18 2022 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Bimbos (USA)
Sun November 20 2022 - PORTLAND Oregon - Mississippi Studios (USA)
Mon November 21 2022 - SEATTLE Washington - Neptune (USA)
Tue November 22 2022 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Hollywood Theater (Canada)
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