Gigs & Festivals

Beth Orton announces album, tour dates

By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 12 July 2012

Beth Orton has just announced the release her first LP since 2006’s ‘Comfort Of Strangers’ in new record ‘Sugaring Season’. Out via Anti- Records on 1 Oct, it finds Orton trialling a more acoustic sound than you might expect.

Says Beth: “I stretched myself as a singer on this record and used voices I never have before as a writer. A lot of the writing on this record happened in the dead of night, when spiders mend their webs, with an infant asleep in the next room… as a result, my writing became a secret again: illicit and my own”.

Beth has also detailed a fifteen date live outing, whose listings are as follows:

25 Nov: Leamington Spa, Assembly Rooms
26 Nov: Birmingham, Glee Club
27 Nov: Sheffield, Memorial Hall
29 Nov: Ashford, St Mary’s Church
30 Nov: Brighton, St Georges Church
2 Dec: Norwich, Arts Centre
3 Dec: Milton Keynes, The Stables
5 Dec: London, Union Chapel
6 Dec: Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
7 Dec: Bristol, Thekla
9 Dec: Manchester, RHCM
10 Dec: Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
11 Dec: Cardiff, Glee Club
13 Dec: Glasgow, Oran Mor
14 Dec: Dublin, Pepper Canister Church

What’s more, you can cast a glance at the official video for LP track ‘Something More Beautiful’ here and now:

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