Watch BETH ORTON’s brand NEW VIDEO, UK TOUR – starting this Saturday.

Beth Orton UK tour

Following the release of her critically-acclaimed new album ‘Kidsticks’, Beth Orton is to embark on a 10 date UK headline tour.

Prior to the tour which starts this Saturday, you can watch Beth perform ‘1973’ on Tuesday’s Jools Holland show here and her brand new video for ‘Wave’

You can also watch Beth perform ‘Wave’ (and ‘1973’ again) on the extended edition of Jools this Friday at 11.05pm on BBC2.

Sept 24^th NORWICH                     Waterfront

Sept 25^th           CAMBRIDGE                Junction

Sept 27^th GATESHEAD                Sage 2

Sept 28^th BIRMINGHAM               O2 Institute 2

Sept 29^th BRISTOL                      Anson Rooms

Oct 1^st OXFORD                O2 Academy 1

Oct 2^nd GLASGOW             Saint Lukes

Oct 3^rd LEEDS                         Beckett Students’ Union

Oct 4^th MANCHESTER           Cathedral

Oct 6^th LONDON                O2 Forum Kentish Town

Tickets available at bethortonofficial.com/tickets

“Fabulous variety in voicing and mood. Should melt the sternest opponent’s heart” Mojo

“Orton is absolutely on top of her game” Mixmag (8/10)

“Lean, compelling electronic pop. Her most invigorating songs in years” GQ

“Orton was friends with Bert Jansch, but also knows electronic dance music, and these delightful new songs are nestling, camouflaged, in the sonic landscape between.” The Arts Desk (8 /10)

“Beth Orton ditches the acoustic guitar for this subtly crushing meditation on fast-disappearing years, stitched together from loops and one-fingered keyboard refrains with the help of Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung” Uncut (8/10)

“Bubbling percussion, twisted guitar loops and a wall of vocal. She’s never sounded quite so otherworldly” Q

“The sound of Beth Orton resurrected” Loud & Quiet (8/10)

‘Kidsticks’ out now on ANTI-records

When musicians talk about getting back to their roots, it’s usually an excuse to pull out a battered old acoustic to create some bare bones music. In Beth Orton’s case, going back to her roots meant something very different.

Having relocated to California a couple of years ago, Beth began experimenting with a series of electronic loops that would eventually come together as her career-redefining new album; a record inspired both by the wide-open nature of Los Angeles and the spirit of Beth’s earliest recordings (electronic work with producers like William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall and Kieran Hebden as well as groove-based music with Red Snapper).

Kidsticks repositions Beth’s unmistakable voice inside ten pure, audacious, playful and kinetic songs. A resolutely focused album, it represents a rare chance to hear an established artist get plugged in and completely rework the songwriting process with wide-eyed, open-minded glee.

Kidsticks was co-produced by Beth and Andrew Hung from F*ck Buttons. It was recorded with various musician friends of Beth’s in California (including George Lewis Jr. from Twin Shadow onelectric guitars, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor on backing vocals and bass guitar and Dustin O’Halloran from A Winged Victory for the Sullen who provided piano and string arrangements). Vocals were recorded by Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age/Mark Lanagan Band) and mixed by David Wrench (Caribou/Hot Chip).

Beth Orton has been one of the most unique and beguiling voices in music for the past two decades. Her debut LP – Trailer Park – pioneered a synthesis of electronic and acoustic songs to huge acclaim. The follow up – Central Reservation – brought international success and the Brit Award for best British female. Further albums like the Jim O’Rourke produced Comfort of Strangers and 2012’s Sugaring Season deepened the breadth of her craft (Sugaring Season was described by Pitchfork as “ten songs of sweet resilience delivered by a voice of seemingly effortless expression”).

Kidsticks was played by: Beth Orton: vocals, synths, keyboards; George Lewis, Jr.: electric guitar; Guillermo E. Brown: drums on “Moon,” “Petals,” “1973,” “Wave,” “Dawnstar” and “Flesh & Blood”;  Lucky Paul Taylor: drums and percussion on “Snow,” “Dawnstar,” “Falling,” “Corduroy Legs,” and “Flesh & Blood”; Bram Inscore: bass on “Petals,” “1973,” “Wave,” “Dawnstar,” “Falling” and “Flesh & Blood”; Shahzad Ismaily: bass on “Moon,” bass and Moog on “Flesh and Blood”; Chris Taylor: backing vocals on “Wave” and “Falling,” bass on “Snow”; Dustin O’Halloran: piano on “Corduroy Legs”, string arrangement on “Flesh And Blood,” “Falling” and “Dawnstar”

Tracklisting: 1. Snow / 2. Moon / 3. Petals / 4. 1973 / 5. Wave 6. Dawnstar / 7. Falling / 8. Corduroy Legs / 9. Flesh and Blood / 10. Kidsticks