Orbital live in concert.
ON TOUR

Orbital

39
critic concert reviews
electronic

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

88
%
Based on 
39
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
87
%
Based on 
4
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Orbital is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 39 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Orbital is rated as an exceptional live performer, with many notable strengths. Orbital concert reviews describe live shows and performances as glorious, exciting, magical, and ethereal.

ON TOUR

Radius Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States (March 23); Empire Polo Club, Indio, California, United States (April 12); Empire Polo Club, Indio, California, United States (April 19); Exeter Uni Great Hall, Exeter, United Kingdom (April 24); O2 Guildhall Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom (April 25); Troxy, London, United Kingdom (April 27)

Latest release

Optical Delusion (Deluxe Edition) [Explicit] (September 29, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
electronic
ORIGIN
Kent, United Kingdom (1989 - present)
BIO
Orbital are an electronic music duo consisting of brothers Phil Hartnoll and Paul Hartnoll formed in Sevenoaks, Kent, England whose career originally lasted from 1989 until 2004. Orbital reformed in 2009 with the original lineup of Phil Hartnoll and Paul Hartnoll.
HAS PERFORMED with

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Leftlion (UK)

April 9, 2023
%
Electronic legends Orbital hit the road with their critically acclaimed new album Optical Delusion..

The Upcoming (UK)

April 2, 2023
100
%
Orbital at Eventim Apollo, UK

Manchester Evening News (UK)

March 31, 2023
80
%
The dance duo performed a sold out show at Manchester's Albert Hall

GoldenPlec (Ireland)

March 22, 2023
%
It might be three decades since their ‘heyday’ but Orbital are still producing absolutely compelling musical creations that impress and invigorate.

X-Press Magazine (Australia)

March 7, 2019
90
%
Paul and Phil Hartnoll, the brothers better known as UK electronic pioneers Orbital, have long been regarded as one of the greatest, most important, genre defining groups of all time, and a renowned live act.

The AU Review (Australia)

March 5, 2019
100
%
This year, the RCC in the Adelaide University has presented a bold and diverse range of acts for the Fringe and one of those has to be the combination of two iconic electronic musical acts, Orbital and Severed Heads.

Scenestr (Australia)

March 2, 2019
%
Since Orbital first spun the LFO knob back in 1989, their meteoric progression has played an inherent role in defining UK dance music.

Past critic reviews published in

The Music (Australia), Yorkshire Evening Post (UK), Bristol Live (UK), The Guardian (UK), Gaffa (Sweden) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Graham Racher [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons