The Orb live in concert.
ON TOUR

The Orb

24
critic concert reviews
electronic

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

65
%
Based on 
24
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Based on 
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Critic Consensus

Based on 24 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Orb is rated as a neither good nor bad live performer, but their shows lack substantial merit. The Orb concert reviews describe live shows and performances as amazing, soothing, ambient, and aggressive.

ON TOUR

The Underground, Bradford, United Kingdom (March 1); Kanteena, Lancaster, United Kingdom (March 2); Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, United Kingdom (March 9); Botanique, Brussels, Belgium (May 17)

Latest release

Further Adventures [Live 2016] (September 22, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
electronic
ORIGIN
London, United Kingdom (1988 - present) (1988 – present)
BIO
The Orb is a British electronic music band known for pioneering the genre of ambient house. The Orb is heavily influenced by dub music, and much of their later output has been in the electronic dub category, more so than ambient house.
HAS PERFORMED with

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

The Skinny (UK)

January 29, 2024
80
%
The nostalgia goggles are firmly fixed for an evening pitched halfway between the rave and the comedown

The Arts Desk (UK)

October 22, 2022
80
%
It was a fine reminder of a time when the dance scene temporarily freed itself from self-imposed musical boundaries and where anything went

GetIntoThis (UK)

October 22, 2018
%
As The Orb tour their best album in years, Getintothis‘ Banjo pays witness to a band amazingly still at the top of their game.

The Scotsman (Scotland)

October 20, 2018
60
%
The Orb Live In Concert In Scotland

Gig Junkies (UK)

October 13, 2018
%
Riverside Newcastle, Newcastle, UK

BeatRoute Magazine (Canada)

August 18, 2017
%
More tame than a four day outdoor music festival, but with equal amounts of sweat, the Godfathers of House dug deep into their 30 year old library of sounds, offering the sold out audience a hefty dose of beats and rhythms.

The Times (UK)

August 2, 2016
80
%
Electric, Brixton, UK

Past critic reviews published in

God Is In The TV Zine (UK), London In Stereo (UK), Undertoner (Denmark), Bucketlist Music Reviews (Canada), Brighton's Finest (UK) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Sebastian Larsen [CC BY-SA 2.5] via Wikimedia Commons