THURSDAY 26th AUGUST 2010 - BETH SINGS THE BEATLES
Mojo, Bauer Media’s pop music magazine, which celebrated its 200th anniversary issue in June, is offering consumers a 12-inch vinyl Beatles album covermount with its October issue. The Beatles final album from 1970, is being covered by a selection of modern artists, including Beth Orton. Beth performs 'I Me Mine' and 'Dig It'
If you live in the UK, you can buy the CD version of our Beatles’ Let It Be/Paul McCartney issue from all the usual outlets from Thursday, August 26… if not a little bit earlier.The special Vinyl Edition – a 12″ gatefold package featuring our Let It Be Revisited tribute album on glorious vinyl and a collectors’ version of the new mag with exclusive cover – will be available in WH Smith, HMV and selected record shops from Tuesday, August 31. THIS WILL BE LIMITED TO 10,000 COPIES
In the US, Vinyl Editions hit the shelves – exclusively at Borders and Barnes & Noble – around the end of September. In preparation, you can download an Excel document listing participating stores here or email
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who can tell you the location of your nearest MOJO Vinyl outlet. MOJO’s Vinyl Edition will not be available on the shelves in other territories.
But wherever you are in the world, an extremely limited amount of Vinyl Editions are purchasable online here. NB. These will be not be shipped until August 31
WEDNESDAY 18th AUGUST 2010 - BETH'S US TOUR IN FULL SWING
Check out the Gigography section for all the reviews and pictures from last night and all the other shows:
SUNDAY 18th JULY 2010 - BETH REPLACES CARLEY SIMON AT LILITH
Carley Simon has cancelled three dates on the Lilith tour. Last week, Simon suffered an injury by seriously fracturing and breaking her foot, which will prevent her from performing at these shows.
Beth Orton will now appear on the following three dates:
30th July Comcast Theater, Boston, MA 31st July PNC Bank Art Center, New York City, NY 1st August Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT
THURSDAY 8th JULY 2010 - BETH JOINS ANTI
Beth Orton has inked a worldwide deal with Los Angeles-based Anti- Records. Below is the official statement issued:
The Acclaimed British singer-songwriter Beth Orton has signed worldwide to Anti-Records.
A revered award-winning artist, Beth Orton is renowned for her distinct and intensely expressive voice. Orton’s adroit songwriting and emotionally evocative vocal style – infusing intimate folk reminiscent of Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell with lilting and subtly atmospheric pop flourishes — has continuously evolved, yet always retained an intriguing mix of fragility and transcendence which never fails to move and inspire fans around the world. Beth Orton’s early high profile collaborations with William Orbit and The Chemical Brothers, helped pioneer folk-tronica, and heralded the widespread recognition soon to come her way; but it was the release of her breakout album, Trailer Park, which established Beth, beyond a doubt, as a unique and formidable standalone figure on the music scene. Subsequent critically lauded releases Central Reservation, Daybreaker, and Comfort of Strangers have confirmed the stature of Beth’s craft and talent. Beth Orton’s gifted artistry has been honored in the UK with a trio of BRIT and Mercury Award nominations, including a BRIT win for “Best British Female”. Meanwhile, America has taken Beth on as one of their own.
Currently eagerly finishing songs for a new album, Beth reports that she is “excited and happy to be on a label that is home to so many artists in my record collection. I can’t wait to get on and make a new record myself, to bring the songs I’ve been writing over the last couple of years to life.”
Anti- is the perfect label to bring Beth Orton’s special talent and musical vision to full fruition. Anti- Records president Andy Kaulkin comments, “We are thrilled to be working with such a creative and unique artist as Beth Orton. We believe she fits perfectly with the label. After hearing some of her new songs, I think this record could be a defining moment in Beth’s already remarkable career.” Beth Orton follows up her recent appearance at River to River at NYC’s Battery Park with a series of special selected dates in intimate settings throughout summer.
ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records.
While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from hip hop (Sage Francis), reggae (Michael Franti), comedy (Eddie Izzard), Soul (Bettye LaVette), folk (The Swell Season), indie rock (Islands), and experimental music (Tom Waits).
Headed by Andy Kaulkin, ANTI- first gained attention by releasing Tom Waits' Grammy award winning Mule Variations in 1999. Along with Waits, several veteran recording artists such as rhythm and blues singers Solomon Burke and Bettye LaVette, and Marianne Faithfull have signed onto ANTI- after leaving other major labels.
THURSDAY 10th JUNE 2010 - BETH AT THE MOJO AWARDS
The Mojo Honours List Awards were held June 10, 2010 at The Brewery in London, England and Beth presented Eric Pulido and Paul Alexander of Midlake with the Best Live Act award
Beth Orton arrives at the Mojo Hounours List Awards at The Brewery on June 10, 2010 in London, England.
Eric Pulido (R) and Paul Alexander (L) of Midlake and Beth Orton (C) with an award
Beth will appear @ Mr Smalls. Lincoln Avenue, Millvale, Pittsburgh on Saturday 14th August 2010
Tickets go on sale 5th June!
The event is not yet listed on their website but keep watching : www.mrsmalls.com
TUESDAY 25th MAY 2010 - TICKETS ON SALE
29 May 2010 19:00 Guardian Stage, Hay Festival Hay on Wye, Wales, UNITED KINGDOM Find Tickets
30 Jun 2010 19:00 Rockefeller Park New York, NY , US
04 Aug 2010 18:00 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC Find Tickets
06 Aug 2010 18:00 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte Charlotte, NC Find Tickets
07 Aug 2010 19:00 Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN Find Tickets
There is also a possibility that more select US dates may be added so keep watching this space for news
WEDNESDAY 5th MAY 2010 - BETH PERFORMS LIVE FOR 5 X 15
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For anyone who hasnt seen the video yet! Filmed: 19 Apr 2010 18 min 3 sec
WEDNESDAY 28TH APRIL - SEE BETH FOR FREE IN NYC!!
The 2010 River to River series of free summer shows in NYC is slowly being announced and Beth is to play on Wednesday, June 30:
Presented by Battery Park City Authority: English singer/songwriter Beth Orton brilliantly combines the passionate beauty of acoustic folk with the electronic beats of trip-hop, creating a fresh, distinct fusion of roots and rhythm. Her stunning debut Trailer Park was followed by Central Reservation, Daybreaker and Comfort of Strangers.
Free, 7pm,
Rockefeller Park, River Terrace and Warren Street; 212.417.2000
TUESDAY 27TH APRIL - BETH DATES FOR THE UK AND LILITH TOUR
MAY
14th May 2010: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
29th May 2010: Guardian Stage, Hay Festival, Hay on Wye, Wales
JUNE
30th June 2010: River To River, Rockefeller Park, New York, NY
AUGUST
lilith fair dates:
4th August 2010: Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
6th August 2010: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
8th August 2010: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN
Ticket details to follow soon!
SATURDAY 17TH APRIL - TRAILER PARK REISSUED ON LTD. VINYL
FINALLY AVAILABLE AFTER A LONG DELAY! Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Beth Orton’s debut album is one of the most innovative and impressive records of the 90s. It is a beautifully inspired mix of folk and electronica, which may sound like a cliché today but this is the album responsible for that cliché. Absolutely cutting edge and with killer songwriting to boot, a pop album like no other before or since.
Tracks -
Side A: 1. She Cries Your Name 2. Tangent 3. Do0n't Need A Reason 4. Live As You Dream 5. Sugar Boy
Side B: 1. Touch Me With Your Love 2. How Far 3. Someone's Daughter 4. I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine 5. Galaxy Of Emptiness
Now reissued on Plain Recordings Luxuy Vinyl reissue, only to be 750 copies pressed so this also likely to be a collectors item of the future. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl with deluxe tip-on jacket and printed innersleeve
Bill Clinton called it the “Woodstock of the mind” while Joseph Heller said it was like a cross between “an international conference and a country wedding”. This year’s Guardian Hay Festival promises to be no different with a diverse line-up that includes Pervez Musharraf, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Nadine Gordimer. More than 100,000 visitors are expected at Hay-on-Wye this summer, where some of the biggest themes are explored over 11 days by some of the biggest names.
Announcing the programme today, the festival’s founder and director Peter Florence said Hay was the place to be “if you’re interested in the world and people, in love and death, in what is the best thing to do and how to be happy”. There will be a strong international theme to this year’s festival, he said, with visits by Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan, and the Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor.
One highlight will be a discussion between the president of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, and the current climate change secretary, Ed Miliband. Nasheed, who will, appropriately, be beamed in by satellite rather than flying to the UK, will talk about the environmental disaster facing his disappearing country and efforts to relocate the population.The international flavour will continue with the long list of fiction writers attending. Florence said: “We need to be more like the premiership and realise that the best fiction writers are not always from the English-speaking world.”For that reason there will be six new voices from Arab literature – Joumana Haddad, Adania Shibli, Youssef Rakha, Abdellah Taia, Faiza Guene and Randa Jarrar – and an appearance by one of the world’s literary titans, the South African Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer, returning to Hay after a 20 year absence. Florence said the 86-year-old writer was “hitting an extraordinary golden patch … She is one of the most articulate commentators that there is and her views on Mugabe and Zimbabwe are absolutely compelling.”
It is also a year, said Florence, when British writers are showing themselves as being at the top of their game: Martin Amis, for example, who will be discussing his novel The Pregnant Widow; Zadie Smith talking about her collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and the Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel. Antonia Fraser will be talking to Melvyn Bragg about her late husband, Harold Pinter, and her book, Must You Go? Other big names include Tom Stoppard, Roddy Doyle, Bill Bryson and Kazuo Ishiguro. Florence said the often bizarre times we are living in, mean we need help from writers more than ever. They are, he said, writing with more “invention and imagination” than he can remember. One of his personal highlights of the year has been the bestseller Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.Its writer, the American neuroscientist David Eagleman will be at the festival.
Elsewhere, religion features heavily. Philip Pullman, who is still gathering headlines for his retelling of the gospels, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, makes an appearance while the Guardian debate will explore rationality with speakers Maggi Dawn, the theologian, and Martin Rees, the astronomer.
On journalism, the legendary former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans will talk to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about the glory days of newspaper publishing. Andrew Marr, John Simpson, Max Hastings and Christopher Hitchens will be discussing the latter’s autobiography, Hitch 22.
Florence promised a healthy wodge of history at this year’s Hay, not least with appearances from Norman Stone and from Niall Ferguson talking about his biography of the financier Sigmund Warburg.
The law will be another prominent theme with a keynote lecture by Lord Bingham and speakers including lawyers Michael Mansfield, Helena Kennedy and Philip Sands. There will also be Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the former UK ambassador to the UN; Tom Buergenthal, a judge at the international court of justice at the Hague; and Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, a former foreign policy advisor to Jacque Chirac. I’s not all writing. Florence said: “Hay is one of the biggest gigs for writers but also one of the most intimate gigs for musicians.”
This year sees performances from Beth Orton, Laura Marling, Malian musician Toumani Diabate, Christy Moore and the super-cool DJ Bonobo.
There will also be comedy from Tim Minchin, Ruby Wax and Shappi Khorsandi, the latter talking about A Beginner’s Guide to acting English.
Art highlights include Grayson Perry arriving on what an “art motorbike” while Quentin Blake will be conducting live drawing sessions. Photographer Don McCullin will be discussing his book, Shaped by War.
Hay, sponsored for the ninth year by the Guardian, takes place between 27 May and 6 June.
