Orbital

Orbital are an English electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, Kent consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlined The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows in 2009. The band's name was taken from Greater London's orbital motorway, the M25, which was central to the early rave scene and party network in the South East during the early days of acid house. In addition, the cover art on three of their albums features stylised atomic orbitals. Orbital were both critically and commercially successful, and known particularly for their element of live improvisation during shows. They were initially influenced by early electro and punk rock.

Links To Peel
Peel seemed to discover Orbital in the early 90's, when their debut single Chime hit the UK Top 40 singles chart in 1990. The group were regularly played on Peel's shows and in 1999, he compared them to Lonnie Donegan, the singer Peel praised when interviewing the artist at the Glastonbury Festival. Strangly Peel believed he detected Lonnie Donegan's music in Orbital's ambient music.  On John's 60th birthday, the band were invited to perform at a special concert for Peel.

Peelenium

 * Peelenium 1994: Are We Here (Industry Standard Mix)

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1994 Festive Fifty: Are We Here #31
 * 1996 Festive Fifty: Out There Somewhere #47
 * 1996 Festive Fifty: The Box #7
 * 1999 Festive Fifty: Style #15
 * 2000 Festive Fifty: Beached #45

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1993-08-05. Broadcast: 10 September 1993. Repeated: 21 January 1994. Available on Orbital - Peel Session (CD, Internal, 1994) 2. Recorded at the Glastonbury Festival: 1994-06-25. Broadcast: 01 July 1994 3. Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London: 1999-04-24. Broadcast: 27 April 1999
 * Semi Detached / Detached / Lush 3 (Eurotunnel Disaster 94) / Walkabout
 * Impact /  Remind /  Walk Now / Walk About / Chime


 * An Fromhair / The Box / Nowt Left / Style

4. Recorded at Maida Vale and Broadcast: 28 July 2004
 * Remind / The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair / Belfast / You Lot / The Box / Satan / Halcyon / One Perfect / Sunshine / Impact / Dr Who / Chime / Remind (Rewind)

Other Shows PlayedEdit
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1991
 * tbc