NEWS - SPRING 2018
ORBITAL SUMMER TOUR DATES 2018
ORBITAL continue to headline at Festival events and their own outdoor shows this summer. So far we have announced eight headliner shows and there are still a number of dates to be added. In May they release a new single from their forthcoming studio album which will be released this Autumn 2018.
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THE SOUTH TOUR DATES 2018
With a reshuffle complete, The South are a full team again and raring to go! Their live show promises to continue to celebrate and perform the classic Beautiful South songs.
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SYSTEM 7 NEWS & TOURS UPDATE
SYSTEM 7 are enjoying a busy 2018, currently working on concluding their new studio album to be released on June 1st. The album is titled ‘Café Seven’ and combines new System 7 tracks with tunes from their chill-out & downtempo sister project Mirror System.
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SILENT DISCO relaunch this year as SILENT DISCO INTERNATIONAL
Renewing their commitment to developing the optimum technical solutions to wireless headphones their recent innovations include a highly directional transmitter (with superior FM signal and less interference), and the ability to scale up into the thousands with a 15,000 headset up planned this year at Lowlands 2018.
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STEVE HILLAGE WINS PROG ROCK AWARD 2017
VAT would like to congratulate Steve Hillage for winning the Prog Rock award for the best re issue of the year boxed set, “Searching for the Spark” album compilation. This documents Steve career to date from Gong onwards and is lovingly compiled with an amazing amount of detail about his career.
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ORBITAL REUNITE AND ANNOUNCE SUMMER FESTIVAL SHOWS
What goes around comes around. And there’s no more welcome return for 2017 than the groundbreaking British dance music of Orbital – creators of classic electronic symphonies and timeless dancefloor bangers, originators of live dance music as a must-see ecstatic festival experience.
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THE THIRD DIMENSION - a new show from the SILENT DISCO
The Third Dimension Spectacle from Silent Disco is a brand new spatial environment spectacle. Silent Disco’s original concept has been emulated but never bettered. Now thanks to new technology lighting controls, a 3D soundtrack is fully integrated with LED lighting located which is located on tall central ”pods” and LED systems in headsets.
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THE SOUTH TO TOUR FROM JUNE ONWARDS
The South are sorry to have to announce that at the end of December 2016, after many years of playing and performing with The Housemartins, The Beautiful South and The South, singer Dave Hemingway has decided the time has come for him to retire from the live performance stage for a while. We know that he will be missed as much by all of the people who followed and enjoyed his long career as he will by the rest of us in The South.
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