 |
Home |
|
Orchid-Star's debut album Birth released on Liquid Sound on February 1st 2008
The album comes with a 2nd CD - 'ReBirth' with each track remixed by Youth, Tripswitch, Subsonar, Kuba and Pete
Orchid-Star will be playing at
| Fri 10th - Sun 12th Sep '10 | Waveform Festival | @ info soon |
details| Fri 17th - Mon 20th Sep '10 | Alchemy Festival | @ Hall Farm Park |
detailsIf you would like to be kept up to date about gigs and other news return to this page or fill in the form on the Contact page to add your name to our (e)mailing list
Watch the video for our single "Passion" feat. Rogue released Oct '08 on Archangel^
The Orchid-Star is born Pete's first live project since the last Glow gigs in 2000 debuted at Planet Angel on Feb.11th, '05 with Myo on vocals, Onyx Ashanti from SoulIISoul on wind-synth, Pierre Luigi on guitar and bass, Bagz & Jon Tubmen on percussion, Pete on keyboards and Diane Everitt (from Glow, like Pete, Myo and Bagz) dancing. The gig dispelled any of the doubts being expressed in some quarters about the sense of putting on a live act by a 'chill-out' DJ in a dance room, as the room filled and the Orchid-Star kept them dancing for a solid no-gap 85 minute set The second gig saw two new guests - Verdi Stewart (who's played with everyone from Hendrix to Sinatra over the years!) on trumpet, and with Rinalda Flaherty, who played with us till the end of the summer on bodhran and some keyboards. In May the band were joined by Kait Farbon on electric fiddle and Becky Dell on electric and acoustic percussion, giving us a new task of getting a full size orchestral marimba on stage. The first year included gigs for Synergy, Edensounds, more for Planet Angel, The Darbucka -
main stage at Kingston Green Fair and the London Green Lifestyles Show, Streatham Festival -
one of the main slots at the Big Green Gathering and the main headline slot on the largest of Glastonbury's Fringe stages - Croissant Neuf plus.
Glastonbury also saw a gig on the Green Roadshow Bandstand and guest appearances on Pete's DJ set in ID Spiral from Samanta, Myo and Kait.
Although we're still ploughing through tons of photos from last year we're always up for seeing anyyou have that you think we might like to pout on the site. You can email us for that or any other reason at orchidstar@peteardron.com |
|
The Orchid-Star has included the following people - some more regularly than others:
Pete Ardron - keyboards and central scrutinizer
Myo - vocals
Samanta Ray - vocals (her site)
Pierre Luigi - guitar and bass
Jon Bongly - percussion (Bingly Bongly )
Sean Spindrift - percussion
Kate Farbon - violin
Becky Dell - marimba and other percussion, vocals
Sandra Eveno - dancer
Diane Everitt - dancer
Bagz - electronic percussion (Dead Silence Syndicate )
Onyx Ashanti - wind-synth (his site)
Verdi Stewart - trumpet
Teresa Gabriel - vocals (her site)
Nalini - vocals
Maya Metcalfe - percussion
Anna Franklin - visuals
|
Hiya Pete, Angel and I just wanted to say how impressed we were with Orchid Star's performance (and professionalism) at The Party on Friday. I can honestly say that I reckon you guys should be on the main stage at events like Womad and if we can be of any assistance in vouching for the quality of your music and performance please let us know. I'm not one for going over the top so I'll just say many thanks to you and the band for playing and for a brilliant gig that easily surpassed our (already high) expectations! Take care, Pete and Angel Planet Angel |
|
Greetings!!! Thanks 4 sterling performances 1 & all. U helped 2 create the intimate vibe we were looking 4. And the crowd and venue LOVED it! Cy'all soon, DJ G Edensounds x |
Thanks guysl! xxxxxxx
