Beth Orton @ City Recital Hall, Sydney (17/1/12) FasterLouder As a lone figure, Beth Orton hardly commands attention. Shy, frail and introverted beyond the point of uncomfortable awkardness, she mumbles her audience addresses as she attempts to tune her guitar. On this alone, one would struggle to understand why ...
Beth Orton @ City Recital Hall, Sydney (17/01/2012) inthemix When Beth Orton arrives on stage at the City Recital Hall as part of this year's Sydney Festival , the English singer-songwriter says hi! and quickly picks up an acoustic guitar. There's no band behind her and no unnecessary fuss: it'll just be her ...
Orton bounces back after Bondi stint The Australian Beth Orton produced some top-draw new material while living in Bondi recently. Source: Supplied IT has been six years since Beth Orton's previous tour of Australia. This time, the artist once known for her work at the forefront of folktronica is ...
Making Sense of Liz Phair's Lana Del Rey Defense Spin Magazine By Marc Hogan on February 6, 2012 12:26 PM Comment Has each successive wave of backlash and backlash-to-backlash over a young pop singer with an OK voice, a distinctive Betty-Draper-gone-Beth-Orton (plus dated hip-hop slang!) aesthetic, and a couple of ...
Bridging Genres And Generations On the Fly New York Times ... played with the New York Philharmonic; performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular; and participated in recording sessions for the singer and songwriter Beth Orton, the band Dirty Projectors and Trey Anastasio, the frontman of Phish.
Joni would be impressed Sydney Morning Herald Looking back over my reviews of Beth Orton's previous tours here in 2003, 2004 and 2006, I realised that some things are, to quote a wholly-appropriate-for-the-occasion Joni Mitchell, as constant as a Northern Star. Orton will look long and slightly ...
Cherry Pickings: Redpath's bold tactics paid off Gazette Series I WISH I never saw the sunshine, sang folktronic chanteuse Beth Orton in a 1996 cover of a Ronettes hit from the 60s. Then I wouldn't mind the rain, she explained in one of the most poignant songs I have ever heard. She's obviously not a rugby fan.
Born To Die RollingStone.com It goes for folky trip-hop ballads with a tragic vibe, kinda like Beth Orton used to do. Except she could sing. Her strength is the lyrics, which have the pop-trash perversity that the music lacks. The big theme: femininity as a scam, as lost girls ...
Music development agency Generator set to roll out training nationally nebusiness.co.uk He's produced Coldplay and worked with Patti Smith and Beth Orton. He heard them and he was very interested. We're trying to get a deal on the back of the work they've done with him. Elliott had already attended a number of Generator-run music ...
Lana del Rey album drops: Critics' reactions Washington Post (blog) [Born to Die] goes for folky trip-hop ballads with a tragic vibe, kinda like Beth Orton used to do. Except she could sing. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone. The overreaching born-to-Dietrich vibe aims for Blue Velvet, but it's a transparent fleece. Lana Del Rey - Born To DieSame Same
