The Orb, Ozric Tentacles
- Fredag, december 4
- 19:00-22:00
- O2 Ritz Manchester Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5NQ, Storbritannien
Info
The Orb and Ozric Tentacles share the bill at O2 Ritz Manchester on 4 December 2026.
The Orb, led by Alex Paterson since the late 80s acid house era, bend ambient house, dub weight and playful samples into long-form excursions. On stage, their sound moves through spacious pads, slow-shifting rhythms and collage-like voices, reshaping touchstones from Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and U.F.Orb alongside newer material. Live processing and improvisation keep the edges open, sliding from spacey haze to bass-heavy, hypnotic passages built for head-nod listening.
Ozric Tentacles bring the instrumental psych side: sinuous guitar from Ed Wynne, bright, layered keyboards and flexible, sometimes complex grooves. Born on the Stonehenge free-festival fringe, the group threads space rock, prog, ambient and dub into evolving pieces that pivot between trance-like drift and quick, precise runs. Synth arpeggios bubble under melodic leads, rhythms loop and morph, and electronics stay central, echoing links to Eat Static and Nodens Ictus while folding in cuts from recent albums.
Line-up
Plats
O2 Ritz Manchester
Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5NQ, Storbritannien