BETH ORTON (UK) announces live return to Australia
Frontier Touring is delighted to announce BRIT Award winner and Mercury Prize nominee Beth Orton will return to Australia in March 2027, performing three East Coast headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane alongside a long-awaited return to Perth. Orton last performed in Australia in April 2024.
Renowned for her mesmerising live presence, powerfully emotive vocals and singular approach to songwriting, Orton arrives following the release of 2026 release The Ground Above (Mushroom Music/Partisan Records) – a bold, deeply personal new chapter in a career spanning more than decades. Building on the spectral, dreamlike world of 2022’s acclaimed release Weather Alive, her latest work finds Orton on more direct and urgent terrain, exploring survival, renewal, love and grief with hard-won strength. Critics were united in their praise:
Vast, atmospheric and moving’ – MOJO ★★★★
‘A cohesive behemoth of an album’ – Renowned For Sound
‘Thirty-three years in, Beth Orton is making some of the best music of her life’ – Pitchfork
‘Battered optimism from an artist making the best music of her career’
– The Guardian ★★★★★
Now, Orton brings her latest release and celebrated catalogue back to Australia next autumn. Sign up to become a Frontier Member to access the presale, which begins Wednesday 4 November (11am local). Tickets will then go on sale Thursday 5 November (12pm local time). Head to frontiertouring.com/bethorton for tour information.
Across a catalogue that stretches from the pioneering folktronica of 1996’s Trailer Park to the earthy, classic-rock textures of 2006’s Comfort of Strangers and 2022’s acclaimed, self-produced Weather Alive, Orton has continually defied categorisation. On The Ground Above, she pushes further still, bringing together raw, searching compositions, timeless melodies, spiritual jazz and improvisation in music rooted in lived experience.
Split into two distinct halves, The Ground Above traces the parallel certainties of grief and love, navigating motherhood, mortality, political unease and the ongoing choice to remain present in the world. Self-produced by Orton, the album brings together a trusted circle of collaborators, including multi-instrumentalists Shahzad Ismaily and Sam Beste, drummers Tom Skinner (The Smile) and Chris Vatalaro, and bassist Tom Herbert.
Now, Orton brings her latest release and celebrated catalogue back to Australia next autumn. Sign up to become a Frontier Member to access the presale, which begins Wednesday 4 November (11am local). Tickets will then go on sale Thursday 5 November (12pm local time). Head to frontiertouring.com/bethorton for tour information.
Across a catalogue that stretches from the pioneering folktronica of 1996’s Trailer Park to the earthy, classic-rock textures of 2006’s Comfort of Strangers and 2022’s acclaimed, self-produced Weather Alive, Orton has continually defied categorisation. On The Ground Above, she pushes further still, bringing together raw, searching compositions, timeless melodies, spiritual jazz and improvisation in music rooted in lived experience.
Split into two distinct halves, The Ground Above traces the parallel certainties of grief and love, navigating motherhood, mortality, political unease and the ongoing choice to remain present in the world. Self-produced by Orton, the album brings together a trusted circle of collaborators, including multi-instrumentalists Shahzad Ismaily and Sam Beste, drummers Tom Skinner (The Smile) and Chris Vatalaro, and bassist Tom Herbert.
