Orla Gartland Enlists Declan McKenna For New Single Late To The Party
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Nicol Ngai
Orla Gartland has recruited Declan McKenna for a new single called Late To The Party.
Rife with tempo changes, the punchy alt-pop track features McKenna contributing guitar as well vocals on the bridge. It serves as the latest preview of the Dublin-born singer-songwriter's second album, 'Everybody Needs A Hero', out on October 4 via New Friends. Introducing the song, she said:
"Late To The Party is a big old bratty song about resenting the baggage that you inherit when you love someone and yearning for a time when we were all a blank slate.
"I wanted a song on the record that shifted in pace a lot, something fun and loud, something indulgent. I first wrote Late To The Party over a couple of solo sittings in my studio, mumbling out the lyrics while playing drums.
"A few months later I sent the song to Declan - for me he is one of the absolute greats, a properly timeless artist and writer. We worked on the song remotely at first, sending stems back and forth and then jumped in the studio for a day to dismantle the song and put it all back together. Dec’s parts and energy added so much to the track for me and after months of revisiting it Late To The Party was suddenly complete."
Recorded between Gartland's London studio and Middle Farm Studios in Devon, alongside longtime collaborators Tom Stafford and Peter Miles, the record will also feature the previously unveiled cuts The Hit, Mine, Little Chaos and Kiss UR Face Forever.
Gartland will preview material from the follow-up to 2021's 'Woman On The Internet' with an intimate show at London’s Hoxton Hall on September 3. Tickets go on general sale at 10am tomorrow (August 29).
Following the record's release, she'll play acoustic album launch shows across the UK and Ireland, before her first North American tour in November. Head here for details.
'Everybody Needs A Hero' tracklist:
1. Both Can Be True
2. Sound Of Letting Go
3. Little Chaos
4. Backseat Driver
5. The Hit
6. Simple
7. Late To The Party feat. Declan McKenna
8. Three Words Away
9. Kiss UR Face Forever
10. Who Am I?
11. Mine
12. Everybody Needs A Hero
Orla Gartland Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue September 03 2024 - LONDON Hoxton Hall [NEW]
Thu November 07 2024 - SOMERVILLE Massachusetts - Arts at the Armory (USA)
Fri November 08 2024 - NEW YORK New York - Bowery Ballroom (USA)
Sat November 09 2024 - WASHINGTON District of Columbia - Atlantis (USA)
Mon November 11 2024 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Johnny Brendas (USA)
Wed November 13 2024 - MONTREAL Quebec - Bar Le Ritz (Canada)
Fri November 15 2024 - TORONTO Ontario - Longboat Hall at The Great Hall (Canada)
Sat November 16 2024 - DETROIT Michigan - Third Man Records Cass Corridor (USA)
Sun November 17 2024 - CHICAGO Illinois - Sleeping Village (USA)
Thu November 21 2024 - PORTLAND Oregon - Polaris Hall (USA)
Fri November 22 2024 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Fox Cabaret (Canada)
Sat November 23 2024 - SEATTLE Washington - Barboza (USA)
Mon November 25 2024 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Rickshaw Stop (USA)
Tue November 26 2024 - LOS ANGELES California - Troubadour (USA)
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