Beth Orton

Pre-sales begin Wed 4 Nov at 11AM AEDT. Tickets are available to the general public Thu 5 Nov at 12PM AEDT. 

BRIT Award winner and Mercury Prize nominee Beth Orton will return to the Hall in March 2027.

Renowned for her mesmerising live presence, powerfully emotive vocals and singular approach to songwriting, Orton arrives following the 2026 release of The Ground Above (Partisan/Mushroom) – a bold, deeply personal new chapter in a career spanning more than decades. Building on the spectral, dreamlike world of 2022’s Weather Alive, her latest work finds Orton exploring survival, renewal, love and grief with hard-won strength.

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 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. 

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.

“All the songs on the record are looking through the prism of the years from many directions at once,” Orton says. “If writing songs is therapy, it’s hallucinogenic therapy. It’s working with the unconscious, it’s lucid dreaming.”

Don’t miss the chance to experience one of the UK’s most distinctive and respected songwriters live in Australia next March.

‘Vast, atmospheric and moving’ ★★★★ MOJO

‘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