Orla Gartland Tickets

The Dublin-born, London-based artist and producer is bold, brash and increasingly self-assured on Everybody Needs A Hero. Fixated on the idea of a ‘hero’ as someone to look up to or someone to rescue us from ourselves, we meet Orla as her most confident self in this record and time in her life. Her angular alternative sound expands through a series of collaborations and is indebted to her own fastidious sense of independence; she is sonically and lyrically louder than ever before.

Everybody Needs A Hero tracks the journey of self-discovery you go through as you establish who you are within the confines of a long-term relationship. Often a struggle, and one that may remain internalised, Gartland voices all these intimate intricacies and more detailing the inescapable collective and individual compromises.

Orla began writing songs at 14 years old, sharing them online while developing her skills and building a dedicated audience of die-hard fans through her huge YouTube channel, many of which are still with her today via her ‘Secret Demo Club’.

Orla’s artistic growth and trust in her own taste can be heard listening to her discography in chronological order. From the softer pop-leaning songwriter moments on her first EPs to the more alternative-influences which permeated later projects Why Am I Like This? and Freckle Season, it’s her critically acclaimed debut album Woman On The Internet, the culmination of over a decade of hard work, which saw Gartland really hit her stride. Cementing her self-deprecating lyricism with a wider palette of influences, Woman On The Internet was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021 and has amassed millions of streams, and helped Gartland forge an even deeper connection with her fans.

With multiple sold-out headline tours in the UK, Ireland and beyond, festival appearances at Glastonbury and Latitude marking career milestones and nods of approval from some of her biggest inspirations along the way (Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap), the last few years have seen Orla go from strength to strength. Following a notable chapter with her band FIZZ, the group she formed alongside friends dodie, Martin Luke Brown and Greta Isaac, the return to her solo project and the release of Everybody Needs A Hero via her own label New Friends marks another exciting milestone for this proudly independent artist.