Fantastic to have Orange County added to the Radio 1 playlist this week - easily the song of the year so far for me.

4 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:

Fantastic to have Orange County added to the Radio 1 playlist this week - easily the song of the year so far for me.

The Mountain is my favourite album of the year so far too.

Was at the show at Tottenham last night; one of the best musical experiences I've ever had, first time I'd managed to see them live just after they've released a phenomenal album that currently has zero competition for me in 2026 music, it continues to be superb and barring something incredible showing up for me in the second half of the year, will be my AOTY. Calling it early but I'm confident.

Cried two times, once during 'El Mañana' as expected, and during 'The Shadowy Light', which was built around being an extremely well-done tribute to Asha Bhosle, including her granddaughter on stage.

I don't know how they're doing this for the other dates, but they managed to get ~30 current and past collaborators to show up for songs throughout the evening, I don't know exactly how that compares to past concerts but it felt like it was more than normal, it's their first 'stadium' show which makes sense, pretty much all of my favourites got played and the show lasted a long time but didn't feel it at all.

bbc concert review: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm203gndx0lo

few more details about exactly what songs were played and who showed up

best vibes hard to pinpoint but Pos of DLS leading into 'Feel Good' or Roses and Shaun dancing together on 'Dare' are two big ones, as with Yukimi with 'Empire Ants', those latter two were surprises as they hadn't been on previous dates that I'd seen.

'Damascus', 'Delirium' and 'The Sad God' were impeccable performances from the new album. Sparks and Trueno supporting leading into 'The Happy Dictator' and 'The Manifesto' also great payoffs for later.