Some odd bits,reviews etc.
ORLANDO NATURE'S HATED
Furthering their career as Britain's top soul band, our pan-sticked pals have released one of their ballads. And hoorah, for it is a fine thing and will remind lots of old people of the time when knickerbockers were in fashion and everyone had a flick. Yes, for Orlando are the new Soft Cell. Do you know this duo, Ant & Dec?
Dec: "Aye, we met them in a Camden pub; they came over and introduced themselves."
Ant (getting excited: "It's produced by Ray Hedges; he produces some of our stuff and he always puts these hi-hats in. He does Boyzone as well. I like this. I heard some of the other stuff and he had an annoying vibrato thing on his voice, but he doesn't do it on this."
MM Singles, May 3, 1997- reviewed by Sian Pattenden and Ant & Dec
ORLANDO
Immaculately pale and loitering survivors of 1995's romo farrago,now shaping up as over-educated challengers to the Pet Shop Boys' spangled thrones.A few more flamboyant tunes of the quality of "Just For A Second" and a few less head-up-own-arse ultra-precious interviews on their B-sides might be wise in the long run,mind.
NME student guide '96
ORLANDO: Just For A Second
Better watch out,Ant & Dec! Tim and Dickon may be a fab indie band- intelligent lyrics,great tunes,sharp suits- but they're a great pop act too.This song is melodically dynamic,and evocative.Orlando are The Backstreet Blur,The Boytones...
Smash Hits single review,Sept/Oct 1996
5) ORLANDO: Just For A Second
Deuce meet the Manics? Well,that's what they reckon anyway...
Smash Hits, 'This fortnight,we've been mostly listening to...'
Orlando Just For A Second (Blanco Y Negro)
Jarvis-Lite confessional pop that would be an art-school sphincter-shriveller par excellence were it not for Alan "King of Pop" Tarney's glittery production.As clever as they undoubtedly think they are,it still takes Orlando over five minutes and several cack-handed couplets to say what the most dunder-headed rapper would convey with just one word: "Bitch!"
Guardian TV Guide
ORLANDO Just For A Second (Blanco Y Negro)
Oh how we laughed at the stillborn ambitions of the patently ludicrous 'romo' micro-scene of earlier this year.But most of the boring bastards that sneered only did so because they haven't got the guts,heart,originality or sense of adventure to risk the mockery of their peers.I mean,rather Orlando than Hoggrinder,Tortoise,Elephant Tits,Grimer,Long Fin Willy and all those useless mumbling no-marks for whom it was a toss-up between being in a rock'n'roll band and joining the civil service.
Besides,this is almost half as good as it thinks it is. The Pet Shop Boys meet Soft Cell uptown. "Deep down I think I might actually be unremarkable," croons the one with the ice-cream haircut and the bullied-at-public-school speech impediment,with all the torch-song melodrama he can muster.Never mind,nice line anyway.Besides,there's a thin line between the ridiculous and the sublime,and someone's got to walk it.
NME Singles,28th Sept. 1996
ORLANDO, who are not romo and, honest, never were, play London Battersea Park (October 15), Cardiff Art College (16) and Bath Moles (17).
NME site gig guide
...I'm speaking of The Divine Comedy, Orlando, Dubstar and Jack. These groups are my life right now; they are my sunshine, my oxygen, my reliable constants after another day wasted in a job I loathe. They're so important to me...
MM letters page
Why didn't Richard Parfitt and Ben Stud just stand on the table and chant, "Three chords good, six chords bad", thereby effectively drowning out anything that Neil Hannon or Tim Mark were trying to say.
MM letters page, re: the Yob Rock Debate
...or, in the Red corner, the tremendously intelligent and modest Orlando, standing on the sensitive artists ticket.
MM letters page
..The SMASHING PUMPKINS' smug puffy-faced c*** himself, has become embroiled in a bizarre Internet war with TIM OUT OF ORLANDO, who, discovering the horrible slaphead on the "Web" or whatever they call it, proceeded to roundly insult him. After a couple of half-hearted retorts, Corgan finally gave up and ran of crying in a hail of cyber-abuse. Go on Tim my son! Jab and move!
MM Gossip column
An illicit video of their [Field Mice] final London show captures a tear-streaked Tim Orlando at the front.
Trembling Blue Stars review
[Kenickie] were also seen...at SAINT ETIENNE's new no-dancing club with fellow opening-of-an-envelope attenders Orlando.
MM Gossip column
ORLANDO- the young soul rebels? We've found them
MM Contents listing for the "second coming" Orlando article
ORLANDO's headline show at the LA2 drew the usual assortment of people who aren't famous yet but will be soon (honest)...By far the biggest noise, however, was made by- who else?- KENICKIE, whose lascivious cries of "SEXY ROMO TART! SHOW US YER KNICKERS!" almost had the already grin-happy TIMOTHY MARK turning "Nature's Hated" into "The Laughing Clown"...
MM Gossip. Again.
Now that I've discovered Orlando, Plastic Fantastic, Dexdexter and other similar groups though, I'm much happier.I've realised that all I ever wanted was an excuse to wear make-up and to do my hair like a girl.
NME letters- someone singing the praises of romo
EMMY from KENICKIE appeared very pleased with herself, presumably because she was looking forward to dumping her boyfriend DICKON from ORLANDO right after his headline show at London's Splash Club the next day.
MM Gossip..do they ever rest?
..Orlando's gig at the Splash Club was a truly joyous event, with the whole crowd dancing and singing along in a refreshingly celebratory fashion sadly unfashionable in today's lad-rock climate..
MM letters- another Romo lover
Orlando (a Pet Shop Boys-esque holiday camp cabaret duo)...
Romo tour review