Orbital Retire At Glastonbury 2004

Seminal acid house veterans Orbital are splitting up this summer, they announced this week, bowing out with a spectacular greatest hits set at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

"I think we feel that Orbital has run it's course," Paul Hartnoll said in a statement posted on the band's website.

"We're both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we've been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now, and studios are always confined spaces-I think it's time for a change."

Whether Paul Hartnoll will be returning to his pre-Orbital job as a kitchen porter in a Sevenoaks pizzeria remains unclear, though speaking to Q magazine in 2001, he spoke of his previous career with some affection.

"It's great being a washer-upper, you're in your own little world, so when the waiters rage or cry because the customers have been nasty to them, you can talk them down," he recalled.

"True, the teenagers who worked there pitied me because I was 21 and I hadn't made it, but I showed them."

Orbital's last ever English live shows are at Brixton Academy on Friday 25th June and Glastonbury Festival where they close the Other Stage on Sunday 27th June. Tickets for the Brixton show are available in advance, exclusively from their site, here
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