O.R.k RELEASE VIDEO FOR FIRST EVER SONG ‘PYRE’

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O.R.k RELEASE VIDEO FOR FIRST EVER SONG ‘PYRE’

TAKEN FROM DEBUT ALBUM ‘INFLAMED RIDES’

TOUR KICKS OFF APRIL IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM ‘SCREAMNASIUM’


Following on from the release of their newest album ‘Screamnasium’ in late 2022, we take you back to the very beginning with the first ever track penned by O.R.k

Taken from O.R.k’s debut release Inflamed Rides (2015), ‘Pyre’ shares a sentimental space in the band’s heart. Aside from being the first song that the band completed together, it was also the first track that the world heard from the then new outfit.  ‘Pyre’, along with the rest of the Inflamed Rides album benefits from an updated remix and remaster, and a long overdue reissue on both CD and limited edition blue vinyl.

The video, created by Nanà Oktopus Dalla Porta of Oktopus Productions allows space for an ambiguous interpretation, but is centralised around the theme of anonymity and the need to question the ideals of both leaders and followers, whatever their ideologies may be. 

Colin Edwin, O.R.k bassist states :

“Pyre has always had a special place in the O.R.k. timeline as it was the first song we completed together, and also the first song we released to the wider world. As well as recognising and discovering our own musical chemistry, we were carried along by the very enthusiastic response to Pyre and the accompanying video on it's first release. As we've explored the music live, Pyre has frequently taken up a special point in our live sets, often expanding to a long and evolving peak moment.

The Pyre video features an ambiguous lead character, someone who appears to be somewhat of an outsider. The visuals invite multiple interpretations, is our man an outcast, shamed by his actions? or a prophet before his time, an independent voice refusing to conform, who the crowd have ignored at their own peril?”

The band will soon be embarking on a European tour alongside a date at London’s Indigo at the O2 for Prognosis festival. This will be the band’s first live shows since 2019’s ‘Ramagehead’ and will be a co-headline run with French contemporary Rock trio Lizzard

O.R.k live dates:

April

  • 12th       Wed        Aschaffenburg      DE           Colos Saal
  • 13th       Thu         Pratteln                  CH           Z7
  • 14th       Fri            Stuttgart               DE           Jugendhaus Mitte                                                 
  • 16th       Sun         Eindhoven              NL            Effeenar – Prognosis Festival                                         
  • 18th       Tue         Milan                        IT             Legend 54
  • 19th       Wed        Rome                       IT             Traffic                                       
  • 23rd       Sun         London                   GB            Indigo at the O2 – Prognosis Festival                        
  • 25th       Tue         Paris                         FR            Backstage by the Mill                        
  • 27th       Thu         Nantes                    FR            Ferrailleur
  • 28th       Fri            Madrid                   ES            Rockville
  • 29th       Sat           Barcelona              ES            Razzmatazz 3

May

  • 6th Zoetermeer (NL) – De Boerderij