Orla Gartland teams up with Declan McKenna for new single, "Late to the Party"

“‘Late To The Party’ is a big old bratty song about resenting the baggage that you inherit when you love someone and yearning for a time when we were all a blank slate,” says Orla Gartland. “I wanted a song on the record that shifted in pace a lot, something fun and loud, something indulgent. I first wrote ‘Late To The Party’ over a couple of solo sittings in my studio, mumbling out the lyrics while playing drums.

“A few months later I sent the song to Declan - for me he is one of the absolute greats, a properly timeless artist & writer. We worked on the song remotely at first, sending stems back & forth and then jumped in the studio for a day to dismantle the song & put it all back together. Dec’s parts & energy added so much to the track for me and after months of revisiting it ‘Late To The Party’ was suddenly complete.”

Orla Gartland recently announced a very special intimate album preview show at London’s Hoxton Hall on 3 September. The show will preview songs from Everybody Needs A Hero a month ahead of release in an intimate setting, before she heads around the country for a run of acoustic album launch shows in October, and then across the Atlantic for her first full North American tour in November.