Classic Rock

Orange Goblin

London, The Dome

Ben Ward and co. return – in front of a real, live audience – with yet another new “Make some fucking noise” normal.

We’re going to a gig – a real one. With a real, beer-drinking, fist-pumping audience. After multiple postponements, 15-plus months and a ton of Zoom calls, Orange Goblin’s 25th-anniversary fiesta – and bassist Martyn Millard’s swansong with the band – is finally going ahead. It’s exciting. It’s surreal.

“I think I felt pretty much every emotion possible,” singer Ben Ward chuckles over the phone

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