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On Friday 13 November 2026, alternative rock band\u00a0Black Country, New Road<\/strong>\u00a0(BC,NR) will perform a landmark and genre-defying concert at the\u00a0London Coliseum<\/strong>\u00a0with the award-winning\u00a0Orchestra of English National Opera<\/strong>\u00a0(ENO), curated and conducted by\u00a0Andr\u00e9 de Ridder<\/strong>, ENO\u2019s Music Director Designate.\u00a0Sessions at the London Coliseum<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0signals a bold, boundary-pushing strand of work that places collaboration, experimentation and new voices at its core. It forms part of de Ridder\u2019s evolving approach to music programming at ENO \u2013 one that seeks to bring together artists from across the musical world, unlock new creative collaborations, and expand what audiences can expect to experience on the London Coliseum stage and beyond.\u00a0This concert is part of ENO\u2019s 2026\/27 Season, which also includes\u00a0Angel\u2019s Bone<\/em>,\u00a0Tosca<\/em>,\u00a0Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em>,\u00a0Adriana Mater<\/em>,\u00a0La traviata<\/em>,\u00a0Breaking the Waves<\/em>, and\u00a0Trial by Jury & The Zoo<\/em>\u00a0at the London Coliseum, alongside\u00a0Einstein on the Beach<\/em>\u00a0at Aviva Studios, Manchester.\u00a0BC,NR and Andr\u00e9 de Ridder have collaborated with a distinguished group of composers and artists to create new arrangements that reveal fresh dimensions of their music, showcasing the Orchestra of ENO\u2019s sound in innovative ways. The collaborators include\u00a0Owen Pallett<\/strong>\u00a0(Arcade Fire),\u00a0Josephine Stephenson<\/strong>, and\u00a0Fiona Brice<\/strong>.\u00a0BC,NR comprises\u00a0Lewis Evans<\/strong>\u00a0(saxophonist),\u00a0May Kershaw<\/strong>\u00a0(keys),\u00a0Charlie Wayne<\/strong>\u00a0(drums),\u00a0Luke Mark<\/strong>\u00a0(guitar),\u00a0Tyler Hyde<\/strong>\u00a0(bass) and\u00a0Georgia Ellery<\/strong>\u00a0(violin). Few contemporary bands embody reinvention as boldly and consistently as BC,NR. From their Mercury Prize-nominated debut\u00a0For the First Time \u2013\u00a0<\/em>a restless fusion of jazz, post-rock and klezmer \u2013 to the sweeping, chamber-pop intricacy of\u00a0Ants From Up There<\/em>\u00a0(both UK Top 5 albums), the band have continually expanded their sonic world. Their acclaimed\u00a0Live at Bush Hall<\/em>\u00a0marked another striking evolution, earning a five-star review from The Guardian and hailed as a \u201cmagical resurgence\u201d. Now, on their third studio album, BC,NR once again push forward with a complete creative reset emerging with a vivid, transformative new chapter that redefines the boundaries of their sound.\u00a0For this concert, they will perform new arrangements of songs from their latest studio album,\u00a0Forever Howlong,<\/em>\u00a0featuring \u2018Forever Howlong\u2019, \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 and \u2018For the Cold Country\u2019.\u00a0<\/em>Their third albummarks a bold new chapter with shared vocal and songwriting duties, inventive instrumentation, and expansive arrangements, showcasing a fearless exploration of chamber pop, folk, and prog influences that cements the group as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary rock. Reaching number 3 in the UK\u2019s Official Album Charts,\u00a0Forever Howlong<\/em>\u00a0was praised by NME as \u201ca promise from a band who have now thrice proven they\u2019re not afraid to take the plunge\u201d.\u00a0They are joined for this one-off performance by the Orchestra of ENO, renowned for their\u00a0versatility of repertoire, providing the musical landscape and emotional richness for ENO productions and collaborations. Andr\u00e9 de Ridder conducts following the performance with BC,NR and the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in September 2026. Widely acclaimed for his stylistic versatility and bold interpretations, de Ridder works across opera and orchestral music, jazz and electronics, avant-garde experimentation and indie pop. He has also collaborated with Dirty Projectors, The Flaming Lips and Gorillaz.\u00a0Black Country, New Road said:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPerforming our music reorchestrated with the Orchestra of ENO at the historic London Coliseum and reuniting with Andr\u00e9 de Ridder this autumn feels like a natural extension of how we\u2019ve imagined audiences listening to our sound. We wrote these songs with texture and collaboration in mind, so having the opportunity to perform them with an orchestra \u2013 and in a venue as iconic as this \u2013 is incredibly exciting.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Andr\u00e9 de Ridder said:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cBlack Country, New Road are one of the most compelling bands of our time. We have been working together since the pandemic when we recorded an online concert for Other Voices and Haldern Pop Festival. They are an incredibly creative band, a mini orchestra, a real collective of talents and many of them are classically trained, so this this collaboration was a given at some point. Here we are! Working\u00a0with the band and the musicians of the Orchestra of ENO will open up a new dimension of their music, and we can\u2019t wait to share this experience with audiences at the London Coliseum.\u00a0\u201cAt ENO, I\u2019m excited to develop projects like this that invite artists to experiment and to build alternative forms of musical experiences together. It\u2019s about showing and expanding what opera and contemporary music can be and creating spaces for encounters between different genres of music for our audiences.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This project was developed by English National Opera and NCH.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.colinscolumn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date of Issue: Tuesday 23 June, 10amBlack Country, New Road to perform new arrangements of their music live at the London ColiseumCurated and conducted by Andr\u00e9 de RidderWith the Orchestra of English National OperaFrid13 November 2026\u00a0Black Country, New Road \u00a9 Eddie Whelan\u00a0 On Friday 13 November 2026, alternative rock band\u00a0Black Country, New Road\u00a0(BC,NR) will perform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2473455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Black-Country-New-Road-to-perform-new-arrangements-of-their.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473456,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473454\/revisions\/2473456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}