Submotion Orchestra are a seven piece band formed in 2009 in

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, Yorkshire, England. They are influenced by

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and dub. Their debut LP ''Finest Hour'' was released on Ranking Records. They have performed all over the UK and Europe including Festival shows at

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, Outlook and

Bestival Bestival was a four-day music festival held in the south of England. It had been held annually in the late summer since 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight. In 2017 the festival relocated to the Lulworth Estate in Dorset. The event was organ ...

, and in Thailand at

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. They have since released five full-length albums - ''Finest Hour'' (2011), ''Fragments'' (2012), ''Alium'' (2014), ''Colour Theory'' (2016), ''Kites'' (2018) - and two EPs - ''1968'' (2013) and ''III'' (2015).

References

External links

Submotion Orchestra - Home

Submotion Orchestra - New Songs, Playlists & Latest News - BBC Music

Submotion Orchestra - MusicBrainz

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 In Concert, Beverley Knight, Submotion Orchestra - Interview with Jo Whiley and Trevor Nelson

BBC - Music - Review of Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour
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