{"id":22285,"date":"2026-08-06T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?p=22285"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:52:29","slug":"foetus-20-piece-orchestra-scheduled-for-shadowland-fest-july-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/foetus-20-piece-orchestra-scheduled-for-shadowland-fest-july-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetus 20 piece Orchestra scheduled for Shadowland fest July 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-25x31.webp 25w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-30x38.webp 30w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-172x215.webp 172w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-118x148.webp 118w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1-168x210.webp 168w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shadowlands-festival-v0-i7wv689atoah1.webp 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>JG Thirlwell<\/strong> will be assembling a 20 piece chamber orchestra to perform as<strong> Foetus<\/strong> at the <strong>Shadowlands Festival<\/strong>, presenting material from the latest Foetus album <em><strong>HALT<\/strong><\/em> (2026) and selections of earlier Foetus material. The orchestra will feature a string section, brass section, harp, woodwind, keyboards and percussion as well as guitar, bass and drums.<br class=\"html-br\"><br class=\"html-br\">It will be Thirlwell\u2019s first appearance as Foetus in the UK over 25 years, and only the second time the work has been presented by a live orchestra (the first being at the <strong>Donaufestival<\/strong> in Krems, Austria in 2005). Thirlwell has worked extensively with ensembles in the last thirty years and will be bringing all his arranging talents to the pinnacle for this unique performance, a UK exclusive.<br class=\"html-br\"><br class=\"html-br\">Shadowlands is a brand new boutique international music festival that will take place across four days at the beginning of July 2027 in the historic city of Canterbury in south-east England. Focusing on alternative, electronic, avant-garde and experimental artists, the festival will also feature <strong>Lustmord, Test Dept, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Regis (feat. Liam Andrews), Clock DVA, The Wolfgang Press, Githead, hackedepicciotto, People Like Us, Portion Control, :Zoviet*France:<\/strong> and more. 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The orchestra will feature a string section, brass section, harp, woodwind, keyboards and percussion as well as guitar, bass and drums.It will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[2225,392,477,2227,2228,649,810,1037,2229,2236,2220,2221,2226,2222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22286,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions\/22286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}