Black Country, New Road will perform a landmark and genre-defying concert at the London Coliseum with the award-winning Orchestra of ENO, curated and conducted by André de Ridder, ENO’s Music Director Designate.
BC,NR and André 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’s sound in innovative ways. They include Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire), Josephine Stephenson, and Fiona Brice.
For this concert, they will perform new arrangements of songs from their latest studio album, Forever Howlong, featuring ‘Forever Howlong’, ‘Happy Birthday’ and ‘For the Cold Country’.
Their third album marks 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.
Widely acclaimed for his stylistic versatility and bold interpretations, André 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.
The Orchestra of ENO, renowned for their versatility of repertoire, provide the musical landscape and emotional richness for ENO productions and collaborations.
This concert is part of ENO’s unmissable 2026/27 season.
