ORLA GARTLAND WINS IVOR NOVELLO AWARD ‘MINE’ NAMED BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY

Orla Gartland has won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for her song ‘Mine’. The song beat competition from the likes of Raye, Laura Marling, Lola Young and Fontaines DC to the award, with Orla collecting the statuette in person at a ceremony in London on 22 May. 

‘Mine’ is a tender yet powerful inspection of Orla’s evolving relationship with intimacy and finding peace with past personal experiences. At the time of its release she described the song as “by far the most vulnerable song I’ve written to date – putting it feels a little scary but also hugely important to me. It tells a fragmented story of an experience that really affected my relationship with intimacy and how that stayed with me throughout relationships that followed.”

‘Mine’ features on her acclaimed album Everybody Needs A Hero, now available in an Extended Edition via her own label New Friends. The special edition features five new tracks, including two special collaborations: Vancouver duo Tommy Lefroy feature on new song ‘Pest’; whilst Orla’s best friends and sometime FIZZ bandmates dodie and Greta Isaac feature on a new live version of ‘Mine’.

Says Orla of Everybody Needs A Hero (Extended Edition): “I’ve added five new tracks to this extended edition ofEverybody Needs A Hero; a mix of new songs & offcuts from the initial album recording process. It’s easy to resent the length of time between writing a song and releasing it as sometimes life (and everything you’re singing about) has changed by the time the music comes out! This was true for me in this case so it felt good to revisit the record and distill some more recent thoughts & feelings into songs like ‘Now What?’ and ‘Thirty’. There are some features too; I loved bringing Tommy Lefroy in on ‘Pest’ and singing a new live version of ‘Mine’ with my best friends, Greta Isaac & dodie.”

Everybody Needs A Hero (Extended Edition) tracklisting – new songs in bold

1) Both Can Be True

2) SOUND OF LETTING GO 

3) Little Chaos

4) Backseat Driver

5) The Hit

6) Simple

7) Late To The Party feat. Declan McKenna

8) Three Words Away

9) Kiss Ur Face Forever

10) Who Am I?

11) Mine

12) Everybody Needs A Hero

13) Now What?

14) Pest feat. Tommy Lefroy

15) One Eye Open

16) Thirty

17) Mine (stripped) feat. dodie + Greta Isaac

 

The original version of Everybody Needs A Hero contained 12 new tracks, including ‘Little Chaos’, ‘The Hit’, ‘Mine,’ ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever,’ ‘Late To The Party feat. Declan McKenna’ and ‘Backseat Driver’. Everybody Needs A Hero (Extended Edition) also features the current single ‘Now What?’, which debuted as a Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 last month. It comes as Orla wraps up her biggest North American tour to date. She soon heads back to the UK for a just announced performance at Glastonbury Festival, with further festivals and a return to North America supporting Glass Animals follow.

The Dublin-born, London-based artist and producer is bold, brash and increasingly self-assured on Everybody Needs A Hero. Fixated on the idea of a ‘hero’ as someone to look up to or someone to rescue us from ourselves, we meet Orla as her most confident self in this record and time in her life. Her angular alternative sound expands through a series of collaborations and is indebted to her own fastidious sense of independence; she is sonically and lyrically louder than ever before. 

Everybody Needs A Hero tracks the journey of self-discovery you go through as you establish who you are within the confines of a long-term relationship. Often a struggle, and one that may remain internalised, Gartland voices all these intimate intricacies and more detailing the inescapable collective and individual compromises. 

The album came to life between her London studio and the creative sanctuary of Middle Farm Studios in Devon. With Gartland on a constant quest to push herself as a writer and producer, she captained the ship during the writing and recording processes, with strong direction right through to the mixing and mastering. She worked with longtime collaborators Tom Stafford and Peter Miles in co-producing the album, inspired by each producers’ digital and analog approaches.

 

Orla Gartland – tour dates 2025

5/18  Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party

6/25 – 6/29  Pilton, UK – Glastonbury Festival

8/1 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza

8/2 St. Charles, IA –  Hinterland Festival

8/4 Minneapolis, MN – The Armory *

8/5 Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha *

8/7 Colorado Springs, CO – Ford Amphitheater *

8/8 – 8/10 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands

8/15 Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater *

8/16 Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater *

8/17 Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena, Harvey’s Lake Tahoe *

*supporting Glass Animals

 

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