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The Orchestra Pit is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of adventurous and experimental new music.

We do this through promoting gigs under the banner of The Orchestra Pit and Scaledown as well as producing radio shows (Full Circle and Scaledown) and running a Record Label.

Details of all these endeavors can be found on this site as well as an extensive photo/audio archive and a shop.

Upcoming Events

July 2008 Against a backdrop of football, tennis and big brothering, The Orchestra Pit continues to purvey quality alternative musical entertainment into the summer months... The next Orchestra Pit Musical Concert will occur on the 12th July, full details of which can be found here. The next Scaledown Live Performance Event will occur on Friday 25th Julyne, intial details here.

Latest Releases

Our second release is a 10" EP featuring Paris born/Tucson dwelling Naim Amor. Two tracks of the EP was recorded in collaboration with Joey Burns & John Convertino of Calexico whilst the other two were produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels and Sparklehorse). For more details visit the release page or to buy it visit our shop.

Our first release is a limited edition 7" single from Orchestra Pit favourites Pocket featuring Ready To Go b/w Stupid Cat. For more details visit the release page or to buy it visit our shop.