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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

News The Orb's June 15 Seattle Date Postponed

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:06 AM

From the Showbox's site:

Due to personal reasons, the upcoming tour for The Orb will be postponed. All within the camp are looking forward to making their long anticipated return to the US and plan to deliver nothing less than an experience their fans deserve. With a new album on the horizon, The Orb hope to provide newly rescheduled dates as soon as possible and are excited about what is to come.

As someone with very fond memories of the Orb's 1995 tour, I hope these ambient-dub-techno psychonauts can get it together and come through Seattle. And, though it's unlikely, I hope they bring frequent collaborator Thomas Fehlmann with them.

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Fehlmann is working on the new Orb album so it's not that unlikely that he'll be touring with them.

Posted by Brian Geoghagan on June 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM

The band photo on Showbox's site didn't include Fehlmann, which I took as a bad sign. I hope you're right, though, Brian.

Posted by Dave Segal on June 2, 2009 at 3:54 PM

"Baghdad Batteries heralds the reunification of Paterson and long-term collaborator Thomas Fehlmann who last sparred together on 2005's Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt."

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx…

Posted by Brian Geoghagan on June 2, 2009 at 4:06 PM

Although that doesn't guarantee they'd play live together, I'm hoping they do. Usually when it's just Alex they bill it as Le Petit Orb. I'd love to see Paterson, Fehlmann and Youth working the mixers together.

Posted by Brian Geoghagan on June 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Maybe this will give them a chance to regroup and get their game back, because they could not have sucked any harder at Coachella this year. I'm a fan, but they were awful, awful, awful.

Posted by Explorer on June 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM

Could someone please link to an authoratative source for this and related information?

Posted by Phil M on June 4, 2009 at 12:08 AM

This show seems to have been promoted by Seattle Theater Group, who have announced its cancellation.

Posted by Phil M on June 4, 2009 at 12:16 AM

The announcement came out as a press release, but you can see the same on the Orb's Myspace page. Which, I assume, is "an authoritative source for this and related information."

Posted by hank on June 7, 2009 at 11:54 PM