Just Announced

[sweetcell]

it's still a maybe - looking likely, but not 100% yet.  the missus got a job offer in MD that she's psyched for but is waiting to hear back from other potential employers.

and i really liked the orb on their last tour.  a delightful evening of mellow beats, but i suppose it helps to be in to EDM in general and the orb in particular. 

[azaghal1981]

You suck the big one all the time. What's your point?

the Orb sucked the big one on their last tour....zzzzzzzzzzzz

[Vas Deferens]

I heard it dragged in the beginning and it got reggae-isH?

give me the Orbital anytime, not the Orb!  LOLz

Their show at Coachella was stellar. Very quality material. Loved every minute of it.

[azaghal1981]

Spoon's very own festival in Austin


SPOONX3:

07-09 Austin, TX - Stubb's Amphitheater (Spoon, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears)
07-10 Austin, TX - Stubb's Amphitheater (Spoon, Low, Dale Watson)
07-11 Austin, TX - Stubb's Amphitheater (Spoon, Atlas Sound, the Strange Boys)

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Dale Watson seems like a rather peculiar choice to open a Spoon show.  Actually, Spoon, Low, and Dale Watson seems like a really odd triple bill.

[azaghal1981]

All three of those bills are a little strange.

[walkonby]

the orb could get up on stage and just stand there, one saying "i'm samantha" while the other claims to be        lohan . . . and you still would not be allowed to dis them.  the orb controls every corner of the global mental process.  they control nin and janes addiction, they control morrisey never wanting to reunite the smiths, they control animal collective.

[betao]

I heard it dragged in the beginning and it got reggae-isH?

give me the Orbital anytime, not the Orb!  LOLz

Their show at Coachella was stellar. Very quality material. Loved every minute of it.

The set was dancy all the way through. There was alot of dub influence in it, but their most recent album (the dream) had a ton of dub influence in it, so go figure. they played blue room, a huge ever growing pulsating brain, mother nature, and parts of little fluffy clouds - alex didn't drop it. one thing you have to respect about alex is that he doesn't play hits just to please the crowd - he plays what he wants too. the last 10 minutes of the set was incredible.

here are some pics i got of it:







the tent started out about 3/4s full, but people left as the set progressed. the people who stayed made for the perfect crowd - it was spacious and everyone was into it. i'm too young to have experienced the good old days of raving like that, but if this set was any indication of what it was like back then, then i wish i was older.

[betao]

here are the full Orb dates from their myspace if anyone is curioius

May 23 2009 knockebgoroch world festival inverness, Scotland
May 24 2009 rave against racism sheffield, Northeast
May 28 2009 the broad room london, London and South East
Jun 10 2009 HOB Anaheim, California
Jun 11 2009 HOB SAN DIEGO, California
Jun 12 2009 Henry Fonda theater Los Angeles, California
Jun 13 2009 Health & Harmony Festival Santa Rosa, California
Jun 15 2009 showbox seattle, Washington
Jun 16 2009 Commodore Vancouver, British Columbia
Jun 20 2009 fox theater boulder, Colorado
Jun 22 2009 varsity theater minneapolis, Minnesota
Jun 23 2009 Pabst theater Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jun 24 2009 bottom lounge chicago, Illinois
Jun 28 2009 Numbers Houston, Texas
Jun 30 2009 culture room fort lauderdale, Florida
Jul 1 2009 THE SOCIAL Orlando, Florida
Jul 2 2009 Variety playhouse Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 3 2009 cats cradle Carrboro, North Carolina
Jul 4 2009 9.30 club DC, Washington DC
Jul 6 2009 Mod club toronto, Ontario
Jul 9 2009 paradise rock club boston, Massachusetts
Jul 10 2009 the musical hall of williamsburg brooklyn, New Jersey
Jul 11 2009 bowery ballroom new york, New York
Jul 17 2009 situation 635 clapham , london, London and South East

its really cool that they aren't half assing the tour and hitting up all of these cities.

[walkonby]

nice, thanks!

[Bags]

And it's DC9, so the headliner could be on very, very late.  Ugh.

DC9 4/22:

Tesco Vee and the legendary Meatmen
American Speedway
the Electricutions
Copstabber


As much as I want to see The Meatmen again...4 bands on a Wednesday?  Ugh.

[bellenseb]

here's a wild one.

Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones
Jammin Java
7/26

[Got Haggis?]

I would like to see the orb, but not on july 4th in dc.

[hutch]

here's a wild one.

Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones
Jammin Java
7/26

I was wondering where they'd book that...

[distance]

the Orb sucked the big one on their last tour....zzzzzzzzzzzz

what was so bad about the last tour? i enjoyed the two shows i saw in 97 and i remember enjoying the 01 show at the club (though i honestly don't have much memory of it at this point for some reason).. but i had to miss the last tour.