From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: ORBULLETIN: Premature De-Orbulation Date: 12 Feb 2000 21:05:36 -0700 # This is an Orb announcement from the ORBULLETINS mailing list. ORBULLETINS # help is available by emailing "info orbulletins" to majordomo@xmission.com. # We're now on the web at http://www.theorb.com (Apologies to Orblisties who already saw the message in question...) By now most of you affected know that the Orb are not playing the New Zealand 2000 festival in early March, despite vigorous promotion to the contrary over the past couple of months. According to a local newspaper article quoted on the Orb list by Richard Mills: "Festival Deputy Executive Director Alex Reedijk says the local promoter contracted to bring the pioneering electronica act to Wellington didn't have the authority to commit the Orb. Reedijk says the festival is extremely unhappy, having accepted on good faith that the promoter had booked the act." This would certainly explain why our "usual sources" never confirmed that the band were going to play the show. Looks like everyone involved got screwed on the deal, from fans who bought concert and airplane tickets to the festival itself which sunk quite a bit into promotion of the show if that web site they put up was any indication...here's hoping the promoter in question gets his arse kicked but good. -- Lazlo Nibble - lazlo@studio-nibble.com - http://www.studio-nibble.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Smiley?= Subject: ORBULLETIN: LX DJ DATES & NEW ZEALAND Date: 16 Feb 2000 14:55:27 +0000 (GMT) # This is an Orb announcement from the ORBULLETINS mailing list. ORBULLETINS # help is available by emailing "info orbulletins" to majordomo@xmission.com. # We're now on the web at http://www.theorb.com Latest news, courtesy of the luvverly Clare... New Zealand Festival 2000 To all you Orbsters in New Zealand who are disapointed that The orb will not be appearing at The New Zealand Festival 2000 The management and band would like to clarify the situation (haven't seen any NZ press/announcement but from what a digester wrote it seems they have made the relevant announcement) without going into the nitty gritty of it but basically a promoter in New Zealand confirmed The Orb to play at the festival without confirmation being first obtained from The Orb's booking agent in the UK. It all came to a head in January 2000 when we were made aware that The Orb were billed to play (even though we had previosly declined the offer) and their name etc was appearing on ad's, web pages etc whence we immediately contacted the promoter in New Zealand and he inturn contacted the organisers of the New Zealand Festival to explain his self and actions. Apologies for all the Orbsters that had bought tickets for the Festival to see The Orb but we as you can see from the above we had previously declined the offer so to find out we were billed was as much as a shock to us as it was for you guys to find out we were not playing. MORE DJ DATES....... MARCH wed 1 ELECTROCUTED @ The Dogstar, Brixton Thu 16 FOUNDATION, Newcastle Watch this space.... for news about Alex Dj'ing in CHINA....we are trying to make this happen end of March early April..(fingers crossed!) ===== Smiley New spares list: http://come.to/SmileyWeb ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie