holiest shiite!
Off of CNN... great play on words.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
Friday, May 21, 2004
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Sad, sad news.
It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the following news:
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP the “Blue Album” will be their last. Following the album’s release on 21st of June, Orbital will play a couple of gigs in the UK including a few festivals.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now–and studios are always confined spaces–I think it’s time for a change.”
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With the album complete the band are turning their attention to their final show at Glastonbury. An appropriate venue for a farewell as it was here, exactly ten years before that Orbital delivered a live show that Q magazine listed as one of the fifty greatest live show of all time. “It’s nice to know that we’re finishing, it’s not many bands that do that. They tend to just fade away. And it’s nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It’s gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We’re not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we’re gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we’ve done. And that’s what we’re gonna do, play all the stuff that’s stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones. This will definitely be our last ever live shows,” confirms Paul, “Although I’m sure Status Quo keep telling themselves the same thing.”
Blue Album release dates
UK CD / Limited Edition Vinyl - 21st June 2004
Japan with bonux track "Initiation" - 3rd July 2004
Spain - 14th June 2004
Ireland - 18th June 2004
America, Australia & New Zealand - release dates t.b.c
More information can be found at Loopz.co.uk. I'm actually on the border of tears over here. I desperately wanted to take Sabrina out to an Orbital show, but it appears that they won't be back in the US before they dissolve. I'm simply floored.
Seeing Orbital in Worcester, MA, first in 1999 (I think), and again in 2001, mark as two of the best shows of my life. Paul and Phil have provided the auditory backdrop for much of my life, as well as the lives of my friends, and their work will be missed.
Let's hope they both move into solo territory and continue to make music.
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP the “Blue Album” will be their last. Following the album’s release on 21st of June, Orbital will play a couple of gigs in the UK including a few festivals.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now–and studios are always confined spaces–I think it’s time for a change.”
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With the album complete the band are turning their attention to their final show at Glastonbury. An appropriate venue for a farewell as it was here, exactly ten years before that Orbital delivered a live show that Q magazine listed as one of the fifty greatest live show of all time. “It’s nice to know that we’re finishing, it’s not many bands that do that. They tend to just fade away. And it’s nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It’s gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We’re not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we’re gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we’ve done. And that’s what we’re gonna do, play all the stuff that’s stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones. This will definitely be our last ever live shows,” confirms Paul, “Although I’m sure Status Quo keep telling themselves the same thing.”
Blue Album release dates
UK CD / Limited Edition Vinyl - 21st June 2004
Japan with bonux track "Initiation" - 3rd July 2004
Spain - 14th June 2004
Ireland - 18th June 2004
America, Australia & New Zealand - release dates t.b.c
More information can be found at Loopz.co.uk. I'm actually on the border of tears over here. I desperately wanted to take Sabrina out to an Orbital show, but it appears that they won't be back in the US before they dissolve. I'm simply floored.
Seeing Orbital in Worcester, MA, first in 1999 (I think), and again in 2001, mark as two of the best shows of my life. Paul and Phil have provided the auditory backdrop for much of my life, as well as the lives of my friends, and their work will be missed.
Let's hope they both move into solo territory and continue to make music.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
social butterfly
I wish blogger had some kind of small calendar app, or there was one easily embeddable that I could put over on the side to have all of my travel and event plans in one place... I have so many things coming up in the next few weeks (Mt. Ascutney hillclimb to work, Mazda Rev-It-Up, Lime Rock Gran Prix, Susquehannock Trail ProRally, travel to VA, CA, Maine Forest, parties, etc.) ... I sometimes can't even figure out where I'm supposed to be or what I'm supposed to be doing.
... you want fresh towel?
As part of my grand cleanup for this site, I'm going to be changing around the links on the left, too. Some to remove, some to add... just general housekeeping that's been waiting over a year.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
overhaul...
Overhauled the whole site... matched some templates between the diet site and the main site, cleaned up the templates so they actually render in old (Netscape 4) browsers... whew. Schweet.
an update, at long last...
So, I finally set up the computer that I bought off of Joe... 2.25GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of RAM, two hard drives with a total of 140GB of disk space. Just needs a new video card (the GeForce 256 on it is a bit too ancient for me to play around with). I scorched it last night, put on a copy of Win2K (ugh, I know... but I finally needed a Wintendo machine to play with at home that had more power than my laptop, "Pica").
Now, "Savant" is up and running, and quite a quick little box. I'm very happy. I need to dredge up a copy of Visual Studio, though, so I can hack around with OpenGL at home and do the stuff that they don't pay me to do at work.
I'm also going back into Atkins induction today, and in honor of the occasion, I've started a new diet mini-blog over hyah. I'll be rearranging this template, that template, and the weight loss chart to all make a bit more sense and feel a little less cluttered.
Now, "Savant" is up and running, and quite a quick little box. I'm very happy. I need to dredge up a copy of Visual Studio, though, so I can hack around with OpenGL at home and do the stuff that they don't pay me to do at work.
I'm also going back into Atkins induction today, and in honor of the occasion, I've started a new diet mini-blog over hyah. I'll be rearranging this template, that template, and the weight loss chart to all make a bit more sense and feel a little less cluttered.
