NOAH & THE WHALE CANCEL TOUR (including 12/3 @ Johnny Brendas)

"Some of the most dedicated, blog-aware North American friends of Noah and the Whale have correctly identified North American tour dates circulating on the internet.

It is with no little remorse and disappointment that we are compelled to cancel these dates. These words are being typed in the studio as we make progress on the next Noah and the Whale album. Between commitments in hereto-neglected Europe, we have made the sad but important decision to take time to develop these recordings over the winter months.

Despite this unavoidable necessity we would like to apologise to all the wonderful friends we made on our most recent American adventure, to anyone who has bought tickets or was preparing to do so.

The whole band enjoys an ongoing love affair with the US. The autumn tour was one of the most intense and heartening experiences of our lives and we were bristling with seasonal anticipation at the prospect of old faces and venues, not to mention new American audiences and experiences too. But there is simply not enough time in the world and we are sure that this next record will justify this difficult call.

With new songs to disseminate and even more America-famished, we will cross the pond to tour across the continent from March 2009. This is a promise, a published, globally-viewable promise.

Once again we want to express our most sincere gratitude for everyone who has seen us play, said they would see us play, or said two good words about the band. Noah and the Whale will be back and we will be back many times".


All internet tickets will be fully refunded. All in-person box office sales can be brought back to Deep Sleep for a full refund. Sorry !

R5 Text Alerts - Sign Up & Get Into Shows For Free !

It's almost 2009 and we are trying to embrace the future and technology as best as possible. Now that everyone is married to their cell phone, we have added a new feature which we think will be handy for those who enjoy our shows.

We have been testing a new "text alert" system to let you know about show / ticket specials. For instance free shows, 2 for 1 tickets, special last minute DJ nights or parties, drink specials, cheap ticket presales, last minute venue changes etc.

We are taking the next step in rolling this out and will be trying it out with actual real live people (aka you). To give you incentive to sign up we are going to begin giving away free tickets for most of our shows in November.

What will happen is you once you sign up (and confirm that you actually did sign up) every few days you will receive a simple text with instructions on how to get the free tickets.

Something along the lines of "Be one of the first 3 people to show this text at the door and get in w/ a friend to tonight's show "

We are going to start w/ the H20 show on Saturday and Henry Rollins show on Sunday.

We promise to NOT flood you with tons of messages and you can remove yourself at ANY time.

We want to see if this is a more effective way to let people know about our upcoming shows, and we'll reward your participation w/ free tickets.

To sign up simply text "R5" to 46786 (that's the "phone number" to send it to).
Or you can sign up online by visiting this easy link :
http://r5productions.com/text.html

It costs NOTHING to join. It is a FREE service. However if you cell provider charges you per received text message you will obviously have to pay the cost of receiving a text message.

Any questions just ask us !