Noah and The Whale Pull Plug On Winter U.S. Tour

Noah, his whale and all assorted associated members announced that they will not return to the U.S. in January. Instead, they will focus on the follow-up to Peaceful The World Lays Me Down.

As the band writes via their myspace page:

Despite this unavoidable necessity we would like to apologize 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.

In the meantime, the band will release the A-Sides EP on Dec. 22, which features punk tunes and covers. Proceeds from the album will benefit the Age Concern charity.

Previously:

• A whale of a fun time at Mercury Lounge

• I talked with the band about deli meats.