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"Addicted To Noise staff writer Gil Kaufman reports:
The touring electronica festival, Chaotica, which was tentatively
scheduled to feature the Chemical Brothers, the Orb, Orbital,
Meat Beat Manifesto the Prodigy and several other of the movement's
top stars, has been shelved for the time being according to the producer
of the event, Gerry Gerrard.
The festival, which Gerrard had hoped to grow to a dozen dates based on
the successful one-off event held last summer in the San Bernadino
National
Forest (which featured the Orb, the Chemical Brothers, Underworld and
Meat
Beat Manifesto) was dealt a serious blow when it was announced yesterday
(March 28) that both the Prodigy and Orbital would be appearing on the
Main Stage of the Lollapalooza tour.
Since the festival was scheduled to hit a few of the same markets as
the current Chemical Brothers/The Orb tour, organizers decided to
mothball
the event for now and concentrate on a few select summer dates, possibly
in New York and Miami.
Gerard told ATN part of the problem was that the Prodigy "just wouldn't
commit to doing the tour, and without them we needed to find another
viable
headliner, which we couldn't do."
Gerrard mentioned several possible replacements organizers discussed,
including
the Underworld and Leftfield, both of which, however, are too busy
recording
their upcoming albums to join up on a tour. "We need to seriously
re-think
the event," Gerrard said, "hitting the same markets (as the Chemicals
tour)
is not a problem, but we felt we needed four headlining bands, not
three."
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