Animal Collective Explain Cancelled Tripod gig

A number of people were quite disappointed last night when the Animal Collective’s show at Tripod was cancelled last night. Fortunately another gig was hastily arranged in Whelans and for the people who made it, it was a great gig. For those who travelled miles and still missed out, Animal collective offer the apology and explanation below (via their myspace).

sorry about all the confusing events of last night. we broke down 3 times on the way from atp to dublin. the first time was around midnight the night before. our fan belt broke so the engine kept overheating. it being the middle of the night and us being in the middle of nowhere, we had to wait until morning before some repair dudes could meet us with the right belt. this made us miss the ferry to dublin that would have gotten us there in time for the original show. we got off the new ferry at 6pm and called the tripod saying if they were willing to push the show back we could get there by 9 or 10, and would set up with no sound check and still play. it was really important to us not to fuck up another dublin gig. but they would not do it. they said the club had a curfew of 10:30 and they couldn’t move it back. they also thought people would have to leave to catch the last train home or something and wouldn’t stay much later than that. so they called the show at tripod- not us. not calling them out or anything, it was beyond anyone’s control and they did what they had to do based on the information they had at the time. they are good people at the tripod, so no hating on them. luckily our merch guy is from ireland so we called around to his friends and asked if they could set up a show for us in under 3 hours and try and get the word out. the band scheduled to play at whelan’s had canceled that morning leaving it open so our friends busted their asses (even sending a van 100km south of the city to pick us up with our gear on the side of the road after the bus broke down for the 3rd time in 24 hours!), and as some of you know, the show happened on the later side and we had a great time. hope those of you that were there did too. we apologize to anyone that didn’t get the new info in time. we tried our best. as of last night tripod said they would refund the tickets. we have heard rumors they are not because they are expecting a make up show soon, but as much as we’d like to, we cannot do another dublin show at the end of this tour. we said we would like to do a make up show for them when we could, but we have no idea when this can happen. so hopefully the refunds will be available. we’re sorry again, but thanks to everyone who made an amazing show happen so quickly and saved us from having to cancel the show altogether. hopefully this will be the end of our bad luck in ireland. we love it there. take care – ac

Also Darragh has been singing the praise of Foggy for giving out free chips to those waiting patiently in line before the rescheduled show.