During the last few days of his life, he was cared for by the staff of the Liver Intensive Care Unit at Kings College Hospital in London and whilst visiting Andy we discovered the excellent, caring and truly ‘intensive’ work that these wonderful people do every day.

Andy’s parents have requested that if you would like to make a donation to charity in memory of Andy, his life and his work, then please use this page to donate to the Kings College Hospital Charity.

Any Hughes is known for his work with The Orb, where he helped mix and produce Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion and Cydonia, as well as The Orb’s singles from this period.

Hughes was born November 11th, 1965 and grew up in Harrow, Middlesex.

From Andy Hughes Official Obituary:

Andy was a genius who gave so much inspiration and passion to all with his incredible work. He was loved by many aficionados of the trance/ambient genre, but will be especially remembered for his work with Alex Paterson and The Orb, most notably the album Orblivion and single Toxygene, which reached number 4 in the UK charts in 1997. Together with his musical partners Alex Patterson and former members Kris Weston, Simon Phillips and Thomas Fehlmann together with Nick Burton of Westworld fame. Andy created electronic and ambient/techno/house/dub masterpieces. These took him across the globe where he played to masses of fans in countries including the USA, Japan and Canada as well as a sell out concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998.

Prior to his Orb years he had helped to design and build the studios for Bunk Junk & Genius and worked with many famous artists. He was with the Orb until 1999 during which, along with his musical input including the Live 93 album, he assisted with the building of their Back Passage studio in Clapham.

In 2000 he started producing music on his own and more recently produced music for artists such as Kovak and Basement Jaxx at their neighboring studios in Brixton, London.

Andy was a doting and loving father who always made time for his children Gabriel and Circe and their father’s passing will leave a chasm in both their lives.

Andy’s funeral will take place at West Norwood Crematorium, Norwood Road SE 27on Monday 29th June ’09 at 11.45am.
The service will be open to anyone wishing to attend. It is hoped to arrange a Tribute concert in the future to allow his many fans and friends to meet up.

The Orb are looking for more gigs for 2009
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Music

The Orb and related projects played about 78 official gigs in 2008 and it proved one one the band’s busiest years. It is now that time again when thoughts for shows and tours are spilling over into the new year.

If you would like The Orb or any of the related projects to play near you, at your venue, festival or any other gathering you have planned, then get in touch. All it takes is the contact details of the event organisers or if you are an event organiser yourself then let us know what you have planned and we’ll see what we can do to put you on the tour schedule.

Here are the contact details:

DJ bookings (The Orb’s Alex Paterson) More gigs please!
filipe rosa
controlled artist management
bookings at controlledartistmanagement.com
http://www.controlledartistmanagement.com

Live Bookings (The Orb) More gigs please. Europe, Australia and USA get in touch!
alex nightingale and jack notman
ec1 music agency
jack at ec1music.com

The Orb Australia Tour assembly: jack at ec1music.com

The Orb USA tour assembly: grace at vital-talent.com

management & licensing
mike gillespie
the sunday club
theorb at thesundayclub.com
http://www.thesundayclub.com/

Shin yamada (co-manager, Japan)
root & brance
shin.yamada at m6.dion.ne.jp

John bryan (co-manager, north america)
johnb at mutualism.tv

Gerry Gerrard (usa/mexico/canada/carribean)
chaotica inc.
inquire at chaotica.com
http://www.chaotica.com

Ambient house group The Orb has announced dates for its 2008 tour:

1 May 2008
Scala – The Orb London, London and South East

2 May 2008
Concorde 2 – The Orb Brighton, London and South East

4 May 2008
Wedgewood Rooms – The Orb Portsmouth, South

6 May 2008
The Scala – The Orb – Alex DJ London, London and South East

8 May 2008
Ambassador – The Orb Dublin, Dublin

9 May 2008
Belfast Festival – The Orb Belfast, Northern Ireland

10 May 2008
Birmingham Barfly – The Orb Birmingham, Midlands

11 May 2008
Manchester Academy 3 – The Orb Manchester, Midlands

15 May 2008
Rescue Rooms – The Orb Nottingham, Midlands

16 May 2008
Glasgow Arches – The Orb Glasgow, Scotland

17 May 2008
Hamburg – The Orb – Alex DJ Hamburg, Hamburg

17 May 2008
Fil’s Birthday Fil’s place

30 May 2008
Chibuku to be confirmed tbc

31 May 2008
Sunrise Festival – The Orb near yeovil, somerset, Southwest

1 Jun 2008
Trinity – The Orb Bristol, Southwest

7 Jun 2008
Wyeside Music Festival – The Orb – Alex DJ Hereford, Midlands

8 Jun 2008
Rock Ness Festival – The Orb Dores, near Inverness, Scotland

14 Jun 2008
Ferrere – The Orb – Alex DJ Ferrere

21 Jun 2008
Venue in Genova The Orb – Alex DJ Genova, Genova

29 Jun 2008
G Stage in the Dance Village at Glastonbury Festival – The Orb – Alex DJ Glastonbury, Southwest

4 Jul 2008
Bologna – The Orb – Alex DJ Bologna, Bologna

6 Jul 2008
Workhouse The Orb – Alex DJ unknown

8 Oct 2008
Waterfront – The Orb – Alex DJ Norwich, East

Dates listed as The Orb = THE ORB doing the full live band thing
Dates listed as The Orb – Alex DJ = Alex Paterson from The Orb doing a special DJ set

Alex Paterson from The Orb at Ealing Studios on his new project, High Frequency Bandwidth, and pimping the BBC 6 Mix show.

Here’s what the Orb has to say about the new release:

The Dream was created without pressure from record companies or the studio. As with previous albums, the basic Orb nucleus is joined by guest singers and players, including System 7’s Steve Hillage, who goes back to the earliest recordings, Battersea toaster-singer Eric Walker aka The Corpral and vocalists Aki Omori [the Japanese singer who appeared on 2001's Cydonia], singer Andy Caine from the W.A.U.! days, and renowned soulstress Juliet Roberts who, according to Alex, is ‘the cherry on the cream on the gateau on the bed of Smarties.’

Tracks:

1 The Dream [The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix]
2 Vuja De
3 Something Special
4 A Beautiful day
5 DDD [Dirty Disco Dub]
6 The Truth Is…
7 Phantom Of Ukraine
8 Mother Nature
9 Lost & Found
10 The Forest Of Lyonesse
11 Katskills
12 High Noon
13 Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown
14 Codes
15 Orbisonia