Raveonettes Stuck in Copenhagen, Not Playing Tonight?

Published Oct. 2, 2009 at 1:10 p.m.

The Raveonettes are not coming to ACL, according to a bulletin posted on their Myspace today:

VERY BAD NEWS!!!

Due to the bidding on the 2016 Olympics, Copenhagen has transformed itself into a celebrity hot-spot. This, unfortunately means that our drummer and bass player has not been able to get an appointment at the American Embassy in Copenhagen cause the embassy is busy dealing with Obama, Oprah, etc...

We are forced to cancel our Austin City Limits performance and our pre-show at The Parish. We're so incredibly sorry but I'm afraid celebrities and sports are more important to some people. Fuck!

We will make it up to everyone who was excited to see us play, we promise!!! X Sune

The bulletin was posted this morning at 9 a.m., which is odd because we'd assume they would've needed to get their arrangements via the embassy taken care of long before the Olympics debacle broke out—why wait until now to break the news? We'll let you know what the deal will be with the Parish aftershow, which the band was scheduled to headline tonight.

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