TRILLIUM/BEYOND THE BRIDGE Keyboardist/Guitarist Simon Oberender Passes
September 27, 2012, 12 years ago
TRILLIUM vocalist Amanda Somerville has posted the following sad news:
"With tremendous sadness, I mourn the passing away of an amazing friend, colleague and bandmate, Simon Oberender. This tragic loss causes us great pain. Simonovsky, you are and ever shall be sorely missed."
Oberender appeared on several other albums, including AVANTASIA’s 2010 releases The Wicked Symphony and Angel of Babylon, EDGUY’s Age of the Joker (2011), EPICA’s Requiem for the Indifferent’(2012), RHAPSODY OF FIRE’s The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010) and KAMELOT’s Silverthorn, which will be released next month.
As an engineeer, Oberender worked on albums by Avantasia, Edguy, Epica, Mayan and others.
Oberender was a part of Trillium's live line-up this past spring for the band's European tour supporting DELAIN with HALCYON WAY. He was due to hit the road with Trillium again this fall supporting MAGNUM in the UK.
According to Somerville the tour will go ahead as planned. Dates are as follows:
November
18 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy20 - Liverpool, UK - O2 Academy
21 - Glasgow, UK - Garage
22 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
23 - Holmfirth, UK - Picturedrome
24 - Manchester, UK - Ritz
25 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City
27 - Leamington, UK - Leamington Assembly
28 - Southampton, UK - The Brook
29 - London, UK O2 - Academy Islington
30 - Pontypridd, UK - Muni Arts Centre
December
1 - Wolverhampton, UK - The Wulfrun2 - Norwich, UK - Waterfront
Check out Oberender performing with Trillium at the band's first ever UK show at the HMV Institute in Birmingham on May 12th. below:
