Ben Bridwell’s throat is feeling a little ho… oh, you know

They’re some fine players, sure, but without those pipes of Ben Bridwell’s at their most pristine, Band of Horses just ain’t the same. So you’ll have to forgive ‘em for canceling a pair of Florida dates on their current world tour due to a run-in with the scourge of the season.

"We got hit by a flu bug and played thru it," the band write in a MySpace bulletin posted this afternoon, "but now the voice is completely gone and there’s no other option." That’s what I’m saying, dude! Shit is integral!

Though tonight in Tallahassee and tomorrow in Gainesville are out, the Gainesville show has already been rescheduled for March 24.

One hopes the Horses are back in full power in time for their appearance on the Conan O’Brien television program this Tuesday (2/12), to say nothing of the rest of their tour. Should they shake the sickness, they’ll head to Orlando, Carnegie Hall (with Sufjan), the UK and Europe in the coming weeks.

BOH:

02-07 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar *
02-08 Gainesville, FL - Common Ground *
02-09 Orlando, FL - Social *
02-10 Charleston, SC - Music Farm
02-13 New York, NY - Carnegie Hall (Tibet House benefit) ^
02-14 Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple $
02-20 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod
02-21 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
02-23 Birmingham, England - Academy
02-24 Manchester, England - Academy
02-25 Bristol, England - Thekla Social
02-28 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
02-29 Cologne, Germany - Gebäude 9
03-01 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
03-02 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
03-04 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
03-05 Gothenburg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
03-06 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
03-07 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
03-08 Stavanger, Norway - Folken
03-10 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
03-11 Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
03-12 Milan, Italy - Garage
03-13 Zurich, Switzerland - Abart
03-14 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Romandie
03-15 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
03-21 Orlando, FL - Social
03-22 Tampa, FL - Cuban Room
03-24 Gainesville, FL - Common Ground

* with Cass McCombs
^ with Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Ray Davies, Tom Verlaine, Nawang Khechog, Marisa Monte
$ with Dirty on Purpose