So most of you already know about our current situation but we haven't really made our reasonings public. Only to those of you who've asked. So here it is...
After the recent issue we had with our drummer Chris, we tried to continue on with the writing of the record. We played with a couple of different drummers, changed our sound and worked on a few different ideas. The new material we were working on was totally different to how Bear Songs were sounding. A lot more minimal but still grew into a big sounding climax. We wrote this way for a few weeks. However, just before Christmas Rob made the decision to take a break from music. His reasoning was something we fully understood and respected. For the past five years we have put everything into this band, all our time and money. We all have full time jobs and it has been Work > Band > Work > Band > Work constantly and at times can be really exhausting. He just wants to clear his head and do other things in life. Being in such a driven band can, more often than not, prevent this. We have left the door open in case we decide to pick it up again in the future but as it stands we are 100% done.
We are playing two last shows. February 24th at Taylor John's House, Coventry. This is We Are Revival's record release show. We are good friends with We Are Revival, who we toured with back in November, and they kindly asked us to play their release show. It was an offer we simply couldn't say no to. It will be a pleasure to play with our friends one last time and Taylor John's is one of my favourite venues throughout the UK! Then Saturday, February 26th - The big one, our last ever show. The Two Pigs, Cheltenham. We are hoping to see a lot of familiar faces there and hoping for a fantastic night. Feel free to come and party with us afterwards.
We did ask Chris to come rejoin us for our last shows to which he said yes but unfortunately, he is committed to other projects and unable to make the show. He is currently involved in a new project called 'I, the Lion' with members from Rookie/Error. They are currently recording tracks and should have something for your ears in the not too distant future. Be sure to check them out on Facebook, YouTube etc.
We will have our two T-Shirt designs on sale, CD's, posters, stickers so be sure to come hassle us for some of that suff because we will, more than likely, have them on sale for less than normal and if we really like you or you keep pestering us we may even throw in something for free.
A big Thank You to everyone who us supported us over the past five years. We have some of the best memories and hopefully we can add to those with whatever we do next.
Love x
