Spider Jerusalem

The Times They Are A-Changing.

thebarentssea:

By my count there have been 9 members of this band.

Grant George
Tom Mitchell
Kieran Andrews
Steve Cairns
Davey Byrne
Louis Ford
Sean Hamilton
Ross Nicoll
Liam Chapman.

But for the past 15 minutes I’ve sat at my laptop trying to find the words to say what I have to say.

Tom, Steve and Kieran who are the current members of the band are hanging up their instruments at the end of March. The reason for this? because they are not stupid.
Being in a band does not make you money (unless you’re the Kings Of Leon).
You go to your day jobs and then leave at 5.30pm to drive to some town, lug equiptment around and play for 30 minutes then drive for hours back home only to get back up at 7am for work the next day. Everyone knows this, but there comes a time and a place where you really have to decide on if you want to keep Struggling on (cheap plug) or stop. They have decided the latter.
They have spent the better part of 4 years working with me to help me to take this band to where we are today.
These guys have given up so much of their time and money to being apart of this band but have seen what the future can hold and have all decided that it’s much more sensible of them to stick with their careers that they have worked so hard at getting to.
I have nothing but nice words to say about these boys and they are some of my closest friends.

There is no bad blood. No animosity. No beef.


THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE BAND.

We will be playing our remaining shows that we have booked. The shows with Gates/Fallacies in Scotland and our last show as this outfit will be at the end of March in our hometown in Perth at the Twa Tams.

We will be releasing a double A side single in March and will have physical copies of said single along side some new merch at the shows too.

As stated above, there have been 9 members so far that have put in their work and lend a helping hand.
I will be carrying on. I will finish this record and release it as soon as it’s done.

I’m excited for the future, but I need you guys to stick with me. Have patience as I regroup and get the record out. Don’t think of this as the end, but rather the start of things to come.

Thank you for supporting us. Come give those guys a big send off when we play in March.

Cheers,

Grant George

This makes me exceptionally sad.