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The band also had a change of personnel in June 2014, leaving frontman Dale Barclay the sole founding member – Duff had been the replacement for original drummer Jordan Hutchinson. Sadly, drummer Scott Duff quit the band the night before it began, and five days later frontman Dale Barclay took to Twitter to say the band were “over. This Glasgow trio – previously a stonemason, a plumber and a caterer – released a storming debut album, ‘Amphetamine Ballads’, in 2014, and were all set to play the NME Awards Tour in February 2015.

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WHY IT’S NOT ALL BAD NEWS: There’s still four good months of FFAF – plus a last chance to catch them live.īEST SONG: ‘Streetcar’ – the phonecall-filled thrummer from ‘Hours’.

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We all felt that ‘Chapter And Verse’ was a pretty decent full stop on an incredible 14 and half years of making music together.” We’ve done everything we set out to do and way more than I could ever have hoped so I’m not upset that it’s run its course. Frontman Matthew Davies-Kreye said, “It’s the natural end.

Playing things a little differently, they’ll perform a full album each night – alternating between second album ‘Hours’ and their gold-certified 2003 debut, ‘Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation’. This Welsh metal five-piece announced their intention to split alongside their ‘Last Chance To Dance’ tour, which takes place in April 2016. Have a listen here.īEST SONG: ‘Coast’ – after standing out on their 2010 ‘Bible Belt’ EP, it received a nostalgic rework on their final EP ‘Hooves Of Doubt’. WHY IT’S NOT ALL BAD NEWS: Guitarist Matt Taylor has started a new, grungy band called Waylor. Although the music industry is changing, the underlying transaction is always the same – when you buy records, tickets and T-shirts you keep the bands you love afloat, and we’re grateful beyond words that you’ve carried us through more than 500 shows in 50 countries.” Key words. This message is a thank you, really – your figurative and literal support has single-handedly kept us going. “We’ve had an incredible seven years,” they wrote on Facebook, “but we’ve decided it’s time to move on to new endeavours. EP ‘Hooves Of Doubt’ marked their split in November. They had two albums – 2012’s ‘Shallow Bed’, released via Sony, and 2014’s ‘Alarms In The Heart’, released after they had moved over to Transgressive. ‘Rough economic times’ spelled the end of Dry The River, a London four-piece that dealt in heartfelt, gutsy folk, notable for its plaintive choral harmonies. Here we remember them and their greatest moments. 2015 saw the end of many a band – all of whom will be greatly missed, no doubt, but by very distinct groups of fans.