Thrice, Thursday on hiatus

Thu 24th Nov, 2011 in International News

Soundwave has lost two members of its extended (and occasionally feuding) family this week with Thrice and Thursday both announcing that they are going on hiatus.

Californian band Thrice were announced on the Soundwave Revolution lineup in April, although the band claimed that they “never confirmed anything with Soundwave” leading festival promoter AJ Maddah to pen an open letter that branded the band members as “ill mannered lying assholes”.

In a statement Thrice leader Dustin Kensrue has now announced that “Thrice is not breaking up. If nothing has broken us up by now, I doubt anything ever could. However, we will be taking a break from being a full-time band, and the upcoming tour in the Spring will be the last one for the foreseeable future.”

New Jersey rock band Thursday have also posted a statement revealing that “Despite the fantastic year that the band has enjoyed, creatively, things haven’t been as easy for us on a personal level. Without diving into detail, it’s fair to say that this year has been an endless series of personal difficulties. We haven’t had any falling out and are all still close. I’m sure that we will continue to create, in some capacity, together. We’ve talked about turning Thursday into something else: a non-profit, a band that only records sporadically, a collection of other projects… Underneath it all, the personal circumstances involved make it impossible to continue Thursday in the spirit that has made it special. So, we stop. For now, at least.”

According to AJ Maddah, Thursday will play their last ever show at Soundwave in Perth in March next year. English doom metal act Cathedral will also split after their Perth set and Maddah says that “1 more [band] which I am not at liberty to discuss [will also split after the Perth Soundwave]”.

So who is the mystery third Soundwave 2012 breakup? Marilyn Manson’s drummer Chris Vrenna has just announced that he has quit the band so maybe things are shaky in camp shock town or maybe Limp Bizkit is retiring to free up time for Fred Durst to work on his sitcom Douchebag.