Funeral For A Friend call it a day & announce farewell tour
They're saying bye after 15 years
Funeral For A Friend have called it a day after 15 years together.
The Bridgend band confirmed this morning that they will perform a swansong tour in 2016 as a goodbye to fans.
Matthew Davies-Kreye said in a statement: “It’s the natural end. 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. We all felt that Chapter And Verse was a pretty decent full stop on an incredible fourteen and half years of making music together.”
“So, how do you celebrate a huge part of your life? You play some shows! For me it seemed obvious to go out with both Hours and Casually Dressed.. I feel that both those records distill what Funeral is to a whole load of people more definitively than just piecing together a set from all the records we’ve made.
“It seems to me that those are the records that matter most and Hours to me is my proudest achievement in music with Funeral. I don’t know why but it fills me with an overwhelming sense of pride.”
Hitting the UK in April, FFAF’s The Last Chance To Dance tour is set to feature an Hours album show one night, followed by a Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation show the next night in every city the band play.
As well as those albums, each show will feature album tracks and EPs from their musical arsenal.
Tickets go on sale from Kerrang Radio Tickets on Friday 18th September at 10am.
See Funeral For A Friend at the following shows:
APRIL 2016 Cardiff Y Plas - 5th/6th Manchester Ritz - 8th/9th Glasgow Garage - 10th/11th Birmingham Institute - 13th/14th London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire - 15th/16th
You can watch Funeral For A Friend performing 'Sixteen' Live at Kerrang! Radio back in 2011 below: