Most people who know us personally will know this anyway but
I thought it best to use this platform to make the announcement again for those
who don’t and as a means to say a thank you from myself!
At the end of September I left GP, Gary also left.
This was not a decision taken lightly, and was an extremely
difficult one to make. I started the band way back in 2006 and the band was largely me (aside
from solely song writing and performing alone of course)! But yea, I made the
band my life for a large part of time (8 years!) and during the first 5 or 6 years
or so I sacrificed pretty much everything for the band putting myself last, this continued till the very end but my passion for it was draining away as many close to the band will have realised, since we haven't been too busy, and the usual consistent hurdles turned in to barriers, barriers which i had no longer any energy left to smash through. I was that guy who spent his
life in front of a computer screen doing band stuff, the guy you dealt with when you booked or
spoke to the band, the guy who did all the organising and dealt with all the
bullshit and all the pleasures that come with being that in a band that gets out there! With bands there is a tip of the iceberg (writing and performing) and
then there’s below the water, so yup!
It’s assumed the members of GP will move on to something new, as music is a big part of all our lives, BUT...as yet the future is uncertain and i can't say much more for not knowing, as
always, good luck to everyone. In terms of current interests; I will be continuing the band's label/distro Righteous Anger Records.
The main reason I’m using this platform to say all this is
because I want to say a huge thank you to anyone who helped in anyway over the
last 8 years, it would be wrong of me not to make some sort of announcement
when I dealt with hundreds of people from all over the world for so long, many I’ve
lost touch with, and so on, anyway - thank you. Worldwide DIY is an incredible force and i could never begin to list the people i'd want to thank from all over the world.
Cheers
Matt
