Canadian dance-rock duo Death From Above 1979 have officially split, confirming months of rumour-spreading and gossip-mongering.
Jesse F Keeler today posted a lengthy memo on the band's MySpace site (here), which begins...
i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. i wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. we decided to stop doing the band... actually we decided that almost a year ago. we finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy christmas presents and pay rent etc. we couldnt just cancel everything and leave them out to dry... plus i think we wanted to see if we would reconsider after being out on the road. our label was really hoping that we would change our minds, so they asked us to keep quiet about the decision for at first. well, its been quite awhile now and we are still very sure the band wont happen again, so i guess its time to say something.
The memo continued, with Keeler saying that he and partner Sebastian Grainger have "grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews".
And that, we guess, is that. Jesse will continue working with MSTRKRFT and with Josh Homme on the new Queens of the Stone Age LP.
fuck!
what an excellent band. awesome live too. will so be missed.
shame mstrkfrt isn't a patch on dfa :(
Probably a good thing
They were great fun but it'd be boring if they carried on and just did exactly what they did on their album again, plus it would have been irritating if they'd diversified the sound, i.e. made it less immediate, which seemed to me to be the whole point of the band. Fun while it lasted.
I wish more bands would split up, its quite satisfying to do something for a short while then end it before it gets stale.
Thats actually quite a shame.
They were such a great fun band, and really quite fantastic live.
How Queer
Just this morning I was lying in my bed thinking "I wonder what DFA1979 are up to, I quite liked a couple of their songs."
Not a huge loss though, and there's always MSTRKRFT are pretty ace-o.
Bollocks
That's not very good. Not very good at all.
They were right up their own arses though...
so i'm quite pleased thy're no more.
...stupid name as well..
They were just called Death From Above
before, but the fat guy from LCD Soundsystem sued them because that's what his record company are called, so they had to add the number at the end.
I saw them play in the Fleece in Bristol, it was great. At one point there was a PA malfunction, so the only sound was drums. Sebastian asked if anyone was any good at drum solos while they were waiting, and some kid (who wasn't that good at drum solos) got up and played on his kit. Awesome.
I think the story behind that.....
might be:
The helicopter in Apocalypse now is called "Death From Above". The 1979 might reference the year the movie was made? Anyone else have an idea.
Today sucks balls
worst news ever :(
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
that is properly shit
noooooooooooooo! i agree about the live comments etc, and although mstrkrft are amazing remixers i'm not so sure about their own work. we'll see :(:(:(:(:(:(:(
shit news
:(
:-(
I could've seen these guys last time they played in London but I sold my ticket and went to the QOTSA gig at Koko. Had I known that was the last time they'd play in London, I would've seen them instead.
Loved the album alot. Gutted :-(
I'm kinda
glad this happened. They made one great album which pretty much said ewverything they could. I'd rather this happen than them make a shite album.
gay
GHEY
Am
I the only person who thought they were ok, but pretty overrated!?
anyone else getting bored of undynamic two pieces?
:(
They were so ace. Just listening to the album now as a tribute... bugger. :(
at reading last year they were rubbish
decent tunes anyhow
That is true...
such a dissapointment considering how the album is so incredible; they shall be missed anyhow.
The MSTKRFT remix of Monster Hospital is fantastic though; however this may be because the original is also so good.
I thought they were great at Reading.
Turned me into a fan, that performance did.
:(
I didn't expect this. I never got to see them live, another dream dies. 'You're A Woman, I'm A Machine' was my favourite album of 2005 as well. I hope MSTRKRFT goes from strength to strength.
RIGHT
Someone stop using abbreviations and let me know what the hell MSTKBRJLABVFKfv stands for! Please!
MSTRKRFT = Masterkraft, geddit?
A shame
I saw them live, supported by fellow "let's split before we lose our achingly coolness" Test Icicles. They were amazing. Plus Metric were the other support act (in their pre-DiS days). A loss.
I really really wanted to like this band.
I couldn't, because they were dreadful.
They were quite good
But the best thing about them was that fantastic album cover, it will become one of those classic iconic images of rock, I think.
This split
has made me a sad panda :(
gutted
I liked them a lot.
shit
gonna miss these guys, saw them at leeds festival and they were immense. black history month is complete genius. gutted.
right time
but they were amazing at leeds last year, especially when sebastien went psycho on a guy right next to me for pulling his neckerchief ( this allowed me to go through s's pockets and steal a backstage pass) - i gave it to my then girlfriend whos mam put it through the wash.
SHIT!
now, i am pissed off. big time.
BAD BAD
NEWS
bollocks
I can't believe I turned down the chance to see them there in order to go searching for more drink! scheisse!
CUNTING WANK:(:(:(:(
I just got back from holiday to this news...GAYGAYGAYGAYGAY