Love 'em or loathe them, London-based rap-rock-hip-pop, backing-track-whacking three-piece Test Icicles are certainly never boring. It's therefore a little saddening to hear that, after many a rumour, they're splitting for real.
Once they've cleared a series of dates in April, the band will call it absolute quits. Why? Oh come on: you thought it'd last? A statement was issued by their label, Domino, following Friday's cancellation of a Nine Black Alps support slot...
"The band have just come off a European tour and are exhausted from the constant pressures of touring, subsequently they have cancelled their show at the NME Awards and US tour.
"The band will play their UK tour in April. Details of a final single to be taken from the album to announced. There are currently no plans to make another album or tour beyond this."
Those final dates are as follows:
April
18 Glasgow Garage
19 Sunderland Manor Quay
20 Manchester Academy 2
21 Coventry Coliseum
22 London Astoria
DiS wishes the band all the best and secretly prays for an Intense Dudes reformation. A limited-edition Test Icicles single, 'Totally Re-f Ked', will be available on March 6th on 7" and 12" only (well, and as a download).
DiScuss: D'ya care? Do ya? Well, DO YA?
fun and irritating in equal measure
while it lasted.
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i never heard anything by them
true dat
Can't say
I'll shed any tears over that news.
Cool
Brevity is fine by me.
You know?
I like them, but if they wanna quit then fine - there'll be other bands with those members in for sure.
hopefully with a better name
Blink! And you'd miss them
any friends out of London think its the name of a made up band
Still I'd kill to be that thin
Aye
More bands should make one album and split anyway - i mean intentionally, not in the 'wheres my demographic?' pop-idol/x-factor way.
Album was pretty good, too.
Glad
I couldn't stand this band, they were terrible live and the records are shit.
'Tis a shame
I thought the record was actually alright if taken with a pinch of salt.
They were fucking hilarious supporting Alkaline Trio...."Anyone here like Good Charlotte?"
OH WELL!
Rumours were going around that Dev was only in it to be famous and shit and his heart was never really in it. Looks like they'll be giving the Blood Brothers back their tunes now..
Blow Job Hand-Outs
God they were (Are) good
gah
another example of how shit the music scene is at the moment, a band rapidly becomes in your face and then just as rapidly dissapears. alas what happened to the days when bands stuck around for at least 3 albums!
RIP
Its probably better to stop now than fade into oblivion like The Darkness, Electric 6, Goldie Lookin Chain etc
Exactly....
Better to burn out than fade away.
Still shit though.
troo
but i meant, wheres bands that stick around, the ones you own a decades worth of material of. like blur or something. get me?
I can't understand
the general test-icicles DiSlike.
i thought they were a great band.
a good album with loads of potential.
interesting and controversial.
i am actually pretty gutted to hear that they've split.
i just hope that if they reform they'll get a less piss-take name.
oh
well.
Good
riddance
Shame
They were very amusing and had one or two genuine CHOONS
i thought
there album was damn good and i don't care what anyone says.
agreed
and the remix they've done of Alkaline Trio's Burn is 10x better than the original.
Doesn't
actually say that they've quit proper, just that they have no plans to do anything in the future.
Who knows, though their sound is very "now" if you get what I mean.
I care very much so
The 13 religious rock songs are enough to pose the question, "on what day did the lord create test icicles?, and could he have rested on that day too?
RIP Test Icicles, :(
the myspace comments really are QUITE entertaining though
Quite gutted to be perfectly honest
i went to see them at the oxford zodiac, and although nervous they'd be shit after reading the DiS review on their leeds (i think) gig, thought they were great and really entertaining, and it was one of the best shows i've been to in a while, so i'm pretty sad to see them go. however like brainlove said above i'm sure they'll reform into different groups and hopefully carry on doing interesting music.
at the end of the day i'd rather have a song stuck in my head because i like it rather than it being rammed into my head repeatedly by jo whiley's radioplay (sugar we're what?)
RIP Test Icicles
p.s. the band name also mate me giggle like a small school girl when i first heard it. mature i know but, hey, it was fun while it lasted.
I couldn't care about the test icicles
but the article title is hilarious!
and begin..
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Could this be the end of ironic scene music?
R-I-P I-RON-E
Pretty unlikely. The Darkness are still around, although I much, much preferred Testicles' irony to theirs. Blearg.
I love the album
but it's difficult to care when they've split so soon. And I've still got the album afterall.
Dublin Date
any news on that much postponed dublin gig? supposed to be in april. i'm not holding my breath
well
You didn't have to be Nostradamus to see that one coming!
Mmmm well
at least there is now Be Your Own Pet to fill the explosive-fun void
and they can play their instruments!
always a bonus
:D
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I find this genius, I don't really care whether it's a good or a bad thing, it's just genius.
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It really is, isn't it?!
They're a decent band, but I much prefer the idea of them, and splitting up now is the icing on the cake.
If I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to them.
the
album is very good, and they were brilliant when I saw them at LSE in Nov. Sad to see them split.
sophie loren
"DiS secretly wishes for an Intense Dudes reformation"
Mat openly hopes for a Red in Sophie Loren reformation!
not remotely bothered...
when all is said and done, no one will remember them. domino have their hands full pressing enough franz f and artic m records. hopefully great bands like archi bronson outfit will get a break this year...best bands i saw this week, archi bronson and howling bells
who are they?
i liked their disco thingy track.
just getting into them really.
maybe that is the true sign that a band should die.
ABO Original Broadcasting
Yeah, Archie Bronson Outfit definitely. Top notch band that.
They were fuck awful
but their heart was inna right place - a rarity... sure, I'll miss 'em, why not, ay?
insane
dudes wasnt it? me too hopes for that!zx
Catch me with Maggie Thatcher
Fuck off
In Italy
I have seen them just a couple of weeks ago. Worst gig ever, even if I like their singles... I guess there was something wrong in the way they played.
Toughen up boys!
"exhausted by the the touring" THats the music business boys. Depeche Mode did a world tour which last for 2 years for their "Violator" tour. Now that's REAL tour exhaustion!
Perhaps following the Depeche Mode example,
the rules for touring forever are:
1) DON'T SPEAK TO EACH OTHER PROPERLY VERY OFTEN
2) TAKE MORE SMACK
I bet...
...The Klaxons are relieved.
Tee-hee.
...for f+++k sake!!!
...Can't believe a band splits cause they're "stressed about touring"!!!!!
That's either bullshits/publicity or simply disappointing from the point of view af all the young bands praying night and day to go on tour...
Much MMUUCH <MMMMMMUUUUUCH more exciting that Franz Ordinand and Arctic Bronkeys...
I was curious to hear their next album too.