Life Sentence: Good night, sleep tight
It happens every so often and, by its nature, there are never enough people who know about the situation to mourn. I'm talking, of course about up-and-coming bands breaking up before their time - before the number of people who should know about them actually do. If you haven't already heard, Life Sentence have announced the end of their time together.
Usually the eulogy is full of overstatement and hyperbole, touching a spot in the hearts of those who knew and loved the band and leaving a slightly blank stare on the faces of those that didn't. In this case I don't think it's an overstatement to say that Life Sentence affected people significantly, both musically and personally, and that their absence in the local music scene will leave a big hole.
We first met Dan when we were planning the third smackbosh and the rest of Life Sentence at the actual gig. I'm so glad we did. We've had some great times playing together and we were looking forward to more times playing together. All of the members of Life Sentence are so easy to get on with instantly and to hang out with.
The break up can, I guess, be chalked up to 'one of those things'. When you're in a band it's not always easy to keep on one path together. You can find all sorts of things pulling you in all directions. Sometimes it's external, sometimes internal, but it's never an easy choice and pointing fingers and trying to assign blame is, especially in this case, extremely futile.
Life Sentence will be playing their final gig on Friday 30th March and there will be many friends there to celebrate the all too short life span of a fantastic band. Thankfully they have been able to leave us a legacy in the form of the CDs and the memories.
I'm left thinking what other musical greats we might have heard, given that it's possible for bands like Life Sentence to break up before becoming well known.
Dan, Scott, Jack, Liam (and Ben) our hats are off to you, gentlemen.
Goodnight.
Toby and Strangeday
http://www.myspace.com/lifesentence
Usually the eulogy is full of overstatement and hyperbole, touching a spot in the hearts of those who knew and loved the band and leaving a slightly blank stare on the faces of those that didn't. In this case I don't think it's an overstatement to say that Life Sentence affected people significantly, both musically and personally, and that their absence in the local music scene will leave a big hole.
We first met Dan when we were planning the third smackbosh and the rest of Life Sentence at the actual gig. I'm so glad we did. We've had some great times playing together and we were looking forward to more times playing together. All of the members of Life Sentence are so easy to get on with instantly and to hang out with.
The break up can, I guess, be chalked up to 'one of those things'. When you're in a band it's not always easy to keep on one path together. You can find all sorts of things pulling you in all directions. Sometimes it's external, sometimes internal, but it's never an easy choice and pointing fingers and trying to assign blame is, especially in this case, extremely futile.
Life Sentence will be playing their final gig on Friday 30th March and there will be many friends there to celebrate the all too short life span of a fantastic band. Thankfully they have been able to leave us a legacy in the form of the CDs and the memories.
I'm left thinking what other musical greats we might have heard, given that it's possible for bands like Life Sentence to break up before becoming well known.
Dan, Scott, Jack, Liam (and Ben) our hats are off to you, gentlemen.
Goodnight.
Toby and Strangeday
http://www.myspace.com/lifesentence
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