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"I don’t understand. If you and temp have written an album together (assuming Duncan and mike haven’t had anything to do with it) then why not launch it under a new band name. one where people don’t hate you? There is already so much negative comment going around about the split. If youre not using the band as leverage then why continue statues?"
Asked by Anonymous
The only negative comments I’ve seen have been coming from you, a mystery person from the internet who doesn’t have the courage to voice their opinion with their name attached to it. Mike and Duncan have been a part of the new songs by the way, so you’re assumption there is also completely incorrect. We wrote three of the four new songs we have at the moment with them on board, and they are more than happy for us to continue those songs on without them, which I’m very grateful for.
If you want a backstory, I can give you one, to maybe clarify how this whole thing started. Mike was talking to me about how he wanted to give harsh vocals a go for a band, so I decided as a friend, to write some original songs myself for him to put his vocals to. I wrote two songs myself, all the guitar, bass, and programmed drums, and we both worked on some of the vocals together at that point, as Mike needed some confidence boosting, as you would, trying something new. He improved heaps through this process, which was awesome.
Without blowing air up my own ass here, if it weren’t for us two working on those two songs together back then, Statues would have never come to be. With that being said, I have a lot of sentimentality to the band name, to the hard work every member of this band has put in so far, and as a result, the band name is staying.
We are still playing Statues’ music too. We will be playing Sanity, Wax Sealed, Pressure, Stay etc. at gigs, because we are still Statues. We aren’t a new band. Two people left, but we are still writing music that is similar in scope and style to what we’ve done previously. Things aren’t changing that much, other than having a new person on drums and a new person doing vocals.
I’ve already explained this to you in previous replies, I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand. No one person in this band dictated the style of what we did, it was a coming together of four minds. Two of those minds have changed to other people, and the band still maintains it’s overall identity. Yeah, it’ll change a little, obviously, but change happens in bands regardless of member changes, anything.
You are choosing to attack myself and Matt for reasons that you have no understanding of at all. I would really advise you stop accusing us for simply wanting to give the listeners, like yourself, the music we wanted to write for you. It’s incredibly unfair and actually really hurtful. If you know either myself or Matt, you would know how much we love playing music for you guys, which is our sole reason for continuing on through the hard times.
My name is Scott, I'm 22 and live in Perth, Western Australia. Playing, writing, performing and recording music is my life. I like to talk to like-minded and passionate people.
