It is with heavy hearts that we announce our last show on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 at Sideshow in Columbia, MO. It’s been a strange blur, and the end feels tingly and numb like standing too close to a firecracker and having your ears blown out. Yes, the split was amicable, and I’m sure none of us plan to stop making music in any capacity (I, at least, would freak the fuck out if I had to stop), but this band had run it’s course and it was time to let go.
I want to thank some people:
- Barry Hibdon at Red Boots for tracking on our full length album in ’08, Jonathan Fournier for tracking on our EP in ’06, and Scott Moon for our drunken aborted go at the full length in ’07.
- All of the venues and venue owners/employees that kept inviting us back – specifically Mr. Sal Nuccio and Big Pants at Eastside Tavern, which always felt like home base to us.
- A handful of sister bands – UMBROS/BK, Ptarmigan, Ursus Arctos, Prize Wolf, all past and future incarnations of Pale Family/Makeouts, etc. It was always great to share a bill with you all.
- The people who kept coming to see us all these years. This is a strange place and time to be a band.
- Our harem of bassists – Erik Moore, Carrie Wade, Clint McMillen, Jarrett Crader, and John-Paul McFarland. It sometimes seemed like Nonreturner was to Spinal Tap what bassists are to drummers, except nobody ever died (that I’m aware of)… a testament to how ridiculous me, M. and L. are to work with. Farmington kids, eh?
- Lauren G., Andi K., Anna M., Jessica M. for obvious and in most cases legally and religiously binding reasons. Being married to (or practically married to) someone in a band is probably a sucky experience for the most part.
- Zach Scott – I know I speak for at least Logan, Michael, and myself when I say that we always felt like you were in the room. I’m glad you got to see us when you visited that last time and we were in top form.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
-Zach
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