Funeral For A Friend Call It Quits & Announce Farewell Aus Tour

After a near 15-year career, popular post hardcore band Funeral For A Friend are sadly calling it quits. 

The Welsh quintet took to their Facebook overnight to confirm the split — read the full statement below. 

"Dear friends, fans and anyone who has ever given a shit about us and our band over the past fifteen years.

It’s never easy putting into words the feeling you have for something that in many ways is intangible. We've written this over and over and sometimes it feel like we're missing something. But this needs to be written regardless so here goes.

Today we announce the end of Funeral for a Friend. Yes, the end. We’ve had an amazing ride, met an insane amount of people, toured countries we’d never even dreamed we’d get to see and made music together that in some crazy way has been responsible for taking us on that ride for well over a decade.

When we started this band the only hope and aspirations we had was to write music that we loved, play some shows and maybe make a record…we’ve surpassed that in so many ways, achieving three gold records along the way. It’s grown to be a huge part of our lives but like the saying goes all good things must end and we’ve come to the end of the line. We’ve had many curveballs thrown at us over the last fifteen years, some we’ve managed to avoid and others that quite nearly derailed us but we’ve always said to each other that when it’s time for this to end then we end it on our own terms, no one else’s. So there we go, one chapter closes and another opens and life goes on.

We want to thank all our families and friends, all the past members of the band and those who’ve helped us along the way. Let us not forget all the amazing bands and musicians we’ve had the honour of sharing stages with over the years. Finally, much love to the fans who have bought our records, bought the tickets and who come out to sing, scream and dance along with us.

Much love to you all.

The End.

FFAF x"

While fans will no doubt be devastated by the news, they will take some solace in the fact that the band have announced that they'll be heading out on the road for a number of farewell shows next February, entitled The Last Chance To Dance tour, which will include a stop in Australia. 

After touring our shores just recently this past April, the boys will return to perform two shows each in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Funeral's first show in each city will see them perform their 2005 record Hours in full, while the second night's set list will be made up of their 2003 debut album, Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation. 

The shows kick off at Brisbane's The Brightside on 11-12 February, followed by headline shows at Oxford Art Factory in Sydney on 13-14 February and finally in Melbourne at the Richmond Central Club on 16-17 February. 

Double show passes will be available for each city and tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday 18 September. 

For more details on the tour, head to theGuide.