Funeral For A Friend to play 'Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation' in it's entirety
Filed under: Featured by LiamNo Comments »
Funeral For A Friend will be playing 2 shows in July as an explosive
celebration of outgoing guitarist Darran Smith’s time with the band.
The welsh quintet intend to play breakthrough album ‘Casually Dressed
And Deep In Conversation’ in it’s entirety – plus a few extra little
surprises to keep the audiences on their toes.
As drummer Ryan Richards explains – ‘As sad as we are to see Darran
leave, these shows will be guaranteed to give him a great sendoff. We
played ‘Casually Dressed..’ in it’s entirety when we toured it back in
2003/4 and never really planned to do that again, but obviously with it
being Darran’s last shows it seems like a perfect opportunity to play
the record for the final time. Don’t miss it!’
And Darran himself chipped in with ‘I’m really excited about these
shows, it’s gonna be great playing the whole of ‘Casually Dressed…’
plus they’re gonna be some of my last shows with Funeral & I’ll be
goin’
out with a bang!’
Darren is leaving the band after this years’s Sonisphere Festival to
concentrate on family life, while FFAF are reshuffling the ranks in
time
for the release of album #5. Current bassist Gavin Burroughs is moving
to guitar, whilst Ex-Hondo Maclean/The Future bassist Richard Boucher
has joined on four string.
The shows in July, along with Darran’s final show at this year’s
Sonisphere Festival, promise to be absolutely spectacular, and a real
treat for fans of these stalwarts of the UK music scene.
Thu 22 Jul: Cardiff, University
Fri 23 Jul: London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Hot newcomers Young Guns will be supporting Funeral at both these shows
but all other details of the evening are being kept under wraps for
now.