These Are End Times
All things must come to an an end. The Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the world would end in a final day of wrath in 1914. When sadly that failed to happen, they predicted another Armageddon in 1975. Here in the UK, 1975 passed without incident – Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party and Jim’ll Fix It aired for the first time on TV.
So, when These Are End Times announced they would be splitting up after their final show on 27 February 2015, many people hoped that this too would fail to materialise. Perhaps, at the end of the show, the band would still exist, looking embarrassed and ashamed, like the people who thought the world would end in 2012 at the end of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.
Alas, the portents were true and this was indeed the end. But they pulled out the stops and mustered all eight members for a final packed-out live show, ably supported by rising stars of the antigen roster, SuperGlu and Jack Rundlell, plus Bury’s finest, Horse Party.
If you’re curious about the split and quick enough, Martyn Peck and Andrews Laws talked about it on BBC Suffolk Introducing (podcast no longer available):
In complete defiance of commercial good sense, we will be releasing the second album by These Are End Times later this year.
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