It is with some regret that we announce the departure of guitarist Jack Mackrill due to personal and musical differences. This was a hard decision made by the remaining four members, after a deep discussion following the most recent tour. We have no bad words to say about Jack, who has served the band memorably and solidly for just under 5 years, taking on a lot of the admin, networking and tour managing side of things as well as guitar duties and first and foremost we would like to thank him for all of this.

Sometimes in life we all have to make difficult decisions – and don’t let anybody try and tell you that this was an easy one to make. Far from it. However, we did feel that the 4th lineup had run its course, and the last thing that we wanted to do was to let things carry on as they were – and let things turn sour before acting upon it.  We also came to realise that FN as a 5-piece has never quite been the dream team that the core founding members have had in mind since day one. We did not spend any time discussing possible replacements for Jack as the idea of continuing as a 4-piece immediately looked feasible and exciting.

A lot of people will say “it won’t be the same without him”, and this is certainly undeniably true. It is the end of an era of FN, but it is also the start of an exciting new one, and we hope that you will join us on it, as well as following Jack on his future endeavours also.  We do sincerely wish him all the best in whatever he pursues and thank him for 5 awesome years. Thanks brother. x

Stay tuned and we look forward to updating you with the exciting developments to come in the near future.

Peace out.

FN x

ps this has also unfortunately meant the cancellation of the Ivy show in Sheerness next month. Apologies for this, and hopefully there will be a reschedule later in the year.

So we had quite a lot of people asking us to release You’re The Voice as a single, and your wish is our command.

29th November is the release date, and you will be able to get this from the Itunes store as well as other online digital retailers!

Also speaking of online and digital: Both of our V2 albums are now available for your listening pleasure on Spotify! Spotify users can link here to be linked directly! If you haven’t got spotify yet – why not? It’s awesome! Get to spotify.com and sort your life out!

That’s all for now, more news is coming so keep checking back! In the meantime keep spreading the word, sharing the video and sharing the love. x

http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/stream-forever-nevers-cover-of-boombastic

ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgReexLrx0

To celebrate this we are also offering an amazing deal for anyone coming to the shows on the tour where you can pick up the new EP along with the V2 editions of “Aporia” and “Forever Never” for the ridiculous price of fifteen pounds! Collect them at the shows on the tour! Go to the merch store to benefit on this offer! There’s only a limited number, so get in the PRONTO.

Nice one!

- Birmingham Academy 3, 24th October

- London Islington Academy 2, 5th November

Tickets are onsale NOW from seetickets, ticketweb etc

The full “I Cant Believe It’s not Metal EP” tracklisting is as follows (not in order):

“Still of The Night” (Whitesnake)
“Who is It?” (Michael Jackson)
“Future Love Paradise” (Seal)
“We Close Our Eyes” (Go West)
“You’re The Voice” (John Farnham)
“Boombastic” (Shaggy) featuring Benji Webbe of Skindred.

It has also been confirmed that “You’re The Voice” is to be the bands choice for it’s next video single, and details of this will be unveiled in due course.

Renny had this to say: “We wanted to do something to keep the momentum going between the self titled album and the 3rd album, and having already recorded Whitesnake and Seal with the last album over 18 months ago, it made sense to record a few more, and make an EP out of it! It was also great to be able to do a track with Benji as he is an absolute legend, and also a good friend after so much gigging and touring over the years! That’s definitely a highlight for us! The whole EP is hopefully going to be a lot of fun for everyone – there’s something there for everyone to enjoy I think!”

Mike Curtis at CDS Studios (Inme, Fei Comodo) who also mixed the self-titled album has been confirmed to mix once again.

The first string of tour dates have also been announced, with a 2nd lot to be added and confirmed in the next few days. Support on all OCTOBER dates also comes from Stoke rockers Sworn to Oath. The first dates announced are:

October 13th – Scarborough Vivaz
October 14th – Sheffield Corporation
October 15th – Leeds Cockpit 3
October 16th – Glasgow Ivory Blacks
October 18th – Aberdeen Tunnels
October 20th – Manchester Academy
October 21st – Derby The Old Bell
October 22nd – Bristol Fleece
October 25th – Exeter Cavern
October 28th – Cardiff Barfly
October 30th – Bucks Uni Alternator Halloween Special

MORE SHOWS TBC SHORTLY!!

Forever Never also appear on new EA game “All Points Bulletin”, with the first albums title track “Aporia” being on the metal playlist. Check the game out at www.apb.com for more details.

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Thanks – you can make it happen for us!! JUST DO IT!

We have a few thankyou’s to hand out too. The Skindred UK & Euro tour in Feb/March was hugely successful for us, and it was amazing to meet so many new people on the tour, as well as catching up with some of our loyal fans! Thanks to everyone who bought a tee shirt, or sang along, or even said hello – we had a great tour. Also thanks to the Skindred boys for a great time, and all the crew for making the 6 weeks run smoothly. Some of you hopefully caught the live review in Kerrang from the Birmingham show which got a thoroughly deserved 5K’s!

Since then, we’ve been out on the road for a few headline shows, and we just finished a few shows with Fozzy. It was great again to see our supporters out in force! I can tell you all that we are currently planning a headline tour for later in the year, which hopefully EVERYONE will be able to get to with relative ease! More on this when the dates are in. Keep checking back and we’ll let you know in due course.

We also have some news coming up with regards to some releases later in the year – again, we can’t reveal too much about this right this second, but very exciting stuff and we will let you know as soon as we can let you know!

That’s all for now, and I hopefully I will be updating this a lot more regularly – and sooner rather than later with some touring and release news! Thanks to everyone for being awesome so far in 2010! It’s been amazing!  Renny x

ps be sure to add our fb page at www.facebook.com/forevernever if you haven’t already!