Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel updated fans on what’s been going on with the band and why they’ve had to cancel shows these past few months. Tom also mentions that they’ve left Sire/Warner Records after 5 years. The band will also have a new drummer in Jay Weinberg, replacing George Rebelo. Tom writes,
“An apology is long over due, to everyone who bought tickets to come out and see us at any of the tour dates we had to cancel this past October and November, we’re sorry. Canceling tour dates is the last thing that we ever want to do, especially when the dates have us going to some of our favorite places in the world, but this past October a culmination of circumstances were engulfing us and we had to take some time off from touring to go home and sort things out.
On a related note, after almost a five year relationship we are leaving Sire/Warner. We have nothing but gratitude towards all the people we worked with at the label and feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to make the records we made while with the label.
We’ll be getting back out on the road starting with a handful of radio station festival shows early this December. Our friend Jay Weinberg will be sitting behind the drum kit for us, which we’re very excited about. In January we’re going to be heading out with Fences and Cheap Girls for a couple weeks before joining the Dropkick Murphy’s in their month long celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Specifics about all the shows should be up on the website shortly if they aren’t already. At some point this new year we also hope to reschedule the Australia, Europe and the U.K. canceled tour dates.
Again, our sincerest apologies to all our fans for the cancellations.”
Against Me! released their latest album, White Crosses, last June on Sire Records.
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