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Funeral For A Friend to bow out with 2016 farewell tour

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 15 September 2015

Funeral For A Friend have announced that they will split next year, following a farewell tour that will close with two nights at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire in April.

Commenting on the decision to end the band after fifteen years, frontman Matthew Davies-Kreye says: “It’s the natural end. We’ve done everything we set out to do and way more than I could ever have hoped so I’m not upset that it’s run its course. We all felt that [recent album] ‘Chapter And Verse’ was a pretty decent full stop on an incredible fourteen and half years of making music together”.

The ‘Last Chance To Dance’ tour will see the band play two nights in each city they visit, performing their ‘Hours’ and ‘Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation’ albums in full.

“For me it seemed obvious to go out with both ‘Hours’ and ‘Casually Dressed’, I feel that both those records distil what Funeral is to a whole load of people more definitively than just piecing together a set from all the records we’ve made”, continues Davies-Kreye. “It seems to me that those are the records that matter most and ‘Hours’ to me is my proudest achievement in music with Funeral. I don’t know why but it fills me with an overwhelming sense of pride”.

Here are the full UK tour dates:

5 Apr: Cardiff, Y Plas
6 Apr: Cardiff, Y Plas
8 Apr: Manchester, The Ritz
9 Apr: Manchester, The Ritz
10 Apr: Glasgow, Garage
11 Apr: Glasgow, Garage
13 Apr: Birmingham, Institute
14 Apr: Birmingham, Institute
15 Apr: London, Shepherds Bush Empire
16 Apr: London, Shepherds Bush Empire