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Royal Trux disagree over whether or not they’ve split up again
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 5 March 2019
A little over a year ago, Royal Trux – Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema – announced that they had reformed and signed a new record deal with Fat Possum to release their first new album since 2000’s ‘Pound For Pound’. With that album, ‘White Stuff’, now out and tour dates imminent, Hagerty says he’s quit the band, won’t play upcoming tour dates, and hasn’t even heard the new record.
“I’m out of the band”, he tells The Guardian. “I’m not touring. She steamrollered right over me, man. I’m just doing this [interview] as a favour to Fat Possum. The album – I didn’t approve of it. I have no idea what it is. I’ve heard like ten seconds of one song. I’m out, man”.
Never the most stable of partnerships, it is true that Hagerty dropped out of recording sessions for the album, leaving Herrema to finish it without him. However, in a separate discussion she disputes that he’s not part of the band anymore.
“I don’t take him seriously at all at this point”, she says. “He’s done this on every tour. He always shows up, always does the tours. This is just more bullshit. But I’m not bothered by it because it’s nothing bad”.
So, who knows? US dates were already postponed earlier this year, purportedly because of issues surrounding an earlier arrest and legal issues for Herrera. Shows are now scheduled to begin in May, which I guess gives Hagerty a couple of months to change his mind.
Read the full Guardian interview in full here.
