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Status Quo to hang up electric guitars
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 4 February 2016
Status Quo are hanging up their electric guitars after one final tour, which will finish in December this year. From 2017 onwards there will only be acoustic shows, which can be a bit more laid back for the old timers, see.
“We’ve talked about it for some time and have decided that it’s time for us to hang up the electrics”, frontman Francis Rossi said earlier this week. “It’s getting harder and harder for us to play those shows. It’s 30 years since we last said we were stopping but this is a final decision. It doesn’t mean we won’t do other things, perhaps the odd special, but we’re agreed that the moment has come. There’s more to come from us in the years ahead, but we won’t tour the electric set ever again”.
Rick Parfitt adds: “We always thought we’d see a red light when it was time to stop. The show hurts now, physically. It’s hard to maintain that level of energy and without that it’s not really a Quo show. So we don’t feel we should continue. This is definitely the end of our lives on the road with the electric set, life won’t be the same for us – or many of the fans – but we can’t go on at this pace any more”.
‘The Last Night Of The Electrics Tour’ will run from October to December this year, with dates to be announced later this month.
Here’s footage of a Quo acoustic show to give you an idea of what the future holds:
