As expected, Wolfmother issued a statement yesterday telling us that bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett have left the band. Frontman Andrew Stockdale will now seek out replacements and begin work on the next Wolfmother album.
The band blamed "longstanding frictions" for the split. Although they had begun work on new songs, Ross announced that he was leaving the band, due to "irreconcilable personal and musical differences" after their headline show at Australian festival Splendour In The Grass on Sunday. Heskett then decided to hand in his notice, too. The pair will now form a new band together, for which they have apparently been writing songs for some time.