Hello everyone.
I would firstly like to say what a pleasure it has been to be
a part of this band and to perform in front of you all. The thought
that it meant something to anyone, that we provided part of the
soundtrack to anyone's life is a fine reward for years of work.
So why stop now?
There is not a simple answer to this. I have always used that
old artist cliché that it doesn't matter about charts
or sales or money and it could be said that my lack of willingness
to embrace this kind of success has been responsible for the fact
that we never gained the commercial recognition of which we felt
worthy. I have always had all the support I could have hoped for
from Glenn and Jo and Doug and have enjoyed the freedom to write
songs without anyone telling me how this should be done. I know
that I would have had the continued support and loyalty of the
easyworld family to take whatever direction I felt was right.
I think it just became difficult for me to justify leading people
down the roads I wanted when they would potentially be commercially/financially
unrewarding. It’s one thing for me to have these notions
of the suffering artist but quite another to tell others to join
in the fun. As I say, I know Glenn and Jo would have sat in any
gutter with me without complaint but I just couldn't keep asking
them to do that.
As for the future, I know that Jo Taylor is far more talented
that easyworld ever gave her opportunity to show and I am very
glad that she is doing her own thing. I have high hopes also for
Glenn's place in history beside Dave Grohl and the great Phil
Collins as drummers made good.
And me? I'm continuing to write songs and I hope to be able to
make records again soon and play some shows. I'll let you know
when I know.
So thanks again to everyone for the last few years. It has been
a special and unforgettable time and I hope you will enjoy our
future musical outings.
With love
Dav.
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Hello one and all.
It is said that all good things must to come to an end, this I
now believe to be true! That doesn't mean you have to like it
though.
The decision for easyworld to stop making music was not a band
one, Dav wanted out which didn't give myself or Jo a say in it
really... that's the truth. However, Dav hasn't been happy with
the 'Industry' for a while and hates the fact that the music business
is exactly that, a business. Anyway I'm not gonna dwell on that!
We don't all hate each other and who knows... maybe one day things
will be different! I wish Jo and Dav all the best for the future.
I'd like to say a massive thank you to all who have been involved
in and/or supported easyworld over the years. Thanks to my family
for always being there and helping me since the very start! Thanks
to you, to the easy-boarders on this site for keeping us alive
while others such as the media seemed to ignore us. To those who
never registered but lurked in the background and of course to
Paul (and Relly!) for making this site a reality. Thank you Doug
for all your hard work that you just don't get enough thanks for...
so you tell me anyway!!! LOL!
The easyworld journey has been the most enjoyable thing I've
ever been a part of and it is not something that I want to end,
though if this is the way it has to be then so be it. I'm not
bitter as the last seven years have been marvellous and I've met
so many new and wonderful people who I now consider to be great
friends.
This is not the end of my involvement in music. Jo and I have
a club night up and running now which is a lot of fun. Perrin
(my new band) is going to be a very exciting project involving
music, magic and film all thrown into one and hopefully coming
out as a spectacle never seen before ... that's the plan anyway!
So things are good.
In closing then, I hope you all continue to enjoy the music
that we have made in the past and I hope you will enjoy our future
projects also. It makes me so happy to think that we were able
to share our music, something which means so much to me, and that
it is now part of other people's lives forever. I feel very lucky
to have done this.
'Til we meet again guys,
Love ever,
Glenn.xxx
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The last few weeks have been so hard. The grim day that Dav
told us, followed by a drunken karaoke session together, a wedding
performance, and our final gigs at V. All that interspersed with
the time to think about what was, and what could've been. Two
weeks of abject misery, followed by the utter bravado of filling
life with other things, yes, including a new band, with new people,
to start all over again, seven years down the line.
I'm at the point where if I don't think about easyworld I am
really happy, enthused about the future and buoyant, I'm busier
than I ever have been. But when I do there's a hole. And never
before have I had so many people come up to me in the street to
tell me how well the band's doing, that we're destined for great
things and we're a fantastic live act. With every one I sink a
little.
Common sense tells me that this was the correct end point, we
were all hoping for different things, pulling in different directions
and were possibly about to be without label and having to start
again that way, only together. And how long could that last?
Thankyou so much to everyone who let us into their lives and
supported us so heartily, the music, and warmth of those who followed
it will be with me forever.
I'd like to thank Glenn for the smiling face and the fireworks,
and being a rock. Dav I would like to thank for being the most
and least sensible person I know, laying bare his music, and in
the death of the band, the liberation that is hard to swallow
now but will ultimately benefit all. Dav's got an old jumper that
is so comfy he won't throw it away, despite it being full of holes
and coming to pieces, it's all too easy to get like that with
other things.
Doug, and countless other people behind the scenes worked incredibly
hard to get us where we were, so thankyou also to all of you,
even when it wasn't remarked upon, it didn't go unnoticed.
I have without question had the best times of my life as a result
of being in easyworld. Experiences I wouldn't have believed if
you'd told me 10 years ago. There is so much to be thankful for,
and to look forward to, so with the same funny expression people
have at a funeral that is billed "A Celebration of Life",
thanks again to everyone, it was amazing, I hope everyone finds
the happiness they seek, and I'll see you around.
Jo xxx
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