Folly Calls It Quits

I hate being the bearer of bad news, but here it is. New Jersey Ska/Metalheads Folly have announced that they will be turning in their instruments in order to move on with their lives. The guys in Folly were some of the most genuine and overall nice guy I had the chance to meet as a music journalist. They always played for the crowd and nothing more, Whether it was having fans literally 5 inches from the mic or hanging out after a show at their merch table, Folly was always the most personable band to see live and they never disappointed.

This is from their MySpace:
"After a little more that a decade, we’ve decided to formally resign from the music industry. Whereas obviously we would like to have an impossibly absurd reason or scenario causing the end of this run, say “Anthony moving to Lebanon to competitively knit table cloths” or “Arben pursuing his lust for bartering lion pelts and hyena hides…” We simply just want to move on with our lives for a variety of personal reasons. It’s supposedly a very cliché reason for a band to break up, to go these ‘separate ways.’ Yet, it is as definitive and undesigning as the message in said Journey song: Someday love will find us, break these chains that bind us! Sadly, this band is no longer our raison d'être. We have other avenues to venture… other pages to turn.

Luckily, we’re all on the same page with this, and it has become a completely mutual decision to break these chains. It’s also mutually intricate for us to imagine our lives without Folly. It’s safe to say that this band has created a difficult dichotomy from which pulls us apart; there’s the alter-ego us and the self-actualized us. Both exist interdependently and cohabitate when needed, and yet they search for their own identity apart from one another. The inevitability of conclusion is tangible now, but it hadn’t been for so long. We’ve been playing together since high school, developing socially and spiritually throughout our adolescence into young adult-hood with the band as a consistent uniting factor. We created self through each other’s actions, emotions, and knowledge. In essence, Folly is as much a part of us as we are a part of it."

In a bright part of a bad news post, they have announced that they will play a few final shows before officially ending the band and Connecticut should be one of the stops due to their love of playing here. I know I can't fucking wait.