So apparently Boy Kill Boy split-up a couple weeks ago and I just never saw a story on it anywhere. The band said in a myspace bulletin:
IN SHORT WE'VE SPLIT UP.
Basically like many other bands we kinda got sucked into some sort of decision made by 'the powers that be' that guitar bands are 'over'. The label got shakey and decided to start chasing whatever they're told is gonna be the next big thing and as a result, we got dropped, just a month after the record was released.
We obviously were completely fucking broken about it. At the time being we all know the industry is in a bit of a state, to say the least, so really everything is being run by a few people. Until 'the professional music industry business people' work out how to sell their artists, really all you can do is just gig your ass off and reach as many people as possible, and that's just what we did. But even still bit by bit, we could feel ourselves being buried alive. No matter how hard we tried to pull ourselves out, there was just another familiar face ready to throw another pile on.
Kinda odd that they posted a MySpace bulletin, but not a blog post or any mention on their dot com. Even the NME couldn't be bothered to write about the break-up of a band who topped their reader chart in '06. Anyway, it's a bummer for me as they were one of my favorite bands of the past few years. Both their albums were quite good and so hopefully this won't be the last we hear from the great singer-guitarist Chris Peck. I'll leave you with "Suzie", one of the finest singles of the past couple years:
