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sailorstkwrning) wrote2011-05-07 03:52 pm
sailorstkwrning) wrote2011-05-07 03:52 pm
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The Like: compiling for the record
There have been some rumors floating around that they've gone kersplitsky. I'm assembling data here pretty much just as data points, and to try and separate provable items from speculation.
Timeline:
March 29: JJAMZ (Z's side project) show in LA.
April 8: Raw Geronimo, Laena's side project, plays their first real show in LA.
April 13: Their last tweet, about being in a Lil Depressed Boy comic.
April 15: Notice that they will not be Maroon 5's support band in Japan posted to Japanese ticketing website.
April 22: Second Raw Geronimo show in LA.
May 3: I see the first "R.I.P. The Like" comment on Tumblr, at which time I check their MySpace, and find their show calendar is suddenly empty. There's no comment from them there, or on FB, when I checked that next. There are a few people rumbling about a festival that is allegedly telling people they (the band) have split up.
May 4: Some Googling reveals they've been neatly edited out of both the line-up AND the previously released announcement for the Wireless Festival in London in July, but there's no "The Like have dropped out" comment from the organizers. As of today (5/7) The Like is still on the line-up for the Cornbury festival, which was supposed to be that same weekend, also in England, and not far away.
May 6: More FB rumbling, this time noting some of the facts above, and also that their website (run by their UK on-line pr people) has vanished. I checked, and it has, and they are also not on the posted client list for either the US or UK web-based PR or their US or UK booking agents. They ARE still listed as a client by their management (BigLife), both of their print PR people, and their label, though in the latter three cases, the information on the website(s) is only current to last fall and/or last summer.
Synthesis: Something is going on here. They might have pulled out of Japan because of earthquake-related issues, but . . . Maroon 5 is still going. Other things could easily be ascribed to careless editing of websites on the part of other people. The side projects seem to be thriving, but not so much that they'd get in the way of regular band stuff, as far as I can tell.
Dept. of Wholly Unsubstantiated Rumors
I did also see a couple of comments about an article allegedly appearing in the March 2011 issue of Kerrang! wherein Ryan Ross said he and Z were expecting. So far, when pressed for proof, Anons have not come though. Still, I checked the Kerrang! website for the issue for that month, and saw no interviews with Ryan Ross. (Also, it just seems sort of ridiculous on its face - Kerrang seems like such a random choice of outlet for that kind of announcement, in the middle of his total media-related radio silence of the last couple of months.)
Timeline:
March 29: JJAMZ (Z's side project) show in LA.
April 8: Raw Geronimo, Laena's side project, plays their first real show in LA.
April 13: Their last tweet, about being in a Lil Depressed Boy comic.
April 15: Notice that they will not be Maroon 5's support band in Japan posted to Japanese ticketing website.
April 22: Second Raw Geronimo show in LA.
May 3: I see the first "R.I.P. The Like" comment on Tumblr, at which time I check their MySpace, and find their show calendar is suddenly empty. There's no comment from them there, or on FB, when I checked that next. There are a few people rumbling about a festival that is allegedly telling people they (the band) have split up.
May 4: Some Googling reveals they've been neatly edited out of both the line-up AND the previously released announcement for the Wireless Festival in London in July, but there's no "The Like have dropped out" comment from the organizers. As of today (5/7) The Like is still on the line-up for the Cornbury festival, which was supposed to be that same weekend, also in England, and not far away.
May 6: More FB rumbling, this time noting some of the facts above, and also that their website (run by their UK on-line pr people) has vanished. I checked, and it has, and they are also not on the posted client list for either the US or UK web-based PR or their US or UK booking agents. They ARE still listed as a client by their management (BigLife), both of their print PR people, and their label, though in the latter three cases, the information on the website(s) is only current to last fall and/or last summer.
Synthesis: Something is going on here. They might have pulled out of Japan because of earthquake-related issues, but . . . Maroon 5 is still going. Other things could easily be ascribed to careless editing of websites on the part of other people. The side projects seem to be thriving, but not so much that they'd get in the way of regular band stuff, as far as I can tell.
Dept. of Wholly Unsubstantiated Rumors
I did also see a couple of comments about an article allegedly appearing in the March 2011 issue of Kerrang! wherein Ryan Ross said he and Z were expecting. So far, when pressed for proof, Anons have not come though. Still, I checked the Kerrang! website for the issue for that month, and saw no interviews with Ryan Ross. (Also, it just seems sort of ridiculous on its face - Kerrang seems like such a random choice of outlet for that kind of announcement, in the middle of his total media-related radio silence of the last couple of months.)