RIP: .BELVILLE

Damn. Jonny broke the bereaved broadcast to us that .belville, bummerishly, is now a broken band. Boo. From a post in the group’s MySpace blog, singer/guitarist Jay hands out thanks to all the members past and present, plus the folks who helped them get onto the stage (with an extra-big kudos for Rudyard’s Mike Simms). Ugooglelizing the band itself, he posits:

The sad news is that .belville as you know it is now dead. We never got to record even a third of the songs we had, which is now by in the hundreds. We just never had the money. The recordings were subject to this effect as well. We never got to nail down vocals, never got to do the songs we dreamt of doing, and alot of them are seriously bad ass. Some people really like Vie olin, not realizing that its not even closed to being finished, or that its an old song to begin with. The vision here was alot more than what it turned out to be. And for that i apologize to the waiting people, the people that had faith that we would somehow pull it off.

Jay and Jessica (bassist) have decided to change direction, and have been writing pieces with guitar and cello, perhaps carrying on with the .belville name, perhaps not. And in a sense, the slow crumble of a band that we we’re stoked on is not such a bad thing. As is the way in Houston, from one band there are now four, including The Mustn’ts, Audio in the Pregap and drummer Eric Costill’s solo stuff. Long division - crack and divide: it’s the way our scene goes – fresh ideas with clean hair. While we’re bleh on their parting ways, we’re glad their all still doing their own thing. Itchy.