Bollocks: Test Icicles split fo'real
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Love 'em or loathe them, London-based rap-rock-hip-pop, backing-track-whacking three-piece Test Icicles are certainly never boring. It's therefore a little saddening to hear that, after many a rumour, they're splitting for real.
Once they've cleared a series of dates in April, the band will call it absolute quits. Why? Oh come on: you thought it'd last? A statement was issued by their label, Domino, following Friday's cancellation of a Nine Black Alps support slot...
"The band have just come off a European tour and are exhausted from the constant pressures of touring, subsequently they have cancelled their show at the NME Awards and US tour.
"The band will play their UK tour in April. Details of a final single to be taken from the album to announced. There are currently no plans to make another album or tour beyond this."
Those final dates are as follows:
April
18 Glasgow Garage
19 Sunderland Manor Quay
20 Manchester Academy 2
21 Coventry Coliseum
22 London Astoria
DiS wishes the band all the best and secretly prays for an Intense Dudes reformation. A limited-edition Test Icicles single, 'Totally Re-f Ked', will be available on March 6th on 7" and 12" only (well, and as a download).
DiScuss: D'ya care? Do ya? Well, DO YA?
Test Icicles
fun and irritating in equal measure
while it lasted.
i never heard anything by them
true dat
Can't say
I'll shed any tears over that news.
Cool
Brevity is fine by me.
You know?
I like them, but if they wanna quit then fine - there'll be other bands with those members in for sure.
Blink! And you'd miss them
any friends out of London think its the name of a made up band
Still I'd kill to be that thin
Aye
More bands should make one album and split anyway - i mean intentionally, not in the 'wheres my demographic?' pop-idol/x-factor way.
Album was pretty good, too.
'Tis a shame
I thought the record was actually alright if taken with a pinch of salt.
They were fucking hilarious supporting Alkaline Trio...."Anyone here like Good Charlotte?"
OH WELL!
Rumours were going around that Dev was only in it to be famous and shit and his heart was never really in it. Looks like they'll be giving the Blood Brothers back their tunes now..
RIP
Its probably better to stop now than fade into oblivion like The Darkness, Electric 6, Goldie Lookin Chain etc
Exactly....
Better to burn out than fade away.
Still shit though.
oh
well.
Good
riddance
Shame
They were very amusing and had one or two genuine CHOONS
i thought
there album was damn good and i don't care what anyone says.
Doesn't
actually say that they've quit proper, just that they have no plans to do anything in the future.
Who knows, though their sound is very "now" if you get what I mean.
the myspace comments really are QUITE entertaining though
I couldn't care about the test icicles
but the article title is hilarious!
and begin..
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!
Could this be the end of ironic scene music?
I love the album
but it's difficult to care when they've split so soon. And I've still got the album afterall.
Dublin Date
any news on that much postponed dublin gig? supposed to be in april. i'm not holding my breath
Mmmm well
at least there is now Be Your Own Pet to fill the explosive-fun void
and they can play their instruments!
always a bonus
:D
well
You didn't have to be Nostradamus to see that one coming!
!
I find this genius, I don't really care whether it's a good or a bad thing, it's just genius.
.
It really is, isn't it?!
They're a decent band, but I much prefer the idea of them, and splitting up now is the icing on the cake.
If I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to them.
the
album is very good, and they were brilliant when I saw them at LSE in Nov. Sad to see them split.
not remotely bothered...
when all is said and done, no one will remember them. domino have their hands full pressing enough franz f and artic m records. hopefully great bands like archi bronson outfit will get a break this year...best bands i saw this week, archi bronson and howling bells
They were fuck awful
but their heart was inna right place - a rarity... sure, I'll miss 'em, why not, ay?
insane
dudes wasnt it? me too hopes for that!zx
R-I-P I-RON-E
Pretty unlikely. The Darkness are still around, although I much, much preferred Testicles' irony to theirs. Blearg.
ABO Original Broadcasting
Yeah, Archie Bronson Outfit definitely. Top notch band that.
Perhaps following the Depeche Mode example,
the rules for touring forever are:
1) DON'T SPEAK TO EACH OTHER PROPERLY VERY OFTEN
2) TAKE MORE SMACK
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