Emo indie rock fans of the world reach for your hankies; supporters of underachieveing groups of 20-something wimps hush your gasps; fanciers of unprofessional, weedy, irrelvant guitar bands raise your feeble fists to the skies and give the heavens a non-commital grunt of semi-anguish; the rumours are true:

SYS ist tot

(that's german for "SYS is dead")

(SYS being our band, sir yes sir)

yes, were packing it in. we've had some good times:

maida vale
sowerby bridge pizza
marc riley
some concerts

and some frustrating, underwhelming, and/or bullshit times:

stolen belongings
melted masters
most other parts

we play our last show THIS WEDNESDAY at manchester's SOUP KITCHEN. it's a free show; eastenders isn't on on wednesdays; it's warm in soup kitchen. fill an egg cup with tears and receive a complimentary free pin badge; marvel at our illustrious 5-yr back catalogue (one tape and one cd and one cdr), brought together in one place for the first (and last) time in a touching tribute to 'commerce'. some of our friends (and yours?) will be playing too, good ones (look at our twitter, or posters around manchester if you live there, for more 'details'). we will play the cream of our impressive catalogue, including (but not limited to):

SEX ON FIRE (aka hit 3)
I PREDICT A RIOT (aka not excited)
PRETTY FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY) (aka have i hell)

...and many more (some with the drum machine. do you remember the drum machine? that was WILD!). it will be fun, if you've ever liked us, please do come and say hi (bye). whilst this journey comes to an end, the dream (get signed to DGC! play at lollapalooza in 1994! etc) lives on and perhaps you'll hear something new from us (a different us) in 2K11?

lots of love,

Joseph, Daniel and Samuel x hxc x

23 November 2010 (a.k.a. the day the music died)