{"id":95136,"date":"2023-12-04T19:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=95136"},"modified":"2023-12-04T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T19:17:15","slug":"matthew-davies-kreye-leaves-funeral-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/matthew-davies-kreye-leaves-funeral-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Davies-Kreye Leaves Funeral For A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funeral For A Friend <\/strong>has announced that lead vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye<\/strong> has left the band.<\/p>\n

In a message posted on Facebook<\/a>, the band said Davies-Kreye had decided to “move on to pastures new.” However, this isn’t the end of Funeral For A Friend<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The remaining members Kris Coombs-Roberts (guitar), Darren Smith (guitar), Ryan Richards (drums), Gavin Burrough (guitar), Richard Bouche (bass) have plans to continue, and have announced\u00a0Holding Absence<\/strong>‘s Lucas Woodland will be on vocal duties when\u00a0Funeral For A Friend<\/strong> play next May’s\u00a0Slam Dunk Festival<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a separate message, Matthew Davies-Kreye<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>explained his “life has moved on in so many ways since” the band’s initial split in 2016.<\/p>\n

Funeral For A Friend<\/strong> reunited in 2019 for a series of handful shows to honour their friend and long time fan Stuart Brothers. It saw former guitarist Darran Smith and drummer\/screamer Ryan Richards. This line-up has since continued to tour, recently celebrating 20 years of ‘Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation’\u00a0<\/em>in October.<\/p>\n

Matthew Davies-Kreye was one of the band’s two original vocalists, joining Matthew Evans and founding drummer Johnny Phillips and bassist Andi Morris, in 2001. However, by the time Funeral For A Friend<\/strong> released their debut full-length, ‘Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation’,<\/em> two years later, the line-up consisted of Davies-Krey, Richards, Smith, Coombs-Roberts, and bassist Gareth Davies,.<\/p>\n

Message from Funeral For A Friend<\/h2>\n

Hey folks,<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s with a heavy heart that we announce that after 20+ years, our singer and brother Matthew Davies-Kreye has decided to move on to pastures new going forward, and leaves with all our love, respect and gratitude.<\/em><\/p>\n

While Matt moves on, the rest of us have come out of our recent \u201920 Years Casually Dressed\u2019 anniversary tour with a renewed spark and desire to create new music together, for the first time in this lineup for many years. We\u2019ll keep you updated on that in due course, but suffice it to say that we wouldn\u2019t be entertaining new music if we didn\u2019t feel the material we\u2019re currently writing would hold up to the legacy of what we created back in the day. We hope you agree with us on that, and look forward to sharing with you next year.<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as Slam Dunk Festival next May, we\u2019re very pleased to share that we\u2019ll be joined on vocals for those shows by our excellent Welsh brother Lucas Woodland, of the wonderful Holding Absence. We\u2019re honoured that he\u2019s lending us his immense talents for the weekend, and know that he\u2019ll do Matty proud.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re stoked for what will be an incredibly exciting and unique couple of performances that weekend. <\/em>
\nWe\u2019ll keep in touch with you all between now and then, but for now we\u2019ll sign off with a final word from Matt. Please join us in raising our fingers for one last salute.<\/em><\/p>\n

Message from Matthew Davies-Kreye:<\/h2>\n

“I never thought, after we called it a day back in 2016, that I would get the chance to revisit Funeral for a Friend let alone the way we did with Darran and Ryan back onboard.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given the emotionally challenging circumstances around us coming back together to play the benefit show for Big Stu in 2019, I was so happy to see just how much love there still was for our music. Fast forward a few years and coming out the other side of a global pandemic, we have completed two of the bands largest UK tours ever (thanks in no small part to the sheer love of our fans) which is pretty mind-blowing.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the joy, fun and success of the last two tours Kris, Darran, Ryan, Gavin and Rich are eager to play more shows and explore what the band can still do creatively and I\u2019m sure with what they have in mind their endeavours will push the band to new highs.<\/em><\/p>\n

For me though, this is a road that I can\u2019t walk down. I absolutely love everyone in FFAF, I love our fans and I loved these last shows we played but my life has moved on in so many ways since we first said goodbye back in 2016 that I can\u2019t see myself being in an active band again.<\/em><\/p>\n

So here we are, I wish Kris, Darran, Ryan, Gav and Rich all the luck and success in the world and I know they\u2019ll be doing an incredible job and giving it everything they\u2019ve got as always. To all of you, I can\u2019t thank you enough for your support over the years and I can\u2019t wait to hear you all singing along to the bands songs for many more years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

Take care of each other and, as always, much love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt x\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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