We Dance to Remember…
Since its formation in 1990,THE LAST DANCE has endured
all manner of challenges. Life, growth, upheaval, adventure...even death. In
the past few years, three of the four members have relocated to cities around
the globe. They have faced an always changing music business, evolving musical muses
and passions, along with periods of intense activity followed by periods of
hibernation.
Through it all, they have kept dancing.
From the days of sharing a house in Fountain
Valley, Ca, through the years of living in a van while touring, into a present
that finds the four members of the band living in different cities, perusing
their own muses…Rick, Jeff, Peter, and Tom have kept the dance going…if only to
remember those who danced along with them.
Through it all, they have continued to
create, perform and grow.
And now they are ready to dance again, with
your help.
WHY NOW?
At the end of the last album/tour cycle in
2008, THE LAST DANCE seemed to be at the end of the road. Rick got married and
moved to England. Jeff moved to Virginia to pursue his dream of a career in
History. Peter settled in Tucson, AZ and began a career in film and TV
soundtrack composition. Tom held down the fort in Los Angeles, playing drums
with Death Rock legends 45 GRAVE and many others.
All was quiet in the TLD world.
Then the letter came.
In 2013, Jeff received a heartfelt letter
from a long time fan who was fighting to continue her own dance. She described
her battle with a terrible disease and how the music of TLD had been a great
comfort to her during her struggle to stay alive. She shared her hope of having new TLD songs to play while in
therapy. One of the new songs is
named after her...”KatSong”.
With that as a motivation, the band rallied
to complete some demos that they had been circulating for a few years. A
haunting single, “Mesmerize”, was released online in early 2014. The reaction
was so positive that the band drew up a plan to write, record, and release two
songs every few months until they had enough material for a full CD. A second
single entitled “Thoughtless” was released in August 2014.
The new music was proving to be more
aggressive, dark, introspective, and organic than ever before.
The new album, RUINS, is nearing completion.
12 new songs, all written and recorded without the members of the band ever
being in the same room! Each member working in his own time zone, using
recording studios in Los Angeles, home studios from Tucson to Northern
England...even recording vocals in parked cars! Sharing files and building
songs from the ground up…or sometimes the top down.
All of the new creativity coincides with the invitation
to perform at the 21st Anniversary of their favorite Goth festival…Whitby
Gothic Weekend in beautiful Northern England.
http://www.whitbygothweekend.co.uk/tickets.php
This will be the band’s fifthtime performing at WGW,
though Jeff’s solo band Autumn
Cannibals performed in 2010 with Tom on drums. This year’s event has an
INCREDIBLE LINEUP, including THE DAMNED, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE, THE CRUXSHADOWS,
BELLA MORTE, ABNEY PARK and many more.
It would seem that the stars have aligned for
a full fledged LAST DANCE CD AND UK TOUR for April 2015.
A
short tour is being booked as we speak, with shows in Manchester and London confirmed
so far.
THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN!
The priorities for the IndieGoGo Crowd
Funding Campaign are
to get Jeff, Peter, and Tom to England for the tour, as well as to manufacture
a small run of physical CDs to sell both during and after the tour.
The new music will be widely available in all
the usual places. RUINS will be represented in the territories of Germany,
France, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland by the record label Strobelight
Records. In the rest of the world, including the USA and UK, it is being
self-released by the band members.
By using IndieGoGo, there is now the chance
to presell the new record, plus offer our older recordings in digital form to
those who are missing them in their collections. There are also several fun
perks, including bonus tracks, drum and bass tracks for your own songs, full
access to the band members, and house concerts.
All of this is in the hope that in continuing
to dance TLD can help their friends and fans continue with their own
dancing…literally and figuratively.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT…NOW AND FOREVER
Rick - Jeff - Peter - Tom
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