Black Country, New Road vocalist Isaac Wood announces departure from the band
nme.comBlack Country, New Road have announced that frontman Isaac Wood has left the band with immediate effect.The band, whose second album ‘Ants From Up There’ is due out this week (February 4), will continue as a six-piece, but their upcoming shows are cancelled.
The news comes after the band postponed a UK and Irish tour late last year due to illness.In a message shared by Black Country, New Road on behalf of Wood, the vocalist said: “I have bad news which is that I have been feeling sad and afraid too.
And I have tried to make this not true but it is the kind of sad and afraid feeling that makes it hard to play guitar and sing at the same time.“Together we have been writing songs and then performing them, which at times has been an incredible doing, but more now everything happens that I am feeling not so great and it means from now I won’t be a member of the group anymore.Wood added: “To be clear: this is completely in spite of six of the greatest people I know, who were and are wonderful in a sparkling way.
If you are reading this maybe you would have seen some of that. It has been a great pleasure and I would like to say the words ‘Thank You’ to everyone.”We have some news to share concerning the future of the band.
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