Evan Dando, now sober aside from LSD, announces release date for memoir and teases new Lemonheads album

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Evan Dando has revealed that he is now sober aside from LSD, while confirming the release date for his upcoming memoir and teasing new music from The Lemonheads.The soloist and Lemonheads frontman is due to publish his delayed book Rumours Of My Demise on May 1, having first announced the project in 2020.

Pre-order it here via Blackwell’s.A new interview with Dando in The Independent noted the release date, with the musician also speaking about being clean of street drugs for the past two years.

Dando, 57, credited this new lifestyle to moving to Brazil and getting engaged.However, he claimed that he doesn’t consider acid to be in the same league as other illegal drugs. “I think acid is OK once in a blue moon,” Dando explained, revealing that he had dabbled in Polish LSD in Brazil.He even admitted to “scamming” doctors into prescribing him ADHD medications, despite him not having the neurodevelopmental disorder.Additionally, Dando confirmed that he has almost finished a new Lemonheads album called ‘Love Chant’. “It’s really psychedelic and heavy and then quiet, and it’s all originals,” he said of the record, which will follow on from 2019’s ‘Varshons 2’ – the Boston band’s 10th full-length effort.Looking ahead to the future, Dando explained: “I know that I’m a good person, and whatever’s going to happen to me is OK.

I’m, like, really chill.”Elsewhere in the article, it was said that the musician had been using serious drugs since before The Lemonheads began in 1986.“I was using as much as I could find,” Dando recalled.