Sydney’s Talons Call It A Day
News posted Thursday, May 27 2010 at 11:00 AM.
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After four years as “the most desirable and dazzling band in Sydney” (their words), Talons have decided to call it a day. The band confirmed the news via a statement sent to M+N today (May 27).
“This is what is known as an ‘amicable’ split and the love the three of us share is unshakable and permanent,” the statement read. “We would like to apologise to all of our eight fans and rejoice in the fact that we met the best people in the entire world as a result of being in this band. There are many people to thank who helped us tirelessly along the way, I'm sure these people know who they are, and I'm also sure we kiss you often. We also encourage you to buy our album as it's now a priceless collectors item, which is sure to be worth many million space tokens in the years to come.”
Said self-titled album was released last year through Sydney imprint Rice Is Nice (SPOD, Richard In Your Mind, Seja). It followed 2007 EP Ducats. Read an interview with the band here.
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Proud to be among those eight fans. RIP Talons.
yeah, i don't understand why more people didn't love these guys. they pressed various of my buttons and that album is excellent. glad i caught them live once before they disappeared.
a confirmation doesn't make it any better.
boo
weeps
heh, do you reckon the other 5 fans are gonna check in here?
i hope so
priceless collectors item
i never head the EP, is it any good? can you still get it anywhere?
Bit of a shame, great friendly guys. Hope they go on to do good things, I know one has an electro thing going on.
i knew missing these guys earlier this year, or was it late last year, was a bad idea. hmmm.
Great band, sad news. I haven't seen them for a few months now. Gotta be a record.
What a bunch of awesome cunts.
Sucks. Glad to say i saw them a whole bunch of times. Would also like to get my hands on the EP
Oh shitballs
As I said elsewhere, it's a huge shame. At least they got an album out before they went under.
Side project from Christian coming soon, allegedly. I hear word of SPOD having a hand in it, but this is all second hand.
Brilliant press statement! Good band, I haven't seen them in a fair while though, they were playing every week for a while it seemed.
SAD FACE.
ah matt i remember those days circa early 2008 - every weekend go out, watch Talons support some other band and blow them offstage...
attn: all my favourite sydney bands - STOP BREAKING UP. Ohana, Ghosts Of Television, Bare Arms, now Talons... jeez.
i never got the appeal frankly. same old shit shouty singing made them sound like every other shit shouty sydney band. one of the members had a superhot girlfriend. another reason to hate.
clearly you never heard them do their cover of 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys. Christian's voice was made for that shit
Bare arms haven't broken up have they? That would suck indeed.
Yep, a couple of months ago Liam.
I have to admit charles that my interest in them waned the last year or two, maybe because the whole shouty singing thing got old pretty quick, but they had their moments, I guess Die Die Die are still keeping the flame alight.
i liked the singing well enough, but it was the songs that really whacked my bonobo - construction-wise especially - also appreciated the transgressively good production values on the LP
Great band, top folk, RIP Talons :(
Bare Arms have broken up and it does indeed suck.