Dance-punk four piece The Rapture have announced the departure of bassist, co-vocalist, sometime keyboardist and in our opinion the band’s second best dancer – Mattie Safer.
The band announced Safer’s departure via a recent post on their official website without citing the usual “creative differences”. Instead we can only speculate that the rift was caused by cowbell differences.
It’s not all doom and gloom however as the boys also revealed that “the people of the great continent of Australia will be some of the first to hear some of our new material live”. You can read the full post below…
To Our Friends, Fans and loved ones
July 14th, 2009
Dear Fans and friends,
I’ve been meaning to catch you up on what’ s been going on in Rapture world. First off, I’m sad to say that at the begining of April our buddy Mattie Safer decided to leave the band. We are sad to see him go but it seems it is the best for all of us. Since then Luke, Vito and I have been on a creative tear. We’ve been working out of our little Brooklyn make shift studio, writing, demoing and jamming. I’m pretty damn excited to share the fruits of our labor with you. But its still gonna be a minute before we hit the studio for real. On the other hand, I am very pleased to announce that the people of the great continent of Australia will be some of the first to hear some of our new material live, when we arrive late September for Parklife festival. In the meantime, keep an eye on this blog and another on your neighborhood dance party, who knows maybe we’ll be spinnin’.
Lotsa Love,
The Rapture
Despite being a phenomenal bass player we think Safer’s best work was in this faux-hater interview conducted last year. Enjoy.
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