Dance Gavin Dance Will Nonetheless Embark on Tour After Loss of life of Bassist Tim Feerick

Dance Gavin Dance stated on Monday (April 18) that they’d transfer ahead with their deliberate Swanfest 2022 music pageant this month, and ensuing U.S. tour this spring, whereas mourning the lack of their longtime bassist, Tim Feerick, who died final week.

The dying has made for the “most difficult time in Dance Gavin Dance’s historical past,” the band acknowledged. “On Thursday, April 14th, we discovered that we had misplaced Tim.”

They continued, “Whereas he was the bassist within the band, he was additionally out brother and finest pal. Shedding him is devastating. We have been getting ready to satisfy up this previous weekend in Sacramento for a photoshoot after which rehearse this week forward of Swanfest and the next tour, after we heard the devastating information.”

Dance Gavin Dance added, “After the preliminary shock and unhappiness, it wasn’t lengthy after that we have been confronted with some difficult choices concerning the instant future and our upcoming plans. After many inner discussions with our staff and, most significantly, Tim’s household, we have now determined to carry out this 12 months’s Swanfest and do the next tour in honor and dedication to Tim. We may even transfer forward with the announcement of our forthcoming album, later this week.”

Becoming a member of Dance Gavin Dance for the one-day Swanfest in Sacramento, Calif., on April 23 will likely be Animals as Leaders, Knocked Free, Actions and plenty of, many different bands. Their U.S. tour with Memphis Could Hearth and Volumes begins instantly thereafter.

Final week, the California-based post-hardcore outfit shocked their followers and followers after they revealed in a separate assertion, “We’re completely devastated to share the information that our pal and bass participant, Tim Feerick, handed away final evening.”

In response to an outpouring of fan help, Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Tilian Pearson replied, “I admire everybody who has reached out to me, a lot. It really actually helps. The ache is insufferable but it surely will get higher when somebody needs to share it.” Dance Gavin Dance didn’t provide Feerick’s reason behind dying.

Feerick, who performs bass on Dance Gavin Dance’s newest album, Afterburner, had maintained membership within the group for the previous decade after becoming a member of in 2009 however leaving the next 12 months. He returned in 2012, supplanting bassist Eric Lodge. Loudwire sends condolences to Feerick’s household, pals and followers.

Dance Gavin Dance, Memphis Could Hearth, Volumes + Moon Tooth Spring 2022 U.S. Dates

April 23 – Sacramento, Calif. @ Swanfest
April 26 – Spokane, Wash. @ Knitting Manufacturing unit
April 27 – Boise, Idaho @ Revolution
April 29 – Wichita, Kan. @ Cotillion
April 30 – Omaha, Neb. @ The Admiral
Could 1 – Des Moines, Iowa @ Val Air
Could 3 – Ft Wayne, Ind. @ Pierre’s
Could 4 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Agora
Could 6 – Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Intersection
Could 7 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Eagles Ballroom
Could 9 – Rochester, N.Y. @ Important Avenue Armory
Could 10 – Albany, N.Y. @ Empire Reside
Could 11 – Hartford, Ct. @ Webster Theater
Could 13 – Richmond, Va. @ The Nationwide
Could 14 – Raleigh, N.C. @ The Ritz
Could 15 – Columbia, S.C. @ The Senate
Could 17 – Ponte Vedra, Fla. @ Live performance Corridor
Could 19 – Knoxville, Tenn. @ Knoxville Auditorium
Could 20 – Birmingham, Ala. @ Sloss Furnaces