Hi to all

this is Matt from CONFUSION IS NEXT or, as I should say, what *were* CONFUSION IS NEXT.
In October 2010 our drummer Bicio announced us his general unhappiness with his tenure in the band, talking about personal problems and music related stuff as reasons because of which he wanted to leave. On top of that, he was “tired of spending lots of money for everyone except for himself”, and was blaming my vocal style for the small attendance at shows.
This lead to a 3 months period during which we tried to meet his feelings – lending him money, talking about small changes to be done to the music we were working on.

Finding a new drummer and starting over was not an option: Lorenzo, the other founding member of CIN, said it would have been too much an hassle to start thing over again, as he too was discouraged by the state of the alt rock local music scene and low number of live gigs we played in the last months. Our bassist instead talked about changing musical footprint to the band, going towards a more of “spoken word kind of Sonic Youth song”. We all agreed that if the 3 months trial would have been unproductive, it was over.

In december, while the band was making near future plans, Bicio announced he was determined to leave. We played a gig on December 15 and split up, planning to meet again for a last 3 or 4 songs ep financed by me and Lorenzo only (as the other 2 have refused to pay for it) and one last concert, sometime in 2011.

To this very day the talk about this last session has nothing set up, we scheduled to be recording in May but it will not happen. I don’t know if this last EP will ever come out. Some of us have not met at all since our last gig.

So, it’s really sad to say, but our band is over. I hope I’ll write you soon about those 3 or 4 “lost” songs for the EP – it’s really good material we were working on for months – but I can’t really say what will happen.

I want to say thanks to every “internet fan” (and “non-internet fan”) that has downloaded – and to those who will download ‘em in the future – our self produced albums. I have always been convinced – and I am STILL convinced – that the power of netlabels it’s simply a new form of the DIY attitude that indie record labels had 25 years ago, and it’s really sad no one apart few are actually aware of this.

I will return soon with a new solo project, as Matt Confusion. It will be really different from CIN, but I hope you will take your time to enjoy it.
Spread the Spirit my friends,

Matt Confusion.