THE SLAIVER ARE DEAD - statement

Last saturday i left the band, the Slaiver are dead. We decided to play in Turin anyway in order to be correct with the people there but we stopped all the things going.

It's a tough issue to face but i feel like explain everything the best i can because i think you all deserve it.

I don't have the motivation i was used to until 6 months ago or so, doing things for the band became just really tiring, and it has never been this way before, nerver so clear, not even in other really bad moments, not even like when, back in 2005, i almost left the whole music thing.

So i crushed onto myself to find proper motivations and discourage myself to leave the band, and, beside all the momentaneous thoughts that came out, i just dig a hole in between me and the guys. In realised we were both stuck in this shit, they weren't able to keep playing as they wanted and i was stuck in between the recent past and a future i figured different. Anyway, those were only thoughts as any human being could have, i only reached the point of everything thinking in a total rational way, that i dont want to do things partially, cutting, reshaping, not this band.

We have never been a business oreinted band, money grubbing, we never cared that much on number of copies sold, marketing, cool magazines, tvs wannabes, videoclips, sponsors, endorsing, products, ass licking and trendy crews and we never cared on introducing ourselves to the music elite and godfathers, that was just not for 4 guys like us. The Slaiver have been trough the years our main creative outlet, a ground of knowledge, source of pure fun, and somehow our "religion", our place in the world, our voice in. We basically spent the 90% of our free time working on this, adjusting anything else to the band.

Disowning this way of living but wishing to stay true, honest, real, created an inner confilct, giving birth to an untrue situation impossible to carry on. I take this decison today in order to giving up the thing while is still alive, worthy, deserving, to avoid the sad possibility to see it dying day by day or to call it quits in even more crucial points.

During the last few months we received some really interesting proposals for the next records, and i don't want to go ahead with this carrying doubts and giving a partial commitment thinking if /how terminate the band itself.

From an human point of view this is for me a great loss, a painful goodbye, and aside the feeling of being honest and true i can tell you i didn't feel any better or relieved, but this is a decision i did take on my own and i'll go on.

I want to Thank Andrea cause we've been playing together since 1994 and never stopped until now, Fabio and Paolo because it's only with them that the band started properly back in 2004.

I thank the guys because they have been an awesome company in fun, i have a lot of wonderful memories.

We've been lucky finding each other. I can't barely imagine myself without stepping in the van and sit on the right side backseat that i never left (to avoid bad luck), i hope i'll get the chance to step in again sometimes, running on highways, saying bad jokes, waking up again after crazy nights, and arrive to the next club on the right time.

I feel like write down some names of people i want to shout "thank you", hope i wont forget anybody, that would be bad:

Andrea, Fabio, Paolo, Caterina, Francesca, Mastello, Machno, Dano, Lo Spesso, Risko, Andrea Tallone, everyone @ Nuvolari, Nicolas e the guys in Fuh, Cinema Vekkio, Gabbo, Chris @ DVI e gli Helvete, Ale e Vibratacore, Manu @ Autobahn, Ale Brun, Fabio e Ale @ Ratatoj, Fabio for recording us and being our sound tech, Frank Alloa, Giulio Favero, tutti i RADIO RIOT RIGHT NOW, Aste, Giulio The Bastard, El Paso squat at the end of '90s – early 2000, Jean Pierre – Liege, Igor – Amsrerdam, Brainbad, Mettus, Luca Benedet, Fabio e Escape from Today, NOINFO, i already feel like i forgot someone. And then the names of some bands i really love: Fuh, Radio Riot Right Now, Treehorn, Io Monade Stanca, To Kill, Cani Sciorri, surely i forgot someone again, but anyway, Cuneo rocks.

I want to thank all the people who wrote us during the last days while the bad news was already running, it'a a little heartbreaking but at least i can say that we really gave something wich has been reached, we never spoke out to the masses, we tried to leave some emotions to the people, and i'm happy we accomplished.

I have nothing more to say, so i'll just stop here.

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Love each other so much, see you around.

Enrico