On 12 April 2010, the band announced they were to split up after a series of four farewell shows, with their final gig in Paris on 11 June 2010.
The tracking of the album was completed on April 9
On 7 April 2010, Sick Puppies released an acoustic EP titled Live & Unplugged , featuring three tracks from their Tri-Polar album and one B-Side from that album. The versions of “Odd One”, “So What I Lied”, and “The Pretender” were recorded in a studio, while “You’re Going Down” was…
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in the USA / Canada on 6 April
in the UK on 5 April
In April 2010, Geffen and Wilson entered the studio to begin writing the follow-up to Blackfield II .
In an April 2010 interview with MyMag, Christian stated that the album’s release date is “looking like late July or early August” 2010.
In April 2010, Gotoh posted an entry into his diary stating that the band’s 6th full-length album would be released in June 2010 with the title ” Magic Disk ” ( マジックディスク , Majikkudisuku ) .
In April 2010, Blur released their first new recording since 2003, ” Fool’s Day “, for the Record Store Day event, as a vinyl record limited to 1000 copies; it was later made available as a free download on their website.
In another Myspace post on December 28, 2009, Alexakis announced that former Everclear guitarist Davey French had returned, and Johnny Hawthorn was exiting the band. In the same blog, Alexakis said the band would be recording the next album in March and April 2010, for a 2011 release.