Refused‘s future was in query after they appeared to have a “farewell” show lined up for this Spring in Sweden. Then Refused vocalist Dennis Lyxzén suffered a heart attack, the band backed out, and all was quiet. The excellent news is that Lyxzén is doing effectively lately! The unhealthy information is that come 2025, Refused are fucking lifeless (once more).
Refused has introduced their 2025 farewell tour of North America with Quicksand as help. Tickets are available here, dates are beneath, and you’ll learn drummer David Sandström‘s large rationalization of why Refused is finished beneath that.
3/21 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
3/23 Toronto, ON HISTORY
3/25 Chicago, IL Salt Shed
3/27 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
3/28 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Corridor
3/29 Del Mar, CA The Sound
3/30 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
4/1 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
4/2 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT Union Occasion Middle
4/4 Boise, ID Knitting Manufacturing unit
4/5 Seattle, WA The Showbox
4/7 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
4/8 Portland, OR Revolution Corridor
4/10 Sacramento, CA Ace Of Spades
“We had been supposed to do that in Might. Roll out our modest farewell run, beginning with the Rosendal Backyard Celebration in Stockholm after which doing a couple of exhibits right here and there earlier than calling it quits finish of yr. The rehearsals had been magnificent, the vibe was nice and two days earlier than the present we performed a secret present at Kulturhuset Femman in Uppsala. There have been no photos taken and it wasn’t filmed but it surely was a terrific present in entrance of perhaps 60 native scenesters. We frolicked afterwards, I had a couple of beers and me and Dennis, nonetheless vegan and principally straight edge, traded silly tales about bands we love. It was a advantageous night. Subsequent morning I get a name from Dennis‘ spouse and a few tumultuous hours later it is confirmed that he is had a coronary heart assault on the resort.
“We performed our first present in February 1992. That very same week George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin held a press convention at Camp David to declare that the chilly warfare was over. That is how way back it was. It was so way back that I am unable to fairly keep in mind who we had been that wintry Saturday once we piled right into a automobile and drove as much as Luleå to play 4 Gorilla Biscuits songs, a Shelter music, an AC/DC music and I believe 3 unique compositions to a crowd of 50- 60 blind drunk northerners. I had simply turned 17, had by no means travelled outdoors of Sweden and by the point the band broke up in 1998 we had performed over 500 exhibits throughout Europe and the US. To say that the band modified our lives could be a gross understatement, and to say that we bought to know one another in these seven years is as effectively. A band that excursions turns into like a household, particularly once you do it in a van, with maps, scrambling to discover a squat in Halberstadt the place you had been purported to have began taking part in an hour in the past. And household relations might be troublesome. So it was with us.
“That was partly why we wished to offer it one other shot in 2012. We had made an honest splash within the nineties and the breakup had been very sudden and chaotic, there have been emotions they usually weren’t aired out and the entire thing had been such a shitshow that it was virtually inevitable that we might get again on the horse sooner or later. We wished a do-over, to see what was nonetheless there, if something, and what might be product of it. There is a Neil Younger music known as ‘Buffalo Springfield Once more’ the place he sings:
“‘I might wish to see these guys once more and provides it a shot
‘Perhaps now we are able to present the world what we bought
‘However I might identical to to play for the enjoyable we had’
“And that was principally it. We gave it a number of pictures between 2012 and 2024. All of us have totally different takes on the way it went and what the legacy of the reformed band can be, however personally I felt we could not fairly agree on what we had been purported to do musically, and we had been nonetheless battling that when the pandemic hit. Kristofer felt that he’d performed what he wished to do and left the band in august of 2020 and though there was a delayed impact to the demise blow, a demise blow it was.
“So at first of this yr we began planning to have one final large hurrah, to make the tip of the band a enjoyable, beneficiant, indulgent affair. And that is the way it felt after the primary present, it is the perfect we have ever sounded and we had been actually having fun with ourselves, tossing in previous songs we have not performed for the reason that nineties and even a Misfits cowl. After which catastrophe struck. I visited Dennis within the hospital the day after he was admitted and true to kind he was not completely happy in regards to the hospital robe he was pressured to put on. Hooked as much as all these machines, unshaven with tousled hair, I swear the very first thing he mentioned was: (pointing to the robe) ‘I imply, this isn’t nice’. I suppose they do not allow you to put on fits or Unfavorable Method t-shirts within the hospital.
“So on to the excellent news: Dennis is doing nice. He is one of many healthiest dudes I do know, he cannot sit nonetheless, workouts quite a bit and it follows that his recuperation could be swift. He is gotten wonderful care and his physician has run all of the bodily exams on him they usually all point out he is making a full restoration. For sure, he is itching to get again on tour to play exhibits and he even instructed we must always preserve preliminary dates arrange for the late fall and winter, however we determined to postpone these exhibits and as a substitute begin up within the spring. So yeah, that is the place we’re at. We’re coming to the US in March/April 2025 and we’re taking a look at what else we are able to do with the remainder of the yr, all we all know is that we wish to end again residence in Sweden on the finish of the yr. Tell us if there are songs you need us to play and we’ll give them a shot. Hope to see you on the market.”
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