Boy Sets Fire plan farewell tour through Europe

After splitting up last summer, veteran hardcore act Boy Sets Fire has announced plans for a final farewell tour set to kick off in early May and run for a week.

The band explained:

o the time for parting come to an end. We had decided with heads held high to proudly kill what what we had created and to let it die with dignity, aplomb, and in good memory. Most specifically, it was a retirement party. Not a sad forced retirement but a happy one filled with nostalgia and contentment as we sit back and watch younger upstarts with mascara smeared countenances carry the torch we had lit over a decade ago.
Would have worked out fine.

But then I fell. It hurt a lot. Still does. I missed the last tour so I think we all feel that the final chapter wasn't quite pencilled in.
So the rumors are true. We are doing one last tour in Europe to say a proper good-bye to all our friends in that great continent.

The band is referring to guitarist Josh Latshaw's injury which had him missing the tour after suffering a broken neck, two broken vertebrae and a collapsed lung

Through the 12 years the band was together, they released countless full-lengths, EPs, and splits. 1997 saw a release of The Day the Sun Went Out, Suckerpunch Training and splits with both Shai Hulud and Coalesce in 2000, After The Eulogy in 2001, Live For Today in 2002, Tomorrow Come Today in 2003, and most recently The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years.