Lemuria changes lineup, plans new material

Contributed by Babrook. Posted by Bryne on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:00 PM (EDT)

Lemuria has officially announced the departure of bassist Jason Draper via their Facebook page, and has plans for new material on the horizon:

"Lemuria is still a trio! Jason doesn't play with us anymore, but our friend Kyle has been playing with us for the past shows and will be playing with us at Fest as well! Hopefully he'll end up being a permanent addition to the band! Just wanted to post that because a lot of people have asked us if we're playing the upcoming shows as a duo. Nope! ... Working on new songs, can't wait to get them ready to play live!"

The band last released Get Better in 2008. Draper continues to play in Failures' Union, whose full-length In What Way is streaming at their Punknews.org page.

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tonytonytony (October 28, 2009)

Failures' Union have two previous full lengths, I think. You Know Who may be an EP, but I know Sinker came out in 2007 and it was fantastic.

Bryne (October 28, 2009)

Gah, you're right. Will fix right away.

Banal242 (October 28, 2009)

This band is surviving despite the "LaGrecia Dynamic."

Good for them.

televisioneyes (October 28, 2009)

I love this band. Saw them with the new guy on bass, probably the best I've ever seen them!

Babrook (October 28, 2009)

Stoked to see these guys in Cleveland next month.

So. stoked.

SporadicPunk (October 28, 2009)

One of my favorite bands. Can't wait to see em at the Fest!

brokenrecord (October 28, 2009)

is their a way to switch your top albums on your profile page?

Hey_Asshole (October 28, 2009)

hopefully the new guy is a good songwriter too.
losing a primary songwriter is usually bad news. Jason Draper wrote some of their best songs.

televisioneyes (October 29, 2009)

Jason only wrote two songs, and both of those songs apparently used to be Paladin songs just with different lyrics, which was Alex and Sheenas previous band. The primary songwriter in the band is Alex. It appears he wrote about 40 out of the approx 50 songs that they have recorded. Sheena has a handful as well.

Jason also wasn't the original bass player, the first couple times I saw them they had a dude Adam playing with them.

artoftheunderground (October 29, 2009)

?! how did you get the paladin demo? thats pretty random...i dont have a copy of that!

Hey_Asshole (October 30, 2009)

shit. i always confuse the 2 dudes.

i retract my statement

syebot (October 29, 2009)

I love this band sooooooooooooooo much.