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After 5 years swedish synthpop project Ashbury Heights declares end of activity. "Ashbury Heights turned five this year. This should be a cause for celebration but after the last 24 months of constant fights and arguments with our label this band has begun to feel as if inprisoned. For this and many other reasons I do hereby announce that I am disbanding Ashbury Heights."

This is how Anders Hagström starts band's statement about disbanding. The full statement can be found on Ashbury Height's MySpace profile.

"This band was never meant to be a niche act, circumstances outside of our control made us sign with a niche label [Out of Line] however and in hindsight it was probably not a good idea. It is quite clear that there is no future for us within the confines of the obscure Germanic subgenre that we've been a part of since our conception. After five years of hard work we're still not selling any records and during that time we've had less than 20 paying gigs. I want you to know that we have tried to savour each and every one of these as if it were our last." - says Anders.

"We have expressed a wish to leave our current record label and try our luck under different management. (...)

Oddly enough they [Out of Line] have refused to negotiate in any way and even claim that any song I ever make in the future belongs to them. Our contract really does give them the right of ownership to everything I do musically, but it's hard to understand why they would choose to maintain this standpoint considering that they've never made any money off us so far. Why would they want to keep me under contract when it never gave them anything in the first place?

I feel that after five years with them without any real progress it wouldn't be fair to ourselves or to the fans to allow them to continue their mismanagement of our music. Therefore I will not be releasing any music at all until the matter has been resolved. When and if we can get out of our contract with our label, Ashbury Heights may be reunited but until then all my musical projects are on hold."
Author: semi android
Translator: semi android
Source: http://www.myspace.com/ashburyheightsmusic / 2010-10-18 / News


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