The new album wasn't as good as Recordings was but this is still pretty lame news

No more terrorism for awhile, the middle east is on hiatus

Nooooooo!

Album was decent, kinda boring at times but a a few top standout tracks of the year

laaame

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'm just listening to Recordings right now, it's so so so close to being a 5, the highest 4.5 I have for sure.

(still need to hear the new LP, which was apparently disappointing but still, noooooooooooooo)

Cool, no more fighting wars for a while. I smoke this rock in celebration!

lol

the news will be pretty lame for a while, i guess

I was at this performance it was amazing. sad to see these guys breaking up.

No more terrorism for awhile, the middle east is on hiatus
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Heard about this a month or two ago. A great shame, but understandable.

Heard about this a month or two ago. A great shame, but understandable.

The Middle East have announced they will be going on an 'indefinite break' during their set at Australia's Splendour in the Grass festival. The hiatus comes unexpectedly

Man, that's a bummer... I liked these guys.

this is the first time i've ever heard of this band, but damn if they aren't the Holy Grail of potentially misleading news titles.

well this just sucks.

Knew this was going to happen once Osama and Saddam left the band.

Aww this sucks. : /

'what?'

@mordecai

The album-recording process was quite problematic, and people i know who know the band reckoned none of them were happy with the LP, and interviews confirmed that.

then about a month ago my mate said his sister, who also knows them, told him they were gonna break up after Splendour.

Other websites have even said that they'd heard whispers that it was going to happen.

I didn't know Recordings wasn't a full release. I love that album.

aw shucks. these guys were good. i had just gotten into them like 2 months ago, too.

No more terrorism for awhile, the middle east is on hiatus

Shoot, I was way too late.

Once they have the opportunity to sit around Austrailia for a few months, staring out at the vast expanse of brush, kangaroos, and poisonous spiders, they'll quickly come to their senses and realize why they formed the band in the first place; to get the fuck out of Austrailia! I believe this about as much as I believed Joaquin Pheonix was quitting acting at 35 to pursue his dream of becoming a hip-hop artist. Expect this headline in a year or so: "Middle East, Crushed by All-Consuming Boredom and Sprawl of Home Continent, Regroup For Second LP."

"Though containing eight songs and running to 52 minutes, the band soon shied away from calling it their debut album. After releasing those eight tracks locally, the band amicably parted ways due to Ireland traveling to Europe. In the meantime, word escaped Townsville that The Middle East were worth hearing. Their debut landed on a desk at Spunk Records and – after the track ‘Blood’ was added to a Spunk singles comp, was deemed worthy of a 2009 re-release under the Spunk banner. After Ireland returned home, it seemed like a good decision to get the band back together."

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

rip off band rips off other bands by going on hiatus