British Punks Sharks Announce Break Up

One of the most promising up and coming punk rock bands around, England's Sharks, have just announced they will be splitting up effective immediately.

Announcing the news on their Facebook page on Friday, the band gave no reason for the decision to end the band, but confirmed that they would be doing so effective immediately, with all scheduled shows for the band now completely cancelled and no plans for any final shows forthcoming.

In their final letter, addressed to all their fans, the band thanked plenty of people who had been involved in their journey and announced they would have one final film clip – for the song Gold – released in the coming weeks.

Sharks, who formed in 2007, were recently in Australia for the Soundwave festival and support slots with Blink-182.

You can read the letter, taken from their Facebook page, below:

To all our fans,

We're sorry to announce that the four of us have decided to end our journey as Sharks.

Unfortunately all of our upcoming dates have been cancelled and we have no plans as of yet to play any final shows. We sincerely apologise to anyone who has bought tickets or were planning to buy tickets to any of these shows. On a positive note, we have just finished making a brand new music video for 'Gold' with our good friend Tom Lacey, which we'll be releasing for all of you in the coming weeks. We will also be holding a sale on all of the remaining Sharks shirts we have available, none of which will be re-printed.

We want to thank all of you for the incredible support you've given us over the last six years. We've been lucky enough to take Sharks all over the world and befriend many wonderful people along the way. It's given us so much joy to share our music with you. So with this farewell, we leave you with three records of which we are immensely proud of—The Joys of Living 2008-2010, No Gods, and Selfhood—which we hope you'll continue to enjoy long into the future.

We would also like to send a special thanks to our close friends and family and the great team of people we've had the pleasure of working with over the years -- Oliver Mitchell, Ross Warnock, Matthew Gordner and everyone at Rise Records, Ben Husted and Raw Power Management, Andy Somers and The Agency Group, BB Gun Press, Coffeebreath & Heartache, Vinyl Junkie and Swagger City Records.

Thank you, friends!

James, Andrew, Sam and Carl xxxx