Metal Anarchy

It looks like Flyleaf’s reunion with Lacey Sturm may be short lived. During a recent interview with Rock 108, the singer revealed that their upcoming appearance at the Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Alton, VA is their only remaining date.

Sturm said the following about the reunion:

“Well, actually, my assistant that was on tour with us from the very beginning of FLYLEAF; we were called PASSERBY at that time. We were touring in an ’88 Ford Club Wagon van, and we had a bunch of gear in the back with a mattress on top, and you could climb in there and sleep. She actually came on tour with us to be a stylist or a merch person — whatever we needed. She was with us from the beginning. So she got married. And we hadn’t seen each other in, like, ten years, nine years, and so we all ended up at the wedding together. And that’s how it started.”

She went on to say that things came about very organically:

“I think it had to be that way. There were some offers for us to get back together, to do reunion shows, but we hadn’t seen each other, and everybody has different lives, lots of children. So it didn’t really make sense in those times, but because we were already connecting, we figured it out.”

She also added the following about the band’s current plans:

“We just have these five festivals [Sick New World, Rock Fest, Upheaval, Inkcarceration and Blue Ridge] — actually, we just added these two on last minute — but we just had the five festivals booked with FLYLEAF. And that was all that we had. Moving forward, again, with the families, and the bandmembers have families, it’s hard to figure out how to, like… what does it look like. So that’s all we have planned with FLYLEAF. The solo project stuff I do with my husband. It’s been in the works for, like, five years, another album. And so we just put out a song a couple of days, which coincided with these shows, which was just — I don’t know — it just all converged. It was not intentional, really. But it all worked out. So here we have a song coming out, and hopefully we’ll have an album out at the end of August that we’ve been working on for five years. It’s sort of all coming together.”

[via Blabbermouth]