Youth Group

Youth Group will take a break from recording and performing for the next 12 months.

The Sydney outfit announced their need for a time out in a statement on their website.

“Youth Group are going to have a break from being Youth Group. We are drawing a line through 2010, and plan to reconvene in 2011,” the statement said.

“The band has been our lives for the last five years. Pretty much from the release of Skeleton Jar, through the recording/release of Casino Twilight Dogs and The Night Is Ours, to the accompanying tours it has been our furious, intense and fulfilling job.

“We poured everything we had into The Night Is Ours. Maybe it wasn’t exhausting, but it was exhaustive and we are just not ready to venture into that again in a hurry. We’re a band that has always valued the process of making a record as much as the end product. We need some time before the next one.

“And well, we are just looking forward to having a good slice of time to do other, non Youth Group things with our lives.”

Youth Group has spent much of 2009 in the US touring in support of their latest record, The Night Is Ours.

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