Funeral For A Friend to part ways with guitarist

Funeral For A Friend guitarist Darran Smith has announced that he will leave the Welsh rockers after their appearance at this summer's Sonisphere festival.

"After nine years I have decided to leave the ranks of Funeral for a Friend," he said in an official statement. "I've had a brilliant time with the band, which has been an amazing journey full of experiences that will be awesome memories to keep and cherish and I have nothing but love and respect for all the boys in the band (past and present), without whom my time in the band wouldn't have been half as enjoyable.

"We Have a number of shows coming up in the near future which I will be playing, up to and including Sonisphere, and I intend to approach them not only as a celebration of my time in Funeral but also of stepping out of the band and preparing for new challenges and experiences with whatever I do in the future," he added. "My heartfelt wishes go out to the boys in the band and I know they'll go on to greater glories and success."

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Posted by Dan at 11:57AM | April 26, 2010

NOOOOOOOOOO...! Darran you will be missed so much. =( You are one hell of a guitar player! Hope FFAF keep rocking like never before!

Posted by Ryan | April 26, 2010 1:11 PM | Reply to this

I hope he and Gareth Davies do something together to make up for this!

Posted by Joel | April 26, 2010 1:24 PM | Reply to this

Well, the good news are that Gav is moving to the guitar, and he is pretty good at it, and they found one member of ghostlines Richard Boucher to be their new Bassist. Seems to me that the new album will be fucking awesome!

Posted by JC | April 26, 2010 1:44 PM | Reply to this

Well the good news are that Gav is moving to the guitar and he is pretty good at it and they found Richard Boucher to be their new bassist. Seems to me that the new album will be FUCKING AMAZING!

Posted by JC | April 26, 2010 1:45 PM | Reply to this

Noooo!
This sucks so much :(

Posted by Blah! | April 26, 2010 2:30 PM | Reply to this

what? thats the second original member gone now!

me and my friend used to laugh at darran cause he's never ever changed his hairstyle, never looks like he's aged either.

what are we gonna do now D:

Posted by coleeee | April 26, 2010 3:34 PM | Reply to this

Posted by dale | April 26, 2010 7:24 PM | Reply to this

Ahhh, nooo. Thats bad news indeed.
He is an awesome guitar player for FFAF.

Well all the best to Darren in the future. I hope we here musical genius from him again :)

Posted by JoNnY | April 26, 2010 8:06 PM | Reply to this

Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He cant keave :'( awwwwwwrrr, hes going to be missedd by all, truly amazing guitarist, much love for him and the bandd xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Posted by duckiie/emo/lishaaa. :) ^_^ | April 26, 2010 10:42 PM | Reply to this

sad sad news. i met darran and the boys outside the famous crown bar in belfast. darren was more than friendly and seems to have time for all fans. top axe man never failed to impress me every time iv seen him live. good luck darran ur a legend.

Posted by neal magee | April 28, 2010 10:44 PM | Reply to this

Aww :( He's a really lovely guy. I met him in tesco in Talbot Green a year or two ago and he was nice enough to sign my shoe spend some time talking to me :)
Good luck with the future Darren!!

Posted by Lorz | April 29, 2010 3:59 PM | Reply to this