Bullet For My Valentine bassist leaves North American tour

Bullet For My Valentine bassist Jay James has temporarily pulled out of the band's current US tour to attend to a "private family matter".

"Bullet For My Valentine regret to inform their fans that bassist Jason James will be taking time off from their current North American fall tour," reads an official statement from the band's management. "James will be on leave from October 8 through October 17 attending to a private family matter and will rejoin the band on October 18 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

"No dates will be cancelled and Escape The Fate, Black Tide and Drive A will continue to open on all remaining dates. Calvin Roffey, a musician in his own right and BFMV guitar tech, will take over bass duties until James returns to the tour."

The band will tour the UK with Bring Me The Horizon in December. For full dates, and to buy tickets, see www.aloud.com.

Tags: Bullet For My Valentine

Posted by Dan at 01:58PM | October 11, 2010

OH MY GOD!!! i got worried when i first read this. but family come first. i just hope everything is ok.

Posted by vicky | October 11, 2010 2:19 PM | Reply to this

You know a true genuine band when they write stuff like "Calvin Roffey, a musician in his own right "

nice to show they appreciate the guy for stepping up to play infront of probably 1500 kids each show and he`s probably never experienced it before!

Posted by wiggly wangler | October 11, 2010 3:22 PM | Reply to this

Pretty sick to let someone step in and not cancel any shows, they are going to lack jay's screaming though coz he does alot of that when they play live to take strain off matt

Posted by andy F | October 11, 2010 4:40 PM | Reply to this

your betrayal wont be the same without jays screaming vocals but awesome bands get round these problems and the show will still probably be good as fuck

Posted by Rocker94 | October 11, 2010 7:13 PM | Reply to this

hope everything is alright jay. These shows will still rock and really wish i cud go see them in the UK.

P.s. no haters so far \m/

Posted by Michael | October 11, 2010 9:20 PM | Reply to this

"Calvin Roffey, a musician in his own right and BFMV guitar tech, will take over bass duties until James returns to the tour"

Thats the guy from The Smoking Hearts and March Of The Raptors!

Posted by kyle | October 12, 2010 5:49 AM | Reply to this

God Lord I almost got scared for a minute there.

Hope that Calvin Roffey has a good time playing shows!

Posted by Harry | October 12, 2010 3:44 PM | Reply to this

This happened once before when Jay's little girl was really sick. I hope everything is alright!

Posted by Justine | October 12, 2010 8:22 PM | Reply to this

I took my 13 year old son to see BFMV in Milwaukee and I met Calvin before the show. This guy sat with my son while I got his guitar out of the car and then got the whole band to sign it. I will always be grateful that he took the time to do this. It made my sons night. He sure was exicted. I wish him all the luck with this.

Posted by Steve | October 18, 2010 3:18 AM | Reply to this