The Pipettes Line-Up Shake-up: Rosay and Becki Out, Ani and Anna In

Yeah, I'm pretty shocked and disappointed about the line-up change. I'll have the myspace bulletin explain all...

The Pipettes have two new members, Ani and Anna. We are demoing up 20-25 new songs, with an eye to recording a second album in the Summer. We want to tell you all about them, but we’re very much head-down working on new material at the moment

This means that RiotBecki and Rosay have left to pursue other musical pursuits (which will be brilliant when they emerge), we wish them all the best, we’re all still great friends and news on their pursuits will be closely supported by us. People may be confused by such a drastic change in line-up but please rest assured - if we were to be an imitation of ourselves we would stop. Plus the Pipettes has more members come and go than major labels have A&R men, it's just another day in the office for us (plus we’ve got to go one better than the Sugababes).

We refer you to the manifesto on our website www.thepipettes.com for a more in depth explanation on the functioning of the band; this was the natural step to take.

Thanks for all the continued support over this period and we’re incredibly excited to be working toward bringing you a new album that will be unlike anything we (or anyone else) have ever done. We will also have limited edition novelty tee-shirts on sale soon, keep an eye out for them and join the growing thousands who can now claim to be ‘ex-Pipettes.’

I think for a lot of you out there, Rosay was a knock-out. I'll have to keep an eye out for Post-Pipette projects. That leaves Gwenno in tact in the band.

Previously: An interview with The Pipettes from June 2007.

Comments

[Greg]

You've been Rick Rolled

[SPF]

I am crestfallen.

[Kameron]

I'm gutted to be honest, they were an amazing band, my favourite, its just not going to be the same, I would rather the Pipettes just split up rather than split up and preserve the good memories, hopefully something good will come out of what their doing but ughh, im just so upset:(