Alan Reed sacked by Pallas

Re: [Eyes in the Net] The game is NOT over..

Today is a sad day. Playing in a band is like being in a marriage,
only there are five partners instead of two. It is complicated. No
one goes into a marriage expecting to get divorced. Alan has been a
member of Pallas for many years, but the sad inescapable truth is that
Alan, and the other members of the band have slowly drifted apart over
the last couple of years.

No one set out with the intention that this should happen. It just
has. It is partly due to the geographical problems of living at
opposite ends of the UK. Alan has been unable to attend a Pallas
rehearsal in the last five years, and writing music together when you
are 500 miles apart is difficult. Sometimes people just grow apart as
their ideas and interests change. During the last set of UK gigs Alan
did not travel with the rest of the band members and barely spoke to
any of the rest of the band during the two days we were together.
There was no discussion about the new album, no laughs with the rest
of us. It was all very uncomfortable. None of us have had any
communication from Alan since the Peel. At a time when we are starting
to record a new album that seemed very odd.

Yesterday was a very sad day for me. It fell on me on behalf of the
rest of the band to tell Alan that we wanted a divorce. Nothing
Machiavellian, nothing gutless, nothing underhand, nothing vindictive.
There is no good time to tell someone something like this. There is no
good way to tell someone something like this. We are all very sad, and
I, and the guys, knew how hurt Alan would be, understandably, but the
fact is the relationship had broken down, to a point where we wanted a
divorce.

The reason we play in Pallas is for the enjoyment and for the love of
the music. If we are not enjoying it then there is no point and the
band would simply die, like a loveless marriage. We were not enjoying
the fact that the relationship had broken down. I don’t propose to
discuss the breakdown its not appropriate, it just happened. It’s sad.

Pallas will continue. We continue to work on XXV, and it will come out
later this year. We will be touring, We will be playing at Progeny, We
look forward to seeing you all and hopefully to your ongoing support.

We wish Alan well. There is no ill will on our part and we are sure
that Alan will be fronting another band before long, and we look
forward to that. We would like to remain friends.

I had asked Alan to call me today after our call yesterday. He was
very angry on the phone and I totally understand that. I had hoped
that I could talk to him today and explain some of these things to him
personally before any announcement was made about the situation.
Unfortunately, I am having to say them publicly. I hope this helps
balance the equation and that it may give an insight into the other
side of this unhappy story. On behalf of the members of Pallas,

Graeme