WOLFMOTHER CAN NOT PATCH UP MEMBER SPLIT

After speculation and several unofficial announcements of Wolfmother’s member split, the two sides will not be back together.

Wolfmother’s Myles Heskett and Chris Ross have both left the band and will form a new project, leaving singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale as the lone member. Neither side would comment, but a statement by the band cited creative and personal differences, which ultimately couldn’t be worked out despite efforts up until earlier this week to do so. That became apparent during and after their last gig, the Splendour In The Grass Festival in Australia’s Byron Bay earlier this month. The break initially started with Ross, and Heskett wouldn’t continue without the original line-up intact.

With this phase of Wolfmother apparently over, we asked bassist Chris Ross about the writing process with each other.

“We totally honestly and earnestly, just the three of us, getting in there and playing what feels good for us. There’s no dissecting of the songs and, ‘Can we do this and that.’ It’s just totally instinctual, and I think from growing up with those kinds of sounds, they are the sounds that you love. It’s just what we make when the three of us get together. We’ve mucked around with different sounds, and we all have our own things. Sometimes someone would bring something– this was before we were working with Wolfmother — we were three songwriters who would come in with our own ideas and then try to get the other guys to play it. It would never kind of just roll like that. It wasn’t until we just relaxed and the three of us just went, ‘Let’s just play what feels good,’ and we’d all bounce off and that’s how the sound came about.”

Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale now plans to find other musicians over coming months and to then begin making a new Wolfmother album. Heskett and Ross will continue to solidify their still-to be announced project.