Forth Yeer announces breakup plans, final show
Long-running Denver act goes out with a Friars Club-style roast
Forth Yeer is marking the end of its 14-year run as a sleazy Denver bar-rock band by letting its friends talk a little shit. To be honest, it’ll probably be a whole lot of shit talked at the band’s farewell event, which kicks off with a roast of the band, hosted by 106.7 KBPI disc jockey Matt Need, before the act takes the stage March 25 at Moe’s BBQ for its last hurrah.
“We’re going out with a bang,” explains frontman Aaron Howell. “There actually isn’t going to be an opening band. We’re doing an ‘Evening with …’ and we’re doing anything we can find from the entire history of the band. We’re going to be playing stuff from the first recordings that we can find.”
If you’re a diehard First Yeer fan—the sort that fondly recalls the days before it shortened its name from Forth Yeer Freshman—plan to show up early. The act has a VIP dinner planned—or at least whatever passes as a VIP event held in a combination bowling alley/rock club that slings barbecue pork by the heart-clogging bushel—before the night begins. The band’s pack-rat friends will also dig years of old merchandise, photos, and memorabilia out for a museum-style display for all you devotees to get teary-eyed over.
