Johnny Marr is no longer in the Cribs

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The Cribs can now start out conversations by saying, “Remember when that guy from the Smiths was in our band?” The act, who originally hail from England, have released a statement that they will be continuing on as a three piece without legendary guitarist Jonny Marr. It reads, “So, as some of you may know by now The Cribs are gonna be a 3-piece again. That is a slightly less dramatic way of saying that Johnny Marr is no longer in the band. We don’t want it to be seen as a split, that just has so many negative connotations and really doesn’t represent the way everyone is feeling right now.” .
They went on to explain, “The truth is that, as Johnny said, we did more than we ever set out to do together really – we were initially just playing together as friends, and decided it might be fun to do a trademark Cribs ’surprise one-off seven inch’ or something of that ilk, but as we went along we just kept writing. First it was a single, then an EP, we just happened to really enjoy playing together and ended up writing a full album. We were/are all really proud of the work we did together and we did mean it in our assertions that Johnny was very much a full-time member of the band.”