iForward Russia! have confirmed their indefinite hiatus as a band through a news item posted on their official website.

The band will be playing their last gig at the Brainwash Festival on October 17 in Leeds at the Brudenell Social Club.

“Unfortunately this will be our only gig for the rest of the year, and infact for the forseeable future”, stated the band.

“We have decided to take a break from doing iForward, Russia! - for a lot of different reasons. The idea of doing another tour with nothing new to offer was something that enthused none of us, and the idea of re-booting on a productive strand is something we're not quite ready to face just yet”

“So to reach the present. Katie is moving to Nottingham in a few weeks, having taken the opportunity to do an art course there (she's in need of a new 'posse' apparently, so get in touch if you can help) - so it's unlikely we'll do anything serious again till we're a bit more geographically centralized”

“Tom will be keeping busy producing some of the hottest young talent in the country, he's been doing a lot of work with a band called 'Minaars' - you can check him out at http://www.myspace.com/tomwoodhead - and you can get in touch with him at tdwoodhead[at]gmail.com if you want to get in touch with him about producing your next pop record”

“From now until October? We did talk about releasing a Gravity & Heat EP, which may or may not now go ahead - certainly not in a physical format unfortunately. As mentioned it wouldn't have anything new from us, but we did ask a few people to do some remixes”.

(by Victoria Tsigonis)