In news that’s devastated teenage girls around Australia, the Newcastle rock band Short Stack have announced their split after 8 years of playing music together.
You might know them from this song:
The band updated their Facebook page this morning with the following announcement: “as you may or may not know, short stack has decided to call it a day. even though we are no longer making music, we still remain the closest friends. the band started when we were 15 and never imagined in a million years it would achieve what it has, and we are proud to say that after 8 years we are ending on top.”
And the response? Huge. Hundreds of teenage girls have flocked to the Facebook page to express their dismay, leaving comments like “pinch me to wake me up from this nightmare. please”, “most depressing thing that’s happened in a long time” and “I just had to hold a shit load of tears in when i read this…” Even parents have come onto the site, with one mum saying: “could you be there to break it to my daughter and wipe the tears from her eyes when she finds out??”
Twitter response has also been huge – here’s just a couple of the texts that came up:
In all seriousness – what band has broken your heart by breaking up?
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I feel like the only person in the world who was indifferent towards Powderfinger…I tried to get into them, but nope.
I wish The White Stripes would get back together, though.
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OASIS. Wahhh… never got to see them live, still not recovered.
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Westlife :’(
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Oh yes, definitely Westlife for me as well… and the Corrs. Wish those two bands would get back together.
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Silverchair and Killing Heidi…wah :’(
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Silverchair broke my heart loooong before breaking up! They were unrecognisable by the end, and Daniel Johns had turned into a pretentious twat
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When Powderfinger broke up I may have cried just a little. What a truly great Aussie band those guys were.
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Ok. This borders on tragic. No messages of sympathy please but was devo when
THE BAY CITY ROLLERS called it quits. Lol
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Short stack never was and evidently never will be as big and as loved as one direction!
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The Beatles broke up when I was 4…bastards!
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Who?
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Ditto
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I’m soooo old!!! Have never heard of Short Stack or ever heard that song! When did I get so out of touch?!
I was absolutely devastated when Powderfinger called it a day. I remember felt so sad and so empty. Like losing a best friend. And in some ways I guess I did grow up with them- from first romances to heartbreak and grief. They always had a song to express how I was feeling. We shared a lot, Powderfinger and I…
Oh, Bernard… sigh…
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Sad that some people shed more tears for a band breaking up than when a grandparent dies.
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Never fear, they will reform one day.
I told my One Direction obsessed niece not to fret over not getting tickets to see them, as one day they might be playing at the local pub on a Saturday night and you’ll be within touching distance. Except you’ll past the age when you want to grope rock stars. And the rock star will be past gropable age.
And then you’ll be able to watch your teen heart-throb on Dancing With The Stars, where all aging rock stars seem to wind up!
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Who the hell is short stack??!! Geez I think I’m going to have to start accepting the fact that I’m not as hip & cool & up with it as I think I am! Definitely showing my age!! Oh to be young again when the only worry in your world is a band breaking up!!
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Was devastated about Powderfinger. DEVASTATED. I was even sadder that I was only a couple of km away from the Annandale, where they announced it, too.
Midnight Oil was a similar amount of devastation too.
Was sad to hear Jet have called it a day the other day too. They’re great.
Couldn’t give a rats about Short Stack though.
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I didn’t know Jet broke up?!?!
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I was shocked at how sad I was when Powderfinger announced their break up, it still makes me sad, they were probably the first band that had a massive influence on my teenage life (that continued into adulthood), including playing when I had my first kiss *sigh* I miss those good natured, Australian guys making quality music
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I’ve never heard of Short Stack.
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I was absolutely devastated when Michael Jackson passed away. Still am. And I am in my 20s. Cried over it for days… Felt very surreal. Also, even now sometimes hearing some of his hits give me a bit of a tear… Very big loss, regardless of what people might want to try to say against him…
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After seeing the post from Short Stack fans on Tumblr to day I sat and thought about this question and I couldn’t come up with anyone, well not anyone who would make me react the way some of these teenage girls did (I think counselling might be necessary for some of them…). I’d be a bit sad if The Wombats, or Art vs Science or Blue Juice broke up but… I guess I would remember that they made awesome music and it’s not like I’m going stop listening to them, there just won’t be any new stuff…
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Quote of the century from one of my friends recently when “Smells like teen spirit” was playing in a bar – “Whatever happened to that band Nirvana?”
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Sacrilige!!!
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I will be beside myself when Pearl Jam call it a day. I have loved them since I was 14. I don’t think there would be many days in the last 20 years that I haven’t listened to at least one of their songs. Eddie Vedder gets better with age.
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I will be absolutely devastated if Pearl Jam ever breaks up!nsad when Michael Hutchence died and when Powderfinger broke up.
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I’m the same with U2. I was 13 when my brother gave me Under a Blood Red Sky for my birthday and I loved that they did a song in Latin with Gloria. That band has been the soundtrack to my life and there always seems to be a highly relevant song on each album that matches what is happening for me.
And they are definitely one of the best bands in concert.
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I took my uncle/godfather to see U2 when they were out here in 2010. He was shocked that I knew all the words to pretty much every song they played. He told me that the fact that I knew U2 songs made him feel young; I reminded him of his age by pointing out his grey hair. Clearly, I’m an awesome niece/goddaughter!!
So yeah – definitely agree about U2. And Powderfinger. And MJ.
I was devastated when Spice Girls broke up.
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Wham!
I love George Michael & he’s made awesome music post-wham… But gotta love/miss the cheesy wham! songs from the 80s.
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Definitely….the Spice Girls !
Just kidding. But seriously, I met my wife the night that it was announced that Gerri Halliwell had given her notice.
Was a tad miffed when Fleetwood Mac went their separate ways. Saw them when they reformed to go on one of those “we are desperate for truckloads of cash tours”. Thought that something was missing sans the haunting voice of Stevie Nicks.
I can’t remember if a few tears fell when Adam parted company with The Ants. But it was the 80′s and I was drinking heavily back then. Wistful sigh………
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Are you sure you weren’t just p*^+ed??
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Powder finger splitting still makes me sad
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I Killed The Prom Queen. Although, now they’re back together I don’t think it’ll be the same ever again.
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Savage Garden. I cried so much!!!!!!!!!!
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LOVED them so much!! So So sad when they split, and I am so disappointed I never got to see them live.
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Smashing Pumpkins…even though they’re technically, kind of back together, it’s not same as back in the day *sigh*
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Me too! And I remember looking through the artwork and seeing the ominous dates in the pictures and thinking NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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When Geri left the Spice Girls I cried and cried (I was 11 at the time) and then again when the other 4 said it was all over. When they said they were getting back together in July 2007 then 7 mths later said that was it I was heartbroken again at the age of 20 going on to 21.
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Abba. Damn now I’ve given my age away.
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The Black Crowes – no, I can’t talk about it *sob*…
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WTF are ‘short stack’?
Maybe I’m just showing my age…
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No, you’re comfortable with foul language. Can’t be that old.
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Really.. the older I get the more I swear.
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i watched the beatles anthology when it was shown on tv in the late 90′s and i cried all night watching the last episode because i knew the beatles were about to break up…( i was a teenager) so i can only imagine what it was like at the time!
teenagers are drama queens, of course they are going to overeact when their favourite band breaks up! it’s the worst thing in the world!!!!
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You are not alone – I did the same thing! I’m 32 now and I am still pinning my hopes on one day marrying Paul McCartney circa “The White Album” … not sure how my husband would feel ….
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God help me should Duran Duran ever call it a day. I might not recover… ever.
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Ditto!!!!!!
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And ditto from me!
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The Spice Girls.
Bardot.
Killing Heidi.
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Killing Heidi broke up??
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Check out Ella and jesse’s other project “the verses” and Ella is now writing her very own album too
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Oh dear GOD, I remember like it was yesterday… BROS… I wept…
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OMG Bros! I love them! I mean, I loved them!
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Powderfinger.
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The Smiths! It wasn’t the same when Morrisey went solo.
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Powderfinger
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Bardot.
Kidding! (Sort of.)
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Queen.
I wasn’t even around then, but it is still upsetting.
I’m also hanging out for a Girls Aloud ten-year reunion this year. I need it to happen!!!
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Queen never actually broke up. They’re still together despite Freddie’s passing.
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The minute Brian McFadden left Westlife my world ended!
Yes the band stayed together, but it was no longer a band in my eyes!
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Spice Girls when I was 8
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+1
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erm, + 12ish….
Yes, I was in my early 20′s but I bloody love them!!!
And just quietly, still trying to find Spiceworld The Movie on DVD….
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Oh my I loved that movie when I was little! The Spice Girls were my world. I had a Baby Spice barbie doll and I collected stickers for a Spice Girls sticker album. Ah to be a kid again.
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Take That
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Me too! When Robbie left and when the rest of them broke up they had to put on a special counselling hotline in the UK for all the distraught teenage girls.
I was so excited when they got back together though, they are still as good as ever. Went to see them in concert when I was about 15 and Howard saw my home made sign from the stage. Ahh, remember it like it was yesterday… now just to get them to come back down under for one more show…
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Yes!! I remember the hotline!
My mum actually asked me if I might need to call it.
I still haven’t learnt to trust a pop band again….
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loved take that! was so lucky to get to see the 4 re-unite a few years back and again with robbie last year – performed better than ever!
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The White Stripes.
I fear I will never get over their breakup.
*hums Seven Nation Army*
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Agreed! That I never saw them live remains one of my greatest regrets.
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I was at the Big Day Out and they had only just started and my friends went to go watch them and I didn’t really know them then so I went and saw some other band. A month later they were huge and i loved them, and have regretted not seeing them ever since.
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