I stumbled across this article (
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/feb/25/shiny-toy-guns-welcomes-return-of-newbury-park/) this morning. It's about a month old, but it does explain a little bit more of the why.
"We were playing 300 shows a year, waking up in different countries every night, drinking like fish," Dawson said. "The boys were (drinking)," Faye interjected.
"The abuse of alcohol," Dawson continued, "leads to the abuse of life, poor judgment, the inability to communicate, and the lack of sleep was very detrimental. The situations we were living in hour by hour, day by day, made it impossible for a human being to coexist with another one."
So just as in any relationship where feelings get flailed around and buried under alcohol, they simply needed to sober up and talk to each other again.
The mending of their relationship started in October or November.
"Our communication with Carah had been sparse and random," Dawson said. "All of us were doing a whole bunch of laying in bed, looking at the ceiling."
Dawson and Martin didn't even know where Faye lived, so they tracked her down in Sweden "for no real reason other than to repair our friendship," Dawson said. "If there was to be a rejoining of the band, then that would be discussed some other day. The main thing is, we weren't talking, and we had lots of damage and scar tissue."
They flew to Sweden and met at a coffee shop. "We talked for days, hours, and began to peel the layers time creates when you don't deal with things," Dawson said. "The parallel of the relationship between one human in love with another human is so ridiculously relevant to this situation that it's amazing. Each side thought the other was cheating on them, lying, hated them. When we actually got face time, everything said and done was a lot smaller than what it was built up to be. Real emotions and feelings began to move around in the circles they did when the band started."
I am surprised about the alcohol abuse. I mean, we all suspected the lack of communication part, but I never thought there was another element tossed in to it. This confirms for me that the Carah break and the Sisely break were totally different. I really do believe them when they say that Sis leaving was mutual. They clearly had problems back then, that they don't have now. Anyway, yeah....
