How labels care for their artists: Thursday

Thursday - recent providers of support to the My Chemical Romance tour - have just split from Island Records. Talking to In It For The Money magazine, Geoff from the band explained why:

They weren’t the same label that we signed to. Everybody that signed us moved to Warner Brothers, and there was just like six months during War All The Time when we just didn’t have anybody working there. Then they brought in the new staff and it took us a long time to get used to them. I actually like all the new people, but they were much more focused on bands like Fall Out Boy, The Killers... more of like a real pop thing and so bands like us and Thrice they just kind of were like you know, didn’t know what to do. So right away when our record came out and we saw that like we weren’t gonna be a priority anymore, we were just kind of like ‘well let us go’ you know ‘just let us go’, cos we have so many labels that like us and would like to put out a record, just let us go and we’ll go and put out another record somewhere. And they were all like ‘no waaaaaaaay, we love you guys, and you sell a lot of records for us’ and stuff and you know we just kept meeting with them and eventually they were just like well if you really don’t want to be here, you don’t have to be here. So we just got all the paper work drawn up...