{"id":69144,"date":"2018-05-23T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=69144"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:03:39","slug":"news-bigfoot-part-ways-with-vocalist-antony-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-bigfoot-part-ways-with-vocalist-antony-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGFOOT Part Ways With Vocalist Antony Ellis (May 23rd, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>BIGFOOT Part Ways With Vocalist Antony Ellis<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>May 23rd, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bigfoot2017promophoto10news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Bigfoot 2017 (l-r): Sam Millar, Tom Aspinall, Antony Ellis, Matt Avery and Mick McCullagh<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nWigan, England-based hard rock band Bigfoot have parted ways with vocalist Antony Ellis, revealing this development on May 23rd, 2018. The singer made the decision to quit the group for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis commented: \u201cI\u2019ve decided I needed this simply for my overall happiness. I wish the lads all the luck in the world and I\u2019m sure they will find a suitable replacement. Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll not be disappearing off the face of the earth and will be getting to as many gigs as I can to see you all. With love my friends \/ family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the band issued the following statement: \u201cWe would like to wish Ant the best of luck with his future and all that he pursues. As for us, we are looking to the future with positivity and have made the decision to continue the vision that we originally set out to create with the band. We hope all the fans, friends and colleagues we have met along the way will see this as a respectful parting of ways in this amicable decision. Sam, Tom, Mick and Matt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antony Ellis joined Bigfoot shortly after their formation in the spring of 2014, and appeared on two independently released EPs \u2013 <em>Bigfoot<\/em> (2015) and <em>Stone Soldiers<\/em> (2016) \u2013 as well as the band\u2019s self-titled debut full-length studio record, <a href=\"\/site\/news-bigfoot-release-self-titled-debut-studio-album\/\">issued<\/a> in October 2017 via Frontiers Music Srl.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Frank Carter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIGFOOT Part Ways With Vocalist Antony Ellis May 23rd, 2018 Bigfoot 2017 (l-r): Sam Millar, Tom Aspinall, Antony Ellis, Matt Avery and Mick McCullagh Wigan, England-based hard rock band Bigfoot have parted ways with vocalist Antony Ellis, revealing this development on May 23rd, 2018. The singer made the decision to quit the group for \u201cpersonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3338,3177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigfoot","category-bigfoot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69157,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions\/69157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}