Michigan rock band Cheap Girls have announced they will be ending the band with immediate effect and cancelling all future shows.
In a searingly honest Facebook post, guitarist and vocalist Ian Graham wrote, “To me, Cheap Girls feels like something that I’ve used to exercise the worst aspects of my ego and control. It is no longer comfortable or healthy for myself or others to be involved with it. Although these negative actions have been entirely my responsibility, we have decided as a group to end the band.”
He continued to say his issues had been “especially difficult” for his band mates and admitted he “abused the artist-fan dynamic”, but said he was 9 and a half months sober and ending the band was important for his continued recovery.
“I carried a ton of shame and remorse for years,” Ian wrote. “There are things in my past that make me literally sick to my stomach to think about; I carried it all to the point that I had to completely change my life and make every effort I could to turn my way of thinking around. I work every day through therapy, meetings, a recovery program -anything that I can do to be the person I know I can be. I know that I do not have to live in a place filled with selfishness and ego anymore if I do the work in front of me.”
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