As I mentioned last week, the Jonx are breaking up.

The final Jonx show will be Thursday, October 14 at Walter’s on Washington. Black Congress, one of our favorite local bands right now, will be opening. We’ll probably have another band too, but we don’t know who that will be yet.

We’re sorry that this is happening on such short notice, and that the final show will be on a weekday. We’ve never been a band that particularly had our shit together, and unfortunately it’s gotten quite a bit worse this year. I might add that I think we were a little bit in denial about whether this was actually going to happen, or at least I was. Many thanks to our excellent friends Roy Mata and Chris Ryan from Black Congress for helping us put this show together. If it hadn’t been for them, I don’t know that it would be happening at all.

The reason for all this is that Trey is moving out of state for personal and family reasons. If I may presume to speak for Stu and Trey, I think we all still really love playing in the band, and although we’re billing this as our last show, I wouldn’t rule out the idea that we’ll play a one-off sometime in the future- hell, the Mike Gunn managed it- but given the fact that I don’t live in Houston anymore either, it doesn’t seem very likely that we’ll all be in the same place again long for long enough to pull it off. So this really may be your last chance to see the Jonx.

It’s a sad thing when a band breaks up. We’ve “lost” a lot of friends in the last few years; most of the bands that we used to play with in our first couple of years aren’t around anymore. But look, it’s not like they’re dead or something. We’ll still be around, we just won’t be in a band together anymore. And I think that the three of us (and Shawn and Viki) feel pretty lucky to have had the opportunity to create together, to make some records and to play some shows with and for our friends. At least I do.

R.I.P. The Jonx
2003-2010