11:57 (A Short Stack story)

They finished where they started

So short stack broke up. It’s so hard to just my head around that, it hasn’t even fully hit me yet. Short Stack are so much apart of me that I can’t even imagine life without them. I still remember how we were all at school excited and giddy to see what the big announcement was and when my friend simply told me “Short Stack have split.” I started laughing. I was in denial. My friends kept telling me that it was true but I was telling them that it was just a stupid april fools prank but then we found Shaun’s post and knew I was just kidding myself. My friends knew how much they meant to me and I was the one who introduced them to my best friend.

We spent the rest of the break just sitting staring at nothing with tears pouring our faces.

The rest of our friend’s who couldn’t give two shits about short stack still knew how much they meant to us and that we’d be ripping at their throats if they said anything wrong.

Short Stack broke up. I never ever thought I’d ever say that, the band who changed my life. No, the band who saved my life. They were the first band I had ever listened too, the first band who I actually learned the names of, who I  had ever looked up to. They introduced me to so many other bands and made my life happier. I still feel like I’ll wake up tomorrow and everything will be back to normal like nothing happened.

I never got to meet them in person or see them perform live. It just makes it that much more painful knowing that I never will.

There’s simply nothing to say. How can I when there are no fucking words to describe what’s happening.

A great band has split up. My role models, idols, life.

But even though they have moved on from Short Stack the entire Stack fandom and especially me will be there no matter what they decide to do. If Shaun wants to move to America then good on him, it’ll help his music career so much more and open new opportunities for him. Who knows in a few years time he could become a world famous singer. But I’m sure Bradie wants to do something big with his drumming he said so in the doco and Andy said he was already working on something.

So I guess even though they aren’t together I can still see a huge future for them all and they all have so much potential together or solo.

I will always be proud to call myself a stacker and I will never forget about the band that completely changed my life for the better.

I’ll miss you Short Stack.