Manchester Orchestra drummer Tim Very has died. The Atlanta rock band introduced the loss on social media on Saturday (February 14), writing: “We’ve all been dreading sharing this information as we’re all nonetheless in absolute disbelief.” No reason for loss of life has been reported. Very was 42.
The son of a drummer father, Very picked up his personal sticks for the primary time as a teen in Pensacola, Florida. Dave Grohl was an early affect, and among the first songs Very realized to play got here from Nirvana’s catalog. “I wasn’t a type of guys that bought to begin taking part in once I was like six years previous, bought classes out the gate,” he instructed the podcast Drummers On Drumming in 2022. “It took me a short while to sort of discover my id. I immediately knew that this was one thing I used to be going to be doing for a very long time.”
Very joined Manchester Orchestra in 2011, taking on for Jeremiah Edmond. Very performed his first present with the band in London, throughout the UK leg of a world tour in help of Easy Math. “I threw up throughout it,” he instructed Alter The Press the day after the efficiency. “I can discuss it for hours, however I’ll simply say that is what I’ve at all times wished to do and these are guys I’ve identified for a very long time. It’s the very best.”
Very would go on to develop into Manchester Orchestra’s longest-serving drummer, showing on the group’s previous three studio albums: 2014’s Cope, 2017’s A Black Mile to the Floor, and 2021’s The Million Masks of God. The band shared their most up-to-date EP, The Valley of Imaginative and prescient, in 2023, and are set to launch a reside album, Union Chapel (London, England), this March. Outdoors of his work with Manchester Orchestra, Very was additionally a seasoned session musician, producer, and co-founder of the Georgia manufacturing firm Tremendous Canoe.
“Tim was immediately likable and interacted with everybody he met with kindness and heat. His snigger was infectious and he instantly made folks really feel invited and inspired,” Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, Robert McDowell, and Andy Worth stated in a press release. “He had an plain mild that was solely matched by his dedication and love for the craft that he was clearly placed on earth to do. No phrases can ever do him justice. Please know, if you’re somebody who cherished Tim, he cherished you too.”
Learn Manchester Orchestra’s full assertion beneath.
