Losing In Legal Dispute, UK Indie Rock Unit Easy Life Will Change Name

Easy Life (Instagram @easylife)

JAKARTA - British indie rock unit Easy Life will release their last single, Trust Exercises with their current band name after losing their fight against EasyGroup.

The band consisting of Murray Matravers, Oliver Cassidy, Sam Hewitt, Lewis Berry, and Jordan Birtles, via the Instagram page posted footage of their last song as a band with the name Easy Life. The song will be released Friday, October 13.

"Trust Exercises. I wrote this song more than 6 years ago. Since then I have made many changes/editting/adjustment. We have always waited for the right time to release this song but it feels never true and new material always gets priority," reads the statement uploaded with the clip.

"We finally managed to finish everything and we plan to release it in January, but we only have until Friday to release any music as Easy Life. We have made a disk and merchandise, with Easy Life prints on it, so now or never," the statement continued.

Thank you to everyone who has been waiting for this song, we have played it on a tour for years, threatening to release it over the years and finally on our last day as Easy Life, the song is coming. Trust Exercises, one of our earliest songs arrived on time.

Earlier on October 10, the band announced it had to give up Easy Life following a legal dispute between David andtendaly with EasyGroup.

Easy Life revealed that they were sued by the conglomerate and claimed that the company 'forced' them to change names or they were at risk of facing expensive lawsuits.

Easy Life shared a statement with fans on their website explaining that although have explored every possible corner, the band realized that no good choice was available' and that they should then change our name to progress.

The NME Award winner, Easy Life, has released two famous albums 'But In Another Life' in 2022 and their debut album Life's A Beach (2021) They have been active since 2017.

As a farewell to Easy Life, the band will hold a farewell party for fans. The first will take place today, Thursday 12 October at Leicester Academy, and the second will be at Koko on Friday.