Make Do and Mend are back, album & shows announced

Connecticut/Boston post-hardcore band Make Do and Mend released their third album, Don’t Be Long, in 2015, but they lapsed into inactivity after touring in support of it. They’ve now returned to social media with the announcement that they’ve recorded a new album, On Going, and will be playing shows. They’ve launched a new Substack, where they write:

Old friends,

I hope life and time have treated you gently since we last spoke.

About eleven years ago, after releasing and touring on our album Don’t Be Long, we stepped away from being a full-time band to focus our energies on other important parts of our lives. We didn’t say much about it. We decided to just let it be.

Since then, like many of you, we’ve found careers, built marriages, started families. We’ve loved, we’ve lost. We’ve celebrated, we’ve hurt.

Make Do And Mend never stopped being a living, breathing thing for us. Even in our time of creative inactivity, Matt, Mike, and I continued to communicate almost daily. In truth, we’ve become better friends than we ever were before. Kind of strange how age and maturity can do that.

The nights we spent in small rooms with you playing our songs, and the long drives between them, still mean a lot to us. We think about them often.

Over the past year or so, we started to bat around what being creative together again might look like. We began sharing ideas, which led to a collection of new songs that will make up the fourth Make Do and Mend album. We humbly regard it as our best.

We’ll have more to share soon about when and how this new album will find its way to you. For now, we’ll let you know, the album is called On Going.

We’ve also got news of new gigs coming up, with more on the way.

We are so excited to be with you again. We’ve missed it.

We fired up our old email address, and we’d love to reconnect. If you’d like to say hello, catch up, or share a bit about what you’ve been up to, shoot us an email at makedoandmendband@yahoo.com

For always

As always,

James

Make Do and Mend

As for the shows, so far they’ve announced that they’ll open I Am the Avalanche‘s dates celebrating their new album The Horror Show, including Asbury Park’s House of Independents on June 11 and Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 20. Also on those shows are Brandon Reilly of Nightmare of You (performing solo) and Crime in Stereo (Boston and Brooklyn only). See all dates below.

MAKE DO AND MEND: 2026 TOUR DATES
Jun 11 Asbury Park, NJ House of Independents *^
Jun 12 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts *^
Jun 13 Hamden, CT Space Ballroom *^
Jun 16 Baltimore, MD Ottobar *^
Jun 17 Albany, NY Empire Underground *^
Jun 19 Boston, MA The Sinclair *^%
Jun 20 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg *^%

* with I Am The Avalanche
^ with Brandon Reilly
% with Crime in Stereo