Make Do And Mend Band

abear182 · Mar 8, 2026

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

Looks like Make Do and Mend are about to have a comeback! Really enjoyed this band back in the day.

Excited to hear some new music!

Crisp X · Mar 8, 2026

Good timing as I recently revisited my faves from their early releases. I’m not sure I’ve listened to their third album much so I have some catching up to do.

333 GANG · Mar 8, 2026

Forgot all about these guys. Everything You Ever Loved was so damn good

SteadyGlen · Mar 8, 2026

Fucking love these guys, been hoping for this news forever. I am buzzing!

swboyd · Mar 8, 2026

Bout damn time and a welcome return.

Kylee · Mar 8, 2026

Omg this is incredible. I thought for sure we would never hear from them again. I'm so incredibly excited!

natefoundglory · Mar 8, 2026

Clocking in to this thread, let's fucking go

mynamesgeneric · Mar 8, 2026

God I love when I see threads like these pop up. MDAM were fantastic, just picked up their split with Touche Amore on discogs.

Kylee · Mar 8, 2026

mynamesgeneric said:

God I love when I see threads like these pop up. MDAM were fantastic, just picked up their split with Touche Amore on discogs.

I have the version that turns the 7" into a functioning clock!

abear182 · Mar 9, 2026

Make Do And Mend & Crime In Stereo...Unbelievable!

swboyd · Mar 9, 2026

I Am The Avalanche is opening for Thrice in Richmond on 6/14...just sayin' that maybe the boys would be nice enough to let them hop on.

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