The three reunited very briefly, playing the song Here We Go as an encore. Along with several other performers, Corrigan invited Heimbold and State Radio to play. On December 22, 2005, Corrigan helped to organize a benefit concert, known as the Relief Project, at Irving Plaza in New York, New York. Chad, Brad, and Pete attended the showing and celebrated throughout the weekend with their fans. The film was released and previewed in Boston.
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Urmston is now the frontman of State Radio, while Corrigan (now credited as Braddigan, a nickname by which he was known since his time with Dispatch) and Heimbold (now credited as Pete Francis, his middle name) are succesfully pursuing solo efforts.Īfter the song Elias, written by Urmston after his experience living and teaching in Zimbabwe, the “Elias Fund” was formed to send children from the ravaged country to college.ĭispatch came out with a movie entitled “Last Dispatch” in July 2005, which documents their final 12 days together as a band and tells the story of how they became “the band that redefined independent music history”. Parts of the performance were released as a CD/DVD two-disc set later that year, entitled All Points Bulletin, along with an earlier show in Somerville, Massachusetts.Īll three of the band’s members are currently still in the music industry. “The Last Dispatch,” as it was referred, is said to be the largest concert in independent music history roughly 110,000 fans from over 20 different countries attended the show.
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The free show was performed at the Hatch Shell in Boston on July 31, 2004. Upon the announcement of its break-up in 2002, the band scheduled one final concert. The group was also fond of switching instruments and vocal duties when playing live. During concerts, the band had been known to improvise upon their album releases, often resulting in a song ending in twice the length of the original. Their music has drawn on several influences, such as acoustic folk-rock, reggae, and funk.ĭispatch gained much recognition outside of New England, without any help from a label, and stuck together long enough to release seven albums, three of which were live performances. Chad Urmston, Braddigan, and Pete (Francis) Heimbold, who were all attending Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont comprised the band’s lineup throughout their entire career. The band originated in the early 1990s as One Fell Swoop, but changed their name to Dispatch in 1996. Dispatch is an American indie-roots band founded in 1996 in Middlebury, Vermont.
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