In pure Wrens fashion, frontman Charles Bissell shared saddening news on his Facebook page in a very sarcastic and dark humored way. The indie rocker updated his fans about his recent diagnosis, which is the form of cancer known as multiple myeloma. His post is pretty funny considering the subject matter, but fans of The Wrens wouldn't expect anything else from the singer.
According to Bissell's post on social media, his condition is not curable, but it is definitely treatable. Overall, he seems very optimistic and is hoping that the cancer doesn't affect his life too much from now on.
"It's not 'curable' per se - but here that's not in the usual sense of a dramatic Brian's Song 'get your affairs in order, you've got nine months,'" Bissell explained in his Facebook post, which was also posted to the band's official page, (via Rolling Stone). "Here it means more that you're stuck with a longish weekly hospital commute for meds/chemo from here on out (with sooner/later, possibly/probably a bone marrow transplant (not as crazy as it sounds, more on that also below)). So really almost more like a chronic condition like say, diabetes. If diabetes came with free bone marrow."
You can check out the full post right here:
[pasting in from my own facebook page out of laziness. An album update, sort of...]As of last week, by a very wide...
Posted by the-wrens on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The Wrens are still together after more than two decades together, but we haven't heard anything about new music since the band's 2015 cassette release of Three Types of Reading Ambiguity, which consisted of three songs, according to an earlier report by Pitchfork.
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