I may have missed the announcement (has there been one??), but has Larry left again? And was he involved in the making of the new album?

Great to see Adrian back, but as a massive fan of Larry's playing I'm curious about his absence from the warm-up shows.....

Larry was involved in the writing and recoding but he isn't being involved in the tour or promo work

Does anyone actually know why Larry is absent?

No idea, and everybody has left it very vague so far, so it could be personal non-band reasons, etc..

Given how passionate the band are about their music, the vagueness, even oneofthethree has not touched upon it, I would bet it's been some sort of artistic argument within the band. Larry joked on twitter at some point that it was rare for the band to get through a soundcheck with no-one threatening to quit.

At the same time, it's probably pointless to speculate with no information and we can only hope that things (whatever they are) will work out...

Larry is fine and met up with the boys in Manchester for the pre-launch gig a couple of weeks ago.

Just taking some time out of touring at the moment, nothing to do with musical or personality differences. Just taking a break from touring.

That sounds great, thanks for posting.