Following months of speculation, the band's split was officially announced on 2 May 2003, with the press release stating that the band decided to call it a day after realising that "the life of the group had come to an end". Chad commented on the split, that "there's nothing sinister behind it, it was completely amicable. We all just want to be able to do other things". It was later revealed that the announcement had been delayed as Draper had unexpectedly fled to the US with no fixed date of return and that King was the band member who had left just prior to the band splitting.