cannot confirm this 100% but a friend of mine is friends with a guy who is close with one of the gizz band members(won't say who). He told me that Eric screwed the rest of the band over financially, hence the split and him leaving the band. It seems odd that all of a sudden, the band stops selling everything through flightless (especially when eric left to "focus on the label". They enlist a totally separate company (soundmerch) to handle sales of all vinyl and merch. The OG nowhere special / 161 crew dont run the merch stand at gigs anymore, it's all sound merch employees. When I went to the chunky shrapnel premiere at the astor theatre, the entire band was there besides eric when he was obviously still touring with the band during the recording of chunky. It seems like something has definitely happened between them. I've been hesitant to say anything online as I didn't want to start rumours but now everyone is starting to question the potential split I feel like it's the right time to. I could also be completely wrong though, my mates friend could have made it up, but why would he.