Until now Perry Farrell has remained silent on the subject of the Jane’s Addiction split, concentrating his public disappointment on the cancellation of this year’s Lollapalooza touring festival. Now he has spoken to Rolling Stone about the break-up and it would seem he’s a little bitter.

Farrell told the magazine, “The band went astray, falling into shallow holes. There was no consideration for the legacy she had built up over the years. Jane was getting stripped of her majesty.

“My separation came about because this legendary band was taken over by new owners. Music that was once relevant and graceful had become clumsy as a circus seal tooting his horns … Jane’s doesn’t strip for anyone but me. I brought Jane’s Addiction to life, it is only fitting that I am the one to bury her.”

To add insult to injury it was revealed last week that the other members of Jane’s Addiction – Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney – have formed a new band with musical actor Steve Isaacs.

The split was announced in a statement that appeared on Dave Navarro’s website on 23rd June, which read:

“We know we can’t avoid this anymore so we will give it our best shot. What’s the deal? The deal is that it simply didn’t work out. Sometimes things just don’t work out. In all honesty, we have broken up and rejoined roughly four times over the years. Perhaps that should shed some light as to where we are now. We really don’t know. We do know that we really gave it everything we had this time and we actually made a really great record after so many years of silence.

“Why didn’t it work out? So many reasons. Some of them over 15 years old, some of them new and none of them worth mentioning. Maybe we are just a volatile combination. Maybe that is why we were so great. The bottom line is that we are all extremely creative and motivated people and I know we will all continue to create and work on many different projects.

“Sometimes people grow apart in the relationship, it is nobody’s fault really… just a fact of life… an inevitable creative dissolution. Sometimes the best creative relationships are the most combustible and they aren’t meant to last forever.”