On 17 October 2017 , the band announced that they would disband at the end of the year , after their last concert in Milan on 19 December . On 16 December 2017 , it was announced that the band would take part in the Sanremo Music Festival 2018 with the song '' Arrivedorci '' , i.e. " Arrivederci " , meaning " See you later " in Italian ; the song title is misspelled in the same way in which Alberto Sordi intentionally mispronounced the word , with a fake and exaggerated American accent ( mostly for comic effect ) , while dubbing Oliver Hardy in the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy films , from 1939 to 1951 ) . The song , a slow ballad with a lyric consisting in a half-comical , half-serious concise recapitulation of their history , came last in the final chart and it was called by journalist and music critic Mario Luzzatto Fegiz " the ugliest song they ever wrote " ; Elio , replying to Fegiz in an ambiguous attitude , stated that the band had made a calculated effort to classify last . A follow-up " Tour D'Addio " ( " Farewell Tour " ) was announced for the Spring of 2018 starting on April 20th and ending on June 29th . Later on , during a June 30 , 2018 meet-and-greet in Barolo , for the tenth edition of its '' Collisioni '' rock music festival , Elio clarified that the main reasons behind the band 's break-up were Tanica 's recurring and continued absence from their stage performances during the previous years , due to health reasons – namely depression ( although the keyboardist never gave up his official membership in the band , by continuing to play keyboards and synths on their studio albums ) – and a general tiredness within the band after their long career
Sanremo Music Festival 2018
Sanremo Music Festival 2018
Elio e le Storie Tese