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Monday, November 26, 2007
For starters I have rules that I believe bands need to follow when it comes to "getting the band back together". No band should say they are reformed or back together if they have not reached the 10 year mark. This 10 year can be between releases or the dismantling of the band. So for groups like Janes Addiction and Smashing Pumpkins, those are just extended breaks between albums not official reformations. With that in mind I have a few bands I would like to discuss today. All three bands meet my criteria and are scheduled to resurface next year.
The first band is the Jesus And Mary Chain. After their Coachella show the Reid brothers decided to give it another shot and will be releasing a new cd next year. This will be 10 years since their last cd Munki and possibly a new direction for the band. Both brothers will be featuring their own songs and as of now there is no talk of newer music written together. This can always change so we shall see.
The second band is My Bloody Valentine who took the 10 year rule and blew it out of the water. Their last cd surfaced back in '91 so we are looking at 17 years. MBV were part of the shoegazing scene that pulled influences from JAMC, Sonic Youth and Cocteau Twins. Due to Kevin Shields insistence on perfection, MBV never released anything after Loveless until now, or so he says. Shields wants to pull a Radiohead and release online only but at a price no free music.
Our third band would be The Verve who hit it big with Urban Hymns only to crumble a year later. Yeah they pulled off some shows with a new guitarist but that never panned out and Richard Ashcroft dismantled the band and went solo. For the last 8 years Ashcroft put out cds that became progressively worse and for any credibility to be left he needed to get the band back together. Right now, The Verve are just re-releasing a greatest hits with a DVD packaged together. They did play some shows and posted about 20 minutes of music recorded during some studio sessions. The music didn't amount to much, no songs but a good starting point for work on a new cd.
All three bands are very important in the history of music, lets hope their reformations amount to some amazing sounds, something the music industry desparately needs.
Update: As for Janes Addiction, they had a 13 year span between cds but within that time were back together playing shows with members of Red Hot Chili Peppers throughout the late 90s.
Posted by mardenhill 11/26/2007 10:32:00 AM
Labels: Music
Band plans to release follow-up to 1991’s ‘Loveless’ via the Internet
Billboard
updated 5:11 p.m. ET, Fri., Nov. 23, 2007
Nick Kelly - Alternative-rock band My Bloody Valentine plans to “do a Radiohead” when the Anglo-Irish quartet releases its long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s “Loveless,” Billboard has learned.
“The plan is that they will release the album themselves via the Internet, but there will also probably be a vinyl release,” the band’s London-based manager, Vinita Joshi, said.
But the band is unlikely to follow Radiohead’s pay-what-you-like download model for its new recordings, he added.
“At the moment, all I can say is that Kevin is getting the band back together and they will go into the studio next month to work on the new record,” Joshi said, referring to notoriously reclusive singer/guitarist and bandleader Kevin Shields.
In the meantime, demand for the band’s 2008 U.K. tour, its first since 1992, has proved strong. The initial three dates sold out after just six minutes on Nov. 16, and four shows were then added to the schedule. The dates kick off with three shows at the 2,000-capacity Roundhouse in London starting June 20, with all four members of the “Loveless” lineup — Shields, singer/guitarist Bilinda Butcher, bassist Debbie Googe and drummer Colm O’Ciosoig — involved.
Joshi denied reports that My Bloody Valentine is planning to appear at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, in late April. “If the band had been booked to play any summer festivals, I’d know about it,” Joshi said. “We’ll see how the summer shows go first.”
© 2007 Billboard