Big 'Classic' Acts Reforming

[Sketchead]

I was just talking about The Zombies at work, and it got me thinking - it seems like everybody has come back/about to come back over the past year or so, how many can we think of that are wanting to tour again?

As I type this I've just realised this is my 2nd non-Glasto topic of the day in here, I'ma be in trouble soon.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Sketchead

[SirDaniel]

Not really relevant, but I would love to see The Zombies play a set some where at Worthy Farm. How is Blunstone sounding these days?

[mrtourette]

Go see new music.

[russycarps]

says a lot about the current music scene that so many people are calling for all these reunions.

[5co77ie]

Have they split up?

[Sketchead]

says a lot about the current music scene that so many people are calling for all these reunions.

[russycarps]

If that was aimed at me, I'm not calling for anyone to reform, though I did enjoy Stone Roses this summer at a festival.

[mrtourette]

It either says something about current music or current music fans, probably a bit of both. To dismiss current music as in the main rubbish is an alarming generalisation.

[eFestivals]

To dismiss current music as in the main rubbish is an alarming generalisation.

It is. But much more alarming about the state of current music than it is alarm about generalisations.

[random_man]

I got sent this article the other day after a conversation I was having with a friend about headline acts not being new(ish) bands at most major festivals at the moment.

I found it quite interesting and true, especially the second comment :

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/culture/2012/10/nmes-aging-and-often-dead-cover-stars

[The Nal]

It either says something about current music or current music fans, probably a bit of both. To dismiss current music as in the main rubbish is an alarming generalisation.

[eFestivals]

I got sent this article the other day after a conversation I was having with a friend about headline acts not being new(ish) bands at most major festivals at the moment.

I found it quite interesting and true, especially the second comment :

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/culture/2012/10/nmes-aging-and-often-dead-cover-stars

Hmmmm ... one of the covers that article goes on about is a "60 years of nme" one - which puts it outside of the nme's normal covers.

I've not read nme for a while, so it's interesting to read that 2nd comment that says that nme is now having to 'explain' music history to kids.

BUT .... it's over 20 years since the likes of The Beatles would have been standardly played in Radio 1, and the parents of today's kids are unlikely to be Beatles fans (because The Beatles weren't one of the bands of their youth) - so there's good reasons why today's kids might need a bit of background.

It's certainly true that NME spent the last 5+ years rather stuck in the past, too wedded to 'indie' music (that amusingly, mostly wasn't indie music), but I thought they'd kicked that recently by getting in a new editorial team?

Mostly I'd say that NME has become isolated from a lot of 'new music' because it's stuck on the rock side of things (as have festivals), while a new genre/area has grown massively in the background and is of large appeal to today's kids. It's like the punk revolution all over again (tho without the rebellion or originality) where a generation of people have become stuck in the past.

[mrtourette]

Theres enough to keep people interested but theres just so much bog standard nothing music out there now. Kasabian being the best band in the world according to some. Crazy talk.

[abdoujaparov]

It's like the punk revolution all over again (tho without the rebellion or originality) where a generation of people have become stuck in the past.

[The Nal]

Courses for horses.

[russycarps]

It either says something about current music or current music fans, probably a bit of both. To dismiss current music as in the main rubbish is an alarming generalisation.

[eFestivals]

I happened to notice that in yesteday's episode of Hollyoaks, they featured a Fleetwood Mac song.

It's a down with the kids thing. They're going to be the next massive classic act after years of few people taking much notice.

/me wanders away to put on Tusk for the first time in 25+ years.

[nick160460]

When I see the number of people who apparently want nothing more than a Floyd reunion, or a Led Zep reunion, I wonder whether punk ever happened....

[nick160460]

Love to see floyd again first saw them in 1972 (ish) in Southampton guildhall all time fav group

[redmosquito]

I'm all for personal preference, but with Kasabian and bands like them, its like people saying Subway is the nicest food in the world when they haven't tasted fillet steak.

[mrtourette]

I'm all for personal preference, but with Kasabian and bands like them, its like people saying Subway is the nicest food in the world when they haven't tasted fillet steak.

[GuitarManDan15]

I feel like with many bands it was the atmosphere at the time. I agree some bands have unfinished business and can easily come back but i think many bands were born out of a situation in their lives or in the region/country they live in. They've grown up and the worlds changed would it still feel the same? Would there be the same intensity in their performance and sincerity in the performance of their songs?

I adore the smiths but I wasn't even a twinkle in the milkman's eye when they split up, if they reformed I would be there but its not going to be the same for the audience or for them.

A lot of musicians are completely different people to when they were at the height of their fame. They have families, they are sober, older and have a different view on the world. I totally understand why people want bands to get back together but I also understand and respect why bands like Led Zep, Pink floyd and the smiths don't see it as something they want to do.

As a middle aged man can you really sing about the angst you felt as a teenager in the 80s? Or being sober for 10 years can you really connect to all the songs about drugs/alcohol?

[The Nal]

As a middle aged man can you really sing about the angst you felt as a teenager in the 80s? Or being sober for 10 years can you really connect to all the songs about drugs/alcohol?

[fatyeti24]

depends what kind of music you like i suppose. i have never been one for indie/rock bands really, the odd exception aside.

house music is my thing. played by djs in dark clubs. i have been listening to the stuff for 20 years now and the scene is richer than ever. the technology has improved to allow for far more than just mixing records. the soundsystems have improved (thankyou, funktion one), there is more variation in styles, the internet allowing everybody access to a whole world's worth of back catalogues previously only available to the keenest crate diggers.

obviously with an increase in numbers, there is an increase in rubbish music too, but that is easy to avoid. for example, this years line ups at the warehouse project are immense, hardly a dud act in sight.

of course this may not concern you at all if the stuff you're into isn't flourishing right now, in which case, bad luck. it'll come round again, it always does.

[jimmyt]

Ribeye steak is better!