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Let's Make Up And Be Friendly
Posted by Nick Duvet on 30 May 2011 - 1:42am.
We appear to be going through a phase of reconciliation between artists.
I have just been reading about how the famous literary feud between Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul has come to an end, after they shook hands and spoke, for the first time in 15 years, at the Hay Festival.
Earlier, I watched, with a lump in my throat, as David Gilmour appeared atop The Wall at Roger Waters' O2 show.
And then there is the apparent rapprochement between Ian Brown and John Squire.
So Massive, which other artists should get over themselves and realise life is too short to hold a grudge?
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Sham 69 ?
based on the thread below, how about Dave Parson and Jimmy Pursey ?
I said artists
I'm with Colin H, the world can do without a Sham reunion.
I draw the line at Bucks Fizz
Well I was just going to say
if only Bobby G could only bury the hatchet with Baker, Nolan and Aston....
I refer
the honourable members to a press release from the King's Lynn Corn Exchange http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/and-other-news
Making their minds up
Bucks Fizz - mostly dire, but after Eurovision dimmed, they went quite interestingly bonkers with crashing elegies like Now Those Days Are Gone and (12" extended) When We Were Young. The latter is madder than Duranduran's Wild Boys. I can't imagine who was choosing their material, but they merit a place somewhere in the background of Rock's Rich Tapestry.
That'll be Andy Hill...
He, together with his other half Nicola Martin, was the brains behind ver Fizz.
I just like that
"after appearing on Pop Goes the Band for Living TV" line, sounds like another of those "character building" moments that Waters was referring to on DID this week ... and who among us hasn't had one or two of those ...
To be honest
I don't want any bands to reform unless they have something new to offer. I don't want anyone to reform just for some nostalgic gigs.
I think what these people should do is maybe write songs, do production or provide other help/advice to new bands.
A great example is Factory Floor who I think are magnificent. They're clearly influenced by New Order at their most spartan (81-83) and Throbbing Gristle/Chris & Cosey. Lo and behold they've been working with Stephen Morris from New Order and Chris Carter from TG.
Needless to say I can't wait for the debut LP, but I don't think New Order have another decent LP in them.
Funny thing about Factory Floor
when I saw them at Supersonic I thought they sounded very close to TG - which was not something that the world particularly needed at that point. Now TG are no more, so what the hell, if it means it keeps Chris and Cosey in the public eye.
Stealers Wheel
What about Joe Egan & Gerry Rafferty? ..... He's what?!
Bob Holness
Has anyone told him a reunion's off the cards too?
Inevitably...
Morrissey and his friends Devious, Truculent and Unreliable
not forgetting those other Manc love-birds
Noel and Liam - but then what would be the point?
OK, how about Axl and Slash? no, maybe not
Tyler and Perry? yeah, they'll get back together
What's so funny about peace love and understanding?
Happy for them to be friends just so long as they don't start performing
Jam
Some reconciliation between Paul Weller & Bruce Foxton ("Lifes too short" being a factor I believe)
Just a make-up with Rick Buckler to achieve
Bruce...
played on a couple of tracks on Weller's last album iirc
Sir Mick and Lord Keef
If only to save us from the scarifying prospect of Jagger's impending *supergroup* featuring Dave Stewart and Joss Stone amongst others.
It's called Super Heavy apparently...
(speechless)
And lest we forget...
Regrettably, Joss Stone has 'form' when it comes to pensioner-partnering pop.
(This is a video clip of Joss Stone and Ringo Starr singing "Who's Your Daddy', possibly the worst duet of recent times. NB. Not suitable for those of a sensitive disposition. Sleep well and - don't have nightmares)
It'd be nice if the large frost over Swindon were to thaw
and Andy & Colin chose to work together again.
And Dave ?
Would be even nicer if Mr Gregory was also involved.
Btw - whatever happened to the remasters that were supposed to come out last year. I know Skylarking came out on vinyl with the phase fixed, but what about the CD ?
According to Mr Parsons...
...the remastered Skylarking WILL come out on CD before too long but there are a few contractual hoops to jump through first.
No one can possibly believe that...
...it's possible to start a thread like this around here without me saying 'The Mahavishnu Orchestra Mk 1', can they?
So, if only to fulfil that expectation, I'll say it: 'Lads, get over yourselves - sort it out, book a small stadium within feasible travel from Belfast and let me know the date'.
Here's the briefest clip there is (when 'Resolution' was but a short coda at the end of the epic 'One Word'):
Mahavishnu Mk 1
I saw them play Birmingham Town Hall - I loved the first 2 albums but seeing them live at that age I don't think I was equipped to fully appreciate them. I came back to John McLaughlin years later and as much as I love his solo stuff nothing compares to his playing with Jan Hammer, Billy Cobbham et al. So yes it would be good to see - not sure we need the meditative silence before the set though!
I envy you Steve...
...it's not unusual, though, to have found it a mind-blowing experience, or just too much to take in: Walter Kolosky's MO biography is full of people quoted (many of them subsequent musical icons themselves) saying they were in various stakes of shock and awe for days after hearing the first MO in concert.
A reunion may be an impossibility though, unless some colossal sum of money were involved. While John & Billy have performed live together recently, and good-naturedly, and while Jerry has performed MO material on at least one MO tribute album ('Visions Of The Inner Mounting Apocalypse'), I imagine Jan might be the sticking point. He played a rare live show in 2006 at Moogfest in the USA and asked the leading MO tribute act The Mahavishnu Project to be his backing band. However... they did two MO pieces by themselves and only then did Jan come on, for a set of post-MO material (with the MP backing). Maybe I'm reading too much into that but... well, if Paul McCartney turned up a Bootleg Beatles show but only had them back him on Wings material it would seem a tad odd wouldn't it?
Anyway, here's Jan at Moogfest with the Mahavishnu Project playing 'Darkness (Earth In Search Of A Sun)' from his first solo album, in 1974:
it's Rick Laird daddio
The MO bassist in 1965, playing with the Victor Feldman trio, introduced by Humph. Great playing from all. I was always a big fan of Feldman's playing with Joni and Steely Dan. In my ignorance I had no idea he was English.
Terrific Nick!
...hadn't seen that before!
Dammers with the rest of The Specials
It all seemed to be going so well at the beginning of 2009 and then he fell out. I heard it was meddling managements.
The name of this answer is Talking Heads
If anyone is familiar with the Nothing But Flowers video (not on YouTube, oddly) with Johnny Marr & Kirsty MacColl, you just look at it and wish they would have toured. It's not too late, gang.
Burchill and Parsons
To present a mid-morning chat show together?
Stewart Lee and Patrick Marber to collaborate on a new comedy?
Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley to reform the classic Fall line-up?
Gillan and Blackmore reconciled?
It would be hard to imagine Ritchie Blackmore ever rejoining Deep Purple. He and Ian Gillan would be at each others throats in no time. But I'd like to think he might at least make an appearance with them, just for old times' sake.