Jane's Addiction, Jesus Lizard, and now Sugar: incredible, enormously influential US alt-rock bands reforming and then choosing to tour the UK during the May half-term, which we always have earmarked for family holiday. It's starting to feel like a conspiracy.
In the circumstances, then, it probably wasn't the best idea to read Stevie Chick's excellent Guardian feature on Sugar, for which he interviewed the band's three reunited amigos: Bob Mould, Malcolm Travis and David Barbe. But if you're lucky enough to have a ticket for one of the shows, then it'll certainly whet your appetite - and for anyone who doesn't know them already, it's a neat introduction.
Since getting back together, Sugar have put out two new songs, both of which are on a par with anything they released pre-split: 'House Of Dead Memories' and 'Long Live Love'. But there's been no talk of a full album, and in conversation with Chick, Mould refused to confirm either way, perhaps understandably preferring to live in the present: "This time, I'm just trying to enjoy it all, in a way I wasn't able to the first time around."
So are these live dates just a temporary return, or might it be the start of a whole new phase in the band's history? Here's hoping for the latter, and that it turns out more Dinosaur Jr than Jane's Addiction - and that I actually get to see them.
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