My biggest musical regret of the year is not finding a way to get to one of the Jane's Addiction shows in May/June. Given the events of the last couple of days, those who were able to see the alt-rock legends can now consider themselves even more fortunate.
It never seemed plausible that the only casualty of Saturday's onstage bust-up between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro in Boston would be the Bridgeport show the following night - especially when Farrell's wife poured petrol on the flames - and sure enough the remainder of their US tour has been scrapped so they can "take some time away as a group".
That's the official line, anyway. Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery have released a separate statement citing "a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell", and insisting that "concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own" meant that cancellation was the only possible course of action.
Navarro and Farrell have always had a combustible relationship, and the latter is clearly an eccentric character, to say the very least. Time will tell if this spells the end of the reformation, but the signs certainly don't look good. A bitter disappointment, given that (I gather) they seemed to be having such a great time in each other's company at the Roundhouse.
The episode has prompted the Guardian's Dave Simpson to pull together a list of famously fractious bands. Notably, the flashpoints are often between siblings (Oasis, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Kinks) - but always between men...
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