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Artist News
Spandau Ballet reunion planned
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 17 February 2009
I quite like Spandau Ballet. Well, I love the song ‘Gold’. But I’m not sure I’d recommend that they reunite for a new album and tour. But then, I’d’ve probably told Take That not to bother either, and they’ve shown me, haven’t they?
Anyway, according to reports, manager Steve Dagger says that a new album and tour is exactly what’s on the cards, despite the band’s famously acrimonious split and the subsequent legal battles over the band’s name and catalogue.
The band split at the end of the eighties, of course, with Gary and Martin Kemp moving on to relatively successful acting careers.
After the much publicised royalties battle between some of the band and main songwriter Kemp, frontman Tony Hadley won that ITV reality show ‘Reborn In The USA’ and enjoyed a bit of a revival; so much so he and the other non-Kemp members of the band, Steve Norman and John Keeble, started to play together again, though they were unable to use the name Spandau Ballet.
Anyway, if the news is to be believed, some burying of hatchets has been going on. Dagger is quoted by the Daily Express as saying: “We’re not making announcements yet, but yes, basically, the boys are back in town. Not just a nostalgic re-run of the old but a fresh slant on what Spandau Ballet are about”.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph have published this mildly amusing quote from Roy Eldridge, who headed up Chrysalis Records when the band were signed to the label back in the day: “Every band on the way down is a band on the way up. But I never thought I’d see this one. Once, they couldn’t stand to be in the same room together, let alone play. But now they are older, fatter, poorer, there’s every reason to see if the magic still works”.
