Ben Folds Five will reform for their first gig in nearly ten years for a new MySpace show called 'Front To Back'. The band will play their final album, 'The Unauthorised Biography Of Reinhold Messner', in full on 18 Sep in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It will then be broadcast on MySpace in October. All proceeds from the gig will go to Operation Smile: Changing Lives One Smile At A Time.
Ben Folds, who releases a new solo album in September, told Billboard: "Of our three albums, this one brings back the most vivid memories. It was actually written to be one song of many movements, which is why there are motifs that appear throughout the album. That should make 'Reinhold' a natural to be played front to back".
Tickets and flights for all CMU staff will be gratefully accepted. Or perhaps the 'Five' could be persuaded to come and play a UK reunion set at the CMU Social. There's three of them and lots of us - that seems a much more eco-friendly plan.