It seems these days that every other day we're talking about some reunion or another - you start to wonder if one day we'll run out of bands to reform. I'm not sure what was the bigger reunion this year - Led Zepp or the Spice Girls. The former, a headline set at a concert held in honour late Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun, probably enjoyed the most hype, with tickets becoming like gold dust given the 'one off' nature of the event, and no word on whether another reunion gig or tour is in the pipeline. The long awaited Spice Girls reunion was certainly a bigger venture though, with a sell out world tour, greatest hits album and comeback single. The latter didn't seem to impress, but the tour has been garnering generally positive reviews and, despite talk of back stage tensions, the Girls themselves seem to be happy to be back.
Elsewhere in reunion news, and more exciting than all that if you ask me, Rage Against The Machine and The Jesus And Mary Chain reunited for Coachella, The Verve staged a very popular reunion tour and headed back into the studio, The Smashing Pumpkins returned after a seven year break, My Bloody Valentine announced they too were going back into the studio, and Portishead announced they were putting the finishing touches to their first new album in a decade. Oh, and The Police reformed to stage the highest grossing tour of the year. And Genesis, reunited in late 2006, also enjoyed another one of the highest grossing tours of the year with their reunion. And after much speculation and various delays, David Lee Roth reunited with Van Halen and is currently on tour with the band. Oh yes, and who could forget, the Boyzone boys also insisted on inflicting themselves on us once more, using the guise of charity (Children In Need) as an excuse for the reformation.