reunions
Music
10:43AM Jess McGuire | Good news for fans of beloved indie band Pavement! It seems they’ve jumped on the reunion bandwagon and will be touring the world in 2010. Sure, Pavement are warning us not to get our hopes up by advising it’s not a permanent thing and there won’t be any new material… but we can dream, right? More »
Pavement: “We’re Getting The Band Back Together!”
10:43AM Jess McGuire | Good news for fans of beloved indie band Pavement! It seems they’ve jumped on the reunion bandwagon and will be touring the world in 2010. Sure, Pavement are warning us not to get our hopes up by advising it’s not a permanent thing and there won’t be any new material… but we can dream, right? More »
Music
Bands Start Up Each And Every Day
4:35AM John Cook | Indie-rock progenitors Pavement are getting the band back together for a tour—but no record—next year. Rumours were floated by Brooklyn Vegan a few days ago, but now it’s official. Their last show was in 1999. We feel old.
Are Shane And Simone Back Together AGAIN?
11:13AM Jess McGuire | Back in September of last year when Simone Callahan used the pages of New Idea to announce to the world that not only had she and former husband Shane Warne been secretly seeing each other but they’d just broken up because Shane had – quelle surprise – texted saucy things to another woman, Defamer Australia concluded our report on the incident by saying -
Considering she’s taken Shane back, oh, we don’t know.. (counts fingers and toes…) A BILLION TIMES, we dare say this isn’t the end of the ongoing love saga between Simone Callahan and Shane Warne.
And guess what? It looks as though we may have been right. In what has turned out to be a bit of a two thousand and great for Shane Warne (new found love and respect from the Australian people, star of hit musical), it seems he and his former missus may indeed be back together.
Reports The Sunday Mail:
The sports world is abuzz with rumours Shane Warne has patched up his rift with on-off partner Simone Callahan.
Simone, have you anything to say? More »
S Club 7 Are Getting Back Together!
11:34AM Jess McGuire | Oh happy day, fans of cheaply manufactured but highly successful pop songs of the late nineties/early noughties! S Club 7, the British chart sensations who were a bit like Steps except younger and not force fed amyl, have decided to reunite in an effort to scrape together some coins! Oh, this’ll be just like the recent Spice Girls come back, only with fewer people caring. Did I mention that essentially it’s only going to be S Club 3?
Pop band S Club 7 are reforming – minus four of their original members.
While their former bandmates – including Rachel Stevens, currently starring on Strictly Come Dancing – have gone on to form successful careers outside of the group, Jo O’Meara, Bradley McIntosh and Paul Cattermole have not.
Now they are planning to reunite for a tour of nightclubs and universities, earning £3,000 per 20-minute set, it was claimed today.
More » Original ‘90210′ Alumni Report: Checking In With Kelly, David and Nat
10:35AM Defamer Hollywood | There hasn’t been a show as hotly anticipated as the 90210 revamp since last year’s Knight Rider. (You heard me.) And as we wait with bated breath wondering about the casting fate of teen counseling sensation and all around Losing My Religion-loving Brenda, let’s catch up with some former cast members to see how life is treating them. More »They’re Not New, They’re Not Kids, and Maybe Not Even An Editon Anymore, But We’ll Take It!
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s a crappy world out there. The economy is in the pooper, oil is a million dollars a barrel, fires are raging out of control, and don’t even get me started on other countries. But just when you think things are too bleak for words, life provides you with a little nugget of awesomeness. And today that nugget is the New Kids on the Block recording a song with New Edition! “But how can this be?” you ask. “I checked my watch and it’s not the 1980s!” Well, thanks to the magic of reunions, the two reigning boy bands of our youth have joined forces and are making sweet music together (tragically sans Bobby Brown). More »
Tom And Katie Kiss And Make Up With Beckhams
3:55AM Molly Friedman | Though the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Costume Gala is considered by most to be the Oscars of the fashion world, the truth of the matter is that no one really focuses on the clothes. What really matters is which celebrities show up to WEAR the clothes and, of course, whether or not they’re lookin’ good. That said, all eyes were entirely focused on the recently friction-laden, reportedly squabbling super-duo of Team Cruise and Team Beckham, who reunited once again for the cameras. And despite the gushing show of admiration and respect that the Beckhams demonstrated for the the Hubbard-lovers on yesterday’s Oprah, both Holmes and Beckham were allegedly competing for the spotlight last night. And in the end? The girl with the higher-slit dress tends to win every time. More photos from the event, including our picks for the best and most horrific looks of the night, after the jump. More »Noiseworks Announce Plans To Reach Out And Touch Somebody Once More
10:10AM Jess McGuire | Jon Stevens has revealed that ye olde rockers of yesteryear Noiseworks are planning on releasing a new album soon.
Their songs take us back to the ’80s, now Noiseworks plan to take us back again, reuniting for their first studio album in 16 years. No lies, Jon Stevens has revealed the Aussie rockers have been recording some of their live shows and hope to release it on CD and DVD soon.
While we’re terribly excited to see how this goes, we can’t help but suspect this may be the final nail in the coffin when it comes to our dream of seeing a second series of The Resort on the telly :(
And the secret to sounding better than before?
“We’re all older and sober,” he said.
Obviously not a subscriber to the Justice Marks theory that drunk musicians play better.
MOVING ON!
In celebration of this cheery Noiseworks news, go and watch their video for ‘Touch’. As some switched on commenter has noted “you would be amazed at how many phone companies used this song”. More »
‘Man-Band’ Age No Barrier To Take That Stalkers
1:16PM Clem Bastow | Dear old Take That; first they’re in the wars because they can’t do the splits or breakdance like they once could, now they’re being chased by lithe young 20-somethings.
Which would be all well and good, were it not for the fact that said 20-something is a crazed fan, and so suddenly their visions of comely virgins become nightmares of Stacey from Wayne’s World.
Father-of-two Gary Barlow, 36, and Jason Orange, 37, were already in bed when she moved in just after midnight. Mark, 35, who has one son, went out for a smoke and the girl followed him to chat.
Our source adds: “Then he told her he was off to bed and she made a dash for the lift. She looked crazed and refused to get out so he yelled for security.
“In the end she was thrown out of the hotel and that was that.”
Howard Donald, 39, a father-of-two who suffered a collapsed lung after a strenuous dance move on the tour, told a friend: “That girl was mad. She shouldn’t have drunk so much.”
A hotel spokesman said it was all handled by the band’s tour managers.
It’s good to see that some pop stars know how to act their age…
Nice to see The Mirror managing to get one last stab at the granddads of the reunion circuit.
Back for good? Back for seconds at the seniors’ community lunch buffet, more like! More » “Spice Force One” Set To Make John Travolta Pink With Envy
2:11PM Clem Bastow | The Spice Girls’ reunion tour is looming large (which means Christmas is also looming; may god have mercy on our etc), and the Mail breathlessly reports that the “girls” will be flying in their own (rented) Boeing 757, which will apparently be nicknamed “Spice Force One“.
That’s all well and good, but the bit that has us really excited/confused is the fact that it will apparently be daubed with “official Spice Girls reunion artwork – which the Mail has helpfully drafted an “artist’s impression” of:
We look forward to listening in to the Air Traffic Control feeds when that one taxis into Heathrow. “Roger that, United, we have… OH CHRIST ALMIGHTY, WHAT IS THAT?”
All that’s missing are some airbrushed flames and a Native American Indian looking through a dream-catcher while holding a wolf. More »