Just because a couple of bands found success by getting back together doesn?t mean it?s going to be the same for everyone. But people are still going to try. The former members of the band Creed are said to be in talks to do a reunion tour in 2009 after a nasty break up in 2004. It looks like money has a magic way of making bad feelings disappear. Despite their crappy sound, Creed has sold 26.1 million albums in the US since 1997. From 220 shows between November 1997 and December 2002, the band made $70.3 million. However, I have to ask if there are even any Creed fans left.
New Kids On The Block have sold more than 80 million albums worldwide. The group shattered concert box office records playing an estimated 200 concerts a year in sold out stadiums across the globe. They beat out Michael Jackson and Madonna for Forbes highest paid entertainers of 1990. Their faces were plastered on everything from lunch boxes to sleeping bags to pillow cases.
The guys may have gone their separate ways in 1994, but Joey, Donnie, Jordan, Danny and Jon are back and ready to pick up right where they left off. They were welcomed back to the world stage by a mass of screaming fans after announcing their reunion live on NBC?s Today Show.
In addition to catering to their pre-existing, dedicated fan base, NKOTB are looking to engage a new set of younger fans that may not be as familiar with their music. Their new single, “Summertime,” is the perfect summer jam that fans of all ages will enjoy.
The band is set to release their album September 2nd through Interscope Records and will kick off a tour in the fall with support from Natasha Bedingfield.
Emo fans unite! Fans of the band My Chemical Romance are planning to march across London on May 31st to protest what they consider to be the unfair depiction of the band in the British media. The march will start at Hyde Park?s West Pond and end outside the offices of The Daily Mail who organizers are calling the worst offender in the media. The said newspaper recently called the band a suicide cult band in its reports covering the suicide of a 13-year old British girl named Hannah Bond. Let me guess, she happened to be a fan. That?s not any basis for them to start calling MCR a suicide cult band!
Gwen Stefani feels “at home” working with her No Doubt bandmates.
The singer – who is pregnant with her second child – is currently recording another album with the band and is enjoying spending time with them.
The 38-year-old star – who forged a successful solo career while taking a break from the band – wrote on her blog: “It’s great to be home with all my boys. Feels crazy to be pregnant all over again!!!!! We have been spending every day up in the little studio in our house trying to write music. My favorite part so far is just seeing the guys everyday and hanging out. We have so much fun together.”
Gwen – who sang the lead vocals on the band’s biggest hit ‘Don’t Speak’ in 1997 – is confident the new album will be a success even though pregnancy is started to take its toll on her songwriting skills.
She added: “The songwriting part is a bit slow on my part. I think it has something to do with the baby in my belly but I’m sure it is all of the process and I really believe this could be the most inspired No Doubt record so far. Can’t wait to see what happens.?
The Spice Girls were upstaged on the last night of their world tour by Victoria Beckham’s young son.
The reunited girlband – Victoria, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Mel C – performed their final concert in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday night but it was three-year-old Cruz who stole the show.
The toddler showed off his breakdancing skills, including a head spin, during the group’s hit song ‘Mama’ – just as he had done two weeks earlier at their New York concert.
During the show, the girls spent a lot of their time hugging and kissing each other as they realised they may never perform together again.
An emotional Geri said: “This is the last night of the tour and we never dreamt we’d ever be back together and be such a success and who knows if we’ll ever get back together again.”
As they closed the show with ‘Spice Up Your Life’ all five enjoyed a group hug before leaving the stage for the final time.
It?s the era of reunions and all you former teenyboppers can now go back to those wonder years. The wait is over! According to People, the boy band that spawned all boy bands is reportedly reuniting and going to hit the stage one more time. The New Kids on the Block website has been down for years but was recently redesigned and is up and running once again. A source said that an official tour announcement should be made in a few days.
In the early 90s, the band melted hearts of teen girls all over the world and sold 50 million albums before disbanding in 1994. Now, the thirty-something men have the chance to do it all over again ? they hope.
This reunion has been unapologetically self-indulgent, but fans should find no reason to feel slighted. It’s the band’s very selfishness that makes them so thrilling to watch. There is nothing left to prove at this aged point in their career, and it has made their beloved classics sound outright carefree.
Rest assured there are still a few moments of backing loops and triggered supporting vocals. This is especially evident on “Walking In Your Footsteps” (which Sting comically opens sporting a pan flute, a somewhat “Spinal Tap”-esque moment). The song, routinely mocked by die-hards, serves as mostly a vehicle to showcase Copeland’s absurdly elaborate percussion apparatus.
But perhaps what’s most refreshing about this latest display by the ’80s superstars is the suddenly jovial Summers. He confidently carried the show despite all of Sting’s charisma and star power.
Hiccups aside, one should see this tour before it comes to a close. We should be grateful the band has managed to stay this musically sharp after all these years. After all, their first album, “Outlandos D’Amour” was “recorded in 1872,” Sting joked from the stage.
Fiction Plane, who opened the show, offered a surprisingly confident display of arena-ready rock. Singer Joe Sumner’s melodically rich soprano filled the venue in a manner that nearly rivaled his famous father.
The chart-topping multi-platinum hip-hop dynamos Bow Wow and Omarion have joined forces to create a new collaborative collection that promises to become one of the major musical events of 2007. Bow Wow-Omarion project, Faceoff, in stores December 11th.
While details of the Bow Wow-Omarion project remain under wraps, the new album marks the culmination of a joint collaborative process dating back to 2005. “Me and O have been trying to put this together for so many years, and now we’ve got the opportunity to do it,” Bow Wow told Billboard.com earlier this month. “We’re in the creative process right now, coming up with ideas daily, so the process is real smooth. We’re anxious to make this whole thing happen. It’s gonna be a special event. It’s gonna be crazy, something the people have been waiting on — the girls have been waiting on — for years.
Omarion shares his best friend’s enthusiasm for the as-yet-unnamed project. “This isn’t about money, this is about music,” says Omarion. “We both started young and have grown up together, working on the same tours, and have developed our identity in the music world. Jay-Z and R Kelly was the first big R&B/Rap combo, and we have great respect for them and have been inspired by them, but we still want to create something we can call our own. We just want to do our own thing. We want to have a great time and make good music for our fans. This is gonna be fun, so ‘World, Watch out! We’re coming!’”
I find it amazing that some people that can otherwise be considered child stars can still remain clean cut when they?ve become older. Those Hanson boys are proof of that. They?re such do-gooders. And no, it?s not a bad thing.
Isaac, Taylor and Zach were on a special mission to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by walking a mile in West Hollywood. The walk was to help raise awareness. It was then followed by a performance by the band of brothers.
After the whole thing, Isaac talked about his recent pulmonary embolism. He was in high spirits and said that he?s ?feeling really, really good?.
Maybe having some of her girls around last week gave her some good luck. Spice Girl Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, and her partner Maksim Chmerkovkiy danced the Rumba on the performance show of ?Dancing With The Stars? and garnered the first perfect score of the season.
The judges also gave massive props to the dancing duo. Bruno Tonioli said ?That wasn?t a dance, it was a cliffhanger.? Carrie Ann Inaba said that she was mesmerized while Len Goodman said ?That routine was perfected, inspected, dissected, and as far as I?m concerned it won?t be rejected.?
The Spice Girls have added three more dates to their upcoming reunion tour. The shows, in Vancouver, British Columbia (December 2); San Jose, California (December 4); and Shanghai, China (January 8), join a roster of 11 previously announced dates, with the Vancouver gig now serving as the tour’s opening night. This is getting bigger and better from the group. This is the fun in regrouping after a long time. You tend to feel there is so much that you have missed while being away that you add more dates to the world tour so as to be with each other for that wee bit longer, catch up on old times share good memroies and giggle on stupid mistakes that now sound so funny and ridiculous. There would be as much fun as on stage as there would be behind it and if things turn out as I think it would be then this world tour could be of the most successful events of the decade.
Metal music fans from the 80s will be enthused to hear about reunion of one of their favorite bands. The original line up from Guns N? Roses will reunite without Axl Rose to mark the 20th anniversary since the debut album, Appetite for Destruction. The event will take place at the Los Angeles Key Club on July 28th. Original members consist of Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan. Even though Axl Rose isn?t expected due to past conflicts among members, drummer Steven Adler believes the full reunion will happen. He says it?s just a matter of time. The GN?R reunion is one that will be bigger than all rock reunions before it. It will be huge and more welcome than previous reunions such as KISS or Motley Crue. Classic rock fans just might have something huge to look forward to if the band members can get their act together.
The band scored hits with Say You’ll Be There and Spice Up Your Life
The Spice Girls are widely expected to announce they are reforming at a press conference in London on Thursday.
It will be the first official public appearance by all five members since Geri Halliwell quit in May 1998.
By that point, the band had notched up six UK number one singles, and were in the midst of a 102-date world tour.
Earlier this month Mel C, better known as Sporty Spice, told that any reunion would be for “a very short space of time… a final goodbye”.
The singer added that she had resisted reforming the band in the past because “it was amazing, it was magical. We could never recreate it”.
The girl group are due to address the press at the O2 arena in south-east London at 1200BST (1100GMT).
A notice announcing the event said the band would “make an official announcement to the world regarding future plans”.
It is rumored the group are planning six live shows around the world with gigs in London, Tokyo and Las Vegas, to support a greatest hits album which comes out later this year.
The band’s management company, 19 Entertainment, has already registered the internet domains spicegirlsofficial.com and spicegirlsofficial.net.
19 is run by Simon Fuller, who masterminded the group’s global success more than a decade ago.
According to one of the latest gossip rumors going around, the British quintet known as the Spice Girls will be announcing their reunion next week. Even the first girl to leave, Geri Halliwell also known as Ginger Spice is said to be on board for the groups multi-million dollar return. The deal has been in the making for many years and no expense is to be spared to make their reunion one of the biggest and most welcome in history. The girls have turned down offers in the past so the amount of money they are being given for this reunion must be pretty huge. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out considering most of the ladies are now mothers and wives. Baby Spice herself is set to give birth any day now. That will most likely add to the time fans will have to wait to see the Spice Girls together again live and on tour. But if the deal really goes through then a slew of fans may be overjoyed. That is, if they have not already long forgotten about the Spice Girls. With newer and bigger fish in the Hollywood Sea, only time will tell.
With all four members ensconced in solo projects, the Black Eyed Peas have been unusually dormant in 2007. And singer Fergie says it may be that way for a little while longer.
?We don?t have an album yet, a Black Eyed Peas album?, she tells Billboard.com. ?We haven?t had time; everybody?s been constantly working, as we always do. But we will have an album. We?re not going away.?
The group won?t be completely invisible this year. The quartet will perform at the London Live Earth concert on July 7 and at Japan?s Summer Sonic Festival on Aug. 11 in Tokyo and Aug. 12 in Osaka.
The group is also planning a special tour for later this year. ?It?s 15 different countries featuring 15 shows in some pretty unique places?, she says. ?So that?s going to be exciting. This will have been the longest time we have not performed together, so it?ll be a nice reunion.?
Fergie, who joined the Peas in 2002, reports that bandmates will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo are all working on solo albums, all of which are on target to be released before the end of the year. But Fergie isn?t concerned about the group breaking up- even in the wake of the success of her solo debut, ?The Dutchess? which has sold nearly two million copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Fergie plans to spend the bulk of 2007 on the road, either on her own or with BEP. She?s currently ?knee-deep? in a tour sponsored by Verizon Wireless and supporting ?Big Girls Don?t Cry? the fourth single from ?The Duchess?. She expects more singles to pop off the album but says at this point it?s anybody?s guess which will be released.
?I love ?Mary Jane?s Shoes? that kind of chill girl thing?, says Fergie. ?Or maybe ?Clumsy? a throwback to oldies. I?d just like to get as much music out there as possible so that I can show as many sides of myself as possible and so people can discover that there?s something on the album for them.?
Pete Doherty and Carl Barat played 13 songs at the second of Doherty’s “An Evening With Pete Doherty” gigs at the Hackney Empire.
During the second half of the show Doherty teased the audience by saying: “You’ve been waiting for this moment. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Carlos Barat…only joking! What do you expect for 25 quid?”
Then Barat came onstage, wearing a Dior Homme suit and a trilby.
The duo played 13 Libertines classics including “What Katie Did” and “Time For Heroes.”
They whispered and hugged each other in between songs. During their cover of “Dream A Little Dream,” Barat did a tapdancing routine.
They encored with the song “The Delaney,” left the stage, and then re-emerged triumphantly holding each other’s hands in the air.
The party continued at the back of the venue, after the gig, with Doherty and Barat performing an impromptu version of “Can’t Stand Me Now.” Doherty’s girlfriend Kate Moss was present.
Prior to Barat taking to the stage for the reunion, Doherty played a number of songs solo and with guest Andrew Wess and Bert Jansch, including “Killamangiro” and “Cyclops.”
The reunited Libertines played:
“What A Waster”
“Death On The Stairs”
“The Good Old Days”
“What Katie Did”
“Dilly Boys”
“Seven Deadly Sins”
“France”
“Tell The King”
“Don’t Look Back Into The Sun”
“Dream A Little Dream Of Me”
“Time For Heroes”
“Albion”
“The Delaney”
