Any bands that have been long-since broken up that you want to get back together, if only for an evening? Let us know because we now have the secret formula to make that happen. You want a fully reunited GNR back on stage together? No problem. You want Chris, Ben, Matt and Kim to reform Soundgarden for a show. OK, we can make it happen. You Roger back in Pink Floyd for a night. Easy. Done. Yes, apparently all you have to do is come up with an absurdly, sycophantic award title which compares them to the divine and it’s done. Yes, just by appealing to their extraordinarily large egos, you can fully reunite bands that have in the past made it clear that they’d rather have a three-way with Madeline Albright and a garbage disposal than share a stage again. Take Jane’s Addiction, who haven’t played as the original line-up since 1991. They reunited last night because the British music magazine NME honored them with the “Godlike Genius Award for Extraordinary Services to Music.”

 

Bassist Eric Avery has regularly declined reunion offers of any sort. He almost didn’t agree to the NME Awards, but Avery changed his mind at the last minute because, who isn’t going to show up for an award that declare them both “godlike” and “genius?” Best New Album Grammy? Neat. My award compares me to Thor and Stephen Hawking, so why don’t you shove that cone-shaped turn up your ass. 

 

 

 

 

Backstage at the awards, Mick Jones, formerly of the Clash, says that he’s working on a new song based on the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” video. I’m not joking. Someone had to foresight to ask how the song was going to go and he said- and again, I’m not joking-

“It’s gonna go like this, dun-dun-dun ... Aaaargh!” I presume there’s more because he said he was disgusted by the police response to the heckler at the Kerry speech last year, but honestly dude. I don’t think you need it.