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November 09, 2009

The VICE guide to reforming your old band...

As the decade of band reunions turns into its final lap, the last few bands on earth who haven’t yet got back together are putting the finishing touches to their Big Announcements. After Pavement, JAMC, My Bloody Valentine, the Pixies, Blur, Rage Against the Machine, the Verve, and on, there’s never been a better time to say, “Screw my legacy. I can’t eat legacy.” Let bygones be bygones, bury the hatchets that you drove into each other’s backs and pick up where you left off, except richer. But how to go about it? Well, WH Smith only seem to stock books about vampires these days, so we’ve kindly arranged a manual that fills in the deets on what needs to be done to make it all happen…