Rocket From The Crypt. I miss their annual forays to this side of the pond.

I wholeheartedly agree to those 4, KC. I'd like to add, Suede and Little Angels to that. (I'm going to be in the minority for those two) xx

The Smiths

Sisters Of Mercy (Marx, Hussey, Eldritch, Adams, Avalanche line up)

Levitation

That Petrol Emotion

System Of A Down (Indefinite hiatus....meh)

Angelwitch

The 'old' Whitesnake (Moody, Marsden etc)

Orbital

Edit: New Fast Automtatic Daffodils. They were ace live!

The Teardrop Explodes.

Yeah, Talking Heads is a good call. Don't think I'd like The Smiths to reform though. Too much would be riding on it.

But I'd love to hear the early Teardrops (Cope, Dwyer, Finkler and Balfe or Simpson) together again.

Wire (they got together in Feb - see the Githead interview thread), so who knows???

The Move (unfortunately it would have to be without Carl Wayne obviously)

10cc (the proper 4 piece to do a live Sheet Music)

PIL (the Lydon/Levine/Wobble axis)

Sex Pistols (I would probably have included these as a band I wouldn't like to reform as few years ago, but seeing as they did and I missed them each time they played live, I'll include these. Johnny would have to promise to take it seriously though!!)

Mungo Jerry (as I'm playing their stuff at the moment, and I mean a proper version not just Ray dorset and whoever)

The Beach Boys (what's left of them)

Blow Monkeys (the four piece)

Siouxsie & The Banshees (The Scream line-up)

The Only Ones and Television would have been near the top of my list and I've managed to see both in recent years - and not been disappointed. I'm sure there are others though.

OHMYGAD, OHMYGAD, OHMYFUCKINGAD!!!!!!!!!! I just went to look up a link for an early 80's Scottish band I saw play many, many times and just loved, and not only did I find this website but found they had reformed last year!!!!! WAAAAAGH:

Its APB

http://www.apbtheband.com/

To quote from the website:
"The directness and power of Gang of Four, the funk and grooves of George Clinton, the inspiration of the Clash and the simple pop melodies of Buzzcocks"

Listen and love!

Woooooooooo-hoooooooooooooo!

Thanks, for starting this thread, I would never have discovered that.

(betcha all run off and see if your choices have reformed! ;oP )

The Doors! Oh ok unlikely, I know...

And wouldn't it be lovely if Take That would take Robbie Williams back on board...

It's ok, I'm going...

The Scars

yeah!

"Red" era Crimson. Fripp, Bruford, Wetton and whoever on saxes / oboe etc.

Wouldn't mind seeing Virgin Prunes again given that they were partly responsible for one of the most frightening evenings of my life.

Microdisney, The Soft Boys, Global Village Trucking Company, G.T. Moore & the Reggae Guitars, Carol Grimes & the London Boogie Band...

Sleep, just for a one off run through of Holy Mountain and then Jerusalem.

Oh, and the original Alice Cooper group.
Unfortunately a couple of them have passed away now, but I'm sure in this case it'll add a little authenticity to the stage act. For a start, it won't matter too much that the guillotine isn't a theatrical trick, this time round!

...okay. I'll leave it there.

none, never, no-one at all
death to mojo magazine!

magnet!? (the Wicker man).
what a soundtrack! what a film!
why did'nt this group record more shit or was it an alias?

Brinsley Schwarz
Jethro Tull (original line up)
Deep Purple (Mk III line up)
The Smiths
Ultravox! (original, John Foxx-led line up)
XTC (original line up)

Deep Purple Mrk III would be interesting.

I'd also like to see the Banshees together again.

Dark Star - they were kind of there and then not but I liked 'em.

Yes with Bill Bruford on drums.

RED era King Crimson. Cor!

Leftfield.

I'd love to see the 70's funktactular Isley Brothers too.

I'm mainly in agreement with the 'once its over its over' sentiment however I have to confess that I saw Blondie recently having missed them in their pomp. While I have to admit that I'm glad to have actually seen them 'in the flesh' (see what I've done there?) it only made me wonder how much better they'd have been c 1979....

...That said if the Specials original line up ever got together I might wonder in

....at the back...

...wearing shades...

..oh heck

Spacemen 3.
As their recent output attests, Jason and Sonic needed each other.

Neu!
Ditto Rother & Dinger.

Microdisney? Husker Du?
Nah, that'll never happen.

Oh, and Creme Brulee of course.

on the whole I think reformation is very rarely a good thing, but for the purposes of the game ( I presume we can resurect the dead)

The disposable heroes of hiphopracy
the slits
nina simone
Big joe turner
prince far-i with creation rebel as the backing band as per the tour of 79-ish
the damned when lemmy joined 'em
Elmore james
slade

The fun boy three. Waiting album is a classic!
(((charrr)))

The original Mahavishnu Orchestra. All still around, chops intact. I saw an interview with Cobham where it seemed the split was a money thing. At gigs what JMc recieved was one thing, what his co-conspiritors in alchemy was apparently quite another. I'm so so glad I saw them. I believe JMc's upcoming (?) album is a return to acoustic - would like to hear.

Is this reform as opposed to travel back to their heyday and catch them again then?
Or reform because they're all reprobates who are likely to be looking at health issues otherwise? So need to go forward with a cleaner lifestyle choice?

The former members of Husker Dü are apparently talking to one another again...