{"id":572,"date":"2010-02-18T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-02-18T07:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:27:26","slug":"getting-the-band-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Band Back Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is doing it these days, it seems. Yoko Ono has reunited the Plastic Ono Band<\/a>. Minnesota punk-funk-rock legends The Suburbs got back together last weekend<\/a> for a show in honor of their guitarist, Bruce Allen, who passed away late last year. Stew and Heidi, late of The Negro Problem and the musical Passing Strange<\/em>, have a new show up this week that’s all about breaking up<\/a>. Anzen Chitai, the kings of 1980s Japanese soft-rock, have likewise announced an upcoming reunion tour<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Everybody’s doing it, it seems….except of course for The Kinks. But at least now we have a new documentary feature film that explains, after a fashion, why that isn’t happening. Do It Again: One Man’s Quest to Reunite the Kinks<\/em> had its world premiere last month at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Directed by Robert Patton-Spruill, the film follows the quixotic journey of Boston reporter Geoff Edgers, who is determined to bring Ray, Dave, Pete and Mick back together again. I haven’t seen it yet, but the film has been getting good reviews (e.g. here <\/a>and here<\/a>) and will be playing at a series of film festivals in the coming months (details available on the film’s website<\/a>). <\/p>\n

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