
Reunion fever seems to have taken over pretty much every vaguely important band of the last 20 years. Some, like Jesus Lizard, I'm not really too fussed about, but others, like Pavement, I'm well stoked about (to use the current terminology). And on Thursday, in the Grauniad , came news that Swans were reforming. Or sort of reforming. For those of you who have never heard them, Swans made possibly the loudest, most brutal, most angry music ever. Not the loudness of AC/DC, that made you want to party. Not [...]