The Music tease new activity nine years on from their split
Are they reforming?!
Last updated 4th Sep 2020
Update (4th September): The Music reunite for massive Leeds concert
Leeds purveyors of stratospheric indie rock, The Music, have started teasing an announcement via a cryptic post on social media.
The much-loved quartet, who went their separate ways in 2011, posted a short 10-second clip to Facebook and Twitter featuring a crunching guitar riff and the vibrating artwork to their eponymous debut album ‘The Music’, which celebrates its 18th birthday today (2nd September).
The Music’s tantalising clip has sparked a huge and enthusiastic response from their avid fans with many writing comments like: “Let’s have it lads, bring back The Music!”
Others are speculating it could be an album reissue of some sort to mark the 18th anniversary of ‘The Music’. Originally released on 2nd September 2002, the album spawned the towering anthem ‘Take the Long Road and Walk It’ and dented the UK album chart at no.4.
We’ll wait with bated breath for further details!
The Music’s social media accounts sparked into life for the first time in nine years back in June when all four band members - Robert Harvey, Adam Nutter, Stuart Coleman and Phil Jordan – joined The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess for a #TimsTwitterListeningParty for their debut album.
Since then, guitarist Adam Nutter has posted a series of videos of himself performing The Music’s songs including 2002’s ‘The People’ and ‘Take the Long Road and Walk It’.
Formed in the Kippax area of Leeds shortly before the new millennium, The Music released three studio albums in their 12-year career – The Music (2002), ‘Welcome to the North’ (2004) and ‘Strength in Numbers’ (2008).
Famed for their incandescent live performances, The Music called it a day after their swansong tour in the summer of 2011. A two-part live album, recorded in Leeds and London, was released that August.
Since the band’s demise, Rob Harvey formed The D.O.T. with The Streets’ Mike Skinner and they released one studio album, ‘And That’ in October 2012. Rob previously lent his vocals to three songs on The Streets’ 2011 album ‘Computers and Blues’.
Rob is also an esteemed songwriter and producer, working with the likes of Rudimental and Clean Bandit.