New Genesis reunion rumours

As reported in http://www.dprp.net/news/index.php


GENESIS: always happy to keep the rumour mills spinning we want to bring you the news two separate sources have mentioned the five members of Genesis from the '71-'75 period being back in the studio working on a new album (or rehearsing for a live show). Both former Chicago guitarist Dawayne Bailey and BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce have mentioned it.
To up the ante even further Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported this morning that this coming Tuesday Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins will make the official announcement of a new Genesis tour in 2007 or 2008 in an LA press conference. A translation of the article (and fans' sceptical reactions) can be read on the Genesis forum.

Maybe, just maybe these guys might be up to something.  One can only hope.

Oh God please, please, please, let them reform

Fingers crossed!

i hope this isn't another wind up!!!!

 

Reunion official according to Swedish newspaper « on: May 14th, 2006, 3:10pm »

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Here is a hastily made translation of the article published at Dagens Nyheter's web site (DN is Sweden's leading morning paper).  
It was published on Sunday 14 May, 2006 around 13.00 GMT. http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2198&a=544847&previousR enderType=3  
 
Peter Gabriel back in Genesis
 
On Tuesday it will become official: Genesis are to reunite, with Peter Gabriel on vocals and Steve Hackett on guitar. And Phil Collins will once again take position behind the drums.  
 
APART FROM A charity performance in 1982, it is 31 years since they shared a stage. But now it is a fact. The legendary five piece setting, with Peter Gabriel on vocals and Phil Collins on drums is back together.  
 
A new album will be released this autumn and that will be followed by a tour where the group is expected to re-create the stage version of their concept album ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’. That stage version was never filmed during the day, but whose legend has grown ever stronger over the years.  
 
Dagens Nyheter learns that Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins on Tuesday will make the announcement about the reunion at a press conference in Los Angeles.  
 
During the first half of the 70’ this setting of Genesis released four studio albums and a live album which were considered as pioneer works within progressive rock. Peter Gabriel left the band in 1975 and has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is considered a pioneer in world music, music video making and multimedia.  
 
Genesis’ most recent album ’Calling all stations’ was released in 1997. By then, also Phil Collins had left the group and both the album and the subsequent tour were great flops.  
 
‘The reason behind the band breaking up was due to the fact that everyone in the band was a songwriter’, said key member, keyboard player Tony Banks when I met him at the offices of the band’s management in London.  
 
‘There simply were too many ideas circulating. And in those days we looked upon side projects as being unthinkable if you were to remain in the band. You could say we've all matured since then.’  
 
Anders Lundquist (writer)
(translation by harry)

Now, DPRP highly doubts any of these 'facts' are real, but we won't take any chances not to report them here. The memory of us quoting Dave Gilmour's denial of a Pink Floyd reunion at Live8 still too fresh (and painful) to ignore any scoop. So when the reunion happens in 2012 just remember where you read it first.

 

Edited by mystic fred - May 15 2006 at 17:51

I'd flip my lid if that was true

razifa wrote: WHAT??? Genesis back, I hope no more disappointemnts!!! I just couldn't stand another "Callining All Stations" or "Duke"

We'll simply have to wait and see, eh?

*jeopardy theme...*

its probably a mix up with the ASIA reunion

Could be true.  I saw some pigs flying this morning.