Is live music being ruined by endless reunions?

With the Libertines becoming the latest band to reform for lucrative summer festival appearances, is the trend for endless nostalgia destroying the music scene?YES: Richard King, author and co-editor of LoopsThe feedback loop of a band breaking up – in admission of defeat or virulent acrimony – to a band reforming, for one visit to the festival trough, is getting shorter. Last summer Blur managed six years before regrouping, this year the Libertines will reconvene for £1.5m and ...

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