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Yes, true believers, you read that correctly - the extremely great and excellent Chris T-T is coming out of retirement for one night only to promote the re-release of his amazing "9 Red Songs" album on vinyl for its twentieth anniversary. I flipping LOVE that album, but then I love pretty much everything that Chris has ever done, and his gigs have been some of my favourite EVER, so I am very very excited about this. I'm also quite relieved it's out in the open - he told me about it over a pint a few weeks ago and SWORE me to secrecy, and I have been DESPERATE to talk about it!
Chris's grand return is the culmination of a TRIO of grand returns of some of my favourite bands EVER all at the same time. The return of PROLAPSE has been rumbling on for about eight years now, but it is only during the past week that they have FINALLY released any music. I heard a brief snippet of their new single On The Quarter Days a couple of weeks ago when The Validators got together for a curry. I must admit that when Tim played us the intro I laughed out loud, in DELIGHT at how utterly LIKE PROLAPSE it sounded. Later listens have proven this to be the case as it is a right bloody racket and also BRILLIANT, as you can hear for youself here:
Prolapse are off to Germany to play The Cologne Popfest in a couple of weeks, which was ALREADY making me jealous - we had such a brilliant time when The Validators played in 2017 that I was MINDED to just buy a ticket and go and see them. I can't, due to Other Commitments, and this was only made MORE painful when I saw firstly that Stuart Murdoch out of Belle & Sebastian was playing but then also that ALLO DARLIN were on the bill too!
These are the THIRD of my favourite ever bands to be getting back together again - technically they reunited back in 2023 when me and Steve followed them round on tour but this time they've actually recorded a new ALBUM and there's a new single out soon too. Hopefully that means there'll be GIGS so I can go and see them without needing my passport, but the idea of seeing them AND Prolapse AND loads of lovely Kolsch all at the same time is a painful one to miss out on!
As ever, when this sort of thing happens, it does make me wonder if The Validators should have split up at some point. Obviously we've never been as BIG as any of the three mentioned above, and also we've never really had a NEED to officially stop being The Validators, as we've simply transformed into a DINING CLUB instead, but part of me still thinks it might have been a good idea, just so we could come BACK again. The only problem is that just THINKING about not being The Validators, even if it was pretend and just for a few months, makes me feel SAD, so I guess we'll never be able to!
posted 28/3/2025 by MJ Hibbett
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