Meg White Is Amazing!!

Interesting to think of which legacy act reunions would hold sway at a place like Coachella. The recent muted response to the Blur reunion makes me think a Kinks reunion might draw similar levels of apathy.

Oasis would get a good reception at a US festival.

Oasis would be victim to Gen X'er fans who are now too old to chase festivals. I think One Direction could still attract millennials with time and money to spend, though.

Dire straits reunion would be cool if they toured with some of the Tuareg/North African bands they influenced

Coachella’s owners have done an old people act festival on its own.
The timeframe for a legacy act being a headliner has, I think, shortened. The festival just isn’t as much of a draw for people above a certain ceiling, and with the audience being mostly people in their 20s wanting at most a revival of someone they loved in their teens or a childhood callback, I don’t know if Meg and the Stripes are it.

I feel like part of the late 90s/00s legacy acts being successful at the festival was the Pitchfork-esque cred of knowing an act that’s name-checked as having cred. And even that seems like a throwback to the earlier era. Maybe if something other than Seven Nation Army is a tiktok hit there could be enough pull

For a 22-year old the White Stripes were on the radio when they were a kid in the car with their parents, for a 30-year old "Icky Thump" was a middle-school jam

You could probably push back another ten years to the alt-rock heyday and capture an under-30 crowd (who have all been exposed to grunge via Youtube) but all those bands are either impossible to reunite (Soundgarden) or have carried on in zombie form (STP, Alice in Chains) anyway.

My kids know the Stripes catalogue like I knew the Beatles as a kid

it could work! Meg’s not coming back, though

I basically ILX me included is too cool to care but Jack White's popularity post White Stripes to a similar but somewhat different crowd is not to be underestimated

The Jam, though they mean nowt in America apart from a few Anglophiles.

I never got to see them; they came nowhere near the mountain west of the U.S. I'd welcome a reunion tour, although it's extremely unlikely they could match the energy that is apparent even in videos of their live performances back in the day.

(Andy Rourke not essential)

Rude!

And wrong! He was as important to their sound as Johnny.

Hell, I'd settle for a Style Council reunion.

The Jam won't happen ofc but Weller, Talbot, Dee and Steve played It's a Very Deep Sea at the end of the SC documentary