Scotland's Best Band Will Return in 2017

There is a running joke in my friend group that I’m not really in to gigs. The reason: most of the bands I love are either broken up or dead. I love gigs but yes my taste in music, and that the bands I am into don’t play Scotland anymore, largely excludes me from going to see live music, until now.

The band that I described as the best band in Scotland, it’s a short, varied, and important list just like all of Scotland’s creative arts: there isn’t much of us but we’re great, the Jesus and Mary Chain are planning to release their first album in 20 years in 2017.

The Reid brothers have finally stopped kicking lumps out of each other and gotten some songs together. Now I’m usually quite sour about comebacks, thinking it’s just a cash in, but the Mary Chain never bothered with ideas of stardom even at the height of their popularity. This was a band that would play white noise for 15 minutes with their backs turned to the audience and then leave, while promoting their first album.

The most exciting aspect of this is what it means for the battle of the young obsessed fans, and the generation that was around to see them the first time. I’m part of the former so the battle for tickets is going to be ugly, it’s going to be bloody, and it’s going to be tremendous.