Ben Folds Five Reunites For Reinhold
Last week, HT Contributor Wade Ellis Wilby listed The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner as one of his top fall albums of all-time. Well, it turns out Ben and the Ben Folds Five really dig that album as well, as the oddly-named trio will reunite on September 18 in Chapel Hill, NC for the first time since 2000 to play that album in its entirety. Coincidence? Completely.
Folds, Darren Jesse and Robert Sledge last toured together nearly a decade ago to support that massively underrated album. The boys return just a few short days after Ben’s latest album, Way To Normal, hits stores. Tickets go on sale this Monday at 10am. No word yet on whether this is a one time deal, but we sure hope not.
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
Follow Me:
Very cool news. While I’ve seen Ben Folds solo a number of times over the years, only got to see BFF once on the interesting triple bill of BFF, Beck & DMB back in like ’98.
As a Chapel Hill resident, this news is completely fantastic to me. Guess I’ll be waking up at dawn to get in line for tickets as my school doesn’t allow camping out anymore (last show that they allowed that for….Ben Folds 2 years ago. And it was an epic camp out).
This is great news! Ben Folds has seemingly been playing the same setlist for years. Hopefully this will shake things up for him whether a full scale reunion tour with BFF takes place or not.
DL
The Weight
[...] on HT: Ben Folds Five Reunites addthis_url = [...]