Reunion Rumblings: The Kinks, Hole

Time sure flies when you’re waiting for The Kinks to reunite. Seems like we were just reporting about Dave Davies’ last interview about a reunion tour, but now he and his brother, as well as original drummer Mick Avory, have more to say on the topic.  

The timing for yet another conversation about a reunion makes sense because 2014 marks the band’s 50th anniversary. If the guys do hit the road together, it will be The Kinks’ first outing since its 1996 split.

Following the September interview Dave did with Rolling Stone where he said the odds of an anniversary tour are “50/50,” Ray Davies told Uncut that a reunion is “as close as it’s ever been to happening.”

Before the latest issue of Uncut hits newsstands Jan. 3, the magazine teased readers with a few other quotes from the former bandmates.

“I said to Ray I thought that it’d be a great shame if we don’t try and do something,” Dave said. “I don’t think our love has diminished. I think the stage-play has played itself out a bit, the pretence and the acting. I think it’s time reality took over, and started directing the last years of… whatever it is. It’s like Cain and Abel.”

The guitarist added that it has to be about more than a big paycheck.  

“I don’t want to see the legacy of The Kinks soured by two miserable old men doing it for the money,” Dave said.

Avory, who left the lineup in 1984, told Uncut he thought “it would be nice to do something all together. Because the chances are diminishing as we talk. Hopefully me, Dave and Ray can meet before it happens. We’d have to knock our heads together and rehearse, if we meant to do it properly. We haven’t played together for God knows how long.”

Maybe 2014 will be the year of making nice. If Dave and Ray can stop squabbling, anything is possible. Maybe Hole will tour again.

Heck, Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson are already smiling for photos together. Love posted the photo below on her Facebook page Dec. 27 with the caption, “And this just happened … 2014 going to be a very interesting year.”

In addition to tagging the guitarist, Love also tagged former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur along with former manager Peter Mensch and his wife, author/former member of Parliament Louise Mensch.

A few days before that Love tweeted to the Mensch couple and Landerson, “Wishing you a very Merry Christmas love you all.”

Consequence Of Sound points out that Love didn’t have as much love for Erlandson back in May when the subject of a Hole reunion came up.

During a radio interview on “The Opie and Anthony Show,” (via AlternativeNation.net) Love said, “I would take Melissa back in a second but I’ll never take Eric back.”  

Love also accused Erlandson of taking 74 guitars from her storage, including more than a dozen that belonged to Kurt Cobain.

Love, Erlandson, Auf der Maur and former drummer Patty Schemel reunited on stage in 2012 at a showing of the documentary “Hit So Hard.” The film chronicles the ups and downs of Schemel’s life, including her time in Hole and near death.

Schemel quit Hole in 1998, followed by Auf der Maur’s departure the following year. Erlandson and Love announced that Hole was calling it quits in 2002.