Turns out the reunion won’t just be about looking backward: Mick Jones and Co. “have plans in the works for a new Big Audio Dynamite album,” according to a news release e-mailed late Monday by Sony Music promoting the band’s three upcoming U.S. performances. No other details of the project are known, although the news release also reveals the band — Jones, filmmaker/DJ Don Letts, keyboardist Dan Donovan, drummer Greg Roberts and bassist Leo ‘E. Zee Kill’ Williams — also is working on “newly-curated Legacy Editions of classic BAD albums.” Last year, Sony released a 2CD Legacy Edition of 1985 debut This is Big Audio Dynamite.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Big Audio Dynamite to play Los Angeles, New York around Coachella appearance
- Big Audio Dynamite sets 9-date U.K. reunion tour in advance of Coachella
- Coachella 2011: Duran Duran, Wire, Suede and reunited Big Audio Dynamite
- Q&A: Drummer Greg Roberts on ‘This Is Big Audio Dynamite’ reissue, band’s legacy
- ‘This Is Big Audio Dynamite’ reissue to include outtake ‘Electric Vandal’
Exciting news as long as it sounds like the first album or Megatop Phoenix and not the rest. Maybe the Gorillaz stint will rub off on Mick.