Singer considering reunion tour with surviving band members ? even if his estranged brother Dave Davies refuses to take part
Ray Davies is considering re-forming the Kinks without his estranged brother, according to a new interview. Tired of waiting for Dave Davies to warm to a reunion tour, Ray suggested that he and some of the group's other alumni may go it alone. "We'll do it without him if we have to," Ray said. "The music is the issue."
It is almost 15 years since the Kinks disbanded ? and the Davies brothers are still feuding. "I'm a little more based on planet Earth than certain other members of my family," Ray said in a new interview with Q. Dave, who founded the Kinks with Pete Quaife in 1963, has opposed a reunion: it would be like "a bad remake of Night of the Living Dead" he said in 2008.
But Ray has pushed forward with numerous Kinks schemes, re-recording hits as duets and with a choir. After the death of Quaife last year, he tried to reconcile with Dave for a memorial performance. "Even the mafia get together and make up when someone dies," Ray told Uncut at the time. Dave has called such projects "karaoke Kinks". "I can understand what [Dave's] trying to say," Ray conceded this week. "I think it's a reference to comebacks in general."
At the moment, Ray is more concerned with a bullet-wound he suffered in 2004 while chasing a bag-snatcher in New Orleans. "To put it politely, I don't think [the wound] was handled very well at the time," he told Q (via Contact Music). "Partly because the hospital was busy, and partly due to the nature of the wound." In November, Ray was forced to cancel four gigs due to complications from the injury. "It's been pretty bad, actually," he said. "I got quite sick before Christmas from residue that is still in the leg and which formed a clot. It made me quite ill and I was hospitalised for a bit."
Ray Davies curates this year's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London in June, sponsored by the Observer.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/01/ray-davies-kinks
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