{"id":944,"date":"2010-05-03T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=944"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T09:01:37","slug":"bursting-the-balloon-led-zeppelin-to-tour-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/03\/bursting-the-balloon-led-zeppelin-to-tour-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursting the balloon: Led Zeppelin to tour again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Bonham is keen for a Led Zeppelin<\/a> tour, the papers reveal today<\/a>, of potentially thirty dates.<\/p>\n

Of course, such a tour (about which rumours have abounded since the band\u2019s break-up in 1980) would have to overcome a couple of obstacles. \u00a0For starters, the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980 from Hendrix\u2019s trademark death of choking on his own vomit. \u00a0Robert Plant has always expressed his lack of interest<\/a> in re-forming the band, and even Jimmy Page\u2019s manager has previously announced<\/a> the band would never re-unite.<\/p>\n

\"Houses<\/a>
House of the Holy (1973)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2007, the surviving band members re-united for a one-off\u00a0performance in London\u2019s O2 Arena with Jason Bonham taking over from his father on drums.<\/p>\n

“There is still a lot of work to do on this project and I want to make sure it’s done tastefully,” Bonham said.<\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin were \u2018Best Live Band\u2019 in the 2008 Mojo awards<\/a>, some twenty-eight years after the band\u2019s demise. Now that\u2019s some accolade.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope, if they do tour, they leave \u2018The Crunge\u2019 from1973\u2019s Houses of the Holy<\/em><\/a> <\/em>well alone: my favourite, it should remain untouched.<\/p>\n