Back on the Pavement

Last weekend, it was the Des Moines IA Festival. Ashley from Tapes For Life takes up the story of what happened:

Hope you had a wonderful independence day. This weekend in Des Moines, IA the second annual 80/35 festival rocked the city streets with performances by Public Enemy, Ben Harper, Broken Social Scene, Man Man, the daddy of Indie rock.. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks! But the highlight for many was the performance at the Pre 80/35 party at the local venue the Vaudeville Mews on July 2nd where BOB NASTANOVICH of Pavement came out of retirement to rock with 80/35 mainstage act, Iowa's own The Poison Control Center! They played Pavement's classic "TWO STATES" off Slanted and Enchanted!

Tapes caught it on, well, tape:

Bob Nastanovich of Pavement w/ The Poison Control Center "TWO STATES" from TAPES FOR LIFE on Vimeo.

Can we all get over the bloody Pavement speculation, please?

Before the Spice Girls finally did their comeback, you couldn't move for speculation about when it might happen, or why it wouldn't, or if it did, who would be involved. It got quite dull quite quickly.

With that in mind, do you think everyone could stop the tiresome alt-rock equivalent of posting likely Pavement reunion dates online? Scott Kannberg mutters they might do something for the Matador reunion and so - depsite Malkmus clearly not being interested in anything this decade - the circles are being drawn for 'sometime in 2009'.

Perhaps they should do it, if only to stop the bloody guessometers running.