Is nostalgia the current big thing in the music industry? As the saying goes,Nostalgia is alright but it’s not what it used to be.

Modfather Paul Weller has had a pop at Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, saying that the former punk performer is now the ‘antithesis of his Johnny Rotten persona.’

Following Lydon’s criticism of modern day music festivals and his claim that his band Sex Pistols are ‘Britains Finest’, Weller says he “Doesn’t understand him anymore.”

“Perhaps he misses the adulation, the buzz. Nostalgia has become a whole industry in itself… and I don’t like it. You can never recapture what has gone.”

Like it or not the last comment appears to be so true. Bands are reforming at an alarming rate, with Weller’s own former band members from Jam enjoying the financial benefits from playing the hits from thirty years ago. There is very definitely a huge market and the recent reunion of Led Zeppelin suggests that the public really want to have the chance of seeing these performers despite the fact that they have been inactive with new material for such a long period of time.

One of my favourite bands from the seventies the Faces have announced plans to reform for an album and tour later this year. I loved this band to bits as a teenager and the music will always be important to me for that reason. But the last thing I would want to see is a bunch of old codgers going through the motions.

For me a Faces reunion would be thirty years too late, but how I longed for it to happen in the few years after 1973 when the band originally split.