Seeing news of much-loved bands reforming is about as commonplace now as fact-checking Donald Trump’s speeches. But in the late 90s – when many a once-cherished act had moved on from diminishing commercial returns to launch solo projects, supergroups or salmon farms – it was a rarer occurrence.
So fans of folk prog luminaries Renaissance would have been excited by the news, back in 1998, that Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford, John Tout and Terry Sullivan – the core of the early 70s line-up from their prog-leaning peak – were sharing a stage again for the first time in 18 years.
