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Millions of post-emo rockers could be heard jumping with glee in their old drainpipe jeans last week as the rumour of a potential reunion of their teenage heroes, Blink-182, hit the media. Having had an amazing career spanning from 1992 to 2004, it looks like it may almost be time for all those broken teen hearts to finally be fixed once and for all as Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge finally start to speak again. Certainly not willing to reform before good relationships are built first and determined, if they do reform, to make this the most mind-blowing tour anyone has ever seen. This, of course creating a ridiculous amount of excitement among all fans.

While every Blink fan is left wondering and hoping for a while longer, there are plenty of other bands who have recently reunited which they could perhaps get back into instead. It seems that band reunions is definitely the new black as countless ‘classic oldies’ from the past drag their former selves into the modern age hoping to re-capture the imaginations and hearts of the music listening audience with one last stab at fame. However are all their reasons as clean cut as they want us to see? Is every band reunion simply occurring because they genuinely miss what they used to do, or are there sometimes ulterior motives?

There is no doubt that Take That definitely made the biggest comeback of the century in 2006. Still managing to floor fan girls with just the mere mention of their name, be it new young fans or those who remember them the first time round. Both albums released during their comeback; Beautiful World and Circus have both smashed the charts at number one and it doesn’t look like they’re stopping anytime soon. This is a band who love what they do. You can never seem to stop them from touring for one thing. Recently however, rumours have been spiralling that Robbie Williams now wants to join the foursome again. Funny, how only now his solo career has hit rock bottom, he makes this suggestion. We all know you’re definitely in it for the money, Robbie.

Robbie’s not the only one with money on the mind though. The 90s pop sensation the Spice Girls reformed with a tour and a greatest hits album. All seemingly innocent you’d say? Well no, not when Melanie ‘Sporty Spice’ Chisholm was adamant they would never reform. Though in 2007, not giving a real explanation, she told said that ‘A girl is allowed to change her mind’ (contactmusic.com, 2007). Yes, of course they are, especially when it involves over 30 million pounds, hmm?

If I was to mention every band which has reformed over the past five years I would be here for an age. It’s just a saddening sight to see the music industry, full of hard working musicians passionate about their songs, being plagued by money grabbing nobody’s of the 90s. Please, leave it to the people who care. Saying this though, I’m still holding out for an S Club 7 reunion…

The barmy Christmas season is well and truly in full flow with yet more rumours of bands reforming - fuelling festive nostalgia. Following the news about Blur and then Ska heroes The Specials who are now all set to play together next year - albeit minus an apparently snubbed Jerry Dammers - come more rumours that The Smiths might be on the road to reformation. But perhaps even more unlikely than that are the rumours surfacing that The Stone Roses might also be considering playing together again.

Even though Johnny Marr has only said something along the lines of ‘maybe, who knows?’ - this is more than enough for a few thousand gladioli-growing fans to start earnestly praying and growing their Morrissey quiffs once more. Although the thought of a legion of 30/40-something old Smiths fans bravely ignoring their paunches beneath flowery shirts and charity shop blazers should be reason enough to kill off all thoughts of healing rifts. Or if some big promoter could top a £40 million offer that Morrissey said was most recently on the table then there might be panic on the streets of London once again…

Now Primal Screamer Mani has dropped a big old teaser about the dream you should never dare to dream - that The Stone Roses might get back together. He said to Channelbee that both him and John Squire might be keen but they have yet to persuade Ian Brown. And of course 2009 is the 20th anniversay of their legendary debut album.

So what do you think? Is it a good idea for these bands to hit the comeback trail? Who would you rather see - The Smiths or The Stone Roses? Any other bands ripe for reformation?

Yes - the news that all Oasis fans have been waiting for - Blur have confirmed that they are all set to reform in 2009 and will play Hyde Park, London on July 3. This will be the first time the original foursome have played together since naughty Graham Coxon left a few years back. Kinks’ fan Damon Albarn has been busy being the sound behind the animated Gorillaz, working with Clash man Paul Simonon on The Good, The Bad & The Queen and resurrecting Monkey magic in time for the BBC’s Beijing Olympics stings. Cheese fan Alex James has been busy on a farm somewhere, writing columns for British newspapers and trying to conduct an orchestra for a BBC reality TV series (and the less said about Fat Les and Wig Wam the better). Um, frankly I don’t know what drum fan Dave Rowntree has been up. But I bet he’s glad he’s got some big dates in his diary now for 2009.

Tickets are on sale from 9am GMT on Friday 12 December from livenation.co.uk.

If this doesn’t make some Blur fan happy enough for Christmas, then how about a promo of The Kinks’ CD boxset, tickets to see the Ian Dury play or The Clash book, CD & DVD?