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Letters to Cleo reunited in concert on stage at The Roxy here in LA last night and I was very fortunate to be able to be there to bear witness. Kay Hanley, lead singer of LTC, and I have been sorta-cyber pals over the past few months (exchanging emails, txts and Tweets) and last night was our first chance to spend quality time together. We previous got to meet in person at the Veruca Salt show at the Viper Room back in August but tonight was it. I met up with Kay before the show and joined her and her friends and family members for a quick bite to eat at the Rainbow Room. I got to meet her sister-in-law Justine and her brother-in-law Gary and we all hit it off. We didn’t want to miss The Oohlas, who were opening up for LTC last night, so we got over to the venue in time to catch their amazing performance … here are a few pics of The Oohlas rockin’ out last night:

Ollie and the boys were in fine shape. They sounded amazing and their new songs really rocked out. I’m so anxious to hear more. Greg announced from the stage that an EP of new stuff is on the way. Woot!

Then it was time for Letters to Cleo to take the stage … here are a few of the pics that I took last night:

I kid you not, LTC sounded just as awesome as they ever have … they rocked out as if no time had passed since the break-up. Kay sounded divine, USA Mike was jumpin’ around like a madman and Stacey … well … he was just a flurry of drumsticks and flying hair. It was a raucous and extremely fun night all around. I took a TON of photos and some of them are pretty amazing. Click HERE to check them all out. Awake is prolly my fave LTC song and I was too bizzy jumping around while they performed it to video it … but I did manage to vid their performance of Here and Now. After the jump, check out that video …

Woot! A little bird gave me the head’s up that Billboard magazine is reporting that 90′s band Letters To Cleo are reuniting this Fall for a short mini-tour that will bring back the core group of original band members for a few West and East Coast shows. Folks may recall that Letters To Cleo had a big radio hit with their song Here and Now and enjoyed a pretty successful string of albums in the mid-90′s. As a fan of the group (and of lead singer Kay Hanley‘s subsequent solo career), I am very excited by this news:

Boston-based rock outfit Letters To Cleo will reunite after an eight-year hiatus for four shows this fall. Original members Kay Hanley (vocals), Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein (guitars) and Stacy Jones (drums) will join forces with Joe Klompus (bass, replacing original bassist Scott Riebling) when the gigs get underway Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. The reunion follows a brief impromptu performance last year during a Boston benefit, which featured the hits “Here & Now” and “Awake.” Says Eisenstein, “We were excited, the crowd was excited, and from that point on, it just seemed like we should try to find a time to do it for real.” Letters To Cleo sprung from Boston on the strength of the 1993 album “Aurora Gory Alice,” which featured “Here & Now.” The group disbanded in 2000, with Hanley moving onto a solo career and such projects as the Disney Channel’s “My Friend Tigger and Pooh” and voicing Josie in the 2001 film “Josie and the Pussycats.”

This is awesome, awesome news for fans of the group. Stacy Jones left LTC to join Veruca Salt around 1997 and then went on to form his own band American Hi-Fi (remember Flavor of the Weak? That was them). LTC put out a couple more albums and then Kay, as the Billboard article states, did her own solo thing after the band broke up in 2000. Kay provided the singing voice on the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack (which was full of amazingly fun pop songs and is deffo worth checking out) and has put out a couple albums on her own for sale on her official website. Yes, the LTC kids have been very bizzy on their own … but this reunion tour (Nov. 8: Los Angeles – Roxy, Dec. 8-9: Boston – Paradise Rock Club and December TBA: New York -venue TBA) is really amazing news. I know that I will be deffo be at the LA show fo’ shizzle. I am very much looking forward to welcoming back Letters to Cleo to the performance stage :)

[Source, thanks Little Bird]