ONE reunion after 11 years has been garnering the headlines, and it isn't the House Of Love.

More excitement surrounds Suede's Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler forming The Tears, but Guy Chadwick making up with Terry Bickers is no less welcome and far more unlikely. Chadwick, the controlling force, banished Bickers mid-tour, dumping him by the roadside. Drugs and, er, bickering had done for their partnership but now all is love again in the House Of Love, as Chadwick sings "you were much better, and I was wrong" on the jauntily apologetic Maybe You Know. How true that form is temporary but class is permanent: comeback single Love You Too Much is a return to the echoing peaks of Destroy The Heart and Christine. Shine on indeed.

Updated: 08:50 Thursday, March 10, 2005