Manuel Agnelli will take a sabbatical
On November 18, Manuel Agnelli publishes the book “Afterhours, Ballate per piccolo iene 2025” (Rizzoli) which contains photos of Mathias Marchioni and Henry Ruggeri and tells firsthand the reunion tour of the band that recorded the 2005 album. For the occasion, the singer talked about himself in a long interview in Corriere, in which he announced that he wanted to take a break on the occasion of his 60th birthday, which he will turn in March of the year next: “I’m going on a gap year around the world. So far I haven’t travelled, I’ve been on tour. I want to meet people for who they are, not for what I do.”
In the interview Agnelli spoke about the reunion: “The Afterhours had been on hold for almost seven years and the idea of promoting it alone sounded sad to me. The tour was the most natural and beautiful way to do it and an opportunity to re-establish relationships with Giorgio Prette, Dario Ciffo and Andrea Viti. When I asked them, I saw a touching enthusiasm. And enthusiasm was a bit of the problem with the latest lineup”. He found them again “Physically, tremendously aged, but with the same sense of humor and the same characters. Only, more tamed by life: more aware, more capable of controlling emotional distortions. Nothing was difficult: positive energy arrived on stage. The audience felt it: very high feedback and three generations moshing, that is, jumping and making noise. Very few cell phones: the audience was part of what was happening, not spectators”. Agnelli said that his favorite photo from the book is the symbol of this new spirit of the band: “The one with the final embrace of the band. In that minute, we told each other the idiocies in the moment: my wand fell; my trousers fell… We always ended laughing. They were unique moments. In the past, we didn’t have the final embrace. It’s the heaviness of maturity that leads you to be light”
Agnelli also returned to his exit as a judge of the
