New single and world tour for Sugar

After announcing their reunion after 30 years, Sugar have released a new song and revealed plans for a world tour – without Italy, unfortunately.
The band is led by Bob Mould, who founded the trio after a solo stint at the end of the ’80s, after the dissolution of Husker Du, the historic name of alternative rock of that period. The new trio with David Barbe and Malcolm Travis had good success in the 90s, especially in England. The new song is titled “Long Live love” and will also be released in 7″ together with “House of Dead Memories”, released last October when the reunion was announced

“Last year, while working on my new album Here We Go Crazy, I started to feel a renewed interest in Sugar,” Mold said last October. “The fans have always been there, but people in the music industry, from BMG to some promoters, also started talking about it,” he said. Initially only a few dates were announced to test the public’s response – which evidently was enthusiastic and led to a complete tour, which will start on May 2nd in New York, then move to Europe for 17 dates (the closest to Italy is June 17th in Lausanne, Switzerland) before returning to America with concerts scheduled until October.

In the second half of the ’80s, Hüsker Dü, the legendary American rock power trio, disbanded due to internal conflicts between Mold and Grant Hart, who later passed away in 2017. After a couple of solo albums with mixed success, Mold founded Sugar, another trio that released three albums in four years — including “Copper Blu” (1992), considered a classic of alternative rock. The band had good success, including in Europe, before splitting in 1995.

A few months ago we interviewed Bob Mould, asking him to tell us about his career and indicate the fundamental songs of his history, and among these he spoke about “If I can’t change your mind”, Sugar’s most famous song.

“I think that the format of Sugar and Hüsker Dü was familiar to my audience, that there was also the right distance: guitar, bass, drums, strong and melodic songs, shorter.
This song is the fourth single from the album and was important to me especially for the video, which also talked about love through same-sex couples: it was the 90s and it was a political message. Sugar were already quite popular, but I think with the video MTV responded very well and then commercial radio followed suit and started playing the song, and then Sugar became very popular in the United States too. It was a nice combination: a very catchy song, a 12-string guitar and a political but soft video, and MTV.”