Gentle Play have a plea for Keanu Reeves

Gentle Play have made a private plea to Keanu Reeves to hitch them at their upcoming Coachella 2025 present.

The punk duo are set to play on the second weekend of the California competition on Sunday (April 20) on the Sonora Stage and in a daring transfer, they've written an open letter to the John Wick star, inviting him to be their particular visitor for the present.

“Keanu we fucking love you mate, we wrote a tune about John Wick, from the attitude of John Wick,” they wrote. “We’d love so that you can hear it and it will be a dream come true should you would come and play bass on it with us at Coachella. A lot love. Isaac (age 33) and Laurie (age 32) xx”

The tune they're referring to is certainly titled ‘John Wick’ and it appeared on their 2024 album ‘Heavy Jelly’. A lightning 82-second thrasher of a monitor, it sees singer Isaac Holman singing: “I attempted to retire, then you definitely set my home on fireplace / And also you killed my canine, you killed my fucking canine / I’m John Wick, bitch, and I’m offended”.

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Reeves is not any stranger to dwell music levels, having performed bass in his band Dogstar for the reason that early ‘90s. After releasing a lot of grunge-influenced data, they went on hiatus, solely to re-emerge in 2023 with the comeback album ‘Someplace Between The Energy Strains And Palm Bushes’.

They went on to play an intensive UK and European ‘Summer time Trip’ tour supporting the report, as well as a string of North American shows last summer.

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In different information, Gentle Play could also be happy to listen to that John Wick: Chapter 5 has been formally confirmed by Lionsgate, regardless of Reeves suggesting {that a} new entry within the motion franchise appeared unlikely.

Reeves and director Chad Stahelski will reportedly return within the follow-up to Chapter 4, which NME gave 4 stars, noting: “Stahelski could visitors in extra, however no less than he understands it: how choreography, efficiency and magnificence could make over-the-top spectacle cohere into pleasurably overwhelming motion fizz, slightly than congealing right into a sweaty particular results overload. He additionally will get that after 169 minutes, some extent of closure is appreciated. There might be a John Wick: Chapter 5, however Chapter 4 nonetheless appears like a film giving its all.”

Gentle Play, in the meantime, spoke to NME not too long ago about their new collaboration with Kate Nash, ‘Slushy’, which is a part of the ‘Heavy Jelly’ expanded version. Holman famous the similarities between themselves and Nash: “It’s similar to, say what you see. I all the time say to individuals after they’re scuffling with author’s block, ‘You don’t should have one thing superb to put in writing about. Simply write about what’s in entrance of you’.”