Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro: “There’s no chance for the band to ever play together again”
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro has said there is “no chance” the band will play together again after their on-stage fight last year.
The original line-up of Navarro, singer Perry Farrell, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery reformed in 2024 and released the single ‘Imminent Redemption’, their first new music together for 34 years.
However, during a show in Boston on their North American tour in September, Farrell punched Navarro in the face, leading to the immediate cancellation of the tour and the band’s hiatus due to “a continuing pattern of behaviour and the mental health difficulties” of Farrell.
Navarro has now discussed the band’s status in an interview with Guitar Player, speaking in public for the first time about the Boston incident.
“There was an altercation onstage, and all the hard work and dedication and writing and hours in the studio, and picking up and leaving home and crisscrossing the country and Europe and trying to overcome my illness — it all came to a screeching halt and forever destroyed the band’s life, ” he said.
“And there’s no chance for the band to ever play together again. I have to say that’s my least favorite gig, without throwing animosity around, and without naming names and pointing fingers, and coming up with reasons.”
He went on to say that the band had been getting on well during their European dates, but the positive energy did not last.
“And that gig, September 13th, in Boston, ended all of that. And for that reason, that is my least favorite gig that I have ever played… The experiences are there, but the potential of having those types of experiences ended that night. And so, you know, it is what it is. And that’s my answer.”
At the start of the year, Navarro, Avery and Perkins appeared to be back in the studio together without Farrell. In a video posted to Avery’s Instagram in which he tagged in his former bandmates, the bassist said: “Writing some more new lines to some of Stephens drumming. Look forward to getting some Mr Navarro on them. 2025!”
The post was then shared by Perkins, but no further information about any collaboration has been shared. Navarro and Avery did form the band Deconstruction in 1993 after the initial dissolution of Jane’s, so it is possible that the musicians are referring to a potential revival of that group.
NME was present for Jane’s Addiction visit to London’s Roundhouse last summer, and wrote in a four-star review: “Jane’s use the set at The Roundhouse to showcase some new material. This time around, only unreleased track ‘Imminent Redemption’ makes the setlist — a percussive, tribal-inspired belter that is soon to become a classic at their live shows. ‘Ocean Size’ and ‘Three Days’ follow, with the latter becoming a nearly 15-minute-long proggy rendition that transforms an already impressive song into a force of its own.
“This is the last one because I don’t need you to give me a fucking hand to get me to come back out,” Farrell nonchalantly says, confirming there will not be an encore and introducing final track ‘Stop!’. And like that, without any further bells or whistles, the band leave the stage proving that nearly four decades after forming, they’re still a force to be reckoned with.”
Elsewhere, Navarro married his partner Vanessa DuBasso in a gothic-inspired wedding in Scotland in March.
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Max Pilley
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