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Aimee Mann on Being ‘Freaked Out’ at Reuniting Til Tuesday After 35 Years for a Single Gig at L.A.’s Cruel World Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

Aimee Mann talks about preparing for the first show her former band Til Tuesday is doing in 35 years, at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena.

Apparently not: whatever obstacles there may have been before, the original group will be performing together for the first time in three and a half decades this weekend, at the behest of Goldenvoice, for the promoter’s annual Cruel World festival in Pasadena. In a phone conversation before the band did its most serious rehearsals for this possibly one-time-only gig, she discussed what she was finding most unnerving about reviving the group’s 1980s catalog, which was spread across just three albums (1985’s “Voices Carry,” 1986’s “Welcome Home” and 1988’s “Everything’s Different Now”). Really, Michael Hausman, who is my manager, but also the drummer for Til Tuesday, said, “We got an offer for this festival…” And I possibly will live to regret the following train of thought, but there’s part of me that feels like: Huh — that would be an interesting challenge, to see how the band sounds and if we could do it.

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