The Movielife Announce Return For 2015 Shows

Defunct Long Island-bred punk-soaked rock outfit The Movielife have announced a return to active duty, more than ten years after they first disbanded.

Although the band has only officially scheduled one 2015 show so far — a performance at New York City's Irving Plaza on February 7 — they have confirmed plans for live activity beyond that, though long-time fans needn't hold their breath for new material any time soon.

In the first proper post to their newly minted Facebook page, the band conveyed a simple message: "The Movielife is alive."

"We, as friends and lovers of music, have found that we would all like to play shows together again as The Movielife," the band wrote. "We bear no news of a new record nor are we planning a 6 month world tour. But I'll tell you one thing: The Movielife is alive. #TheMovielife #TheMovielifeNYC"

However, despite the assertion of no grand touring plans, frontman Vinnie Caruana did indicate in an interview with Noisey that at least a hop across the pond, if not beyond, would be in order for the reunited rockers — just not necessarily soon.

"Our plan is to start at Irving Plaza and go from there," he told the outlet. "There are pieces of land on this planet that we want to bring our gear onto and play on. I don't think the UK would allow us to reunite and not come visit them. I think the hatred and frustration would implode the whole country, so we're definitely going to come over there, I think. I mean, I'd like to. Brandon [Reilly — guitar] and I are the two biggest Anglophiles in the band, so the two of us definitely want to visit."

"We're going to try to visit people around the world and around the United States when we can, but since we're five dudes with five completely different lives and different careers, it's not going to happen instantly the way people might want it to," he continued. "We're going to have to do what we can when we can. We're basically just making decisions as far as playing shows in the future on what would make us happy and what we'd enjoy doing. The main goal for me with keeping The Movielife alive and playing shows for years to come is just to be happy doing it with all these guys."

The Movielife formed in Long Island in 1997, releasing two full-length albums before signing with renowned mid-2000s pop-punk/emo/post-hardcore indie powerhouse Drive-Thru Records (then home to bands such as Finch, Hidden In Plain View, Home Grown, Senses Fail etc), on which they released their seminal ...Has A Gambling Problem EP in 2001, and acclaimed third record Forty Hour Train Back To Penn (2003). Internal tensions saw the band fall apart after that album's release, with Caruana going on to form I Am The Avalanche and Reilly starting the now-inactive Nightmare Of You.

In 2008, Caruana dismissed persistent rumours of a reunion, saying at the time that the band had been given "ample opportunities to reunite for a show and no one wants to do it but me". The Movielife reunited briefly in 2011 for a one-off show before disbanding again.