Best of 2014 The DIY List 2014: This year’s comeback Kings and Queens

Excluding the catty Twitter rebuttals perpetrated by Azealia Banks and the like, there are two main types of comebacks in music. The first is a return from a long period of inactivity, usually coming from an enigmatic band that hope to reignite interest in their music through a new release. The downside is, of course, leaving the hiatus too long could render a new record about as irrelevant as a shoe horn; the kind of archaic thing that you’d see lying on your Nan’s dressing table next to perm curlers and a copy of Crotchet World.

The second type of comeback is the notorious reunion; where a disbanded group decide to give it another shot, which is certainly never fuelled by a dodgy offshore investment / lack of funds (OK, it is at least some of the time). Cynicism aside, comebacks can often be bloody fantastic for both band and fans, with the optimum formula being like something from a insomniac-curing economics lecture; high demand and a recently low supply of new music. Both of these categories exclude 2014’s most memorable comeback - that of S Club 7. Because let’s face it, Paul’s ‘The David Brent Dance’ is in a world of its own.