Collinson

There’s a fragile alchemy to a band – a blend of musical affinity, shared ambition, friendship and rivalry – that often transforms the project into something greater than the sum of its parts. But that mix is inherently unstable – the magic doesn’t usually last for long, and things hardly ever end well: eventually somebody gets kicked out. Being in a band is all about trust, until it’s all about betrayal.The Rejects offers a new history of pop told from the perspective of the ones who got left behind, often on the very…