Soft Play have a plea for Keanu Reeves

Soft Play have made a personal plea to Keanu Reeves to join them at their upcoming Coachella 2025 show.

• READ MORE: ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ review: an all-action blockbuster that truly gives its all

The punk duo are set to play at the second weekend of the California festival on Sunday (April 20) on the Sonora Stage and in a bold move, they have written an open letter to the John Wick star, inviting him to be their special guest for the show.

“Keanu we fucking love you mate, we wrote a song about John Wick, from the perspective of John Wick,” they wrote. “We’d love for you to hear it and it would be a dream come true if you would come and play bass on it with us at Coachella. Much love. Isaac (age 33) and Laurie (age 32) xx”

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The song they are referring to is indeed titled ‘John Wick’ and it appeared on their 2024 album ‘Heavy Jelly’. A lightning 82-second thrasher of a track, it sees singer Isaac Holman singing: “I tried to retire, then you set my house on fire / And you killed my dog, you killed my fucking dog / I’m John Wick, bitch, and I’m angry”.

Reeves is no stranger to live music stages, having played bass in his band Dogstar since the early ‘90s. After releasing a number of grunge-influenced records, they went on hiatus, only to re-emerge in 2023 with the comeback album ‘Somewhere Between The Power Lines And Palm Trees’.

They went on to play an extensive UK and European ‘Summer Vacation’ tour supporting the record, as well as a string of North American shows last summer.

In other news, Soft Play may be pleased to hear that John Wick: Chapter 5 has been officially confirmed by Lionsgate, despite Reeves suggesting that a new entry in the action franchise appeared unlikely.

Reeves and director Chad Stahelski will reportedly return in the follow-up to Chapter 4, which NME gave four stars, noting: “Stahelski may traffic in excess, but at least he understands it: how choreography, performance and style can make over-the-top spectacle cohere into pleasurably overwhelming action fizz, rather than congealing into a sweaty special effects overload. He also gets that after 169 minutes, some degree of closure is appreciated. There may well be a John Wick: Chapter 5, but Chapter 4 still feels like a movie giving its all.”

Soft Play, meanwhile, spoke to NME recently about their new collaboration with Kate Nash, ‘Slushy’, which is part of the ‘Heavy Jelly’ expanded edition. Holman noted the similarities between themselves and Nash: “It’s just like, say what you see. I always say to people when they’re struggling with writer’s block, ‘You don’t have to have something amazing to write about. Just write about what’s in front of you’.”

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