After a hiatus that lasted longer than a decade, Jake Shears reunited with his Scissor Sisters bandmates in 2024When Scissor Sisters quite literally burst onto the global stage in an unrelenting explosion of glitter, feathers and neon in 2004, they felt like an antidote to the rather more serious matters going on elsewhere in the world – a controversial right-wing administration in the White House, a soft-left government in Parliament and near-daily debates around the rights, and lives, of LGBTQ+ people just trying to get by like everyone else.Fast-forward more than two decades, and in a disconcertingly similar political climate, the band re-emerged for a hugely successful arena tour celebrating their glam pop back catalogue.“It’s times 10,” frontman Jake Shears says when HuffPost UK points out the similar political backdrops that the Scissor Sisters’ emergence and reunion share. “It is a really i