Back in January 2014 and in front of multiple witnesses, Mötley Crüe signed a Cessation Of Touring agreement that stated that their obliquely titled The Final Tour (July 2014 to December 2015) would be true to its name and that they would finally hang up the studded leather, pyrotechnics and rotating drum kits.

Except – and we are sure you saw this coming – they are back, Back, BACK. In typical style, they posted a video about the “stupid contract” they signed saying there would be no more tours. “They knew that if they were ever to stand on stage together again, that contract would have to be destroyed,” says the accompanying YouTube video about the reunion. “Well, destruction has never been an issue for Mötley Crüe.” Cue the contract and the office it is in being blown up and torn apart like a hotel suite in the 1980s.

It’s ludicrous, it’s hyperbolic, it’s preposterous – which makes it very Mötley Crüe. So excellent work all round.

The band claim it was the runaway success of the Netflix biopic from earlier in the year based on their eye-raising joint memoirs The Dirt that triggered this revival of interest in the band. In April, Variety reported that in the month after the biopic’s release, Mötley Crüe’s music was streamed 73.8m times on Spotify and nearly 30m times on Apple Music – spikes of 599% and 1,081% respectively.

While there are no official streaming figures for The Dirt on Netflix, we are pretty sure it was not as successful as re-runs of Friends on there and, to date, the friends of Friends have only reunited on Jennifer Anniston’s Instagram. The Final Tour grossed $86m in its run and we suspect that may have had something to do with the decision to go back on the road one “last” time.

Given their form, we can imagine in 2075 that the holographic Mötley Crüe will announce they have revoked the contract they digitally signed when they announced their blockbusting The Real Final Tour: We Promise (Honestly) of 2068.