David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen will reunite in public for the first time since 2015, though the occasion is an unusual one: a TEDxFargo talk rather than a musical performance. It comes more than a decade after Van Halen's last live show and six years after guitarist Eddie Van Halen's death, making it a rare joint appearance from two of the band's most prominent surviving members and one likely to draw significant interest from fans given the group's fractured history.

The event takes place on Thursday at Fargo, North Dakota's Brewhalla venue and will be moderated by painter Robert Vargas, who was originally due to appear solely with Alex Van Halen before Roth was added to the bill after cancelling a run of tour dates. Tickets are available for those attending in person, and organisers say the filming will be posted on YouTube and TEDxFargo's platforms within a few weeks for wider public viewing. No topics have been officially confirmed, though speculation points towards Roth dominating proceedings, given his reputation as a talkative interviewee, while a discussion of former singer Sammy Hagar seems unlikely given Alex Van Halen's past reluctance to mention him.