> Yeah, that line up *was* the one for those two albums - I assume they went
for that lineup because it would be
> recognised by US audiences because of Hourglass and that stupid phone
number song...
> They should have just gone for Paul Carrack instead of Jools...

Never.  Paul Carrack was only with Squeeze for a sum total of two albums:
"East Side Story" and "Some Fantastic Place."  Jools, however, was a fixture
in Squeeze for ages...not to mention the fact that he's practically a
household name in the UK, where the reunion concert was going to occur.
Surely, one of the first questions out of everyone's mouths if they'd held
the concert without him would've been, "Where's Jools, then?"