Robert Plant has indicated that he would be open to a Led Zeppelin reunion. After years of distancing himself from the project, Plant said the decision would be up to Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones: “I’ve got nothing to do in 2014.”

Plant made the comments in an interview with Australia’s 60 Minutes TV programme, speaking with Tara Brown. “[In 2007] we just wanted to play and see what it was like and be good once,” Plant said, referring to Led Zeppelin’s one-off gig at London’s O2 Arena. “It was time to be good – and we were.”

Despite the highs of that gig – immortalised in a recent concert film – Led Zeppelin have not played together since 10 December 2007. And as Brown explained to Plant, he is seen as the main obstacle to a reunion.

“[You’re] the bad guy,” she said.

“I’m not the bad guy,” Plant replied.

“Well you are for all those Led Zeppelin fans who’d love you to say, ‘Yes, we’re re-forming.'”

“Well, then you need to speak to [Page and Jones] the Capricorns. Cos I’ve got nothing to do in 2014.”

This is a change from Plant’s position in 2008, when he quashed rumours of a Led Zeppelin tour. Because Plant was busy making music with Alison Krauss and later the Band of Joy, he had no time to work with his former bandmates. Consequently, Jason Bonham confirmed, Led Zeppelin got “real close” to touring without their frontman. “We did a year of writing and putting stuff together,” he said in 2010. Steven Tyler and Myles Kennedy were reportedly among those who auditioned to take over as lead singer.