The post-hardcore band that defined Halifax in the late 1990s and early 2000s will play a pair of reunion shows at Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern on Nov. 17 and 18.

Mark Mullane has a job to do: For the next month, the former North of America singer and guitarist has his work cut out re-learning chord progressions and guitar tunings that, 20 years ago, in the midst of a whirlwind punk career, he hadn’t quite written down. Or if he did, that is, between European tours and EP recordings, they weren’t kept in any fashion that could be referenced, say, in the event of a long-awaited reunion…