The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Improvise yer ass outta here, funhater!

or maybe that's something that's just required in the American Midwest...

oi!

I deal in facts. you deal in myths.

free jazz/improv has a small but committed audience. ppl who are into indie go into management.

seems roughly equal to "I will spin it positively for the subculture I like, and negatively for the one I don't" - if indie is "dead," then free jazz has decomposed. I happen to like both so whateveh, but I just wanted to say.

(but actually, indie is not that much of a 'subculture' anymore whereas 60s jazz and free improv (there is a distinction here btw), despite being older, has more of that, but that doesn't matter)

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1431220.html

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/

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Kevin Shields
Member Since May 2003
Last Login 01/06/2004 

Gender:
Male

Interested in
Meeting People for:
Friends, Activity Partners

Status:
Single

Age:
40

Occupation:
Recording artist & dyslexia spokesman

Location:
United Kingdom

Hometown:
Long Island, NY and Dublin, Ireland

Interests:
Rearranging my recording studio, bankrupting record labels, the hypnagogic state, gourmet meals, martial arts, breeding chinchillas, smoking lots of dope, watching lots of TV, easy projects, writing fresh and simple material, and just keeping it simple!

Favorite Music:
Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, Beatles, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Ramones

Favorite TV Shows:
Just about anything, really.

About Me:
You may have heard of my band, My Bloody Valentine. Many critics have written about us in very flowery terms. I don't think I understood what they were saying in those reviews half the time. That guy from Phish loves me guitar sounds though. Do me a favor and buy my Lost in Translation soundtrack. Island Records isn't helping me out much these days. Also kids, don't forget to buy our box set that's coming out in early '04.

Who I Want to Meet:
Great recording effects designers, more film directors, those with good weed, record labels who understand my fondness for expensive food and all of the time I like to spend in and out of the studio. Just remember... I NO LONGER DO REMIXES!

When is yer 'Isn't anything' due?

I must achieve my breakthrough.

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/news/boxset.html

http://metroencoding.net/emperornorton/ref/kevinshields_city-girl_320x180_large-REF.mov

what on earth is he going to play?

"The Coral Sea 0 Text: Patti Smith Music: Patti Smith, Kevin Shields, Cat Power (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 22 June)"

I am so FUCKING there.

feels weird man

So it’s an album listening session, not a proper show?

Some kind of sit in a theater society of the spectacle thing looks like.

I get the appeal of listening to your favorite music on top-of-the-line gear, but this just makes me think of boorish d-bags at a wine tasting party.

Reminds me for some vague reason of those flash mob dinner parties where all of the sudden you’d see hordes of people exiting the subway dressed in white and carrying picnic baskets headed towards some water or greenery. For someone younger than or different from me.

Le Dîner en Blanc! Still going on. Maybe somebody could combine that with the m b v listening and do both.

Needs more lasers

Heh

nice to see some semblance of activity on their end meager as it is

but kevin. stop teasing us

remember 'album is definitely coming out by the end of 2021'? lol. he is so full of shit

maybe it’s a fakeout and they’ll play a NEW album instead of mbv

tbh MBV would be kind of well-suited to a Dark Side of the Moon laser experience

why Denver and Cophengagen of all places?

Why not just turn off the lights in your room and put the album on

I would probably attend a pro-level Isn't Anything laser show.

Probably inevitable:

https://www.facebook.com/Fender/posts/pfbid0oTvkpXhtqfRZ2UJLHNmdkXPKcYBtAUfLFtgqYAWcPqakjzkh9bNbKDL4dLPnRm6dl

honestly buy one if you can, even if you've never touched a guitar, that thing will be selling for $1000+ after it's released

Offset guitar forums are filled with demands to know why Fender hasn't made a Shields signature Jazzmaster, but I think this is better.

This new video of Shields playing guitar with the new pedal should hold us over until album 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjY2QJ1QnsU

Guarantee that not a single word of the owner's manual will be intelligible.

Fender Shields Blender Easter Egg! Hidden USB drive inside

Apparently, 100 of the 700 pedals released contain a hidden USB thumb drive inside them. It contains a track by Kevin Shields and comes with instructions to play at 80dB and above on speakers.

https://guitarbomb.com/2023/06/16/fender-shields-blender-easter-egg-hidden-usb-drive-inside/

Mine arrives today. NGL if I got one of the 100 I’m flipping it for a new amp.

But you're sharing the track with us of course.

Presumably most people will end up hearing this through a YT rip on a phone or something. A weird move for someone so obsessed with quality.

it can only be played on the PonoPlayer

Sorry, no MBV world premiere from me, no USB drive in mine.

Alack

2 sources have confirmed this is the same track on their devices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVNDw5OgLwE

i hope a version with vocals and less-placeholdery drums comes out on a new mbv album someday because that sounds fantastic

New interview, lots of good stuff.
https://guitar.com/features/interviews/kevin-shields-fender-blender-interview/

EP by the end of the year is it?

the album is pretty much done apart from writing, recording and mixing it

new music out this year in fact

xxxpost Kevin Shields reaaalllyy starting to look like Peter Sellers at times!

xp that was a side project, We’ve Got A Shields Blender And We’re Not Afraid To Use It

New Merch Day!

https://mybloodyvalentineart.com/cdn/shop/files/Untitleddesign_2_750x.png

£60

Or bung them an extra £80 and all four will sign it!

Plus, other merch - hoodies, t-shirts, etc.

No sign of that very expensive "Loveless" shirt

No sign of any new music, unless they taped all four signing and singing "Twenty quid for me, and.. Twenty quid for me.. and...."

*sigh*

Deb is playing solo shows (as "La Googie") in support of a new split single and she's still in Thurston's band who just announced a show in a couple weeks.

in the aging weirdo perfectionist career track, Kevin has only got two more years to put the finishing touch on that next MBV record before he's older than Brian Wilson when Wilson finally dropped Smile

xp - glad to hear Thurston's got some shows lined up, was worried about his health there for a bit.

bendy, wasn't "mbv" their SMiLE? (more like their Kokomo amirite lol)

🎶 …to a place called is this and yes 🎵

Deb: "The MBV record is inching it's way there, so I mean no idea when it's coming out but there's an MBV album on its way..."

src: https://www.mixcloud.com/CitySoundChelmsford/transmission-w-paul-dupree-guests-generation-feral-deb-googe-030424-city-sound/ (~2hr mark after she talks about the new Thurston record)

classic... remember when they were 'definitely' going to have an album out in 2021? they got the NYT and domino to believe it, that generally would have been good enough evidence for me but this is kevin shields we are talking about

missed the revive for the fender blender, but i had the non-kevin shields model about 10-15 years ago, and it quite simply sounded like ass

prefab sprout's 2019 album still undefeated tbf

yeah I had a reissue Blender like 10 years ago and didn't keep it. I wish he had done some kind of reverb pedal instead.