The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

setlist here if you wanna ruin the surprise. i would heartily endorse waiting for the added thrill of omg they're playing ___.

also, none of them have aged.

I peeked. Mainly wondered if they'd play any of the pre-YMMR stuff, doubted they would but y'know. I've been out tonight so probably won't remember the setlist tomorrow anyway. What was that about blackouts?

i have no idea what blackouts are/were/refers to but they didn't seem to figure? it was pretty great ... i forgot what a super thrashy guitar band they are. so sweet on uhhh the fifth song, too.

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Oh never mind, I was making an oblique reference to an ILE thread from a few days. xpost

SPOILERZ :D

Oh god, that is a monster set! Although, pretty much any combination of songs from anything after Ecstasy and Wine would make me say that.

Hahaha, figures -- it's almost the same setlist as last time around, just reordered.

"So this is the third leg of the Loveless tour..."

i thought of this whenever someone hit me in the face with a camera

"You Made Me Realize" crowd reaction 1992: "HOLYFUCKINGSHITITSSOLOUDICANTMOVETHINKGAARRAAGGHH"
"You Made Me Realize" crowd reaction 2008: "Dude it's the part where it gets loud and crazy! I'm going to blog about all this via my iPhone. OK, I'm going to go get a beer"

it was at the ica, which is a nice cultural events venue in london, and the crowd were pretty snappily dressed. that's not a bad thing or anything, it's just like the jamc thing of the audience being pretty different.

Oh god, that is a monster set! Although, pretty much any combination of songs from anything after Ecstasy and Wine would make me say that.

THIS ^^^^^^

( i wonder if they're gonna do the same setlist the whole tour? did they switch it up in 1991-92 ? )

interesting they're playing 4 of 5 tracks from the YMMR EP. and only 5 out of 11 songs from Loveless (two of which overlap with EPs prior). no "Sometimes" is surprising to me. ah well, great show anyway i'm sure.

i especially miss "Loomer" and "Come In Alone" on the setlist there

might i add before i stop posting: i'm burning this setlist to a CDR right now. gotta listen to it sequenced properly. will report back soon. (anyone else doing the same?)

((( six tracks from Loveless it looks like, not five, sorry )))

I'd love to hear "What You Want", bootlegged. If this ever happens, please notify me here. I don't need the link, I'll find that myself.

Also, if anyone can bring over a new bag of coffee, I'd appreciate it, I'm running low. Thanks guys.

The only notable difference is a little less Isn't Anything than in 91-92, but that's made up for in the EP B-sides.

Well, at least the wondering is over, for better or worse.

And glad to see that they kept "Honey Power"... the song that should have been on Loveless and a hit but wasn't... sorta.

"Honey Power" roooooooolz

so how long do i have to wait for a boot of this gig

glad to see they haven't done anything productive in 16 years!

one word, Curt1s:

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CHINCHILLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHy2nHirO04

would have liked to have seen Drive it all over me on there, otherwise - all good

That video sounds like it was so fucking loud.

my bloody valentine - 13 6 08 ICA only shallow

my bloody valentine - when you sleep, london 13 june 2008

Viewing and hearing these clips, I noticed that the sound limitations that go with the convenience of people being able to upload live snapshots to YouTube (i.e. something no one even thought was possible in the future in '91/'92) is thwarted, seemingly, by the volume of the show -- which ironically STILL preserves the mystery of what the live show will be like, as far as the acoustics go. I gotta give MBV that much, whether they knew this or not.

would have liked to have seen Drive it all over me on there, otherwise - all good

exactly.

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KI5QV96A
mp3 of the show

they kind of got it together a lot more for the second show; the sound better, them playing together more on the loveless stuff, a couple of different songs (c'mon, just wait and be surprised). it wasn't as loud but was twice as heavy, which reminds me of some old ks interview where he's explaining the difference, being able to feel some kind of heaviness-es rather than just hear volume. totally mindblowing and stuff, anyhow. those pictures are nice.

it wasn't as loud but was twice as heavy, which reminds me of some old ks interview where he's explaining the difference, being able to feel some kind of heaviness-es rather than just hear volume.

I wouldn't know anything about that. (Scroll down to me asking about their shows in 1992 at the Roxy and the Palace.)

oh, ha-ha. silly me. i'd thought it was from the one where he was answering a question about whether they'd support oasis if they were asked, and the answer was purely about it being conditional on the soundsystem. i hope someone good gets to interview them again, soon. did you ever see that sixty minutes interview with dylan where the guy just kept asking 'but HOW? did you WRITE? that SONG?!' about blowin' in the wind, or something?, all reverant and mired in myth? it'd be cool if they were freed from the standard journalistic hazy-dreampop-ephemeral-sensuous vibe, and someone mentioned the joys of kevin's voice/colm's snare-drum abuse, &c. the loveless book's fantastic, but all the other stuff i've seen's just really tired echoing.

I really should say that for all I know that's a standard answer of his. I've hardly done the definitive interview! (Mike McGonigal did, if anyone has.)

ah, wow, that interview's fantastic. everyone ought to read it for topical contextualisation. the difference tonight was really interesting; last night they sounded like a really guitarry garage band, with stupidly painful guitar noise, and then tonight it was much warmer, and fuller; not really abrasive or even loud, in a way. getting it to be a 'bodily' thing is pretty difficult, i think. there's that jim dickinson quote about live music being 'pushing air around', and the difference between last night and this evening was that the former was like looking at something (kind of like listening to a cd, where it just hangs around on the floor), the latter like feeling it (like a record!, which fills up the room).

oh, i don't know; i remember reading all of those interviews when the guy put the site up, i don't think i came across it anywhere else, and it seemingly stuck in my head ...
that you also elicited him talking about the band just being the three of them's really cool too. i remember the mike interview having the bit where he says/reveals that, bar touched & bilinda's vocals, he's the only musician actually playing on loveless, which seemed really revelatory. i think i like that book as much for the digressions* as the info, but it's great info.

* by some twist of fate, i had to return my ticket for a screening of tony conrad's the flicker to attend the ica show, something the book references at some point.

Thanks much for the kind words! That interview was done so long ago that there are many things about it I would have done in a different fashion, but it's a nice historical reference point at least.

for sure. i saw a great documentary about andy goldsworthy once, and he's a really endearing guy, he sort of talks in questions, pretty satisfied to be puzzling stuff over rather than answering it, and, not that i think ks is necessarily like that, but there's a lot of interesting stuff that comes up in interviews because of his thoughts; there's a bit in the loveless book where he says that a slight deviation or distortion of something - like francis bacon's variations on the human form - is freakier & more unnerving than something entirely alien and totally spooky like a jellyfish, and that their music has the same value.

about doing things differently, i saw him at a brian wilson show once, and was so determined not to add to the chorus of gangly kevin fans shouting about loveless saving their life that i went up and said i hoped he was doing o k. ahh. it is really nice that they're playing again, anyhow.

was so determined not to add to the chorus of gangly kevin fans shouting about loveless saving their life

Hey! :-D

The 13th Gig has gone up on D1m£ad0z£n for all those MP3 haters. Supposed to be very good quality too, I expect the 14th will go up soonish.

there's a bit in the loveless book where he says that a slight deviation or distortion of something - like francis bacon's variations on the human form - is freakier & more unnerving than something entirely alien and totally spooky like a jellyfish, and that their music has the same value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Has anyone that's going to the Glasgow gigs received their tickets yet? They're cutting it pretty fine

no, i've not ... the e-mail says only to worry if you've not had them a week before the gig :/

Glasgow ticket site was so shonky a mate of mine phoned up from Sydney just to be able to book!

My Bloody Valentine @ ICA, London - You Made Me Realise 13/6

90 seconds of dense, suffocating feedback with Kevin's guitar sounding like a jet engine over the top :O

quite a short version then.