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
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 15 June 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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 :/
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 15 June 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Glasgow ticket site was so shonky a mate of mine phoned up from Sydney just to be able to book!
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 16 June 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― stephen, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
quite a short version then.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh no, it was a 90 second clip of a ~25 minute rendition.
― stephen, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
From the video description:
90 seconds of LOUD NOISE from the middle of 'You Made Me Realise', the show's closer. I wasn't prepared to film all 30 minutes of it, so here's a taster.You can vaguely hear Kevin Shield's guitar divebombing halfway through - he was using a Digitech whammy pedal. You can really hear the harmonics of his vintage Jaguar coming through.
You can vaguely hear Kevin Shield's guitar divebombing halfway through - he was using a Digitech whammy pedal. You can really hear the harmonics of his vintage Jaguar coming through.
haha that last clip is total destruction
― sleep, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
they should play no fun fest 2009 imo xD
― sleep, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
he was using a Digitech whammy pedal. You can really hear the harmonics of his vintage Jaguar coming through.
It's a Jazzmaster, not a Jaguar
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Not in this case dawg:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/2577659958_e3ac88e20d_b.jpg
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
So he's using two guitars
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
This just in from Sonic Boom...
Just to let you know Spectrum - the full band - doing the highs, lows and heavenly blows of my career, will be playing with MBV at the Roundhouse this weekend and in Manchester next weekend.The London shows are already sold out, but if you've got a ticket come along early to see us play.The MBV support dates are: Saturday 21st Sept - The Roundhouse Saturday 28th Sept - Manchester Apollo Sunday 29th Sept - Manchester Apollo
The London shows are already sold out, but if you've got a ticket come along early to see us play.
The MBV support dates are: Saturday 21st Sept - The Roundhouse Saturday 28th Sept - Manchester Apollo Sunday 29th Sept - Manchester Apollo
and as fast I as reposted...
CORRECTION: MBV SUPPORT DATES ARE OF COURSE JUNE
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yessss Spectrum! hopefully dude shows up at ATP New York as well, i'd love to see him again.
― stephen, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Confirmed! New message from Sonic...
21st September - ATP New York - Spectrum performing with MBV, Mogwai and many others
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Not supporting in Glasgow?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking fucking fucking cunts! that would rock so motherfucking hard :(
come on, boom, you skag-addled bowlcut motherfucker. pull your finger out and come up here.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
^ what I was thinking, but was too polite to post ^
― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
you can always rely on me for an ill-judged bout of frenzied swearing.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
watching MBV on youtube does not prove their point at all
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Confirmed! New message from Sonic...21st September - ATP New York - Spectrum performing with MBV, Mogwai and many others
Well fuck me fucking sideways...
― stephen, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
haha even australia got to see sonic boom recently. take that glasgow!
― electricsound, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Sonic Boom played here last year. Grimly is just being typically melodramatic.
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Reissues delayed again!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/19/bmvalentine119.xml
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Weren't Ant and Dec available?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: Sonic/MBV - Maybe we'll be treated to some epic-length E.A.R. jamz w/ Kev guitar noodling!
― Pillbox, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
That would be such a surprising and radical thing for Kev to do.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
as opposed to, you know, reuniting MBV after a decade and a half.
― stephen, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing them tonight in Camden :-)
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 20 June 2008 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, seems really odd saying "I'm going to see MBV tonight."
― aldo, Friday, 20 June 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
the oddest thing is listening to mbv on heavy rotation in anticipation of seeing them. its pretty much exactly half a lifetime since i last saw them.
― cw, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i see we get le volume courbe instead of spectrum tonight though....
― cw, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently we're getting graham coxon on monday?!
― braveclub, Friday, 20 June 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the oddest thing is listening to mbv on heavy rotation in anticipation of seeing them
Those EPs are stunning.
― Venga, Friday, 20 June 2008 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Right, so when the 2CD "Loveless" with lovely sleevenotes does come out, will it get to number one in a "Travelling Wilburys" kind of way?
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i've got free tickets for tonight but i'm not sure i can be bothered
― DG, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
what are you, kevin shields or something?
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no my cover is blown
― DG, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Grouty xpost: well, Pacific Ocean Blue is number eight in the album midweeks so who knows?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
really? nice one.
You know, a few years ago you'd get reissue albums do well chartwise, e.g. the Virgin reissue of "My Generation"
When the deluxe issue came out, a much better package (the Virgin one was excellent too), it did not register.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Who is Tuesday support band?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wurzels
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
with their version of "to 'ere knows when!"
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Kiss Yr fear, (oo arr oo arr) Your red button Falls from my mouth
Slip Yr dress (oo arr oo arr) Over yr 'ead, Its been so long To 'ere knows when, arr, To 'ere knows when, arr...
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
(banjo solo)
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It was a bit unusual, but we all loved it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
actually Dale's now come up with an alternative stock expression for not liking/playing a record: "they were a strange lot, weren't they?" (cf. Sigue Sigue Sputnik last Sunday).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I am semi-deaf and have a hideous ringing in my ears. They started off quite noisy, but seemed to keep cranking up the volume as the set went on. I forced my way into the jumping pack of loons at the front for Soon and Feed Me With Your Kiss, but You Made Me Realise (which they finished with, obviously) was just plain nasty.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 20 June 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2595895077_290409685b.jpg
Not the most stunning image, I'll grant you, but it'll do after a more than 16 year wait.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 21 June 2008 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link