The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

y'know, the "holocaust" thing in Denver was awesome and intense, but the most transcendent moment for me was the long outro of "Soon" -- like the VU trancing out on "What Goes On", pure locked in sound. was expecting that my ears'd still be ringing for days afterwards, but I actually didn't notice it too much. maybe this is a bad sign for the state of my hearing.

my buddy taped the show on his cheap walkman recorder. we played some of the holocaust section on the drive home -- sounded like static on the radio. or something we could sell to Aquarius Records on limited edition cassette as the latest awesome underground noize band.

was expecting that my ears'd still be ringing for days afterwards, but I actually didn't notice it too much. maybe this is a bad sign for the state of my hearing.

You know... my ears were ringing for about a week after ATP New York, but hardly at all after Austin the other night. Not sure why, I used earplugs about half the show at each one...

used earplugs for the whole show, but just the ones they provided at the door.

but the most transcendent moment for me was the long outro of "Soon" -- like the VU trancing out on "What Goes On", pure locked in sound

yeah - the build up of constituent parts of that song and then them all just caving in and combining at the end, vocals and the sample and guitars. it is too much!

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Kevin Shields
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― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, January 6, 2004 8:45 PM (5 years ago)

Classic beyond belief.

It's so "it could actually be real"...

(I saw Nick's got a novel out!)

release date: 17-8-2009

Come on now, there is no 17th month. This is obviously made up.

http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00073/herprotest062509a_73638c.jpg

I know dude, I was just kidding (and implying the release date won't hold water, regardless).

So I'm never gonna see them. That's just great.

What, did they officially go back on hiatus?

no but their last US show for a while is today at all points west which i cannot attend.

dont worry i'm sure there will be more US dates at some point. next stop for them is our fest, Kevin hinted
in an interview a while back they may debut some new material and possibly a different lineup. which would be exciting. pretty much sold out and not in the US though:
http://www.atpfestival.com/Events/Nightmare2009.php

different lineup is not exciting, that sucks!

expanded lineup i should say! he mentioned adding new people to the current lineup to expand the sound

Turntablists, a gospel choir and someone on didgeridoo.

As long as it's not Bobby Gillespie to "return the favour" it'll be ok. Maybe a return of flautist from Loveless tour?

interpretive noise dancers

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qPon2S4vHls/R3gH_Yu1_lI/AAAAAAAAA3w/l9N-ZuP82s4/s320/bizarrojimmy1.jpg

a ragga MC?

that would be make slightly less meh about the atp line up.

flautist?...what the...flautist?!...I seen 'em twice on the Loveless tour, and I ain't seen no flautist!

henry, you made me wonder if I had a false memory event, but no:

Anna Quimby: MBV's flautist

when I saw them at Birmingham Institute for the Loveless tour she dealt with the high <ahem> flutey sample sounds that are all over the album. Did you see them in the UK or elsewhere, maybe she didn't tour overseas?

high-fallutin' samples

A litany of humorous comments from Tool fans regarding MBV's live performance (apparently, they had to sit through MBV to see Tool immediately afterward at All Points West NY this weekend):

Fuser0118 (1 day ago)
these people sucked!!

brohan914 (23 hours ago)
I was there, and I didn't really get these guys

PiePie1992 (22 hours ago)
This band sucked ass.

HoboCabbage (17 hours ago)
i guess im not artsy enough to enjoy this, i thought it sounded like a wall of suck

dancingshoesx505 (17 hours ago)
This band was awful! They just made a shitload of crap noise and you couldn't even hear them sing. On top of that they looked like zombies!!!
nobody wanted to see their shitty performance!

PiePie1992 (28 minutes ago)
I also liked Gogol Bordello and The Arctic Monkeys. Leading into it I thought I would enjoy MBV. Guess not.
But you're right, I'm a Tool fan, I'm just a closed minded dickhead.

Those are from YouTube, btw.

shocker

Few forms are discourse are lower than the YouTube comment.

I like Lateralus, but Tool's entire discography doesn't even come close to what MBV accomplished with Loveless.

One half-decent MBV picture from All Points West on P4K: http://pitchfork.com/news/36093-report-all-points-west-liberty-state-park-nj-073109-080209/

One friend told me a decent amount of Tool fans had their middle fingers in the air from the 2-3 minute point of the "noise wall" onward.

How surprising!

I wonder if their arms got tired.

funny, i only know one heavy Tool fan, and he loves MBV.

Tool's drummer should have soloed over the noise bit.

Is it the poster immediately before you? xp

funny, i only know one heavy Tool fan, and he loves MBV

Yeah I'm a little surprised at there being such a huge audience split -- a little, not completely. Sure seems like a lot of newer metal bands love both equally. (Cue Chuck E. posting about why said love is the problem with modern metal...)

hee hee, Tool just played a big festival out here, and I think they went on after .... Widespread Panic. Wonder if there were any middle fingers during that set.

Tool fans are an insular, tribal sort. I bet it had less to do with MBV and more to do with the fact that it was not Tool.

Anyone know how Tool fans reacted to King Crimson, Isis, Meshuggah and other past opening acts?

http://randazza.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/middle-finger.jpg

maybe not though ... might be a different thing if it's a festival setting or if it's a band that the mighty Tool have deigned worthy to open for them.

btw, MBV were pretty excellent last night at the Way Out West festival in Göteborg, Sweden.

I saw tool once b/c a friend had an extra ticket she couldn't get rid of. Tomahawk opened for them. There was a lot of heckling and middle fingers, but I'm not sure how much of that was because Mike Patton wouldn't stop insulting the audience and hoe much was because tool fans are dicks.
ps-tool were boring. The only show I've ever fallen asleep at.

So, as the "wall" is part of the last song, were the tool fans fingerhappy during the rest of the set?

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere (it would take forever to check all the MBV posts on all the threads):

http://onethirtybpm.com/2009/07/16/mp3s-three-unreleased-my-bloody-valentine-songs/

tweets outta atp: MBV are playing Sometimes. Oh my goodness something aaargh

Things yelled at Kevin during ATP set, and Kevin's reply:

"Play new stuff!"
(away from the mic but still remotely audioble) "no"

"Honey Power"
"ok"

"Loomer"
"cant remember the tuning"

ha ha i think that may have been my companion shouting for loomer

new album out tomorrow!