MBV Comeback.

it was never likely.

however, according to a "source", kevin does indeed have the masters to all the released material (including the pre-Creation stuff)..

..so, i guess that means Weiland will be at Coachella in some form.

"We are 100 percent going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something."

but NME are running the story as well, so it's true! :

http://www.nme.com/news/my-bloody-valentine/25821

Of course, that could happen at any time within the next 60 years!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/04/my_bloody_valen_4.html

They never will let a new promo photo surface, I'm positive.

"Currently, only one show is confirmed: a headlining slot at the soon-to-be-announced All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in upstate New York the weekend of September 20-21."

ATP in...upstate New York? But I LIVE in upstate New York! 2008 is looking up!

Saratoga? Great Falls?

Bethel Woods? Plattsburgh?

(great falls?)

Troy?

Buffalo

they're opening for Ani

We've all been waiting for the MBV-Utah Phillips collaboration

Hopefully they hit the Great Sacandaga Lakes ... the fall tourist season is hott up there!

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

Hopefully, it's the NY State Fairgrounds in beautiful Solvay.

Letchworth is a great park. But all jokes aside, upstate probably means somewhere along the Hudson and/or in the Catskills.

yeah, I was gonna say fairgrounds. It's not Bethel Woods - Martina McBride's there on Sunday.

When I was a kid I new all the secret ways to get into the fair for free. Maybe all those holes in the fence are still there!

ski resort?

How about 1,000 Islands? (I could do this all night.)

MBV, Low, Drones, Perfect From Now On...I hate everyone that gets to go to this.

!!!!

Jesus Christ but the indie/alternative kids really are becoming the "I want to hear the classic music of my youth 'cause it was the best music" generation without making any bones about it, eh?

I thought this was going to be some hostile anti-Ned javascript.

Yeah the whole-album-in-concert thing is getting a little ridiculous, but with a lineup like that, who gives a fuck? Does anyone know how much tickets to this thing are likely to cost. The ATP site doesn't have any info on that as of yet.

I don't think I really care about any of the other bands, and with Colm supposedly out, my excitement is tempered.

$225 just for tickets, more for accommodations25 just for tickets, more for accommodations

that didn't work right, oh well

all respect to tMg \m/, but someone put on an Unwound, Lync, Indian Summer, and Second Story Window show there in mid-1993. That's at least on the same tier of awesome... not to mention a Dump/Refrigerator show in 1999 or so.

See, this was the 90s awesomeness, bands from San Diego that lasted three weeks before recombining DNA to form two splinter groups until it was a mass pyramid schem'a screamo.

yeah i guess it's sad how things work out. but isn't a lot of this just a reaction to all the PR b.s. the artists themselves were spewing at the time they were fresh (like what ned was talking about).....the same stuff all the classic rock godz they were supposedly fighting against said when they were young bucks.

every generation thinks it invented the blowjob.

Talking bout my ge-ne-ra-tion!

every generation thinks it invented the blowjob.

M@tt for the win

Why the fuck is everyone saying that it's going to be MBV performing Loveless? Neither of the links that list other bands playing old albums put anything beside the Valentine name.

Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts

I'd be against this kinda thing but I just can't wait for this timeless classic to be performed live.

I'm not sure anyone has stated this yet, but I think there are two sides to the "classic album" performance. One is a band like the Stones, Sex Pistols or whatever touring on old material over and over, nothing new to add, and yes, that's gotta be lame. But on the other hand, a lot of the bands doing the ATP Don't Look Back thing -- for example Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Low all come to mind -- I mean, all of those bands are relatively active with new material as well, so the classic album front-to-back performance is more of a limited-run special event than a way for the bands to cash in repeatedly. Sonic Youth has stopped with the Daydream tour and are back to new material; Low did a one-time performance of Things We Lost in the Fire, yet they haven't stopped pushing forward since; and Public Enemy will no doubt have another new, ignored album out after these Nation of Millions dates. It's not a full-blown reunion tour, it's a one-time special deal. And I think that's awesome.

And yes, I'd love to see the MBV reunion at this fest.

I have inside knowledge that they've been rehearsing with 200 effects pedals. That should be enough, no?

yeah stephen I'm just a grumpus about this (and plenty of other things of course) - it seems such a willful celebration of the whole concept of The Canon, which I think is a pernicious, loathsome thing to celebrate

per·ni·cious Audio Help [per-nish-uhs] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.

is Thurston Moore trying to cause insidious harm or ruin?? i mean, I'd hardly call Psychic Hearts a part of The Canon -- it's just a good-to-great Thurston solo album that the big SY fans at this event will be excited to hear played live, and you know, the same fans will keep on checking out everything Thurston/SY does in the future regardless of this one show.

Part of me can't help but think one of the most awesome things in the world would be for a touring band with one classic album to be playing a regular show...then in the middle of their set, they play the first song from that album...followed by the second...followed by the third... People start to clue in "holy crap, are they going to play the album in its entirety?" And the band keeps playing the album in order, whipping the crowd into a frenzy. Then, they play the next-to-last song on the album ....and walk offstage. House lights go up.

If it's MBV at this thing, pulling the plug before they get to "Soon", they should win the Nobel Prize.

When I saw the Damned they played like the 1st 5 songs off Machine Gun Etiquette, in order. I started to wonder if they were going to do the whole album but then after that they played New Rose and it was a normal set. Was fucking ace though.

x-post -- Prince doing that with Purple Rain would be even funnier.

Cheap Trick was messing around with this idea years ago. I saw them play the entire first record in Grand Rapids in the mid 90s.

x-post - Roger Waters - Meddle (without Echoes)

There. I gave away Coachella.

You bad man.

Anyway, oddly (?) enough I just got wind of this in an e-mail:

PATTI SMITH AND KEVIN SHIELDS SET TO RELEASE THE CORAL SEA
EMOTIONAL SPOKEN-WORD REQUIEM RECORDED LIVE IN 2005 & 2006
DOUBLE-DISC RELEASE SET FOR JULY 11. 2008

Legendary artist Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields are set to release a double-disc set of their live performance of The Coral Sea on July 11, 2008 on their own PASK imprint. The Coral Sea is Patti Smith's posthumous homage to her friend and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the title to her 1996 book. Kevin Shields accompanies her on guitars and effects and creates a haunting backdrop to the spoken prose.

The recordings were made June 22nd 2005 and September 12th, 2006 respectively at sold-out performances at the QEH in London. The set will run almost two-hours with a different stylistic approach to each performance. The UK's Guardian upon reviewing the 2005 performance gave it 5 stars and called it "magical."

One critic said of the live performance: A kind of screaming requiem, The Coral Sea describes Mapplethorpe's terminal illness. Intense, layered electronics surged to a discordant climax as Patti Smith read her poem, the words sailing over the noise like an ocean liner, with the black-and-white video showing the ocean, the liner and the grey twilight of grief. The poem tells the story of M (Mapplethorpe) on a final voyage to see the stars of the Southern Cross before he dies.

Long-rumored to be released on CD, this first official issuing of these live recordings have been curated with care by both Patti Smith and Kevin Shields. Whether the duo will reprise this performance in the future is still unknown.

stephen you didn't actually copy in the dictionary definition of "pernicious" instead of say trying to figure out what I might have meant by it did you

I know you didn't do that

note that when I say "I know," I don't actually mean "I have knowledge of" here

no MBV no peace
know MBV know peace

If it's MBV at this thing, pulling the plug before they get to "Soon", they should win the Nobel Prize.

-- Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:50 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Not the Nobel Peace Prize though.

That is GREAT news about The Coral Sea!

they should win the Nobel War Prize

???

http://homepage2.nifty.com/backpagerecords/EricBurdonWar.jpg

they should win the Nobel War Prize

You went where I dared not go.

stephen you didn't actually copy in the dictionary definition of "pernicious" instead of say trying to figure out what I might have meant by it did you

I know you didn't do that

i'm not sure any definition of "pernicious" that you could give would fit the Thurston scenario, regardless.

sigh

would copy in various OED exempla, many admittedly obscure (nb by obscure I don't mean "concealed in darkness") that are sort of divaspeak for "hateful" but will you be content with "he is a pernicious citizen, said M. Curius, who cannot be contented with seven acres" (Hume, Pol. Disc. 1782)? sorry if you're excited to see psychic hearts or something, no harm intended yo

obscure (nb by obscure I don't mean "concealed in darkness")

ha ha ha very funny :P

i live in texas, i'd be lucky to make it to ny for that

I'd be against this kinda thing but I just can't wait for this timeless classic to be performed live.

Sarcasm?

ha, yeah, that record is OK, but it's certainly one of the odder choices to be played live in its entirety ... i'd like to hear thurston do that "elegy for dead rock stars" tune live ...

Sarcasm yeah.

Soz to be all British and that.

sarcasm generator still on.

Sonic Youth has stopped with the Daydream tour and are back to new material;

And they did 40 minutes of post-Rourke material as the encore for the Daydream DLB shows.

Part of me can't help but think one of the most awesome things in the world would be

yer man Trayce saw They Might Be Giants in Melbourne six years ago, where for the second night of a two-night run they opened by playing Flood in its entirety. But they hadn't announced it and apparently people were baffled so they never did it again.

(they'd done pre-announced, sold-on-that-basis Flood shows in the States before.)

Still no indication that MBV aren't going to be playing new shit at these shows!

ATP New York sold out in about 5-10 minutes...

we all wasted our time here, then

well, it also means that additional tour dates are more likely to be announced sooner than later :)

Additional tickets will go on sale in the coming weeks, with accommodations in a nearby hotel.

http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=10004

= next week, sez customer service.

So they're supposed to be planning "6-8 US Dates" dunno if that's including ATP, but I'm assuming another New York show, LA, San Francisco, Chicago maybe?, uhh???? Toronto or Boston/Philly/Seattle/Montreal/any ideas??

RED ROCKS

6-8 US Dates would not include Canadian dates, assuming there are any.

I think LA and Chicago are certain, and SF and Austin are probable. I think NY is likely, but not guaranteed, especially if there are single-day tix to ATP. Other possibles - Boston, Philly, DC, Seattle or Portland (or Vancouver), Detroit (or Toronto). Twin Cities? Miami or Atlanta?

one would presume MBV would be providing intensities in at least ten cities...

pocatello, helena, cheyenne, ft. collins, chico, and provo FTW

i like zeppo myself