The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

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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.

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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.

Ohh shit should I start a thread here trawling for questions here for Mr. Shields, or is that redundant?

I tried trawling through here for ideas for the book a year ago and it all just seemed so redundant to type "Loveless" in the search engine, since almost every single thread came up! Hah.

What I REALLY need is help tracking down any of the people who worked on the album (esp. any of the 57 engineers) now that I got my "high quality" (hah) VOIP on and can make free phone calls to the UK...

I'm greatly interested in your book, Michael. Do you have a title for it?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826415482

Glad to hear that the 33-1/3 book on Loveless is well under way -- been waiting for that one. Sorry, can't think of any good questions off the top of my head, only idiotic/boring ones.

Question two: Really?

Also, have you talked or will you be talking to Bilinda, Colm, and/or Debbie? I'd be interested to hear what they have to say about the album at this point.

Except for those drums, which haunt me in their determinate sincerity. What the hell is it about them that just...stays there? Do they anchor the music or do they ground it? Because there's something about the rest of it all that feels so fucking free. But those drums -- they bring it all back down to earth, as if sound were not indeterminate at all. As if it were very much finite.

The thing about Loveless is that is should be anything I want it to be. But it isn't.

Uh, I'm probably not fucking there. As the effect of that potent little cup of Chantico™ wanes, it becomes clear that spending a thousand bucks or so basically just to go to one show is too insane at this point even for me, even to see two of my personal top five living artists (one of whom is in some sort of weird career limbo and whom I'll likely never get to see perform) on a stage together, probably for the only time ever. SOB. Somebody had better bootleg this, is all. Horses haters note: no one will have to "sit through" anything; see the schedule.

(However! When I got up yesterday I had perfect indie-rock bedhead, requiring no human intervention whatsoever, for the first and undoubtedly last time in my life. I'll take my karmic consolation prizes where I can find them.)

Shame they changed the location. The National Stadium is a truly terrible venue

Shame they changed the location. The National Stadium is a truly terrible venue

Was it supposed to be somewhere else? I completely missed it, but I’m seeing them on Saturday.

Well that's the word on the street

It seemed to sell out pretty much as soon as the email went out but then a load more tickets ended up getting released

Sounds like there were issues getting into the venue and with the sound too

Doesn’t surprise me. It was built for boxing, not for music, despite the decades of gigs that have been there.

would love to see "off your face" footage 🥵

Off Your Face is such a great song I almost regret not getting tickets for next week, but I want to protect my hearing.

was gonna say bring a change of jorts for when kevin hits that brown note but the word is that they've turned it down to around 120 db during the noise wall

Yeah, in that Pitchfork article it talked about listening without earplugs and I cannot imagine that when I saw them during the last big tour.

I didn't wear earplugs the times I saw them in the early 90's (I was young and dumb) but they probably weren't as loud then. I hope?

I didn’t notice anyone without earplugs when I saw them. I briefly took mine out a few times just to get a sense of what it was like and it was like a majestic reciprocating saw screaming in and out of my eardrums. When I saw Swans I didn’t wear earplugs and regretted it, I think it did some damage. It wasn’t anywhere near MBV.

I brought a noise freak friend who wasn’t familiar with them. He worked in a metal grinding shop. He was irritated that he HAD to wear earplugs when he normally wouldn’t.

"Loveless" has been missing from many (all?) streaming services for months ...

I noticed that too when a playlist I had skipped over a track. Not surprisingly, fans have uploaded all the tracks on YouTube, but still puzzling.

Kevin's gonna roll out his own version of PONO

They're all still on Spotify for me (in NZ)

On Tidal in the UK at least.

I guess it's merely a (territorial) rights issue than a sign of something happening with the back catalog.

Makes me ponder exactly how long Loveless (Shields Version) would take to record.

There's probably one pedal that does it all now, lol. A friend of mine plays guitar in various cover bands, and on St. Patrick's Day they had a U2 gig. He was going to figure out the confluence of effects to get the guitar sound of "Mysterious Ways," but then he found a pedal with a pre-set called something like "Mysterious" that was more or less exactly that song's settings.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Mno8ghNmL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

Except that you need 50 of them.

Deb's gear setup:

https://whatsonyourboard.substack.com/p/whats-on-your-board-with-deb-googe

Intently watching her play "Off Your Face" a couple months ago from several meters away makes me hard to believe that's not her favorite song to play.