The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

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I saw mbv live last night. They were pretty awesome - a very different beast live to on record. Seeing Kev get out an acoustic guitar and realising they were doing "Cigarette in your Bed" made me almost fall over in delight, christ it was good (they did "Slow" and "Thorn" as well - is that a common thing?).

Only one track from the new album though! Which was odd. And the "you made me realise" blast went for 15 minutes. It was like standing in an explosion. I thought I was ready for it but nothing prepares you for that headfuck.

I was there too Trayce! Are you seeing them again on Friday?

No I couldnt afford to buy ATP and sideshow tix (as I also got GYBE tix. too many damn shows). Its sold out now innit?

I put my question to the MBV site gods, will let you know if I hear anything

Norman Records are also selling it in the UK, at least.

Hmm, I wonder where Norman is getting it, their prices are a lot better than any wholesale we've been offered would allow.

could be loss leader

Could be. The wholesale we have seen is actually higher than mbv website retail price!

And now MBV is the new My Bloody Valentine masterpiece

Short version.

question : does anyone know if the band tried to get a label to release this, or, they just thought they'd run the whole show themselves ?
or, is a label quietly involved ?

at least one interview indicated that independent release was their intention. their manager among others has label experience so i don't think they'd be short of guidance and advice in that regard

pity they didn't know a decent designer...

apparently m b v is all kevin, the rest of the band aren't on it at all, which isn't that surprising tbh

via a friend who's mates with colm and debbie.

maybe that's the reason they don't play the record live (yet?!)

debbie pretty much said in a recent interview that she's not on any of the records, at least from the first creation single onwards

rumors says she doesn't even exist!

hahaha

she was a fucking amazing spectral non-presence on Monday night tbf

Kev sure has a high voice on some tracks.

how to earn money with mbv:
when i tried to order the album on their site they didn't accept my credit card details three times. that's what i thought and what it said on the site. but in reality they debited the price of the album three times from my card. and credited the same amount in pounds back soon after. in the end i made a small gain as the exchange rate changed in my favour. they are such a bunch of amateurs! but at least they are honest.

that's your credit card company handling the exchange rate. shields never saw your dollars.

Haha, Alex, same happened to me. The website was a mess that night, I must have clicked 'order' a couple of times to push through. Result: I was charged six times for buying the album.

I do have to say they corrected it really, really fast. Plus they threw in a never before released to the world album Shields recorded in 1994, at the height of drum 'n bass craze.

(that last part is not true)

When did he record it?

at the height of the Ark Music craze

What a collaboration that would be.

was it featuring Goldie (or Roni Size) ?

They couldn't get them. Had to settle for this guy called gerald. Recorded this song that went you little wonder two, you little wonder.

LOL.

Guy called Gerald would be a much better choice than those two IMO. As a point of order I don’t think he had anything to do with that Bowie stuff, apart from non-album remix.

Just received my cd of this today in the post. Debbie may not have played on the album but she did the sleeve.

So she's allowed to play live just not in the studio?

Hits the strings wrong or something

hahaha

she was great live last night fwiw

I always thought she was the coolest-looking.

Anyone got their vinyl through yet?

>Just received my cd of this today in the post. Debbie may not have played on the album but she did the sleeve.

Got the CD yesterday too - to this point I held out some vague hope that the hideous artwork would have been given a final once over, but no, seems that Kev had to spend the money on chinchilla kibble which might have otherwise gone toward Deb creating it using something other than MS Paint. The inner sleeve is a *bit* better, but the m b v font is unforgivable.

Lol only seen it online but looks bad

I love that people are hoping it'll get better in high resolution... I think it is only just slightly better than this:

http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20100717/00/sound-bomb/79/49/j/o0640063210642981840.jpg

I am in the Unite States and I lack the CD as of yet.

looking at the album sleeve just reminds me of the opacity function in photoshop. like the sleeve is just a signifier that leads me to thinking about it as a concept.

Saying the music is all that matters perhaps

i could write a million pages about the content-resembles-form perfection of the isn't anything sleeve though, which iirc kevin was responsible for cropping/bleaching out, &c.

Vinyl arrived this morning, sleeve looks better IRL

Where are you folks who are getting the physical releases at geographically?

UK

Mine arrived this morning, too.

got the CD 2 days ago (in France).

Think they tried to deliver my CD today but I was out.

Nothing here yet

when you look at the cover on a laptop, and push the screen forward and backwards the text appears/disappears along with a phaser-esque sound (which are featured on some tracks) as a result of moving the laptop forward/backwards.

made me appreciate the cover a lot more. i was kind of high though.