The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/news/boxset.html

http://metroencoding.net/emperornorton/ref/kevinshields_city-girl_320x180_large-REF.mov

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.)

could be funny if Chan Marshall flakes onstage though, and Smith has to reprimand and corral her mid-set

so at the risk of being a credulous fool...

a boozy friend accosted shields over the weekend and he claimed the new mbv record was totally finished and he would be getting the gang together to tour it imminently. This pretty much tallies with the account of a mutual acquaintance who worked with the man 6 months or so ago. so maybe either ksheilds is a delusional tease or we might be getting some shinynewmbv. Has anyone heard anything that might corroborate this either way?

I reckons he says that to everyone who asks, every time, for the past five years...

He's been too busy hanging out at Sonic Cathedrals, celebrating himself, to record an album!

http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifksheilds is a delusional teasehttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif

precisely! he's been out and about a lot lately so maybe he has something to celebrate. he claimed that all the mbvers had been contacted and were pretty much ready to start rehearsing.

And once they've had nine years' of rehearsals, they should be ready to hit the road.

i'm only interested if dave conway is involved

No, see, he's totally telling the truth, it's just that Kevin Shields perceives time on a geological- nay, an astronomical scale.

Hmmmm...

http://www.myspace.com/mybloodyvalentine

Please note it also links to this, registered with no content as yet:

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.co.uk/

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.