The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

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mp3 of the show

they kind of got it together a lot more for the second show; the sound better, them playing together more on the loveless stuff, a couple of different songs (c'mon, just wait and be surprised). it wasn't as loud but was twice as heavy, which reminds me of some old ks interview where he's explaining the difference, being able to feel some kind of heaviness-es rather than just hear volume. totally mindblowing and stuff, anyhow. those pictures are nice.

it wasn't as loud but was twice as heavy, which reminds me of some old ks interview where he's explaining the difference, being able to feel some kind of heaviness-es rather than just hear volume.

I wouldn't know anything about that. (Scroll down to me asking about their shows in 1992 at the Roxy and the Palace.)

oh, ha-ha. silly me. i'd thought it was from the one where he was answering a question about whether they'd support oasis if they were asked, and the answer was purely about it being conditional on the soundsystem. i hope someone good gets to interview them again, soon. did you ever see that sixty minutes interview with dylan where the guy just kept asking 'but HOW? did you WRITE? that SONG?!' about blowin' in the wind, or something?, all reverant and mired in myth? it'd be cool if they were freed from the standard journalistic hazy-dreampop-ephemeral-sensuous vibe, and someone mentioned the joys of kevin's voice/colm's snare-drum abuse, &c. the loveless book's fantastic, but all the other stuff i've seen's just really tired echoing.

I really should say that for all I know that's a standard answer of his. I've hardly done the definitive interview! (Mike McGonigal did, if anyone has.)

ah, wow, that interview's fantastic. everyone ought to read it for topical contextualisation. the difference tonight was really interesting; last night they sounded like a really guitarry garage band, with stupidly painful guitar noise, and then tonight it was much warmer, and fuller; not really abrasive or even loud, in a way. getting it to be a 'bodily' thing is pretty difficult, i think. there's that jim dickinson quote about live music being 'pushing air around', and the difference between last night and this evening was that the former was like looking at something (kind of like listening to a cd, where it just hangs around on the floor), the latter like feeling it (like a record!, which fills up the room).

oh, i don't know; i remember reading all of those interviews when the guy put the site up, i don't think i came across it anywhere else, and it seemingly stuck in my head ...
that you also elicited him talking about the band just being the three of them's really cool too. i remember the mike interview having the bit where he says/reveals that, bar touched & bilinda's vocals, he's the only musician actually playing on loveless, which seemed really revelatory. i think i like that book as much for the digressions* as the info, but it's great info.

* by some twist of fate, i had to return my ticket for a screening of tony conrad's the flicker to attend the ica show, something the book references at some point.

Thanks much for the kind words! That interview was done so long ago that there are many things about it I would have done in a different fashion, but it's a nice historical reference point at least.

for sure. i saw a great documentary about andy goldsworthy once, and he's a really endearing guy, he sort of talks in questions, pretty satisfied to be puzzling stuff over rather than answering it, and, not that i think ks is necessarily like that, but there's a lot of interesting stuff that comes up in interviews because of his thoughts; there's a bit in the loveless book where he says that a slight deviation or distortion of something - like francis bacon's variations on the human form - is freakier & more unnerving than something entirely alien and totally spooky like a jellyfish, and that their music has the same value.

about doing things differently, i saw him at a brian wilson show once, and was so determined not to add to the chorus of gangly kevin fans shouting about loveless saving their life that i went up and said i hoped he was doing o k. ahh. it is really nice that they're playing again, anyhow.

was so determined not to add to the chorus of gangly kevin fans shouting about loveless saving their life

Hey! :-D

The 13th Gig has gone up on D1m£ad0z£n for all those MP3 haters. Supposed to be very good quality too, I expect the 14th will go up soonish.

there's a bit in the loveless book where he says that a slight deviation or distortion of something - like francis bacon's variations on the human form - is freakier & more unnerving than something entirely alien and totally spooky like a jellyfish, and that their music has the same value.

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Has anyone that's going to the Glasgow gigs received their tickets yet? They're cutting it pretty fine

no, i've not ... the e-mail says only to worry if you've not had them a week before the gig :/

Glasgow ticket site was so shonky a mate of mine phoned up from Sydney just to be able to book!

My Bloody Valentine @ ICA, London - You Made Me Realise 13/6

90 seconds of dense, suffocating feedback with Kevin's guitar sounding like a jet engine over the top :O

quite a short version then.

Oh no, it was a 90 second clip of a ~25 minute rendition.

From the video description:

90 seconds of LOUD NOISE from the middle of 'You Made Me Realise', the show's closer. I wasn't prepared to film all 30 minutes of it, so here's a taster.

You can vaguely hear Kevin Shield's guitar divebombing halfway through - he was using a Digitech whammy pedal. You can really hear the harmonics of his vintage Jaguar coming through.

haha that last clip is total destruction

they should play no fun fest 2009 imo xD

he was using a Digitech whammy pedal. You can really hear the harmonics of his vintage Jaguar coming through.

It's a Jazzmaster, not a Jaguar

Not in this case dawg:

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So he's using two guitars

This just in from Sonic Boom...

Just to let you know Spectrum - the full band - doing the highs, lows and heavenly blows of my career, will be playing with MBV at the Roundhouse this weekend and in Manchester next weekend.

The London shows are already sold out, but if you've got a ticket come along early to see us play.

The MBV support dates are:
Saturday 21st Sept - The Roundhouse
Saturday 28th Sept - Manchester Apollo
Sunday 29th Sept - Manchester Apollo

and as fast I as reposted...

CORRECTION: MBV SUPPORT DATES ARE OF COURSE JUNE

yessss Spectrum! hopefully dude shows up at ATP New York as well, i'd love to see him again.

yessss Spectrum! hopefully dude shows up at ATP New York as well, i'd love to see him again.

Confirmed! New message from Sonic...

21st September - ATP New York - Spectrum performing with MBV, Mogwai and many others

Not supporting in Glasgow?

fucking fucking fucking cunts! that would rock so motherfucking hard :(

come on, boom, you skag-addled bowlcut motherfucker. pull your finger out and come up here.

^ what I was thinking, but was too polite to post ^

you can always rely on me for an ill-judged bout of frenzied swearing.

watching MBV on youtube does not prove their point at all

Confirmed! New message from Sonic...

21st September - ATP New York - Spectrum performing with MBV, Mogwai and many others

Well fuck me fucking sideways...

haha even australia got to see sonic boom recently. take that glasgow!

I think Sonic Boom played here last year. Grimly is just being typically melodramatic.

Reissues delayed again!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/19/bmvalentine119.xml

Weren't Ant and Dec available?

Re: Sonic/MBV - Maybe we'll be treated to some epic-length E.A.R. jamz w/ Kev guitar noodling!

That would be such a surprising and radical thing for Kev to do.

as opposed to, you know, reuniting MBV after a decade and a half.

Seeing them tonight in Camden :-)

Yeah, seems really odd saying "I'm going to see MBV tonight."

the oddest thing is listening to mbv on heavy rotation in anticipation of seeing them. its pretty much exactly half a lifetime since i last saw them.

i see we get le volume courbe instead of spectrum tonight though....

apparently we're getting graham coxon on monday?!

the oddest thing is listening to mbv on heavy rotation in anticipation of seeing them

Those EPs are stunning.