Jesus and Mary Chain Mania!

Jesus & Mary Chain vinyl collection: http://www.myplaydirect.com/jesus-and-mary-chain/

11xLP box set of the studio albums, plus BBC sessions, plus live album, plus fan-selected rarities. £130. Due start of December.

Looks like a nice thing.

Well, I uploaded a nice pic, and voted for "Suck" (b-side of "Never Understand"), would appreciate if you did the same.

Of course, I shall be most agrieved if they use my pic and I have to pay £130 to get the crummy poster!

http://i.imgur.com/ZgWJxbR.jpg

awww

And Jim took the picture, clearly!

Picked up a bundle of the deluxe expanded editions. Listening to an interview conducted by a disinterested Tommy Vance who sounds incredibly like Alan Partridge.

Janice Long used to get fairly decent interviews out of them.

I mentioned uploading a pic for the poster in the box set, never heard owt from them so I assume it wasn't used

the story in psychocandy about young douglas hart is hilarious. "Hey Jim, that wee toddler's looking for you"

Touring Psychocandy over here in May:

Tickets on sale Fri. Jan. 30th at 10am PST

TOUR DATES:

05/01 Toronto, ON - Canadian Music Week
05/03 Detroit, MI - St Andrew's Hall
05/05 Chicago, IL - Riviera
05/07 Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory
05/09 Austin, TX - Levitation / Austin Psych Fest
05/11 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
05/13 Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
05/14 Seattle, WA - Showbox
05/16 San Francisco, CA - Warfield

East coast can suck it, apparently... :(

and the Electric Ballroom

This has been noted in other threads: if you're a JAMC fan, you'll probably like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gRyyGZN9A

I wish it were a little more whimsical.

This kind of looks like the 120 Minutes set, but I don't remember this happening during a JAMC interview...

https://31.media.tumblr.com/326c33329673080666c30bdcb1111ae8/tumblr_ml6or6qnNB1s6nf2ko1_500.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4ZXpsoOUg

Ahhh, thank you!

Haha, I just read the part in the Zoe Howe book about that interview.

new album in march http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-releasing-first-album-since-the-90s-in-march-2017/

really, wow! i recently signed up to their artist poll, so a new album before that poll is great news.

I'm hopeful for it. saw them a while back where they were doing a little greatest hits bit then all of psychocandy and it was actually a bonafide great show which i generally don't expect from not particularly active baby boomer bands.

Wow, finally the The Jefferson Airplane cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y31y6ikFN8

http://www.stereogum.com/1915257/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-amputation/music/

god that cover is bad

The drop shadow...

haha

Song is also bad. Drums are really terrible. Lyrics, chords etc all sound like a JAMC-bot created them. If someone said it was Primal Scream I'd have laughed at it. Mind you there's a certain kind of Jesus and Mary Chain badness which the fans seem to want so what do I know?

a bit like a parody of a jamc song that you could imagine in a 90s channel 4 comedy show

just heard a snippet on the radio - same line repeated 4 times.

'just like honey ...."

It was all downhill from that point.

So... Damage and Joy. It's not bad but kinda unnecessary imo, but anyway - they're back.

oh, and "The Jesus and Mary Chain Announce North American Tour"

Next (this) month, the Jesus and Mary Chain will release Damage and Joy, their first album in 18 years. In addition to their upcoming European dates behind the record, the band have now announced a North American spring tour. This May, they will perform in Brooklyn, Chicago, Toronto, and more. Find their upcoming shows below.

Damage and Joy is out March 24 via ADA/Warner Music. It follows the band’s 1998 LP Munki. The new album was recorded with producer Youth. It features contributions from the band’s touring drummer Brian Young, ex-Lush bassist Phil King, and Youth on bass. They’ve so far put out “Always Sad” and “Amputation” from the album.

The Jesus and Mary Chain
03-23 Newcastle upon Tyne, England - Northumbria University
03-25 Manchester, England - Academy
03-27 Leeds, England - Church
03-28 Leicester, England - O2 Academy
03-29 Bristol, England - O2 Academy
03-31 Birmingham, England - O2 Institute
04-01 Bournemouth, England - O2 Academy
04-02 Oxford, England - O2 Academy
04-03 Cambridge, England - Junction 1
04-05 London, England - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
04-06 Bexhill-on-Sea, England - De La Warr Pavilion
04-07 Dublin, Ireland - Academy
05-09 St. Paul, MN - The Palace
05-10 Chicago, IL - Riviera
05-12 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
05-14 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
05-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
05-20 Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater
05-22 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
05-23 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
05-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Vogue Theatre

enjoying this (even though JAMC-bot is also OTM)

out tomorrow.

the singles have grown on me.

they also play about 10 minutes away in a couple of weeks' time. i didn't bother with the various reunion tours. do i go?

their first album in 18 years

*vertiginous existential crisis*

xp. i enjoyed the show i saw on their last north american tour, like it was a legitimately solid rock show from a gang of olds and I'm glad i went.

having said that i don't think ill be going this time

It's about 10 years since I saw JAMC reunion now, they are playing in Bexhill which is like 15 mins on the train, am tempted.

I enjoyed listening to it last night but I'm not sure how I feel about it in daylight.

This album is. . . not good.

yeah of all of the recent reunion albums, this is one that just doesn't appeal

Its OK. Which other reunes? Pixies? Blur?

always disappointed that this thread isn't actually called Jesus and Mary Chainia

It's pretty disappointing either way.

I don't think so. This album is pretty good for them. They have always been a pretty average mediocre band and this album just continues in that vein. Absolutely ok to listen to just for nostalgia. There have been so many bad reunion albums, this one isn't.

stfu

they are an amazing band, this album is terrible

I don't think it's terrible, but it is pretty mediocre and definitely inessential. I was tempted to see them live the other week but I'd've had to rearrange work to do it and after listening to the new album decided not to bother.

I saw them a few times in their psychocandy days, I'm not going now, no need.

The Wiltern, Hollywood, CA 5/19/2017:

Amputation
April Skies
Head On
Far Gone and Out
Between Planets
Blues From a Gun
Always Sad
Mood Rider
Teenage Lust
Cherry Came Too
The Hardest Walk
All Things Pass
Some Candy Talking
Halfway to Crazy
Nine Million Rainy Days
Reverence

Encore:
Black and Blues
The Two of Us
Just Like Honey
You Trip Me Up
The Living End
War on Peace

Encore 2:
Taste of Cindy
I Hate Rock 'n' Roll

"Reverence" was probably the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klcl25voBwc

I was also at this show and they fucking ruled, just look at that playlist. The opening band, Warlocks, were also a pleasant surprise.