The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

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was done so long ago that there are many things about it I would have done in a different fashion, but it's a nice historical reference point at least.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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

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:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/2577659958_e3ac88e20d_b.jpg

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.

Right, so when the 2CD "Loveless" with lovely sleevenotes does come out, will it get to number one in a "Travelling Wilburys" kind of way?

i've got free tickets for tonight but i'm not sure i can be bothered

what are you, kevin shields or something?

oh no my cover is blown

Grouty xpost: well, Pacific Ocean Blue is number eight in the album midweeks so who knows?

really? nice one.

You know, a few years ago you'd get reissue albums do well chartwise, e.g. the Virgin reissue of "My Generation"

When the deluxe issue came out, a much better package (the Virgin one was excellent too), it did not register.

Who is Tuesday support band?

The Wurzels

with their version of "to 'ere knows when!"

Kiss Yr fear, (oo arr oo arr)
Your red button Falls from my mouth

Slip Yr dress (oo arr oo arr)
Over yr 'ead, Its been so long

To 'ere knows when, arr,
To 'ere knows when, arr...

(banjo solo)