The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Really where are you playing? I'm sick of paying for overpriced Leonard Cohen tickets.

so is this band worth checking out?

dunno, are you into classic rock?

"It's Freedom Shoegaze, man!"

the show is in 3-D right?

Just got mah tickets for the Austin show! Much cheaper than Leonard Cohen.

― f. hazel, Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:15 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ me toooooo

― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:22 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Me three! See you guys in the pit?

It's going to be much sweatier than the Leonard Cohen pit.

But oh so much sweeter.

Just got mah tickets for the Austin show! Much cheaper than Leonard Cohen.

― f. hazel, Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:15 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ me toooooo

― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:22 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

I read that as 'bison is much cheaper than Leonard Cohen'

I think Alex in SF did as well!

i am much cheaper, for one i will play for arcade tokens, which i am fairly certain cohen would not (95% confidence interval)

i am seriously seriously considering buying a ticket for this

BIG HOOS you seriously seriously have to go, it's one of the best shows you'll see in your life and if not I'll personally refund your ticket after the show.

hoos you shd go, i am meeting two all-time bros as well as my actual irl bro, it is going to be a night for stories and tinnitus

and you can finally replace your threadbare girl lying in the grass with knife t-shirt!

Morley and I got our tixxxx for SEA

It's like they're a band you want to see or something.

cum on see the noise
the waves rock the boys
and they BLURRRGH BLUUUURGH BLURRRGH
on the FLOOOOR FLOOOR FLOOOOOR

god, 105 for two tickets. WTF

"vintage volume"

so my buddy is flying from LA to SF to see Throbbing Gristle and then flying out the next day to see MBV with me in Denver! The things some people will do to avoid Coachella ... :D

god, 105 for two tickets. WTF

that's how much it is for ONE ticket to David Byrne here in June (not going to that), so it almost seems reasonable!

finally braved the super shitty livenation site and bought tix for the Denver show. (thanks for reminding me, livenation, why i rarely go to concerts these days). SO EXCITED.

HOOS do you have a ticket yet?

Guys, if you haven't seen them yet you're in for a real fucking treat. I flew out to NY last fall and they were out of this world. Just spellbinding, fucking incredible music. Transfixing.

shut up, just shut the fuck up.

(btw, if anyone is willing to cover airfare costs to an MBV-specific location for a really nice, poor individual, there's a kidney in it for you)

Where do you live and where are you going to?

;-)

flights to denver are pretty cheap these days. just sayin.

I'm shocked that the Seattle show hasn't sold out yet. Have they sold out in other cities?

don't even think they sold out LA ... crowded, but not sold out.

Have they sold out in other cities?

Not in Austin, but they're playing a 3,000 person venue. The next smallest is 1,200 which would be sold out in a flash, soooo... not expecting it to sell out, maybe 1,500 to 2,000 people at the show in a couple weeks. Doubt it will sell out, though.

as stated in that The Cure tread: i have, through work in Los Angeles, come across people associated with Coachella. i asked, someone very high up in the My Bloody Valentine camp if were are to get a new album and he said, something to the effect of, "we are guaranteed new music by My Bloody Valentine."

I was going to post that a "secret" LA show is scheduled for the El Rey this Thursday night but I ended up reading this thread over again. Great stuff!

Here's the link: http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/2009/04/my-bloody-valentine-to-play-precoachella-show-at-the-el-rey.html

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 10am.

I still can't quite get my head around the fact that I'm going to see MBV three times in six months - and that one of the shows is mere walking distance from my apt.

heh heh, my friend who lives in LA is probably kicking himself -- he's flying out here for the Denver show! oh well, it'll be totally fun. He'll probably go to the El Rey show anyway.

I still can't quite get my head around the fact that I'm going to see MBV three times in six months - and that one of the shows is mere walking distance from my apt

Crazy feeling, isn't it. I'll be missing Thursday, I'll be up at EMP -- seeing them in October means I don't have screaming jealousy per se but I *will* be sad if they end up playing some new songs, which I suspect will be the case. Oh well, wait on the full album and tour for that, then.

would be nuts if they played new stuff ... what do you think -- will it be things from the "lost" follow-up to Loveless? Or totally new stuff? I'd assume the former, but who know ...

If anything I would assume the latter.

yeah, maybe. just seems like Shields is ummm not the most prolific songwriter, so he might rely on already-written stuff. But I guess the lost record is rumored to be all drum n bass-y? So that might not work.

Like I said upthread I'd be totally happy if they began the set by announcing "This is a song we stopped working on in 1994" and broke into a half-hour of demolition jungle.

My fear would by they'd say "This is a song we stopped working on in 1998" rather than 94.

or maybe "This is a song we wrote hurriedly last night, because we found out our booking agent promised the Coachella people new music."

or "this is our tribute to Elton John"...

Interview with Shields here: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Blogs/Music?oid=oid%3A767977

OTR: Did you try out any new material?

KS: Not much, no, to be honest. We’re still working in the past. Even all the work I’ve done in the studio this year has largely been finishing off that record from the late Nineties.

OTR: Is that close to completion?

KS: Closer. At the time I was working on it there were about 15 to 17 tracks and there were only six or eight that I was really sure of. I was going through the process of actually narrowing it down and working on stuff and going, "You know what, this isn’t really working." Now the 11 tracks that are all going to on the record are clear. There was a reasonable amount of false starts ‘cause it’s basically half-done. It was half-made. It’s a weird process, sort of, restarting a record from such a long time ago. I had to be quite natural with it and not to rush it.

> not to rush it

lol

don't rush it, kev

Y'know I really love MBV and all, and that's an interesting interview but the whole "we make no money" thing is getting pretty old. By my reckoning they sold over 20,000 tickets on the uk tour last year, sold out every show, and all Shields can do is say they ended up in debt. Meh. And as for "I had to be quite natural with it and not to rush it", all I can think of is:

How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice little story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protagonist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? (voice getting higher pitched) Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah? (voice returns to normal) No, no, you deserve some time off.

well, i dunno, he says they spent $600,000 just getting ready to tour ... You think they've profited that much (after paying road crew, etc.)? I'm asking, I actually have no idea.

Nah, I'm just crabby over Kev's whining and lack of actual ability to even get the remasters out. By the sound of it they must have got a real bung from Coachella, which would have made it worthwhile. And, in honesty, they did sound *incredible* in Manchester last year so if the bulk was spent on equipment then fair enough and that expense obviously gets offset the more shows they play.