The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

I have no idea how many copies Loveless sold in the US. Less than 500,000, I guess, because it hasn't gone gold yet, has it? I would say, however, that even though tons of music nerds know and love MBV, the vast VAST majority of people in the U.S. have never heard of them.

Copy/pasting from the Wikipedia page...

Loveless peaked at number 24 on the British album charts, and failed to chart in the United States, where it was distributed by Sire Records. In 2003 Rolling Stone estimated the sales figures for Loveless as 225,000 copies sold.

WWAAARRGGGGGGHHHHH!

So is there actually an opening band for this tour or what?

Kurt Heasley from the Lilys opened up tonight. Not sure if he's on for the whole tour.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3571/3449802600_906c9583d6.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3324/3448986817_e384324a5f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/3449795578_a90ba191b0.jpg

=D

jealous as fuck

If the October shows were like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time and trying to take it all in - tonight was being able to finally see the details. The sound wasn't quite the same total annihilation as the SMCC show was, but more distinct... I could pick out Deb's bass lines and even hear all the vocals well. Overall the band was loose, false starting a couple times, occasionally smiling, and totally fucking killing it with the power of an asteroid strike. Deb & Colm utterly breathtaking - cool to hear them get as many shout out as Kevin and Blinda.

Some choice bits with the audience:

Shouting Audience Guy: LOUDER!
Kevin: ok
Shouting Audience Guy: NO, LIKE SHATTER MY EARDRUMS LOUDER!
Kevin: ok

Another Shouting Audience Guy: FUCK THE EARPLUGS
Kevin: no, please don't fuck the earplugs

More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/sets/72157616906370706/

I can't wait 'till Sunday!

Great photos!

Yeah those photos are awesome!

Heheh, lovely. But were there any new songs played?

excited! one week!

Brightblack Morning Light are opening in Seattle and Denver.

cool! mighta preferred Kurt Heasley, but BML are good too. :)

Who's opening in Austin/Dallas? Any word yet?

But I was there.

I was there in 2008.

I was there at the first My Bloody Valentine show in Monticello.

I'm losing my edge.

http://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mbv-interview-for-tremelo-ep-jan-26th-1991.jpg
http://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/my-bloody-valentine-live-at-ulu-feb-25th-1989.jpg

"in the middle of a Gulf war"!!!

Thanks Herman, first article especially is a great read!

It is once you expand it :)

caek.css

^^

Changed my life

Right click, view image. It's not that complicated.

i know

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/en_nm/us_music_coachella
By Darryl Morden Darryl Morden – 1 hr 20 mins ago
The Cure followed the highly anticipated My Bloody Valentine, which was bloody loud to the point of clearing nearly three-quarters of the field during a closing, seemingly endless white-noise drone. The band's earlier reined-in songs with actual melodies buried beneath the feedback architecture, still at painfully high volume if you were too close -- and that meant thousands of feet away.

Much more engaging were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose Karen O is one of the most appealing rock frontwomen to surface since Chrissie Hynde. From thumpy struts to surging, hooky tunes, she charmed the crowd with self-effacing antics, warmth and plenty of smiles.

haaa

What are they odds they might play more US east coast shows around the time of All Points West?

I really want to see them badly, to the point where I'm willing to spend the extra money and get surrounded by sweat and discomfort and claustrophobia and misery throughout 5 sets from bands that I don't want to see at all.. plus the fact that there will be Tool fans in the crowd who will probably hate MBV..

But given the option I would just rather see them play on their own.

OK, Austin team. You've had 24 hours. Report in!

i just read mcgonigal's book. i wish i liked this band more.

i saw em at atp and left before the 14-minute drone piece and now i really want to see them do that somewhere else because it sounds way, way, way up my alley.

Are they still doing that in live shows?

I left in the middle to go upstairs and watch Eyes Without A Face in the Criterion lounge instead... And then fell asleep on the floor in the middle of that!

Are they still doing that in live shows?

Rather.

How long have their sets been on this tour?

i drove up to the austin show last week, set was abt 1:20 or so. noise wall was breathtaking. i brought some bitchin earplugs that were probably cutting 20 db and it was still almost at the pain threshold during this part. like my arm hair was standing up but not from goosebumps, but because it was little tiny sound winds propping them up, it was tight.

OK, Austin team. You've had 24 hours. Report in!

It was noisy and exhilarating and fucking LOUD.

Pretty much the same 14-15 song set as ATP New York last year.

The holocaust bit was about 13 minutes, seemed shortened...

the longest they held it was 40 minutes at one of the london shows...because kevin saw someone yawning on the front row and thought he deserved more punishment.

Why on earth would anyone want to go and see a gig where the USP seems to be how painful it is on your ears?

I thought it was supposed to be the 'whole body experience', I dunno.

Why on earth would anyone want to go and see a gig where the USP seems to be how painful it is on your ears?

Maybe I'm just a doofus here, but sometimes I want to feel the music rather than just hear it.

If anything, uncapped volume is certainly preferable to standing next to a bunch of chatterboxes in the crowd.

You get a whole body experience of there being bass frequencies, though, not just huge volume. "Uncapped volume" to me screams "dangerous, hearing-ruination treble". Obviously this may not actually be the case, but certainly my attraction to Loveless and Isn't Anything is about the nuance of the noise, which, at "uncapped volume" I'm not imagining I'd get.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the MBV bootleg of recent origin, which I played in the car at 'quite loud' volume.

I don't know if I would be prepared to put myself into the arena now, seeing as I've managed to get to 48 and not get tinnitis.

Back in the day, when I was first 'going out' w/ my wife, there was the J&MC/MBV/(DinosaurJr?) triple-headliner playing, local to her. Being a J&MC fan, I was tempted to travel up and go with her, but decided not to subject her to that as some sort of 'initiation'. (Instead, we both went to see Sultans of Ping as our first shared gig experience, a band neither of us had seen before, and that proved to be the right one)..

Still. What NS said, inasmuch as I'd add "I might well have got the experience, but at the risk of not getting it and getting (or losing) something I need? errmmm"

Oh, and the Remasters look like being out in June now.

> J&MC/MBV/(DinosaurJr?) triple-headliner playing

rollercoaster tour? with blur also? march / april 1992
http://members.tripod.com/~bloobf/concert_chronology.html

03/27/92 Whitley Bay, UK Ice Rink
other bands: The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Blur

That's the bunny!

I occasionally experience something akin to tinnitus, and am pretty sure it's probably with me at a very low level all the time. I'm not risking my hearing and all the pleasure it brings me for this. No way.

As received last night from Donut Mackro in Seattle, who asked me to pass this on:

Brightblack morning light = suicide gone santana? Band ignite live = FAIL

some Lilys guy did acoustic set too. WhhhyyyYYYY???

Mbv - PHWRAAAAOOR. Best "sound" yet.
Did similar set. Coupla old songs they did new live compared to last
years show.

Before YMMR, Bilinda is sad. "we have to go home after this... Thank
you so much" big cheers

MBVocaust : 18 minutes 32 seconds. Superloud but sexyloud. Felt sound
in arms, mouth, groin. no seizures. People really happy.

I go outside. No ambulances. Everyone is super YAY! Nice note to end
it on. Nice nite too!

YAY

I luv my mbv.

The end

Why was everything except live clips taken off youtube? (and YMMR is still there which was titled "Realise" by whoever posted it)

y'know, the "holocaust" thing in Denver was awesome and intense, but the most transcendent moment for me was the long outro of "Soon" -- like the VU trancing out on "What Goes On", pure locked in sound. was expecting that my ears'd still be ringing for days afterwards, but I actually didn't notice it too much. maybe this is a bad sign for the state of my hearing.

my buddy taped the show on his cheap walkman recorder. we played some of the holocaust section on the drive home -- sounded like static on the radio. or something we could sell to Aquarius Records on limited edition cassette as the latest awesome underground noize band.

was expecting that my ears'd still be ringing for days afterwards, but I actually didn't notice it too much. maybe this is a bad sign for the state of my hearing.

You know... my ears were ringing for about a week after ATP New York, but hardly at all after Austin the other night. Not sure why, I used earplugs about half the show at each one...

used earplugs for the whole show, but just the ones they provided at the door.

but the most transcendent moment for me was the long outro of "Soon" -- like the VU trancing out on "What Goes On", pure locked in sound

yeah - the build up of constituent parts of that song and then them all just caving in and combining at the end, vocals and the sample and guitars. it is too much!

Kevin Shields is my Friendster.

Kevin Shields
Member Since May 2003
Last Login 01/06/2004

Gender:
Male

Interested in
Meeting People for:
Friends, Activity Partners

Status:
Single

Age:
40

Occupation:
Recording artist & dyslexia spokesman

Location:
United Kingdom

Hometown:
Long Island, NY and Dublin, Ireland

Interests:
Rearranging my recording studio, bankrupting record labels, the hypnagogic state, gourmet meals, martial arts, breeding chinchillas, smoking lots of dope, watching lots of TV, easy projects, writing fresh and simple material, and just keeping it simple!

Favorite Music:
Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, Beatles, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Ramones

Favorite TV Shows:
Just about anything, really.

About Me:
You may have heard of my band, My Bloody Valentine. Many critics have written about us in very flowery terms. I don't think I understood what they were saying in those reviews half the time. That guy from Phish loves me guitar sounds though. Do me a favor and buy my Lost in Translation soundtrack. Island Records isn't helping me out much these days. Also kids, don't forget to buy our box set that's coming out in early '04.

Who I Want to Meet:
Great recording effects designers, more film directors, those with good weed, record labels who understand my fondness for expensive food and all of the time I like to spend in and out of the studio. Just remember... I NO LONGER DO REMIXES!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, January 6, 2004 8:45 PM (5 years ago)

Classic beyond belief.

It's so "it could actually be real"...

(I saw Nick's got a novel out!)