Billboard Mag Profiles My Bloody Valentine's US Reunion Trek

The 7 date tour brought in over a million dollars!

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MP3: My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

My Bloody Valentine @ Glasgow's Barrowland: Dazed & Amused

Check out an extensive review, courtesy of our endlessly entertaining guest blogger, Megan B, below. Enjoy her analysis of PJ Harvey's recent Moscow performance here. All accompanying photos (from MBV's June 20th London show) courtesy of Freekorps.

It was one of those gigs where you had to isolate yourself from all reviews beforehand; if you caught snippets, it sent a wave of trembling into your gut. Too many of those waves and the anticipation would shake you out of existence before the show even started! Then it was one of those gigs you almost disbelieve as soon as it ends. Did four people really just do that?! By now the legends of how MBV ends their set has spun around & pushed everyone's descriptive powers. I like to keep things simple: they ended with a giant force of noise which they melded together seemingly effortlessly & the shocks of which shake the floor and start creeping up from your boots, to your knees, all the way to your face.

A glance over the setlist still won't prepare you for the fact that you will never listen to Loveless or Isn't Anything again without remembering how this music is supposed to sound and at what volume. Every bit was so exquisite, you have to wonder if they waited over a decade to ensure that each particle of air in the atmosphere was in peak condition to conduct their sound waves from the tower of amps to your protected eardrums. Well, at least all but the vocals were perfectly transported. Dazed fans spilled out of Barrowland and onto the streets of Glasgow, most with punch drunk looks of bliss etched on their faces. This scene will repeat itself in every city they choose to play. No other reunion has been this glorious & perhaps the things to come from MBV will be just as heavenly.





MP3: My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Spectrum To Support My Bloody Valentine In UK

The ATJ alumni can be seen at:

Saturday 21st Sept - The Roundhouse
Saturday 28th Sept - Manchester Apollo
Sunday 29th Sept - Manchester Apollo

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MP3: Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized

Retro Clip: MBV In Amsterdam, Circa '89

Enjoy an explosive version of 'Thorn' in the black & white clip below. MP3 at bottom.


MP3: My Bloody Valentine - Touched

My Bloody Valentine Plans To 'Pull A Radiohead'

Billboard reports the following: *Legendary alternative act My Bloody Valentine plans to "do a Radiohead" when the Anglo-Irish quartet releases the follow-up to 1991's classic "Loveless," Billboard can reveal. "At the moment, all I can say is that Kevin Shields is getting the band back together and they will go into the studio next month to work on the new record," says MBV's London-based manager Vinita Joshi, referring to notoriously reclusive singer & guitarist, Kevin Shields. "The plan is that they will release the album themselves via the Internet, but there will also probably be a vinyl release." Vinita Joshi adds that the band is unlikely to follow Radiohead's (pay what you like) download model for its new recordings.*

Photo courtesy of Yotta Music.

MP3: The Antlers - When You Sleep (MBV Cover) [Antlers official site]

Rumor Of The Day: My Bloody Valentine Reunion Tour?

The Daily Swarm seems to think so: *A My Bloody Valentine reunion has long been the subject of intense speculation, with a seemingly endless stream of rumors surfacing each year about tours, reissues, DVDs, box sets, and even brand new recordings – but as of today none have come to fruition. The band formed in the mid 1980s and released a series of EPs on various labels before solidifying around the lineup of guitarist/singer Kevin Shields, drummer Colm O’Ciosoig, singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher, and bassist Debbie Googe.

After signing to Creation Records, the band released several EPs and two albums, 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s Loveless, now considered one of the era’s most classic recordings. After a bitter split with Creation, the band signed to Island Records (UK) in 1992, but never produced another release. According to a 1995 interview with Simon Reynolds, the band’s inability to meet their own aesthetic expectations and the financial stress of inactivity led to Shields’ “meltdown.” The rest of the group drifted apart and My Bloody Valentine simply vansihed without ever releasing another album.

In recent years, Shields has been an elusive yet constant presence on the music scene, appearing on recordings and stages with groups like Experimental Audio Research, Curve, Dinosaur Jr, and Primal Scream. His solo work as a remixer and recording artist have appeared sporadically, most notably on the soundtracks for Sophia Coppola’s films Lost In Translation and Marie Antoinette. And in the intervening years, the legend of My Bloody Valentine, a band who’s sound was long considered years ahead of its time, has grown much larger in its absence.

But now some tantalizing hints have emerged in the past few weeks that suggest the band is finally gearing up for a return to action. In July, several fans reported encounters with Shields at Primal Scream and Dinosaur Jr. shows in England, Ireland, and Russia, each returning with the same story: that Shields very matter-of-factly spoke of My Bloody Valentine in the very present tense. The fans reported Shields said that two new My Bloody Valentine releases are in the works – an anthology of unreleased 90s material and an album of brand new studio recordings – along with the imminent release of remastered versions of the band’s original studio work. He is also reported as saying, on several different occasions, that a 2008 tour is in the works that will feature the band’s original lineup. (Read some of the reports here, here, and here.) Furthermore, in an interview published earlier this year in Magnet magazine, Shields was adamant about the band’s return: “We are 100% going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something,” he said.*

My fingers are tightly crossed. Rumors are already circulating for a possible reformation of the legendary band for Coachella '08. Hmmm. Download an MBV MP3 below.

MP3: My Bloody Valentine - Sugar

Shoegazers Rejoice!

A new My Bloody Valentine record?? Say it ain't so! Only 16+ years in the making!

Kevin Shields (guitarist/vocalist) of My Bloody Valentine tells Magnet: A lot of people say the reason My Bloody Valentine didn't make another record is because we couldn't. That's mostly true, but not because we couldn't make another record, but because I never could be bothered to make another record unless I was really excited by it. And just by fate or whatever, that never happened. I'm quite optimistic about the future, even though experience has taught me that I'm probably just delusional.

I do feel that I will make another great record. We are 100 percent going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something. I'd feel really bad if I didn't make another record. Like, shit, people only got the first two chapters, but the last bit is the best bit. It's just that it's taken me such an oddly long time for that to happen. How long will that take to transpire into an actual physical record? I don't know.

Hmm... my fingers are crossed! Aren't yours?

MP3: My Bloody Valentine - Come In Alone