Guest idol_wild Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Who is going and on what night?Supports still haven't been announced, though the support is uninspiring for the English dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Who is going and on what night?Supports still haven't been announced, though the support is uninspiring for the English dates.I'm going on wednesday. Supoort uninspiring? it was Spectrum wasn't it? ie, sonic boom, ex-spacemen3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Supoort uninspiring? it was Spectrum wasn't it? ie, sonic boom, ex-spacemen3.Yes. For me, uninspiring.I think Graham Coxon was another one of the English supports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzdiablo Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 i'm going wednesday, am "stoked"yeah the supports look pretty weakbut really, support could be status quo or the cast of "high school musical II" for all i care, i'm going to see my bloody valentine! wheeeeee!my friend in englandland saw them in manchester, said people were passing out cos it was so loud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Elvis Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Hoping to catch them at Roskilde, although it loks like they clash with Neil Young, grrrr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Got a bootleg of one of the London gigs from last week. it sounds like the space shuttle lifting off. according to the Guardian they were handing out earplugs at the door. My Bloody Valentine | Live reviews | guardian.co.uk MusicMy Bloody Valentine Roundhouse, London Alexis PetridisMonday June 23, 2008The Guardian Every legendary band that reforms has something to lose, but My Bloody Valentine may have more to lose than most. Quite aside from their last two albums and four singles - two hours of music that still exert a startling level of influence over guitar rock - their reputation rests on two legends: the one about their leader Kevin Shields nearly bankrupting their record label while making their 1991 album Loveless, and the one about their live performances being agonisingly, dangerously loud.There have been periodic attempts to deflate the myth. Most recently, their former record label boss Alan McGee gamely attempted to convince the world that My Bloody Valentine were a "joke" and the really important avant-guitar band were MBV copyists Ride: a nice try, somewhat akin to suggesting that we forget the Beatles because Herman's Hermits were the real talents in the 60s.The mythology of their gigs is more pervasive, because there is barely any footage, and the bootleg recordings reveal nothing but sludge. Thus it is that people seem excited, rather than concerned, about the fact that tonight, 16 years on from their last tour, earplugs are being handed out on the door. This turns out to be more than affectation. The mix renders Shields' vocals completely inaudible, removing the keen sense of melody that made My Bloody Valentine's records so simultaneously appealing and disturbing: there are fantastic tunes lurking beneath the fog of guitars, but you would have no idea on the basis of tonight's show.It is a major loss, but what is left is still overwhelming. The churning chord sequences happen at such volume, it is literally impossible to remain unmoved: your body physically shakes with every note. Performing essentially the same set as on their final tour, the band appear to have been preserved in amber for the last 16 years. The members look exactly the same: a veritable advert for the invigorating properties of doing virtually nothing. Shields and fellow guitarist/vocalist Belinda Butcher stand motionless and impassive, while bassist Debbie Googe and drummer Colm O'Ciosoig are a relative blur of activity.The night ends with You Made Me Realise, the 1988 single that famously contains 40 seconds of screaming noise instead of a middle-eight. Tonight, it lasts 20 minutes: if you tentatively remove an earplug, it is like being punched in the side of the head.Afterwards, the audience lurch out of the venue, shellshocked. It is hard not to feel that some of My Bloody Valentine's essence has been trampled. But on volume alone, it is equally hard not to feel that the reality has lived up to the myth. At Manchester Apollo, (0870 401 8000) on Saturday and Sunday. Then touring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Volume is a big thing for me with regards to live music.I am excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Volume is a big thing for me with regards to live music.I am excited.that's probably why you've gone deaf... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 that's probably why you've gone deaf...It isn't. My ear is fixed.Yas min. You should have seen the grin on my face when I got my ear fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Got a bootleg of one of the London gigs from last week. it sounds like the space shuttle lifting off. .In a good or bad way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Does anyone need a Glasgow ticket?It looks like i won't be able to make it!(i don't really like MBV anyway... my flatmate made me buy one!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 for free? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 for free?No. RRP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntedbyafreak Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Going on the Thursday hopefully... Might not be able to get time off work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 In a good or bad way?In a "Holy shit, that's intense" way. Don't expect to hear any vocals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get lost Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Would have like to see them, but I fear a let down from them!!, Hyping is a terrible thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzdiablo Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Does anyone need a Glasgow ticket?It looks like i won't be able to make it!(i don't really like MBV anyway... my flatmate made me buy one!)what night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Thursday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancho Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 i'm selling two thursay tickets yo! See under the ticket bit in the "trade post" thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancho Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 still there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 Support is from The Pastels, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzdiablo Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 yeah i heard that too, it's on last.fm but not on the atp sitei don't know very much about them, one of those names i keep seeing mentioned without being able to attribute any music i've heard to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 One of them works Mono, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancho Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 Now got 4 thursday tickets to try to get rid off! Shit! Will sell 'em for 20 each!PM me ASAP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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