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15:15 / 19.11.07

I was out of the country last week and thought i'd missed the boat when i read about this today... however another extra date has been added on 23rd June and i have tickets... Hurrah!

10:03 / 27.11.07

So I heard from a very good source that there's a new album on the way too- with shields mixing old stuff right now and rehersals planned for the new year. it seems that the NME are confirming it- don't hold your breath but this reunion thing could be rather spectacular!

22:56 / 11.12.07

Funny, I just imported all of my MBV into iTunes on my Mac. Decided to follow up to see what was up and saw that an album was on the burner (like 10 years or so but whose counting). Can't wait to hear it.

08:45 / 24.06.08

Saw them last night and they were amazing... very very loud! You could literally feel the vibrations on the 20 minute drone out during the You Made Me Realize finale. All the Loveless stuff sounded note perfect. I'm very happy.

09:26 / 24.06.08

my god that was awesome, saw the first night of the roundhouse residency and pleased to see another 'lither along there too.

my aers were still ringing the next evening, it was basically 90 minuets of the most fragile, lovely, awesome noise i have ever heard on stage (and i've seen motorhead and sonic youth). i couldn't beleive four people were making all that sound, played pretty much the whole of loveless / glider plus a couple of new ones which fitted in juist right and managed to strike a balence between crystal clarity and murky sonic disortion. no overhead lights, just ground level strobes and fuzzy back projections that flashde me back to the ones on the lvoeless tour all those years back.

anyone wondering whether to bother going or not - do. really.

09:27 / 24.06.08

I saw them on Saturday. Wasn't sure what it was going to be like - but it was fucking awesome. Some girl actually collapsed in front of us during the 20 minute sonic ordeal at the end, and had to be carried out of the crowd. It was THAT loud.

10:42 / 24.06.08

yes, not been in a sonic attack like that since i saw hawkwind, suicide and spacemen 3 on the same bill. that combination of wild and lovely noise and all the visuals was really overwhelming and not boring for even a second, which is the danger with 20 minutes of feedback.

nearest thing i hav seen to ot was glan branca, but his stuff didn't have the fey and whispy melodies to float over the top. or the awesome Can meets James brown drumming that underpinned MBV last week. was the drummer this good back in the day? i can't remember.

14:35 / 24.06.08

Apparently earplugs were handed out on the door to some lucky punters- i wish i'd been offered them cos my ears are still ringing nearly 24 hours later!

15:27 / 24.06.08

but then you would have missed the majestic intensity of 20 minutes of magadecibel feedback. which i might not want to do often but which was brilliant at the time.
though yes. poor hearing for a while afterwards.

23:21 / 24.06.08

Just back from the Roundhouse; it was a terrific performance.

The thing to to do is get hold of a ticket for the current tour, if you can.

They were, I don't say this lightly, basically the cat's pyjamas.

07:21 / 25.06.08

They're going to be shit on the main stage at Bestival, aren't they?

They strike me as a band that make really good use of walls for their sound.

Baobab Branches and Plastic

07:36 / 25.06.08

Arg I missed it!

12:23 / 25.06.08

you can still catch them in manchester. as for outdoors...well they will blow the socks of that lightweight west london bestival lot even without the claustrophic echoes of the roundhouse

13:27 / 25.06.08

They were/are indeed very, very, very good. I managed to go to both the warm-up shows at the ICA as well as the first four at the Roundhouse. It was like an addiction! Think my favourite nights were both the Saturdays. Not exactly sure why, it just felt... best.

Not sure I'd be so cheery after 6 You Made Me Realises were it not for my earplugs. I went unprotected a couple of times (as the overall volume seemed to vary a bit from night to night) but when it starts to hurt, you need to be sensible... I have it from a reliable source that the minimum volume at the Roundhouse was 110dB and the most they managed to push it to was 130dB. Which is fuck off loud, and possibly not entirely legal...

Have to correct you on a couple of points, doctorbeck: There was no new material, it was all stuff from their Creation releases. At least half each of Loveless/Isn't Anything and most of the YMMR EP. They seemed to drop Honeypower (from the Tremelo EP) from the set at some point, but I can't really remember the specifics any more... Um, I'm pretty sure there were overhead lights, but there was a lot of reliance on the stage level ones, yes.

Other than YMMR, what were people's particular highlights? I'd have to go for I Only Said, which was the song that got me into them when I saw them last way back in '92 (when I'd never heard them before). It never fails to mesmerise me. That and Thorn, which I didn't expect them to play. And, well, all the rest of it... They still look exactly the same and have a great visual dynamic between the passive strumming of Kevin/Bilinda and the animated rhythm section in the middle of the stage. Yeah, Colm's drumming was particularly impressive and Deb Goodge just oozes cool.

I think I'm suffering withdrawals, I need to see them again! Can't they just play the Roundhouse every night forever? Or, at least until it collapses from sonic overload.

14:23 / 25.06.08

They're going to be shit on the main stage at Bestival, aren't they?

I'm sure they're looking forward to Bestival.

Thousands of people burned by the sun, shitfaced and covered in their own ordure, while trying to find the offspring - could there be a happier crowd?

06:54 / 26.06.08

130db? thats easy louder than motorhead.

thanks for the heads up on the new tracks being old ones, even my deeply geeky mate hadn't heard a couple and they were going to see them when they were still a dodgey goth band. you are a very lucky man catching the ICA show as well. but yes, agree could see them every week at least forever, and am thinking about manchester this weekend. touts were selling tickets at £20 a pair in london so manchester may be over supplied as well.

15:20 / 26.06.08

as for highlights mike, don't want to sound undiscerning, but it was one of those gigs that i experienced as a great big whole, just sat back as waves of sound washed over me, though i recognised individual songs it was like passages of one long bit of music. i think i listen to loveless like that anyhow and that was exacerbated by a lack of anything from the band that resembled noticing the audience between songs (or should that be passages?).

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