We’re not immune from getting caught up in the rumor mill ourselves–holler at us, Adam Levine–and it was one thing when it was just the Daily Swarm posting links to messageboards where random whoevers were claiming to get the reunion scoop directly from the Bloody mouth. That’s just accumulated Internet crazy talk. But Billboard picking up on it? Without even the benefit of the question mark in the headline? Are there going to be blind links to some message board denizen tomorrow saying he totally heard from Jesus that the rapture is coming followed by a “Report: Jesus Mulling Over Apocalypse” story on CNN.com? Has the world gone mad? So we ask you to plug your own opinion over the MBV rumor–outright bullshit, or completely unverifiable Internet malarkey–into our great and powerful online poll software. And if this turns out to be true, and not a rumor after all, I pledge to not attend any of the shows, as a sign that I’ve learned I shouldn’t be so mistrustful of people on the Internet. Pinky swear:
Report: My Bloody Valentine Mulling Over Cochella Reunion [Billboard]
Believe It Or Not: My Bloody Valentine Reuniting For Cochella 2008? [The Daily Swarm]
I’ll ask this one guy who looks like Kevin.
I feel like a functional, record-producing MBV reunion has about the same chances of occurring as a Ramones or Beatles reunion.
I totally never believed the Bauhaus, Rage Against the Machine, Dinosaur Jr., Stooges, Pixies, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Ratt, Wire, Mission of Burma, Verve, Judas Priest or Gang of Four reunions either. I also never would have believed in a million years Brian Wilson could get healthy enough to record Smile and spend two years touring it.
This is definitely the right climate for MBV to just go out and do it. Kevin Shields got his live mojo back from those Primal Scream tours, and aren’t they sitting on tons of material he was too scared to release in the 90s? Maybe someone gave him those Brian Wilson sanity pills?
I probably deserve to be flamed for questioning the influence of a seminal late-80s band… but what the fuck is the big deal? They had like 2 albums.
It’s not like Jesus and Mary Chain are getting back together. Oh, wait.
Don’t fucking toy with me, Idolator!
Who cares? A reunion? The Police was a reunion… this would be an ANNULMENT.
Who cares?! Are you fucking kidding me? “Loveless” fucking paved the way for many bands. I can’t wait to find out if this is going to be bullshit, or not.
Of all the 90′s “alterna-cornerstones” that have gotten the deluxe re-issuing, “Loveless” deserves it about a zillion times more than any of them. For a band that had a reputation for being so beautifully LOUD, that album is too goddamn quiet production/mixing/recording/whatever-wise.
One plausible theory holds that interest in MBV resurges whenever mewling Shields-wannabe Billy Corgan drops his newest latest “Loveless” ripoff.
Like that old joke, where Shields tells Corgan “What an amazing coincidence! Because all this time *we’ve* been striving to match the perfection of “Siamese Dream!” And then Corgan awakes to find his pajamas crusted with Gish . . .
Hell, who knows who or what to believe. My friend told me that her cousin’s prison pen pal has it on good authority — from someone in the UK — that onetime MBV and Snowpony member DEB GOOGE is now a multi-millionairess (in pounds sterling) because way back in ’98 she started up an internet business selling rudely-themed tea cozies. (You already know where this is heading. But don’t try and stop me. You can’t.)
She didn’t sell all that many tea cozies. But she purchased a 10-year claim to http://www.GOOGE.com. Which is inadvertently visited by *hundreds of thousands* of impaired or just clumsy web surfers every day. The click-through traffic grinding out tiny fractions of a shilling, millions of times a month, into towering piles.
If anyone’s going to fetch the roti during a studio break this time, it won’t be Deb.
Nope, that’s something Faux News would “report.”
i saw jamc from before ‘you trip me up’ came out & through munki. – maybe 10+ shows incl danceteria, world twice, roseland twice, giants stadium, ritz’ both down town & uptown, life…
i saw mbv twice in 1992 at the uptown ritz. [once w/dino jr].
overall mbv much better live
Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year.
Idolator 8/27/2007: We’re not immune from getting caught up in the rumor mill ourselves—holler at us, Adam Levine—and it was one thing when it was just the Daily Swarm posting links to messageboards where random whoevers were claiming to get the reunion scoop directly from the…
ATP Concerts are very proud to present my bloody valentine who will return to play in Summer 2008 across the UK. The band will take to three cities London, Manchester and Glasgow.
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