Cycled by after the awesome Laura Marling show up the road. There were two Chilean dudes huddling outside the side door, listening to the barely muffled sounds through the gap under the fire exit door. Joined them just in time for You Made Me Realise. The hairs on my neck stood to attention.
They sounded like they are back. Someone please confirm that they are back.
Fucking incredible
Literally never felt like that before at a gig. Completely engulfing.
This is what is was like
back in the day.
I can't wait til next sat.
Setlist etc
http://www.nme.com/news/my-bloody-valentine/37324
oh man
I can't wait for tommorow. Sounds amazing!
That was
one of the best things I've ever seen ever. Like, seriously. Amazing sound. Amazing setlist. 20 minute version of You Made Me Realise. I need a lie down.
that was
absolutely astonishing, one of the best things ive ever witnessed
were you wearing a No Age t shirt?
i had
a arcade fire top on
Ah, nevermind
Funeral actually
Boom boom
That was my friend Stu
i was the tall person stood next to him in a health t shirt
Christ.
Sounds like the 'HAI WE ONLY WEAR THE IN BANDS SHIRTS' team or something. Borrrring.
it was my only clean t shirt!
They were giving them away to people outside the old blue last gig last night because they didn't want to have to pay the excess baggage fees for them.
SO THERE!
IM SORRY!
I was tired and angry last night. I TAKE IT ALL BACK <333! Sorry!
NO WAI??
gutting :(
were they stupidly loud?
or pretty standard loud?
i should be going tomorrow.
REALLY loud
they were giving out earplugs at the door but I didn't use them
truly unbelievable
if you haven't got a ticket for any of the other shows - beg, borrow, steal, sell your boy/girlfriend to get one.
I'm still buzzing and thats after a torturous journey home to gipsy hill. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING.
I feel the same
People were just standing outside the venue afterwards with a "What do you do know?" expression on their faces. I feel slightly detached.
I couldn't stay, I was so blown away
- I didn't want to do the whole 'god that was incredible' so I abandoned my friends and went and walked all the way down the deserted mall just going 'jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus' to myself
*now
That was simply a
stunning gig. Amazing.
Too good
Every aspect of the gig was fantastic. Got lost in the music a few times and forgot I was at a gig. You Made Me Realise = mmmmmmmm aaaahhhh hhhhhmmmmm
i think i'll get a ticket. somehow. i really must.
what were the headphones like - how many people took them?
*earplugs
cheapo foamy wax ones
quite a few people took them and wore them.
I'd recommend taking better ones - I use Elacin ER20s and they really don't detract from the music at all
yeah i did have some -
i'll have to find them. i'm a huge hypochondriac when it comes to tinnitus.
ebay is selling at like £40 a ticket, which seems "okay".
Do it
seriously.
Or buy my two spare ones for Saturday at £25!!
my ears !
the cheap and nasty earplugs i had, just about held together
so it was fairly good?
ha
just a bit
a big bit
like an atom bomb explosion sized bit.
wowowowoowwow
I hope
they're as good as this at the Roundhouse - hopefully the venue isn't too big...
The Roundhouse
is a lot bigger than the ICA.
Woo looking forward to tonight!!!
How long did they play for?
about
one hour twenty. I think.
1 hr 30 I think
They came on bang on 9:30 and finished at 11
I think
I may be at that fire exit door tonight
Reading this
has made my day, I too was at that Laura Marling gig and was very tempted to do the same. I guess I should wear a band t-shirt for tonight then.
im feeling a bit envious reading these posts
and reading the NME review.
I cant wait for next saturday now. My only concern is that reading how good last night was, playing at a much bigger venue wont be as good..
shit
i might actually have to make myself go to manchester now.
you should
it was every bit as good as everyone is saying. It was absolutely incredible.
TONIGHT-AH
Im going on my own tonight
due to only being able to get one ticket! Stilll, the trip up from Brighton will be worth it im sure.
Don't worry,
you'll be hugging everyone around once they start playing.
i hope this is true
oh boy
am i excited for next week now.
i have to wait until
the 28th in manchester :( stop teasing with all these 'oh it was ace!'comments hehe only jokin
I can't believe it...
I'm actually going.
I don't have to work late after all, and my friend I gave the nudge to for tickets now has a spare.
Unbelievable.
Earplugs
for Friday for me I think. In a word loud. "You Made Me Realise" for 19 minutes is maybe the loudest sustained noise I've ever heard. Sounded at times like a jet taking off in my face, a seagull screeching in both my ears, a tube train rushing past for quarter of an hour, a gale on a cliff top and the TARDIS teleporting. When they came on and played "Only Shallow" I stood astounded with my jaw dropped.
Grippingly sensual description
indeed, albeit with use of cliche. MBV live shows seem to have rendered the most articulate person a muttering wreck. Thanks for making more of an effort than the others though.
Just incredible
My ears still haven't popped from the sheer volume of You Made Me Realise. A truly awesome show that questions every other band on the planet's existence. Seriously.
All true I'm afraid
You have to wonder if they really do live up to the hyperbole but, apart from a hesitiant first ten minutes, it was jaw-droppingly good. Seriously, seriously good.
You Made Me Realise was so good that, to use a rubbish cliche, time really did stop still. When the melody kicked back in I had no idea they'd been doing the 'Holocaust' for near on twenty minutes.
It was one of those shows that feels like a genuine privilege to have been at.
It has been an incredible week for gigs in London.
Just watching Colm
attack the drums throughout that one-chord holocaust was something else too. Everything and everyone else I've ever seen becomes nondescript from hereonin.
fuck me
That was absolutely astonishing. I've never seen anything like that
I still have a spare for Friday at the Roundhouse
£30 if anyone wants it
jtunmer@hotmail.com
ive got
2 tickets for sale for the 23rd
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300232844859
you can buy them individually
I also have a spare for Manchester
on the 28th.
Will sell for face value + booking fee (£25.50 total).
PM me if interested.
cliche
was all I could fall back on, adjectives not cutting it. There was one point in YMMR when my teeth started to resonate thankfully it wasn't for long. I did enjoy the people waving at Bilinda making her laugh during "To Here Knows When"(?) and even Shields nearly laughed at the guy who went "LOUDER" at the front. Le Volume Cobre were good too, lead singer is very dinky.
I did stick my fingers in my ears for a couple of songs just to bring out the vocals slightly. Did that during the holocaust and I just couldn't hear anything. A lot of people moved away from the front during that.
Bobby Gillespie was there and I saw Isy Suttie (Peep Show's Dobby) at the bar. Think I saw Kele from Bloc Party and Tim Burton as well but that may have been the noise breaking my brain. Anyone else see them I did I imagine that?
Tim Burton?
As I was leaving there was a bloke standing by the wall close to the exit ramp, and I turned to my mate and said "Are you sure that's not Tim Burton?"
It sure as Hell looked like him.
The Reid Brothers
were definitely there, as we were remarking how William has piled on the pounds while Jim is still as stick thin as ever. We saw Gillespie too, Phil King (ex-Lush/JAMC) and one-time Echobelly, Curve and countless others bassist Debbie Smith who was having a right time of it down the front.
All in all, a memorable evening.
Ah that explains it
It wasn't Tim Burton it was William Reid. It all makes sense now.
yep
and the actor Ben Kingsley was there. Or someone that looked remarkably like Ben Kingsley.
Debbie Smith was lovely
i tried best not to 'look' for people, and just get lost in everything.
i was sat next to bobby in the bar
the puff was drinking coffee...william coming over and shaking his hand was the start of a beautiful evening...i welled up
and nobody else seems to have picked up that douglas hart is the bassist in Le Volume Courbe...bobby and him were attempting to chat during the gig
the classic JAMC lineup under the same fucking roof, why did they not support? WE SHOULD BE TOLD
That makes more sense than Tim Burton
I only caught him out the corner of my eye. I went to turn my laptop off just now. It wasn't on, it's my ears ringing still.
A few people near me nearly got turfed out for taking pictures, yet some seemed to get away with it blatantly.
You Made Me Realise was amazing
but it seemed way too quiet at the beginning of the set. Maybe it was because of the dodgy foam earplugs that muffled everything.
Le Volume Cobre were quite good, too.
I made the mistake of not using
my earplugs - DOH!
It was too quiet at the start
But by God they made up for it by the end.
The last 30 minutes was seriously the loudest live music I have ever experienced. And that's including Pita, Mogwai, Sunn 0))), Slayer and Motorhead.
Seconded.
I've seen Loop blow the electricity at Nottingham Trent many years ago, and A Place To Bury Strangers were ridiculously loud a few weeks ago but last night was something else.
i'm worried about my ears
i was stood at the front for most of the second show, and the fact that, apart from a couple of moments of top-end ridiculousness during you made me realise, it didn't actually seem *that* loud [loud, sure, but not 'oh my fucking god' loud], makes me worry about how much damage i have already done to my ears over the years.
also: it was goooood. don't know which show i liked better, but it was gooooooooood.
im glad
i spend £20 on earplugs before the show. actually improved the sound by taking a bit of the high end off and raising the vocals.
im sure i felt god in to here knows when.
Isn't someone
going to say it was crap, just to wind everyone up?
But seriously. I need to see this.
wow, just wow
I agree with everything said above. Last night was astonishing. Nothing more i can really add. You Made Me Realise - brutal! Just glad i took my earplugs. Phew. Roll on Sunday at the Roundhouse.
i don't like all you people
saying how amazing this was, because I'm not going to get to see them at all : (
This Thread
makes me so excited for Manchester.
fancy the first night...
... at Roundhouse? I have 2 x tickets for the 20 June gig, but would like to swap them for 2 x tickets to the Tuesday 24 June gig.
It's a long story, so don't ask why (no pun intended).
Needless to say, if you want to go to MBV's first night at the Roundhouse instead of the last night, and you have 2 tickets to swap, please drop me a line.
ICA recording is up over at dimeadozen!
runrunrun...
arg i cant sign up
boooo. It always says theres too many members.
was the setlist
the same as the Friday show ? any changes (to any of the lucky buggers who went to both shows)
No they changed it slightly
Last night they played When You Wake (You're Still In A Dream) and Lose My Breath instead of Honeypower and Cigarette In My Bed the night before.
no
we got 'lose my breath' instead of 'honey power'.
We also got
When You Wake... instead of Cigarette... mate. Third song in.
aye
true dat
link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ddl2pn
file sharing... controversial!!
Now i really wanna hear this, but i kind of wanna wait till next week till i see them live first hand.
What should i do?
wait for it to
hit your ears with a full pa!
I'd call playing through 8 amps
a pretty full PA! But yeah, I know what you mean!
how did you enjoy it jamie?
i fear the larger shows may be disappointing after last night.
in fact life in general might be disappointing.
combination
of utter joy, relief and excitement.
i'm sure the roundhouse shows will be amazing, also cant wait for new york.
excellent
i felt similarly. shall i say hello if i see you on saturday or will you be mega-busy? as i said above i tried to stay in my own world last night.
well i'll probably be
doing the guestlist, but if you see
me in the venue afterwards then of course come say hi.
yes
i believe that is where i saw you. did you get to see le volume courbe?
oh no i wasnt there last night
just on friday,
but i'll be working 4 or 5 of the roundhouse nights
ah
so its good that i didnt say hi.
lolz.
Im gonna wait till when i see them
n then download it off dime so i get nice quality flacs, rather than mp3s
Few videos here
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=my+bloody+valentine+ICA&search_type=&aq=f
this dude next to me
had a damn video camera, i wish i didnt book my camera into the cloakroom
anyone else think the t-shirts they were selling were pretty dire for £20 ?
Yeah they weren't
the most inspiring were they?
they were absolutely shit
i think All Tomorrows Parties shirts would be nice. the logo in black on a white t-shirt.
this guy
was very VERY lucky. a girl next to us was nearly thrown out for videoing, dispite having an AAA pass
im going to see them in denmark
in a couple of weeks...and they have NO noise limits.....when Sunn0)))))) played by the end hey were so loud the huge tent they were in has empty and everyone was sitting round the edges.....this is what it willbe like for mbv and im going to love it
just bought
two tickets off ebay for the sunday show. Hope it's worth it
Yep
a girl next to me was close to being chucked out last night for taking pics. I had some annoying dancing bastard the other side so moved and ended up quite randomly next to Bobby Gillespie and William Reid.
That may have been me
What was said bastard wearing?
Umm
Think he had dreads....and his girlfriend / friend with the camera had a chinese type look about here. Was the dancing fella you?!
No that wasn't me
I was in the centre right near the front in a green tracksuit top.
haha
I think I was standing next to you during You Made Me Realise. I was impressed that you managed to carry on dancing throughout the ten minutes of noise. :D
Was you the guy on the left
hand-side of me with the fair-haired girl who was going for it most of the set?
to your right
I was in a shirt and cardigan.
Aah yeah
I think I remember you now.
:(
you promised to say 'hi' if you saw us.
I wasn't sure if it was you at first
so it would have been well awkward. "Hi, are you Jordan from the internet?"
You're going to the A Sunny Day in Glasgow gig in July aren't you? I'll say hi then.
I probably wouldn't have been able to hear you
if you had spoke anyway. I still can't hear that much now.
im not sure
maybe in leeds.
i probably wouldnt have spoken much anyway, i was pretty much in my own world.
woah
that's exactly where i was standing as well!
i just happened to glance to my left and did a total double take. 'twas a little surreal.
libbyshuss hahahaha
thats a sick name
WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE SO FUCKING LOUD?
WHO NEEDS TO BE THAT LOUD?
ANY BAND WHICH HANDS OUT EARPLUGS AT THEIR OWN GIG SUCK BALLS. JUST TURN IT DOWN A BIT, YEAH?
It's almost like issuing some kind of health and safety related disclaimer
"If you suffer temporary or permanent loss of hearing as a result of this performance we are not responsible as we issued the correct PPE"
jesus christ Dom
.
just putting my two cents in. It was absolutely amazing, I was standing up on the ledge so looked out over the writhing masses. Awesome stuff, i can't wait for friday. I'm seriously tempted about going out to ATP New York to catch them again.
That concept would change the C of E immeasurably
ehh
Is this national irony day? Is a guy called ouchebag asking why MBV are loud? Sheesh
i have...
two spare tickets for the saturday show if anyone is looking to be part of this compulsory 2008 musical experience?
i'm going on the friday, don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to get saturday tix as well... got a little overexcited.
message me if you're interested, face value etc etc...