My Bloody Valentine are back

[braindancer]

I was there on Saturday night too - I had a conversation with the toilet queue after the gig about the vocals - was it poor sound engineering or my bloody valentine being my bloody valentine? Presumably the latter...

Excellent gig though - especially the noise onslaught - a girl next to me fainted the lightweight!

 

[Mapped]

Fuck me I'm deaf!

Did anyone time how long that sonic barrage went on for? I was transfixed in the light/visual hypnotic show.

Great gig, mad ending

 

[Sunspots]

My mate texted me to say that he'd left before the end, 'cos of the extended feedback.

What a lightweight.

 

[El Jefe]

Fuck me I'm deaf!

Did anyone time how long that sonic barrage went on for? I was transfixed in the light/visual hypnotic show.

Great gig, mad ending

That was absolutely astonishing. I've seen them do the 'Made me Realise' apocalypse thing before, but I guess advances in PAs etc...

Absolutely blistering,. Was a point where I was just laughing hysterically. Without sounding like a cunt, it was absolutely cathartic and cleansing and uplifting.


Just awesome

 

[El Jefe]

My mate texted me to say that he'd left before the end, 'cos of the extended feedback.

What a lightweight.

We were dissing the volume, " ah it's not all that, pussies" etc. But they really did turn it up at the end and it was harrowing

 

[Mapped]

Was a point where I was just laughing hysterically. Without sounding like a cunt, it was absolutely cathartic and cleansing and uplifting.


Just awesome

I was laughing though a lot of it too. Mainly at the sheer audacity of it. It was all a bit too much for my mate though, I thought she was going to pass out.

 

[El Jefe]

I was laughing though a lot of it too. Mainly at the sheer audacity of it. It was all a bit too much for my mate though, I thought she was going to pass out.

I saw someone throw up

It's the sheer wanton gorgeous love of infantile noise. Not in some sort of gabba "look what I can withstand" way, just the fundamental appreciation of a noise that passes through your body and changes your fucking chemistry. IMAGINE being up there, making that happen

Whole gig ruled. Lovely venue, too, although

Water / Coke/ Kronenbourg* is not a bar


* not making it up, those were the choices. Kronenbough 3.80;.

cunts

 

[Mapped]

Yeah it was a bit pricey, but they do have a nice outside terrace for drinking/smoking which is a redeeming feature. They could have done with some cider on tap though.

I think that venue probably needs a good survey after 5 nights of MBV at that volume, it can't be good for the structure

 

[El Jefe]

Jesus, yes. And the poor bar staff

THe mix between people running screaming from the room and old cunts like me grinning and laughing and just rocking back and forth was amusing

 

[Sunspots]

Absolutely blistering,. Was a point where I was just laughing hysterically. Without sounding like a cunt, it was absolutely cathartic and cleansing and uplifting.

It's surely the only sane way to respond to it.

 

[clandestino]

That was absolutely astonishing. I've seen them do the 'Made me Realise' apocalypse thing before, but I guess advances in PAs etc...

Absolutely blistering,. Was a point where I was just laughing hysterically. Without sounding like a cunt, it was absolutely cathartic and cleansing and uplifting.


Just awesome

Quite. I said that I'd seen it before. I hadn't.

I:

* went for a pint during the first five minutes, enjoying weaving through the crowd seeing the different reactions
* started dancing for something to do, almost as a joke
* suddenly realised that dancing was the perfect way to react to what was happening, so danced through it all
* went from feeling a little apprehensive, to being relieved, to being normal, to being amused, to being exhilarated, to being twice that, and ten times that, and yelling at the ceiling, even after it had finished. i can still feel the endorphins surging around my system now, and i walked home from stockwell just to calm down.

I've never experienced anything like that before, and I've seen them do YMMR before. I've never felt my clothing vibrate like that. Never felt like I was smack bang in the vortex before. Fucking amazing.

And I didn't think it was going to be any good...

 

[Mapped]

And I didn't think it was going to be any good...

Same, I wasn't expecting much at all.

I bought some tix on a whim and couldn't find anyone who wanted to go with me until I put Loveless on round mine on Friday night and I snagged a victim

 

[clandestino]

I meant I didn't think YMMR was going to be that good - because I'd seen it before. It was OK then, so thought it was going to be pretty much the same. Ha!

Expected the show as a whole was going to be as amazing as it was.

 

[Mapped]

Hands up!

Before tonight I wasn't a massive fan, got into bit and bobs of thier stuff, but that gig definitely blew me away. I'm glad I made the impulse buy now.

 

[clandestino]

Fair enough. It was a good punt to take!

 

[miniGMgoit]

Not fair
I love MBV far more than all of you lot but what with being down here now

 

[ouchmonkey]

Fuck me I'm deaf!

Did anyone time how long that sonic barrage went on for? I was transfixed in the light/visual hypnotic show.

Great gig, mad ending

El Jefe was holding his fingers up to me every 5mins or so, went past 20 mins I reckon.
It was fantastic. and I'm not deaf. well a bit.
there's none of that horrible whistling you get after gigs where the sound is badly mixed so either the sound engineering was spot on and it was loud an healthy or I'm an old git who's long lost that bit of his hearing anyway from too much of this sort of thing.

 

[rutabowa]

what was that, an acoustic set? i thought they were meant to be "noisy" or something.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

what was that, an acoustic set? i thought they were meant to be "noisy" or something.

I saw them in the 80s man. Apparently according to Q magazine I went to a seminal gig listed in their top 100 most amazing gigs ever (I can't remember where it came). When I read about them it's always 'they are so fucking loud', but bollocks were they.

Also, they were utterly shit and boring live, and that's coming from a die hard fan back from the Geek days.

 

[rutabowa]

(i didn't really go last night, i am hopefully going tonight)

 

[ethel]

was i the only person who:

didn't think it was that loud
didn't wear earplugs
didn't go even a bit deaf
thinks their hearing has improved as a result of the gig?

even my ex who listens to noise all the time had to go out "for some air"

 

[Sunspots]

I saw them in the 80s man. Apparently according to Q magazine I went to a seminal gig listed in their top 100 most amazing gigs ever (I can't remember where it came). When I read about them it's always 'they are so fucking loud', but bollocks were they.

Also, they were utterly shit and boring live, and that's coming from a die hard fan back from the Geek days.

I was reminiscing with a mate yesterday about how many times we'd each seen MBV back in the 80s. I definitely saw them a couple of times, but they don't stand out in my mind as having been particularly incredible gigs. Think I've always preferred listening to them on my home stereo, tbh.

As El Jefe said earlier though, now MBV are playing through a super-duper big modern PA system, they sound awesomerererer.

 

[perplexis]

Quite. I said that I'd seen it before. I hadn't.

* suddenly realised that dancing was the perfect way to react to what was happening, so danced through it all

Yeah, spot on. I had my hands in the air rave-style jumping up and down for most of it, it was fucking ace.
I can only remember having been to a few things that were much louder (Aba-Shanti-I soundsystem where I watched clouds of smoke vibrate to the bass while loose clothing also oscillated in time to the cone of dub, and some ridiculous Malfaits link-up with a French soundsystem that made cans of drink bounce up and down on a concrete floor), but it wasn't quite as loud as it should have been. Although my mate reckoned he saw people doubled up in pain by the stacks on the Friday .
It was awesome, although a small girl did pass out behind me about 10mins through the noise. Which I guess is testament to the sheer power of it all Or maybe just how warm it was.
I want to see them again now that my brain has recovered

 

[ouchmonkey]

Also, they were utterly shit and boring live, and that's coming from a die hard fan back from the Geek days.

I think they're great - is your problem the fact they just stand there and don't talk to the audience? 'cos frankly that'd be rubbish.

Yeah, spot on. I had my hands in the air rave-style jumping up and down for most of it, it was fucking ace.

I was struck by how much it was like a rave (the event more than the crowd, maybe everyone should have been on pills - that would have been interesting). The way they remove themselves from being the focus putting it all on the visuals and the music, they even mix the vocals down even lower, and the way the sound kind of envelops everyone.
again, a bit like a rave you have to go with it and invest in the experience you can't sit back scratching your chin and going "well, it could be louder" that's not really the point is it?

 

[El Jefe]

(i didn't really go last night, i am hopefully going tonight)

I met an old mate last night that you know: Pete from Selectadisc who now lives in Brighton and writes for Rough Guide..

 

[rutabowa]

ah is that right!

 

[El Jefe]

was i the only person who:

didn't think it was that loud
didn't wear earplugs
didn't go even a bit deaf
thinks their hearing has improved as a result of the gig?

even my ex who listens to noise all the time had to go out "for some air"

I didn't think it was that loud for most of the gig but they definitely edged the volume up bit by bit,. No earplugs or deafness here, but to say the end wasn't that loud seems a bit daft. Thing is, when mixed properly through a good PA loud won't sound wrong...

 

[Sunspots]

No sympathy for the innocents.

 

[El Jefe]

ah is that right!

Lovely fella. Can't have seen him in about 8 years, but we used to knock about at gigs and that.

 

[cymrukid]

I'm so gutted I'm not seeing them