My Bloody Valentine
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Review by Martin Aston, Q, January 1992
FACED WITH MY Bloody Valentine's formative fumblings, few would have predicted that this garage lurch could metamorphosise into the swooning melody crush that constituted 1988's ...
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My Bloody Valentine: The Clarendon, London
Live Review by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 16 August 1986
MY BLOODY Valentine are young and awkward and dear to the heart, their nervous system centred on Colm's ferocious rhythmic vigour as, embarrassed by having ...
My Bloody Valentine: Bull & Gate, London
Live Review by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1986
(AND PLEASURE-heads must burn...). So here they are in matching mop-tops and lurex star-trek jerkins, and here I am breaking myself on their urge for ...
My Bloody Valentine: The Bleedin' Heart Club Band
Interview by James Brown, Sounds, 28 March 1987
MY BLOODY VALENTINE are bloody brilliant. But are they bloody incestuous or true champions of pure bloody pop? Bloody JAMES BROWN gets so high on ...
My Bloody Valentine: ICA, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 4 July 1987
NOT BLOODY BUT BLAND ...
My Bloody Valentine: The Excellence of Ecstasy
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 30 January 1988
WHERE SHALL WE BEGIN? "When we first started we had this image thing, right, all Sixties haircuts and really setting out to do the pop ...
My Bloody Valentine: Suicide Kisses
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 15 October 1988
A YEAR AGO, MY BLOODY VALENTINE WERE LINGERING IN SECOND DIVISION INDIE ANONYMITY. THEN THEY RELEASED THEIR EXTRAORDINARY YOU MAKE ME REALISE LP AND SUDDENLY ...
My Bloody Valentine: Dream Demons
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 December 1988
THE JOURNALIST, immobilized by a massive student demonstration in Central London, is late. A couple of miles up the road in a Kentish Town bar ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 10 December 1988
From Dublin to London via Berlin, My Bloody Valentine have taken the scenic route to success. John Robb retraces their footsteps on the way to ...
My Bloody Valentine, The Membranes, The Sperm Wails: Boston Arms, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 December 1988
"THERE IS no second encore." Sometimes, the humblest of phrases can take on unlooked-for importance. There is no second encore. What can I say? For ...
My Bloody Valentine: University of London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 25 February 1989
TRANPOSED. There we are then. There's a new one for you. A new one for me, anyway. You will have to be forgiving but I ...
My Bloody Valentine: My Waking Dream
Interview by Pat Blashill, Spin, May 1989
My Bloody Valentine are black sheep grazing the English countryside with the subconscious as their shepherd. ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 1990
GETTING OUT of bed is a tough thang, especially for quilt lizard gang My Bloody Valentine. ...
My Bloody Valentine: The Artery Of Noise
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 21 April 1990
After an 18-month gap MY BLOODY VALENTINE are back on vinyl making a right bleedin' racket with their new EP Glider. STUART MACONIE discovers Creation's ...
My Bloody Valentine: Glide on Time
Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990
MY BLOODY VALENTINE are sitting in the basement rehearsal studio they've just rented. I am wandering around upstairs walking into lots of offices and insisting ...
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Creation)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 2 November 1991
VALENTINE DAZE ...
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 November 1991
RECENTLY SOME DEEP-SEA divers stumbled on an underground cave thousands of feet below sea level. Stalagmites, stalactites and mini-icicles greeted their brave entrance, almost too ...
"Dream-Pop" Bands Define the Times in Britain
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 1 December 1991
THIS YEAR, THE most popular phenomenon in British alternative rock is a wave of hazy neo-psychedelic guitar groups. ...
Feedback to the Future: My Bloody Valentine
Interview by Jon Savage, 20/20, Spring 1991
THERE MAY BE A HALF-FORMED thought in your head, buzzing vaguely like low-level background noise, that the language we use to talk about music – ...
My Bloody Valentine: About Bloody Time!
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, January 1992
In terms of mystique, My Bloody Valentine would have been better off never releasing another record. But three years and many pale imitators later, they ...
My Bloody Valentine: The Sound Of Violence
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, February 1992
My Bloody Valentine inspire purple journalistic prose and surreal interpretation. But live, they just enjoy inflicting pain. Reading covers its ears while Stephen Dalton shoegazes ...
The Sound of the Future: My Bloody Valentine
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 6 February 1992
"WE'D LIKE TO COME OUT FROM the shadow of the greatest things ever done," declares Kevin Shields, the soft-spoken, bookish-looking leader of My Bloody Valentine. ...
My Bloody Valentine: Beauty In The Beast
Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, March 1992
WELCOME TO "God's Own Country," as a Texas politician recently decribed his home on the range, "where the grass grows tall and the wind blows ...
Rollercoaster: Will and Jim's Excellent Misadventure
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 April 1992
The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Blur: Glasgow SECC ...
Alan Moulder: Alan Be Praised!
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 18 April 1992
As the man behind Curve, Ride, the Valentines, JAMC and more, producer ALAN MOULDER doesn't seem to be able to put a button-pushing finger wrong. ...
Your Culture Under Siege: Criminal Injustice
Report and Interview by Carl Loben, Simon Reynolds, Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 30 April 1994
For decades, squatting, free festivals and illegal parties have played a vital role in alternative pop culture. The Criminal Justice Bill — which has been ...
Report by Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1995
Get down, get down: The U.K. moves to underground groove ...
When You Wake You're Still In A Nightmare: My Bloody Valentine
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Alternative Press, October 1995
In 1991 My Bloody Valentine released Loveless, one of rock's most innovative albums. Then... silence What on earth have they been doing the last four ...
Alan McGee: The father of Creation
Profile and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 5 July 1997
Hedonism was a way of life for Alan McGee. And who would expect anything less from the man behind Oasis? But the road to pop-tycoon ...
The Dawn of Creation (and the middle and the end)
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 December 1999
SO THE party's over. Alan McGee has picked up his ball and moved on, to pastures new — multimedia and, no doubt, highly lucrative. Although ...
Various Artists: Creation Records - International Guardians Of Rock'n'roll 1983-1999
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2000
Best of the late, legendary indie label ...
Lost In Transmutation: Kevin Shields
Retrospective and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, February 2004
SAIGON. Shit, I’m still only in Saigon . . . okay then, Camden. And no, we’re not throwing Martin Sheen shapes in the mirror, but ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2004
Pre-Oasis, My Bloody Valentine were Creation's greatest band. Between 1988 and 1991, they reinvented electric guitar music before vanishing in a haze of white noise. ...
I Lost It: Kevin Shields Speaks
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 12 March 2004
In his first interview for 12 years, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields talks to Paul Lester about his madness, making Alan McGee cry - and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 27 July 2007
AT THE START of summer 2007 a supple, shimmery thread started darning itself through a long line of euphoric-sounding albums. From Maps to Blonde Redhead, ...
Daydream Believers: My Bloody Valentine
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly, 18 May 2008
BACK IN DECEMBER 1991, when My Bloody Valentine embarked on a British tour to promote Loveless, their "difficult" second album and sonic masterpiece, the four-piece ...
My Bloody Valentine: "It's The Opposite Of Rock 'N' Roll"
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Spin, August 2008
In 1991, My Bloody Valentine released one of modern rock's most influential albums, then mysteriously imploded trying to surpass it. On the eve of their ...
Report by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 September 2008
Still bloody loud and clear at Bestival ...
The Echo Of Youth: My Bloody Valentine live
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 30 January 2013
John Calvert takes his teenage dreams down to the Brixton Electric for a rare intimate gig by My Bloody Valentine. ...
Why My Bloody Valentine's mbv Has Come Too Late To Stop The End Of The World
Comment by John Doran, Noisey, 4 February 2013
SO, WHAT THE ancient Mayans predicted has finally come to pass, and only five weeks later than expected. At the end of a 5,125 year ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 8 February 2013
MY BLOODY VALENTINE'S reputation for tardiness is well earned. I dimly remember rushing off to interview them around the release of their second album, Loveless, ...
My Bloody Valentine: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 14 March 2013
Chris Roberts heads to MBV's final night of their UK tour and finds himself pondering linguistics and culture while stood in their volume wind-tunnel ...
Review by Rob Young, Uncut, April 2013
ARRIVING IN THE week the skeleton of Richard III was identified, receiving m b v is similarly akin to coming face to face with history. ...
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