Kevin Shields. Full of Shit?

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So, I hate to admit it, but I do still check in with Pitchfork every once in a while. Anyway, they posted a short blurb about an interview Mr. Shields had with Magnet in which he said there would absolutely be a new My Bloody Valentine record.

Doesn't he say that in every interview? Is this news? I mean, is it news that he STILL (15-16 years later) claims that there will be a new record?

I wish it were true, but I just can't believe it.

Any insider info? Thoughts? I'm sure there are a hundred threads dedicated to this, but the search function isn't working for me at the moment.

GIVE ME HOPE!!!

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't he say that in every interview?

Well yeah. I've learned not to be fazed by it, and there's tons of stuff out there to love and get surprised by in the meantime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

I could see 15 years going by pretty quick, sometimes it's hard to get around to stuff, you know.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

D3b G00dg3 seems to have started rehearsing in the studio I work in (dunno who with), shall I ask her if I see her? I mean, she might know, right?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

D3b G00dg3 seems to have started rehearsing in the studio I work in (dunno who with), shall I ask her if I see her? I mean, she might know, right?

I spoke to Kevin a while ago (2004?) when there was a brief flurry of rumours about how MBV were recording stuff in Berlin and there was going to be a box set of new stuff and old-new stuff and everything, and he said it was nonsense, and that he'd recently seen Deb who'd had a go at him for going into the studio without telling her.

Is Kevin actually doing anything these days? At least in the past he's had Primal Scream/The Beatings/Hurricane #1 remixes to use as an "I've been busy, alright!" excuse.

― Gareth Jones (jona), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

"D3b G00dg3 seems to have started rehearsing in the studio I work in (dunno who with), shall I ask her if I see her?"

---> Oh, dear God, yes. Please.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

I thought she quit the band in '88 or something like that - you know, eighteen years ago.

― everything (everything), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, she was with the band through the final live performances and a while beyond that, but eventually sidestepped over to Snowpony.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't be MBV without her would it? I'll report back if I pluck up the courage.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

if I see colm around berkeley anytime again I'll ask him also.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Is Kevin actually doing anything these days?

There are two Kevin Shields remixes of Bow Wow Wow tracks on the Marie Antoinette soundtrack.

― dh (djh), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

"remixes"

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

But yeah, when this does come out I will file it right next to the MBV boxset.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

and your invisible typewriter

― PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsound), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

also your deluxe 25th anniversery remastered edition of Chinese Democracy (on holographic tissue paper)

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^^
format of the future

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the new Asobi Seksu CD was the new MBV...

― Onlywhenyouweep (Sans Sushi), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin Shields is starting to remind me of that monk-dude who was on Babylon 5, searching for the Holy Grail. He kept going further and further afield, and asking different races of aliens if they'd seen it, and kept telling everyone that he was going to find it, and it was his purpose in life. And his "Order" kept putting more and more money into the search. But you know...

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Is Kevin actually doing anything these days?

Kevin Shields, God Willing, Gang Wizard, Unicorn Hard-on, Celesteville are going to be in Europe playing a few shows then flying directly to INC:

EURO EXPLOSION

Fri 2/2 -Open Circuit (Hasselt, Belgium) fat-cat.co.uk
Sat 2/3 -Off
Sun 2/4 -Helbaard (Den Haag, Holland)
Mon 2/5 -Dwars On VPRO/Dutch National Radio and Television (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Tue 2/6 -Off
Wed 2/7 -l'embobineuse (Marseille, France) www.lembobineuse.biz
Thurs 2/8 -Off
Fri 2/9 -La Miroiterie (Paris, France) w/ Evil Moisture
Sat 2/10 - Freaks End Future (Antwerpen, Belgium)

Sat Feb 15-17 -INC at Churchhills (Miami, FL)
18-0ff
Mon 2/19-New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not THAT Kevin Shields.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

i liked that magnet interview. he really wanted to clear up that whole loveless-bankrupting-the-label myth.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not THAT Kevin Shields.

you learn something new every day.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Kate Bush did it. Mission of Burma did it. The Soft Boys did it. The Pixies are allegedly doing it. Roxy Music is doing it. Peter Gabriel and GNR take their time. In the grand scheme of things, 15 years between records ain't that bad.

Now, if this were, say, Mark Hollis talking loud and saying nothing, I'd be more doubtful. It's not like Shields has been inactive, you know? He's even toured.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

don't stop
believin'
hold on to that feeeeelinnnn'

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, never mind MBV - look who's back back BACK!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at last sentence:

They had five UK number ones and were the most popular white reggae act after UB40.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

33 1/3's 'Loveless' by Mike McGonigal was finally releassed by Continuum. I just got it from Amazon, it looks like it's the stuff.

― Mr. Butch (Mr. Butch), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Last week he finished a performance in California by dedicating a lute only version of Message in a Bottle to his former bandmates Copeland and Andy Summers.

OH TO BE IN THAT AUDIENCE

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone done a 33 1/3 proposal for Ghost In The Machine yet?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see that article's attached poll?

"Vote in our poll: Which medieval instruments should accompany the Police?"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.macallenarmourers.com/images/Scold-MA-side-72-a.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

heheh. who of them should "play" that "instrument", tho?

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Which medieval instruments should accompany the Police?"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Iron_Maiden_of_Nuremberg.jpg/200px-Iron_Maiden_of_Nuremberg.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

iron maiden >>>>> the police, for sure.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

"if I see colm around berkeley anytime again I'll ask him also."

---> I heard he is dating Hope Sandoval, who lives in San Francisco. So is he really living in Berkeley?

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

has been for years.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

nice. how many new psychedelic bands do you think have tried to recruit him? i mean, there are only about 45 thousand of them here.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

time is just a construct, man!!!

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

cameron,

aside from living with hope sandoval in kensington (berkeley hills) for oh, about 10 years, he plays drums in her band and does sound at local rock clubs. i believe they are married or if not are "soulmates".

s. shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

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