“Louder?” Kevin Shields wryly asks the audience on Saturday night as he, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Debbie Googe and Bilinda Butcher lay waste to whatever expectations anyone might have had about My Bloody ...

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I’m at the biggest shoegaze show of all time, and the vibe is a parody of the genre’s stereotypically coy character. All 9,500 fans shuffle politely to their seats in Dublin’s 3Arena, nestling gently ...

Happy Valentine’s Day—you’re my happily-ever-after. There are so many wonderful reasons I love calling you Valentine. At the ...

Let’s get the clichés out of the way on My Bloody Valentine’s gig in Dublin: a sonic cathedral of glorious dreamlike otherworldliness, ethereal white noise, heavenly-sounding walls of textured effects ...

Soon after My Bloody Valentine skulked into the Wembley Arena spotlights, the initial roar of some 12,000 fans abated. Wearing a brimmed black hat, something about him suggesting a past life in ...

The seismic needles twitching in Chinese military bunkers can only mean one of two things. Either the UK has resumed nuclear testing or My Bloody Valentine are touring again. The Irish-English ...

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Last night, shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine returned to London for a show at OVO Arena Wembley — continuing their first UK tour in over a decade. This followed performances at Manchester’s Aviva ...

My Bloody Valentine kicked off their first tour in seven years in Dublin last night (November 22) and dedicated the show to late Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani. The band, who performed a ...

The lasting impact of My Bloody Valentine on contemporary music is widely disproportionate to their popularity. Album sales have been modest, but they pioneered shoegaze and had a massive influence on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Perfection is the enemy of good, so perhaps we should welcome the awkward pauses between songs and botched ...