In news that will excite roughly 15% of you more than enough to cover the remaining 85, legendary shoegazers My Bloody Valentine will play 3 tour dates -- their first since 1992 -- in London, Manchester, and Glasgow next summer. The shows will presumably be done on the heels of their new album, which has been rumored to be near release since sometime in like 1993 but may finally see the light of day this year after all. Anyway, tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday, which means that babies conceived tonight could almost be out of the womb by the final show. Just warning ya, in case you want to keep your schedule open.
To be clear, it's uncertain as of yet how much when we say "My Bloody Valentine," we actually just mean "Kevin Shields" but hopefully we'll see details on that soon. Also, there have been so many years of disappointment on this front that it's hard to rule out it going, yet again, straight to hell in an ear-splitting, feedback-and-MDMA-laced handbasket.
But still, for someone (um, me) who considers missing a February '92 show of theirs one of the great failures of his life (stupid debate team!) -- and who remembers people coloring their CD's of Loveless with green marker because they swore it made them sound better -- this is all pretty heavy news. Not that I could go or anything, the dollar being totally in the john and all.