<!-- /.time --> <!-- /.venue -->My Bloody Valentine

Like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, and the Jesus & Mary Chain before them, My Bloody Valentine redefined what noise meant within the context of pop songwriting. Led by guitarist Kevin Shields, the group released several EPs in the mid-'80s before recording the era-defining Isn't Anything in 1988, a record that merged lilting, ethereal melodies of the Cocteau Twins with crushingly loud, shimmering distortion. Though My Bloody Valentine rejected rock & roll conventions, they didn't subscribe to the precious tendencies of anti-rock art-pop bands. Instead, they rode crashing waves of white noise to unpredictable conclusions, particularly since their noise wasn't paralyzing like the typical avant-garde noise rock band: it was translucent, glimmering, and beautiful. Shields was a perfectionist, especially when it came to recording, as much of My Bloody Valentine's sound was conceived within the studio itself. Nevertheless, the band was known as a formidable live act, even though they rarely moved, or even looked at the audience, while they were on-stage. Their notorious lack of movement was branded "shoegazing" by the British music press, and soon there were legions of other shoegazers -- Ride, Lush, the Boo Radleys, Chapterhouse, Slowdive -- that, along with the rolling dance-influenced Madchester scene, dominated British indie rock of the late '80s and early '90s. As shoegazing reached its peak in 1991, My Bloody Valentine released Loveless, which broke new sonic ground and was hailed as a masterpiece. Though the band was poised for a popular breakthrough, it disappeared into the studio and didn't emerge over the next five years, leaving behind a legacy that proved profoundly influential in the direction of '90s alternative rock.

When My Bloody Valentine's second album, Loveless, finally appeared in late 1991, it was greeted with uniformly excellent reviews and it became a hit within the U.K., reaching number 24 on the charts. In America, the group made significant inroads, particularly by supporting Dinosaur Jr. Despite the band's acclaim and growing audience, Loveless didn't sell in numbers to recoup its reported 500,000 dollar recording cost and Creation dropped the band from their label roster; Creation wouldn't fully recover until 1994, when they signed Oasis. My Bloody Valentine signed with Island and entered the studio at the end of 1992 to record a new album. In 1993, the group contributed a James Bond cover to a charity compilation.

Shields built a home studio with his Island advance and reportedly completed two separate albums, but scrapped them both. Often, the studio ran into technological problems. Between 1993 and 1997, both Googe and O'Ciosoig left the band, leaving only Shields and Butcher; after driving a cab for about a year, Googe formed Snowpony in 1996. There were signs that My Bloody Valentine were emerging from hiding in 1996, when the group contributed to the Wire tribute album Whore and Shields played on Experimental Audio Research's Beyond the Pale. Still, no new My Bloody Valentine material appeared. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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<!-- /.time --><!-- /.venue -->Texas Frightmare Weekend - The southwest's premier horror convention is a horror-oriented event held usually in the Dallas, Texas area. Guests have included actors, directors, and producers from classic and upcoming horror films, horror writers, .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Frightmare_Weekend

http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com

Current guest list with more added until the con....
- Mal Arnold
- Fairuza Balk
- Karen Black
- Linda Blair
- Marilyn Burns
- Hunter Carson
- Alice Cooper
- Thomas Dekker
- Anthony Fitzgerald
- William Forsythe
- David F. Friedman
- C.J. Graham
- Robert Hall
- James Hampton
- Lena Headey
- Tobe Hooper
- Adrienne King
- Charlotte Kemp
- Lar Park-Lincoln
- Bobbi Sue Luther
- Tyler Mane
- Derek Mears
- Dick Miller
- Marc Price
- Michael Rooker
- Barbara Steele
- Caroline Williams

Other sites found below.....
http://twitter.com/txfrightmare

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46309497076&ref=mf

http://www.myspace.com/texasfrightmareweekend
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Ticket Info: $25-199

No idea what I'll be doing this weekend. I have nothing planned, as of yet. I'll be working tomorrow morning, and I'm off on Sunday and Monday. I'll probably go for a few pints straight after work tomorrow... I'll also take some time out to wish Natasha a Happy Easter, on her birthday... LOL

It's been a lazy day so far, post-post-work (get it?)... The weather here has been fantastic, over the past couple of days... Man, I was sweating bucketloads at work this morning, and it wasn't a particularly busy day either! I'm just about to hop in the bath before going out tonight. Hopefully going to check out Cryptacize, at The Captain's Rest... It should be an interesting night as they are a band, of whom I have never seen live before, and the gig is in a venue which I have never previously ventured into... I like a good mystery...

Who's on the bell? I'll have a pint of Strongbow puhhhlease...

Sorry I never managed to get back on last night. I was shattered, and just went to bed when I got in. That's what I get for walking home from town! Pretty boring and pointless night, as the Cryptacize gig was cancelled for some reason... However, I took a couple of photographs on my way home, which didn't turn out too well, but they are fairly interesting. They are places you won't have seen, and there are two photographs which, in all probability, you will never see in real life... so you might like that. I dunno why I jumped a fence, into the demolition site of the former Coliseum Cinema which "burnt down" early last Monday morning... LOL I really wanted to explore that place in depth, but the remains of the structure looked extremely dangerous, I wasn't too steady on my feet, and there were also police guarding the front facade... It was a bit on the risky side, so I decided to cut my losses... I went further than most people would've, so I'm satisfied with my efforts! Balls of steel!

Well, tomorrow morning I'll take a wander down to Pollokshaws, to the doomed Shawbridge Corridor, and watch 124 & 142 Shawbridge Street being reduced to rubble... It'll basically be similar to what I witnessed just over a year ago... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTX0EPlEV2U 

Guaranteed, this will be well worth skipping Sunday School for, any Glaswegian kids that might read this! This is REAL education, and it's loud and dusty fun!

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