― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
Kevin ShieldsMember Since May 2003 Last Login 01/06/2004
Gender:Male
Interested inMeeting People for:Friends, Activity Partners
Status:Single
Age:40
Occupation:Recording artist & dyslexia spokesman
Location:United Kingdom
Hometown:Long Island, NY and Dublin, Ireland
Interests:Rearranging my recording studio, bankrupting record labels, the hypnagogic state, gourmet meals, martial arts, breeding chinchillas, smoking lots of dope, watching lots of TV, easy projects, writing fresh and simple material, and just keeping it simple!
Favorite Music:Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, Beatles, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Ramones
Favorite TV Shows:Just about anything, really.
About Me:You may have heard of my band, My Bloody Valentine. Many critics have written about us in very flowery terms. I don't think I understood what they were saying in those reviews half the time. That guy from Phish loves me guitar sounds though. Do me a favor and buy my Lost in Translation soundtrack. Island Records isn't helping me out much these days. Also kids, don't forget to buy our box set that's coming out in early '04.
Who I Want to Meet:Great recording effects designers, more film directors, those with good weed, record labels who understand my fondness for expensive food and all of the time I like to spend in and out of the studio. Just remember... I NO LONGER DO REMIXES!
― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
When is yer 'Isn't anything' due?
I must achieve my breakthrough.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/news/boxset.html
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
http://metroencoding.net/emperornorton/ref/kevinshields_city-girl_320x180_large-REF.mov
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
what on earth is he going to play?
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
"The Coral Sea 0 Text: Patti Smith Music: Patti Smith, Kevin Shields, Cat Power (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 22 June)"
I am so FUCKING there.
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Ohh shit should I start a thread here trawling for questions here for Mr. Shields, or is that redundant?
I tried trawling through here for ideas for the book a year ago and it all just seemed so redundant to type "Loveless" in the search engine, since almost every single thread came up! Hah.
What I REALLY need is help tracking down any of the people who worked on the album (esp. any of the 57 engineers) now that I got my "high quality" (hah) VOIP on and can make free phone calls to the UK...
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm greatly interested in your book, Michael. Do you have a title for it?
― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826415482
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― john'n'chicago, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Glad to hear that the 33-1/3 book on Loveless is well under way -- been waiting for that one. Sorry, can't think of any good questions off the top of my head, only idiotic/boring ones.
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Question two: Really?
― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, have you talked or will you be talking to Bilinda, Colm, and/or Debbie? I'd be interested to hear what they have to say about the album at this point.
― box.of.rox, Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Except for those drums, which haunt me in their determinate sincerity. What the hell is it about them that just...stays there? Do they anchor the music or do they ground it? Because there's something about the rest of it all that feels so fucking free. But those drums -- they bring it all back down to earth, as if sound were not indeterminate at all. As if it were very much finite.
The thing about Loveless is that is should be anything I want it to be. But it isn't.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 30 April 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, I'm probably not fucking there. As the effect of that potent little cup of Chantico™ wanes, it becomes clear that spending a thousand bucks or so basically just to go to one show is too insane at this point even for me, even to see two of my personal top five living artists (one of whom is in some sort of weird career limbo and whom I'll likely never get to see perform) on a stage together, probably for the only time ever. SOB. Somebody had better bootleg this, is all. Horses haters note: no one will have to "sit through" anything; see the schedule.
(However! When I got up yesterday I had perfect indie-rock bedhead, requiring no human intervention whatsoever, for the first and undoubtedly last time in my life. I'll take my karmic consolation prizes where I can find them.)
― box.of.rox, Saturday, 30 April 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
could be funny if Chan Marshall flakes onstage though, and Smith has to reprimand and corral her mid-set
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
so at the risk of being a credulous fool...
a boozy friend accosted shields over the weekend and he claimed the new mbv record was totally finished and he would be getting the gang together to tour it imminently. This pretty much tallies with the account of a mutual acquaintance who worked with the man 6 months or so ago. so maybe either ksheilds is a delusional tease or we might be getting some shinynewmbv. Has anyone heard anything that might corroborate this either way?
― cw, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I reckons he says that to everyone who asks, every time, for the past five years...
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
He's been too busy hanging out at Sonic Cathedrals, celebrating himself, to record an album!
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
xxxpost Kevin Shields reaaalllyy starting to look like Peter Sellers at times!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 23 June 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
xp that was a side project, We’ve Got A Shields Blender And We’re Not Afraid To Use It
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 June 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
New Merch Day!
https://mybloodyvalentineart.com/cdn/shop/files/Untitleddesign_2_750x.png
£60
Or bung them an extra £80 and all four will sign it!
Plus, other merch - hoodies, t-shirts, etc.
No sign of that very expensive "Loveless" shirt
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:21 (nine months ago) link
No sign of any new music, unless they taped all four signing and singing "Twenty quid for me, and.. Twenty quid for me.. and...."
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:22 (nine months ago) link
*sigh*
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:29 (nine months ago) link
Deb is playing solo shows (as "La Googie") in support of a new split single and she's still in Thurston's band who just announced a show in a couple weeks.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
in the aging weirdo perfectionist career track, Kevin has only got two more years to put the finishing touch on that next MBV record before he's older than Brian Wilson when Wilson finally dropped Smile
― bendy, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:38 (nine months ago) link
xp - glad to hear Thurston's got some shows lined up, was worried about his health there for a bit.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
bendy, wasn't "mbv" their SMiLE? (more like their Kokomo amirite lol)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link
🎶 …to a place called is this and yes 🎵
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:00 (nine months ago) link
Deb: "The MBV record is inching it's way there, so I mean no idea when it's coming out but there's an MBV album on its way..."
src: https://www.mixcloud.com/CitySoundChelmsford/transmission-w-paul-dupree-guests-generation-feral-deb-googe-030424-city-sound/ (~2hr mark after she talks about the new Thurston record)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:56 (five months ago) link
classic... remember when they were 'definitely' going to have an album out in 2021? they got the NYT and domino to believe it, that generally would have been good enough evidence for me but this is kevin shields we are talking about
missed the revive for the fender blender, but i had the non-kevin shields model about 10-15 years ago, and it quite simply sounded like ass
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:52 (five months ago) link
prefab sprout's 2019 album still undefeated tbf
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:58 (five months ago) link
yeah I had a reissue Blender like 10 years ago and didn't keep it. I wish he had done some kind of reverb pedal instead.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:32 (five months ago) link