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Dublin, Ireland (1984 – 1997, 2007 – present)

My Bloody Valentine is a shoegaze band formed in 1984 in Dublin, Ireland. The band’s best known lineup is Kevin Shields (vocals, guitar), Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar), Debbie Googe (bass) and Colm O’Ciosoig (drums). In 1991, the band released their second full length album “Loveless”, later declared one of the finest albums of the 1990s. The band struggled to record a follow up album and split in 1997. The band reunited in 2007 and performed several concerts the following year.

The band’s key member is guitarist/singer/composer Kevin Shields, a reclusive perfectionist and radically inventive guitarist/engineer. The band’s other original member is drummer/studio maven Colm O’Ciosoig; during their heyday MBV also included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe. Their band shares its name with a low-budget Canadian slasher film.

Though they released a handful of EPs during the mid-1980s, only their two official albums Isn’t Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991), are considered representative of their sound: a distinct blend of , , and off-kilter . The songs were written by Shields, except for Touched, a short instrumental by Colm O’Ciosoig. In 1999 Pitchfork Media declared Loveless to be the greatest album of the 1990s; however in their 2003 revision of the list, it moved down to number two, swapping places with OK Computer. Kevin Shields has also been noted by Alan McGee as “a genius artist. A visionary.”, whilst an NME review of Loveless declared, “.
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16 Nov 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/mybloodyvalentine

For those of you who have been unlucky getting tickets so far we can only apologise. Because of demand for tickets we have now added an extra date in both Manchester and Glasgow.

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