Relaxation your aching shoegaze hearts: My Bloody Valentine have performed their first present in seven years.
Billed as an “Isn’t Something warm-up present,” the shoegaze legends returned on Wednesday night (November nineteenth) at Dublin’s The Nationwide Stadium. The efficiency marked their first live performance since showing at California’s Desert Daze pageant in 2018.
The 19-song setlist featured a variety of standouts, most notably the stay debut of “Off Your Face” from 1990’s Glider EP. The remainder of the set included “Are available Alone,” “Quickly,” “Cigarette in Your Mattress,” “Thorn,” and “Solely Shallow” earlier than a closing rendition of “You Made Me Realise.”
As BrooklynVegan factors out, the present was initially meant for a extra intimate membership setting earlier than well-liked demand led to or not it’s relocated to the two,000-seat enviornment. As you would possibly anticipate from any band’s first present in almost a decade, MBV’s return did have its share of points. In line with Instagram person kealy_j, there have been “gear issues, under-powered quantity, missed cues, dangerous vibes, and deserted songs.” And as BrooklynVegan notes, the venue had issues with its ticket scanners, which meant that almost all attendees couldn’t enter till 9 p.m. native time.
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The efficiency really supersedes MBV’s initially deliberate return date on Saturday, November twenty second at Dublin’s 3Arena. (That may mark MBV’s first Irish headlining gig since 1992, FYI.) After that live performance, the band’s subsequent reveals are November twenty fourth in Manchester, November twenty fifth in London, and November twenty seventh in Glasgow. They’ll then head to Asia for a string of reveals, together with a pageant look at Clockenflap in Hong Kong. And are available subsequent June, they’ll seem at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound.
After forming within the late ’70s/early ’80s, My Bloody Valentine constructed a reputation throughout their native UK and Eire. The band got here to true fame with 1991’s Loveless, which went on to grow to be a defining document of the shoegaze style (and ’90s different rock normally). After breaking apart in 1999 for varied inventive {and professional} causes, the band returned in 2007 with a collection of early reveals adopted by a extra in depth tour in summer season/fall 2008. From there, they launched their third album, m b v, in 2013 (which adopted 2012’s EP’s 1988–1991 compilation). MBV had reportedly set to work on much more new materials (what could possibly be their fourth LP) as early as 2017.
Extra lately, frontman Kevin Shields secretly launched new music in 2023 (burnt to a flash drive included with a fuzz pedal he produced alongside Fender). He additionally joined Dinosaur Jr. later that yr to cowl The Treatment’s “Simply Like Heaven” throughout a London live performance.
Try the fan-capture footage of the present and the setlist beneath, adopted by MBV’s upcoming tour dates.
My Bloody Valentine Setlist:
I Solely Stated
When You Sleep
New You
You By no means Ought to
Honey Energy
Cigarette in Your Mattress
Solely Tomorrow
Are available Alone
Solely Shallow
Off Your Face (stay debut)
Thorn
Nothing A lot to Lose
Who Sees You
To Right here Is aware of When
Gradual
Quickly
Surprise 2
Feed Me With Your Kiss
You Made Me Realise
My Bloody Valentine 2025-2026 Tour Dates:
11/22 – Dublin, IE @ 3Arena
11/24 – Manchester, UK @ Aviva Studios
11/25 – London, UK @ OVO Wembley Enviornment
11/27 – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro
12/07 – Hong Kong @ Clockenflap
02/03 – Osaka, Japan @ Namba Hatch
02/04 – Osaka, Japan @ Zepp Namba
02/06 – Koto Metropolis, Japan @ Tokyo Backyard Theater
02/09 – Koto Metropolis, Japan @ Tokyo Backyard Theater
06/06 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
