My Bloody Valentine reunited for a secret set this week, enjoying their first gig since 2018.
My Bloody Valentine returned this week with a secret set
The shoegaze pioneers – who fashioned in Dublin in 1983 – have not carried out collectively in seven years, however they obtained again collectively on Wednesday (19.11.25) night time for a present on the metropolis’s Nationwide Stadium.
In a nod to their 1988 album, the group performed a secret set below the moniker Is not Something as a warm-up for his or her upcoming reunion dates.
The present was initially meant to happen at a smaller venue, however it obtained upgraded to the two,000 capability stadium attributable to demand.
The set featured fan favourites like Solely Shallow, Feed Me With Your Kiss and I Solely Stated.
Though the band did not showcase any new or unreleased materials, they did play Off Your Face – which featured on 2012 complication EPs 1988 – 1991 – for the primary time stay.
My Bloody Valentine had beforehand introduced an enormous present at Dublin’s 3Arena on November 22, which was set to mark their first non-festival present in Eire since 1992.
In March, they confirmed additional dates at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, Wembley Enviornment in London, and Glasgow’s OVO Hydro.
The run will mark their first UK headline tour in over a decade, whereas it has been 12 years since they launched their newest album, mbv.
The band nonetheless options founding members Kevin Shields and Colm Ó Cíosóig, alongside Bilinda Butcher and Debbie Googe.
Again in 2021, frontman Kevin, 62, stated they have been engaged on two new studio albums after signing with Domino Information.
He informed the New York Occasions newspaper that the primary file could be “heat and melodic”, adopted by a extra experimental LP, however there have not been any agency updates since then.
He added: “I don’t wish to be 70-something eager to make the following file after mbv. I feel it’d be cooler to make one now.”