Justin Renney brings you an excellent My Bloody Valentine live clip:
Back in 1996 when a friend of mine introduced me to My Bloody Valentine I wasn’t that impressed. That same friend wound up gifting me a copy of Loveless a couple years later and by 1998 I was checking fansites like expectdelay trying to get any sort of tour or new album news. There were reports that Kevin Shields quit music and became a cab driver. Then came the MBV remixes of Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Lush, Curve and Hurricane #1. I wound up paying $12 to $20 each at Orpheum Records to snag these little gems and still spin these tracks occasionally to this day.
When it was announced in 2002 that Kevin was scoring Lost In Translation I couldn’t wait to see how that was going to translate on film. Ironically the scene that knocked my socks off was the cab scene over a bridge with Scarlett looking out the window looking at the Tokyo skyline. It was a proud moment for indierock. On par with the famous Fight Club scene when The Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind” comes blasting in. In Seattle people stood up and cheered when that happened. Anyways, MBV’s “Sometimes”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0nPSy1-UXE
By the time MBV actually came to Seattle it had been 14 years since I started listening to them. I made a last ditch effort to get that old friend to go but we both knew it was at a crap venue (sonically) and in order to hear the loudest band of all time correctly you need studio earplugs. Speaking for the people who missed the MBV experience what would be nice is a DVD of this show. This footage is amazing and nails the bands sheepish nature. At first it seems like there’s nothing going on and then you start noticing all of there tiny details adding up…
My Bloody Valentine’s “To Here Knows When”:
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Justin Renney is a Seattle photographer whose excellent work can be found at PhotoJustin.com.
