YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!

Crikey, have tickets for London but this would be something else.

awesome

Ham and cheese toasties all round! I hope they play the Foggy Notions tent.

According to Hot Press, the high-jinks and japes enjoyed by Primal Scream and the delerious Jesus and Mary Chain was the clincher for MBV. It was really apparent that JAMC were having loads of fun last year wasn’t it? Under no circumstances what-so-ever were they there just to pick up the cheque…

“Jesus, I’m now immediately really worried that they’ll be put on in one of the tents”

I hear they’re playing the “Whatever the fuck happened to them!?!” tent. Also billed, Gay Dad and Scatman John

I think I’ll cry if they play ‘Soon’.

The KLF are playing if you believe festival message boards and dodgy blogs…

@ 14 – chuckle

My Bloody Valentine were brilliant – in 1991. Doubt if this will be all that good. Remember the Jesus and Mary Chain last year? Their music isn’t festival music anyway.

scatman john is unlikely.
largely because he’s dead.

which is, i think we can all agree is a tragedy.

skee-bap-ba-baddap.

Scatman’s dead? No shit.

‘A bunch of over 30’s getting excited about a band that last released an album, 17 yrs ago?’

Billy,I’m one of those over-thirties you speak about and I am absolutely and unashamedly excited about this and don’t care what anyone thinks.

‘I stood next to Kevin Shields at a gig in London a couple of months ago. It was like seeing a mythical beast out and about’

Me too. I walked straight up to him at a Mogwai gig in London last summer, shook his hand (twice) and we spoke for about ten minutes about Mogwai and MBV’s upcoming plans. He was an absolute gent, really unassuming, down-to-earth guy. Going top see them twice in London in June and the EP date is really going to be the icing on the cake.

I think MBV at EP is a major coup for them. It’s the equivalent of Kraftwerk playing in 2005- A really special, big-name act that will have will have everyone talking and making plans…something EP lacked last year.

Quint I’m the wrong side of 30 as well, I’ve never met Kevin Shields, but 17 years later or not it could be epic.
Never really liked Scatman.

If the Scatman can do it then so can MBV. Bee dop bop.

Am also the wrong side of 30, so old enough to remember excitement (and hype) about MBV first time round. Love the records but saw them play SFX in 1992…and it was a massive disappointment for everyone there. Will still check them out at EP but only for reasons of nostalgia and not if they headline on main stage. What would be the point of all that complexity blowing away with the breeze?

When asked about a possible Electric Picnic bow alongside MBV Mark Morrison declared:
“Let all the people know, I’m back to rock the show”.

It’s the biggest shock relating to “The Mack” since some lad in a Turban stole his bird while he was stuck in the jammer.

“wank” has a positive connotation for me. So I’ll look forward to seeing them live.

Agree with the sentiments that MBV playing at a festival stage would be a waste of time. Somewhere enclosed like the Olympia would be much better. The sound will just get blown away in the open air. If they try to put them on in a tent then the tent will be a total crush/crowd hazard, and you wont hear the end of people griping and bitching about how they couldnt get in.

There’s always been loads of talk about MBV that materialised into nothing in previous years. So I’m still inclined to take this news with an enormous wad of salt.

No, but it’ll spit them out like hacked out golden brown phlegm.

Fair enough Ivor. I think the shows in question were their support slot for Dinosaur Jr. in small venues.

41 comments and not one pun on the fact this was announced on Valentines Day? So disappointing…

Think Kev’ll convince his brother to bring Rollerskate Skinny too?