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My Bloody Valentine To Add New Members

Kevin Shields reveals...

  • by Daniel Melia
  • Friday, April 17, 2009
  • Photo by: Tim Bugbee
  • filed in: Rock

Kevin Shields has revealed that fans can expect an expanded version of My Bloody Valentine to appear for their live shows in the second half of 2009.

Speaking about his plans for the bands future, Shields said that MBV could add members this year and were looking at a change in direction sonically.

He told the Dallas Observer: "After the end of August, we'll have a radical change, Line-up, we might expand a bit.

“In that respect, we'll add another member to the group, just to do more stuff. And sound-wise, absolutely. You know, it'll be...taking a different approach."

Shields revealed that he had been largely influenced by a tape of folk-blues music he had be given by Bobby Gillespie.

He said: "That style of folk-blues music, I would say is weirdly enough like 'Loveless'," he said of the tapes.

"That style of songwriting, where you have the verses and then the instrumental breaks. I suppose, if I were to say there's any kind of music in the world that feels really natural to me, it's that kind. Not just folk-blues, but folk music in general."

"The great thing is playing together, we're just doing it the way we were planning to do it at the time, except with the right equipment and the right sounds."


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