Deluxe edition features a 40-page hardback book including unseen photography, 180g heavyweight vinyl of ‘Pyschocandy’ performance, exclusive 10″ of the 7-track prequel set including singles and fan favorites cut by legendary engineer Noel Summerville (My Bloody Valentine / The White Stripes) and CD of the entire gig along with candid interviews with Jim and William Reid and Alan McGee.
Three decades after The Jesus and Mary Chain first appeared on the scene in an explosion of noise, leather and attitude, it was announced that one of the most turbulent bands in pop history would be performing their classic debut album,Psychocandy, live for the first time in its entirety to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release.
To mark this monumental occasion, on July 31, Demon Records are pleased to announce the release of The Jesus and Mary Chain Live at Barrowlands, a 10″ + LP + CD deluxe edition which chronicles the band’s homecoming gig at Glasgow’s legendary Barrowlands in November 2014.
Their first show since 2008, The Mary Chain were as noisy and belligerent as ever as, both deafening and blinding, sound and light used as weapons against the mesmerized crowd, and as the smoke unfurled and great tides of feedback rose and crashed everyone present surrendered to Psychocandy all over again.
The deluxe edition is housed in a 40-page hardback book, and includes the LP of the Psychocandy performance cut to 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl along with the 7-track prequel set containing key singles and fan favorites including ‘April Skies’, ‘Head On’ and the monstrous ‘Reverence’ cut to 10″ by legendary engineer Noel Summerville (My Bloody Valentine / The White Stripes) exclusive to the package. Also included is a CD of the entire performance, a candid interview with Jim and William Reid and Alan McGee along with unseen behind the scenes photography. A 1CD version of Psychocandy Live will also be made available separately.
Forming in East Kilbride in 1983, The Jesus and Mary Chain announced their arrival on the scene with a series of provocatively short gigs (average length: ten minutes). Staged by nascent scene-maker Alan McGee, brothers Jim and William Reid – aided by the brain-dead stomp of a young Bobby Gillespie on drums – set forth their stall of proto-shoegazing.
Released in 1985, Psychocandy was a cocktail of speed and hallucinogens mixed with equal parts Beach Boys’ melody and Velvets’ minimalism. A combination of guitar feedback with traditional pop song structure proved influential on the forthcoming shoegaze genre and alternative rock in general influencing the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized and more recently The Horrors, along with countless others.
Speaking about the 30th anniversary of Psychocandy, Jim Reid said, “Psychocandy was meant to be a kick in the teeth to all of those who stood in our way at the time, which was practically the whole music industry. In 1985 there were a great many people who predicted no more than a six-month life span for The Mary Chain.”
As part of the ATP Season at the Roundhouse, Camden, the band will performPsychocandy in full on the 5th of July for only the second time in the capital since their reformation.
Track listing:
April Skies
Head On
Some Candy Talking
Psycho Candy
Up Too High
Reverence
Upside Down
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Just Like Honey
The Living End
Taste The Floor
The Hardest Walk
Cut Dead
In A Hole
Taste Of Cindy
Never Understand
Inside Me
Sowing Seeds
My Little Underground
You Trip Me Up
Something’s Wrong
It’s So Hard
US TOUR DATES:
08/22 Los Angeles, CA – FYF