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my bloody valentine announce UK arena tour
After selling out Dublin’s 3Arena, my bloody valentine have just unveiled a trio of new dates – making this the band’s first UK headline run in more than 10 years.
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- Emily Garner
my bloody valentine have just announced a UK arena tour – their first in over a decade.
The Dublin shoegaze pioneers will be performing a trio of dates in the winter, after the instant selling-out of their 3Arena show on November 22. Once my bloody valentine are done with that aforementioned hometown date, they’ll hit Manchester’s Aviva Studios on November 24, London’s OVO Arena Wembley the following night, and then finally the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on November 27. Tickets go on general sale next Friday, April 4 at 10am – get yours here.
If you’ve not seen mbv before, expect noise. In our round-up of the 15 loudest bands on the planet, we explained how, ‘The sound at my bloody valentine gigs was mixed with earplugs in mind, to the extent that the band themselves would hand out foam plugs so fans could hear what was going on beneath their maelstrom. With the album Loveless, in 1991, Kevin basically reinvented what the guitar could do, but he has also had tinnitus ever since.’
