My Bloody Valentine - The Holocaust

Tomoko made this after we saw them on Friday to accompany our blog about the gig.

You can read that here...

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=41307107&...

My Bloody Valentine create a sonic holocaust during "You Made Me Realise". Never has noise sounded so beautiful.

Sound taken from their reunion show at The Roundhouse, London 20-06-08.

I was there!!!

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[dburger12]

You really had to be there to understand what it was like. I remember a few times when it sounded like they were about to go back into the song and I got nervous because I didn't want it to end. Wow, what a mindfuck that was.

[clinker123]

I felt exactly the same. It produced a euphoric feeling in you that you'd never felt before.

[MrGiantPanda]

When I saw them in 1992, it wasn't a matter of being deafened... when they played this bit, after a few minutes I could hear chords and melodies in the noise that weren't being played. It sounded quite clear, part of but distinct from the noise. And in case you think that's daft, it wasn't just me -- Mike McGonigal, in his book on Loveless for the 33 1/3 series, reports a similar thing. Sadly, when I saw them this year, the 'holocaust' just sounded like an empty roar to me...

[clinker123]

"I could hear chords and melodies in the noise that weren't being played" - I felt that 100% last year. That was part of the beauty of it. For the first few minutes its just noise, then gradually beautiful sounds come out and wash over you and a big smile comes across your face.

[ov4kill]

Yeah, the noise is good but nothing special (I made noise music and hear to it especially to psychedelic noise music (Skullflower)), but maybe it was so good because it was so loud. But for all doesn't was on concerts with that concept, for that people it's only noise a la merzbow or throbbing griste. And I wasn't not onsome of that concerts. That's the problem by recordings: it doens't show the real volume. And I wasn't not some of that concerts.

[clinker123]

Its true you had to be there, but the feeling it created on the night was literally mind bending and hard to explain.

[CloudCucku]

Shock and awe

Apollo, Manchester 29th June - the holocaust lasted 28 ear-bleeding minutes.

Shocked security staff handing out ear-plugs - people making rapid exits, hands clasped over their ears - from those around me half smiles and grimaces.

I stayed for every blissful minute and left with a juddering sense of euphoria which is still with me.

I forwent ear-plugs and my ears still feel numb 24 hours later, but it was worth it - once in a lifetime worth it.

This vid captures it beautifully.

[HalSamuel]

Seriously it sounds like the entire population of the earth screaming, I can only imagine what an utterly overwhelming experience this must be live.

[busterabcat]

Sounds like somebody has dubbed wind noises on to this recording (4 minutes onwards). Now if that was the case then you're a bloody cheat!! :) If it isn't then, fuck me, there really must be some strange otherworldy sounds that emerge when you listen to this all out aural assault.

28 minutes in Manchester? Fuck me! That is seriously hardcore. Even 1992's Rollercoaster 16 minute white out was big enough!!!

[EbiNoUmmei]

Binaural beats. Neat.

[Simulationofvirtue]

@EmmaEasterling - You were not there & you do not understand anything . Seriously.

[Simulationofvirtue]

I don't expect anyone to believe this (apart from those that have reminded me), but the holocaust section from the 1991 London gig was so intense that I actually passed out for twenty five minutes - quite nice really.

[shoegazesavedmylife]

“It’s interesting and fun, in a cruel way, watching the audience react as the song progresses,” says Ger Colclough, a monitor engineer on the tour. “You can see the different emotions and feelings they go through as the song reaches its peak, from the fascinated look, disbelief look, shocked look, and back to the final look of amazement.”

[FuckingStanz]

what was this recorded on anyway? 

[FuckingStanz]

@EmmaEasterling LOEL van halen fan.

[FuckingStanz]

this rapes me just how i want. 

[ComputerGeek396]

It's what Kevin Shields' tinnitus sounds like.

[TanAndBoyd06]

Listening to this live AND AMAZINGLY SOBER, I felt like I was on some serious fuckin' drugs..... Just listening to this gives me chills.