My Bloody Valentine and the ‘brown sound’
Now there are many folk whose love for the sainted MBV knows no bounds….And then there are the fans who combine this love with an equally OTT love of loud music….Sadly, when these two loves combine, as they did for many at MBV’s recent gig at London’s Roundhouse, you witness the evolution of a phenomena unique to the Shields’ followers and children at the scat stage of their development…For so loud was the sound coming from the stage at the gig, that its properties were loosening every spare screw, bolt, filling and, er, sphincter in the house.Yet, such was the rabid devotion of some fans that despite the sonic vibrations emanating from the stage serving as a bowel loosener, and its’ inevitable effects, most of the fans chose to stay put for the whole gig, merely frugging at their baggy arsed jeans uncomfortably until the very last song of the set before dashing out to the toilets to try and claw some dignity back from the bomb blast in their trousers.Those fans who weren’t reduced to retching, gurning freaks by the sheer scale of Kevin Shields’ sonic vision were happily reduced to the same status thanks to what is now known as ‘the brown noise’……
