{"id":55,"date":"2008-04-15T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T03:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T03:48:17","slug":"the-jesus-and-mary-chain-play-the-enmore-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The Jesus and Mary Chain play The Enmore Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back I went to see the Jesus and Mary Chain<\/a> at the Enmore Theatre. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Pretty much every album from these guys had a markedly different sound, from their earlier, heavily distorted and feedback drenched efforts to the later, cleaner releases (well, clean for the Mary Chain). Which would we get tonight?
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Well, mostly we got the cleaner version, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as live it certainly let the melodies come through. About the only time they started to dirty things up was during Reverence, and to be honest it’s not a bad choice of tracks to let loose on. Still, after seeing Sonic Youth at the same venue so recently<\/a>, this gig did feel ever so slightly light, and I never thought that’s how I’d feel after a Mary Chain show.
Even the obligatory spat between the Reid brothers was over before it really began. Maybe they’ve just mellowed with age.<\/p>\n


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Re-reading this, it sounds negative, and I don’t really mean it to. I had a great time, I guess I’d just built these guys up in my mind and inevitably they couldn’t match it.
Still, so far it’s been a good year. Sonic Youth<\/a> and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and it’s only April. All I need now is the rumoured My Bloody Valentine<\/a> tour to come true and I’ll be a very happy boy. <\/p>\n

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