I wasn't really that bothered about missing out on seeing My Bloody Valentine on the current tour - until I read Daniel Dylan Wray's report from Manchester, that is.
It's a wonderful review, cogently making the case that subjection to noisy music may potentially be a profoundly cathartic experience: "There is a remarkable feeling of clarity and serenity that hits when this music lands at full force - a potent and uplifting feeling of peace and harmony can be triggered when you submit yourself to this onslaught and become sucked up in it."
Wray also makes mention of the fact that MBV paid tribute to Mani, who was for a short time a bandmate of Kevin Shields in Primal Scream: "Those who saw Primal Scream live during their XTRMNTR era, in which Mani was on bass and Shields was on guitar, speak about it with a giddy reverence of a band operating at the full throttle peak." I'm no PS fan generally, but you can count me in that number.
Wray's debut book Groovy, Laidback And Nasty - a history/profile of the music scene of his native Sheffield - is due to be published by White Rabbit in May next year, and, as a fan of pretty much everything he seems to do for the Guardian and the Quietus, I'm eager to get my mitts on a copy.
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