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My Bloody Valentine for Coachella 2008?

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Will the shoegazers reform for Californian festival?

My Bloody Valentine are rumoured to be reuniting for the Caochella Valley Music & Arts Festival next year.

It is understood that the organisers of the festival have been pursuing the band to play the festival for several years.

As previously reported Shields told Magnet magazine that he is “100 per cent” sure that the band are going to record again.

The group have been inactive since 1995, although rumours are rife that the band are working on a new album and a box set featuring unreleased material, originally due to be reelased on Creation back in 2000, just before the label shut down.

Coachella booker Paul Tollett delinced to comment on the reports.

However, the festival is known for luring dormant groups such as Rage Against The Machine and The Jesus And Mary Chain to the festival.

Shields' manager Vinita Joshi told Electric Roulette website that there were “no confirmed shows at all”.

An official Myspace page for the band recently launched.

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patlong 

Aug 30, 2007

I don't ever believe anything Kevin Shields says but I am unreasonably excited about this

AnthonyThornton 

Aug 30, 2007

I really can't wait to see them. I was lucky enough to see them play on the Rollercoaster tour in 1992 at Brixton Academy. The friend I was with who was a girl nearly got punched by the biggest bloke I've ever seen, but that's another story

Jesus And Mary Chain headlined, they were very 'rock' at this time. Dinosaur Jr were pretty good. There was also a (very) drunk Blur: Damon nearly fell off the stage about five times. They did play an amazing song I hadn't heard before called 'Oily Water', but it looked like they were about to implode at any moment.

But My Bloody Valentine were amazing very very loud and yet they noise they made was strangely beautiful. They played the climax of You Make Me Realise for about 15 minutes. It was really funny watching people stop dancing one by one as they, er, realised it was a massive wall of noise.until there were only a couple of psychos still trying to gyrate.

Great gig. Can't wait to see them again

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