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    Brusque 25-minute dutifully onginal mangling of 'The Gift' and 'Bodies' provoked a violent (choreographed? manipulated? who gives a shit?) aftermath which though vaguely frightening was predominantly wild and exciting. To (immorally?) perpetuate this snowball, they create their own rare and glorious justification - le.

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    Brusque 25-minute dutifully onginal mangling of 'The Gift' and 'Bodies' provoked a violent (choreographed? manipulated? who gives a shit?) aftermath which though vaguely frightening was predominantly wild and exciting. To (immorally?) perpetuate this snowball, they create their own rare and glorious justification - le.

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    JAMC Scrapbook

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    Mark Scanlan
    Brusque 25-minute dutifully onginal mangling of 'The Gift' and 'Bodies' provoked a violent (choreographed? manipulated? who gives a shit?) aftermath which though vaguely frightening was predominantly wild and exciting. To (immorally?) perpetuate this snowball, they create their own rare and glorious justification - le.

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    20 a en, ee — ae THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN North London Polytechnic “CAMP... INCARNATES @ victory of style ove content, gésthetios over morality, of ony over tragedy."~“Susan Sontag on Carnp, 1964 "%A society which deprives people of the hope that things might get bettor is in deop trouble. — Baily Mifror of toStoall hooliganism, March 1988. “Josuses come and go, and The Mary Chain Boys~ brave cowards hie most characters in Shakespeare or Genet are greet pop-ort, otulent, pretty, shallow, devoid of Blonds, into shades, and futile. But they are not mere eotfce- house revolutionaries. Inan age(/he Good Old Days) when Alison Moyet and Paul Young are afforded critical respect. lot of fing around iS surely called for Ahoy ate not yet exploiting the media because the real, grown-up media ~ the one wit influence™ remains unaware tae, Soon, when they swear on Wogan, this will change. ‘Tonights brusque 25-minute dutifully original mangling of ‘The Gift and ‘Bodies’ provored 8 jolent (choreographed? manipulated? who gives 2 shit?) aftermath which though vaguely frightening was predominantly wild and exciting. History. Te limmorally?) perpetuate this snowball, they ereate thelr own rare and glorious justification "o, they get a reaction. With a grace-sozsied viciousness, amps fly through the air like preconceptions. Rock and roll breathes and twitches again like the third rising of the supposedly slain psycho in 9 tacky horror movie. They know you're a mess! Cluteh at this Feborn fantasy of youthful rebellion before the amniotic fluid turne to cellophane; before you're 100 jaded to fall for it One lost fing? Awhul Gods. CHRIS ROBERTS. POST GIG celebrations as a road person trounces @ unter and police display their new brand of break Gancing (pix by Steva Callaghan) if 3 THE JESUS And Mery Ch wt sitio May Chan enero tr ry Srrape jobing 7 snow aid fo reat ee were cre miers and sorte 2d debauchery a Sa praah "Pek pho os ys sleuth to od the wid oye, snd Orie ware trae Sma tee en Fears "some hay kg eager ay lola ety vn sexandoveneng yar 9 Jaws decided to brave the Belgian tle hone system to feathe TY pedicer Rinse eto ne age Ttest rock’ rl onan Sag nxt Fpote onan yee fon aes a Bevetcanigh siti ‘smashed up car We asked thers eal ee But whet about the dso Fhe bas microphone ward andres te tury aaa ve. And al the ts as ubDIa which we were goin to throw away aha Ine Bet wha about mre Why ca you scene eon hy. was a bathroom which hada {gilot nit But they didnt want tobe imerioaas ts at, Changed't to's ole i 7 i object whan the dunner started having scruiiaoniteaen sse urent ed a ‘he Jets And Mary Chain get fod rom WEA sglaognewconrac wf May Sioa od op Palace Stop us you've heard a th oe ae THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN/THEINCA BABIES font ary ceressig woh gd appearing up oom ast No tating el free ec wal a ug 2 Thay tlre on te ee of ease a the ui pos salty Yes teh a wal fet tee sagis ate mer het The sons stated wher ean cond, ced ever an en vet he age ote PA 2d ot i JMC were dese fo igen, bt ties a ys COREL PO Ca theta carretera Sere eee DeSoto ad Maite SE Hc Lean T CO ern eee Rg ky lah yUPSIDE DOWN ¢ Le sORDELIVERY oo rete eon ae Reiter traces aetna ek entrants Parnes ees eee) Se ead Perera roe Brame preteens hae he videos kept the acd cape ea peciat Popo Seer te eka kick ne aa Bi btegr eer Naa linear en aT cee NER ePIC aainieienr aoe ae eer t ie pe et ea Nn een a aed Pear erneer Eta Ceo Aisin occ Daerah ka eo peters Meter er fae mae Prt Pn haa Psa eT cel Pee tet oh eo Soot ec » THE PTT escort Pdanpeongheeoe pera aera papery oni et Peookonmr mes Soe tres epee a lene eer Pi tearriget tere rt tna Reelin ee Ol peer ne pao. SPUREERT te oo none rit ee ee erie oa real ermaeeett steer ple poniec hr dacs ps Roxane ena Pr aaa cn ee reste pepe ae mek dah Peace en ae ee ct cee Peper mens ae peel coral Sheer cient te allel Pg ‘Manchester Hacienda nie Redwosy coer Seetccemern Sa emma Series pe 28aty te rightfoot an zs = ‘Bobby and Douglas are” Seiaorartewton re Somtnaostapenee Srieernunet ancdorriaage “Just Like Honey” the muse dato date Seskt dette Spector drum. i rand Jn eseherncne ty wanes and thiemusie . eoemmster Sipe, acne Regelling ofthepop 9 bor saitieteantacse re ‘Chain war tine Srarprenone eusmeey tae Fee teatstttes 0b Dickinson be 1965. a Saracen, see orca “madness — ‘upside D man ame 2 a epnioatot cet wot feet you might $39 oe See eee RS ‘tomt m RUSES™ canis DODSON REID "EM Barrowland, Glasgow DAVID BELCHER The Jesus and Mary Chain Santo aceite barelfce now ‘fh we po Backs tothe audience, Grcasinal squrnls of fend back ‘ihe dete, ery (same ind of ne revatio” rtorurt cart ue nos Pa Bpoctor este Velves Underground (ead ng nt ext cere it they ae ive. hows, have been marked. by Saad mca Cat a sl Seale acts of autag leading Yo Clams atte AMC ae ave) omg “Yet the cit hing to emerge rn Seats States a im Rests ap oo pve pope hokcee ithe ses by te afore Pentaoed Vevas ad the ance’ rae nog one wi ‘ld Maacan say "No cles 2 reattance, mo fa Aga inthe UR Papen q 3) Refac matey cheer cae any mere | Top 40 DAYS IN THE verare Fenske ponerger ea Spomgmeten tor Sirens JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Barrowlands, Glasgow Ino the valley of the shedow of INTO the our nae been rf that his ead bo whore East Kibrice + a would Ponders would got tei ust sro Sand ns muses Clason oe giestlly predicted, ‘guid flow. ie Ho oop in the helnole ete grenands, the only Naud horrors of ore swt, spit UFIne in evo cach punter had Deen Ersyeporehed ond, with Alan McG body soetpat his protegos be weeted insisting Sythe auaience NAPPY Tike tne part of sene-niden players Let the young 904 out pie! adverts for igh adverts fo Fr Clears tok the stage ya mate ge acai) 23 minetpulated contractual”) FES aCe new the feather jackets the gob ew ne four figures onstage, caved ent through thet 20-yoer O14 wetioNe The ghost of Lou Reed Tagghed. vated. 9s some hippy once 23 seaa'ts bed youve 8'Fin 4 Hole” commenced matters and He you aot, wos aie vinta tie mo Honey. aity tunel song om oi Sd on tis occasion, you cou arty oor the words! The acta re fyecback was corsnics write abcence. Ye nto paint about the Ma chain imei completely slavish Chain ig therm, The ULOrY ‘nple ana, on recor 4, adetve simple ation of pop melod ‘Bite notse, has made ‘Srisppeating ighies ator am ope But they neve nothing | Tha fractured jagged eaginess of githa seacouks or te slvconsuing Fy need era wnleNe v The Pistols. ie syle an Fac ey wets regurgitated without vial maur oF even sn0er fo make ana lotaresting. At Barrowlands Re ee Bown tothe concluding esate howting | TRE ine endless intoning of the feed and the microphone Never Undorstand” Sobbed through the. nergy ofa wat "the Jesus pop aroun, Peta accept SaMfioch innovative inj Yen n Seotand. Edin Birp And Fuck Kak Trmivences to new iui too want © Raary Ghain have. The stan end. ‘Tom mosTON ake i useful ut all stabbed ormed wath the po 238 exren me Retort rit ta aee andal my toumetis Periormancoandcalen, Anti my Nanoys xed ReOMaEaRes pirat gots noms yi hie oat en ihe Fooms Wich nobody wouchawensens 1 “ue heidesotbenginglaces ape an gett. Ary ould uta may ats avg) Thre would bean aco thar woud be er wouldbe ots ofcae ‘havea phone the fe hat. There woud sper othe county Summer sey of sours T alse Marstarsandladsatig tsoae peietnalda li canpes ie fenton ten sand ada = riding that pipeline, eean'tfoar@ etme oc sired fosdwaves, they now ol Ficher texture, even’ thoug fg Rave 9 he messy Deas scuneis a ‘off for the Mary Chain. oe ‘THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (above) release anew single next month and set outon aten-date UK tour in September. ‘Happy When It Rains'is thetttle of the single, produced by BillPrice, andit’s out on August 3. Their second album|s almost complete and should ‘be released just prior tothe tour, which takes in Portsmouth Guildhall (September 7), ‘Nottingham Rock Citv (8), Newcastle Mayfair (8), Glasgow Barrowlands (11), Manchester IARY CHAIN THE JESUS AND “THESE LADS are from East Kilbride aren't they? We did a lot of Tutti Frutti there... the local tandoori does = very Passable ——prawn-in-the- basket. “1 really like them but I have to put them in touch with a decent engineer who'll do something about thatfeed- back. Actually this group illus ‘wates yet again Scotland's and especially Glasgow's, uni- ‘que ability t0 deal with the now. They couldn't have hap- pened if they'd been from Londen, I'm convinced of Robbie Coltrane . ‘THE JESUS ANDMARY CHAIN roloase ther fistsinaieof he yearon Monday, andthe Ssecondalbum is oxpected inate summer The singles called Api G08" and backed KiSurt City. The 12inchhas longer he side plu radley's Who Do You Mushroom (ive in Nuremberg and Bo Delay is D “BO DIDDLEY Is JESUS" "This bloody GREAT? (Figs eps nthe ir ashes aliag on the floor Sault “mode by ts ne) Athair records are Bloody GREAT! Maybe they are the ‘eure of rock rl im sure they dont ware so Be though sss! es bloody GREAT! Its smoochet! e's ‘realy realy good. ts poetry smarts Exciting. Tome whats good 's poetry | suppose. Yeah — ies GREAT! Pot another one Single of "87 next week. It's called April ‘Skies, and the 7inch| trommetice dec featur ing’ Bo. Diddley. Ts ‘and a rework of ‘Mushroom. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN ‘The National Ballroom, London EXACTLY a year ago | spent whole days floating in the grey haze of “Psychocandy”. A Mary Chain ‘melody would sing in my head, blend inevitably into another, right through their entire songbook. Their noise filled the mind, not with frenzy, but with a kind of serene oblivion. This is the new psychedelia, | thought. Tonight, however, | was not blown away. My consciousness was not blotted out. There was no rising smog of white noise to blank out and ‘conceal the ancient familiarity of the tunes, the ‘stumbling, lolloping rhythms. No, the riffs and the chord-changes were articulated clearly, in all their trite, hoary inevitability, if still tugging feebly at the heart by dint of their sheer immersion in op history, their manipulation of our reflex memories. always thought The Jesus And Mary Chain was about being frozen in an irradiation of noise, about making no physical response at all, ike the ‘group themselves. About letting the noise dance in your head. Still, the audience want to have a jig as audiences do, and despite the stridently undanceable beat, transform themselves into a bobbing, undulating unholy mass. With the exception of the sky-kissing intensity of “Inside Me” and "In A Hole”, this was mild The novelty has worn off. The first four singles ‘and the LP stand as one of the great pop essays, perfect for thet moment. But now The Jesus And Mary Chain face the problem of moving on from that unsullied ‘Suspension, tampering with it, and they're floundering. They badly need to pull off a surprise or two. Incorporate some strings or some scratching! As itis, their compression of the sweetest and the fiercest in pop history, Spector and the Velvets, seems stifled by its own at good taste, a summation. A full stop. (Of course the fans — a sad-eyed sea of black clothes, black dye, leather and hair gol ~ were satisfied, But then these people will be here in 11997, wanting the same things from rock, the same ritual ~ thin boys in black trashing a stage = reenacted. SIMON REYNOLDS MARY er happy when it rains BRIGHTEST HOPE OUT NEXT WEEK ON 7” AND 3-TRACK 12” eee ee eee L | iz THE JESUS 4 MARY CHA i i i i ba SLNDUIVH JO TIVAA 3H NAAOG ONDIVaGa SUS AND MARY - UITE CONTRARY ‘THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN. Kilburn National Ballroom HEEEEEEY! MONDAY, The Jesus And Mary Chain take the stage, grey skeletons of their former selves. Five nervous tunder-rehearsed men with an expectant audience ahead of them and no soundcheck behind them. They are weak and incompetent; the irony behind the unintentional and tedious feedback is too heavy to be humorous. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. ~ ‘Their only acceptable escape route is a rumbling and ragged decapitation of ‘Hey Bo Diddley’ which goes “Heeeceeeeeeeeeceey”, hacked up, fed through # feedback blackwash and emerging like a musical Jackson Pollock. The ‘Mary Chain are quite suddenly back in the Ambulance ‘Station, or lubricating Mr McGhee’s Living Room, screeching their way through a standard set that was acceptable then because, forthe first time in a while, a long while, some Scottish unheard-ofs were performing in an exciting and inebriated manner. It is not acceptable now because the Brothers Reid have supposedly passed their tantrum stage and are now ‘concentrating on the production of classic pop. And rightly it’s Tuesday, The boys are looking very Beatlos-n- Hamburg, rateaten and knackered but notably attractive in thir leathers. Never has 24 hours done any band so much 00d. Tonight, The Jesus And Mary Chain play their Confidence as often ae their guitars. They are once again fironting, crap tech, bold gold slutters, they ae at their fullest, their loudest and their most rigorously simplistic. They burn through their set, shorten it in the snooty manner we are accustomed to and garrotte any doubes formed the night before, James Reid isa suitably nonchal twee shitbag; he hovers, scowls and dribbles inthe way that Sil good anti-social dragonties should behave “Hoceeeey a #0 appropriate because, whereas lsially ‘The Jesus And Mary Chain rarely differ from the popular subjects and standards kept by Madonna Ciccone Pean and her il musically their roots head right back tothe CLANK! Bo Diddley first pulled from his guitar, he being the first person tomake the guitar sound ike an incensed industrial Snimal whist stil using tas an accessible pop instrument. "The Jesus And Mary Chain are a harms piece of brain candy, sweet stimulant with suitable levels of amplification. Tonight, they showed they have a better heritage than Madonna Joye Hovtton JAMES BROWN Jim JAMC ilustration by John Geary CAN THE CAN DY ‘THE JESUS ANDMARY CHAIN. Darklands (WEA) Sth September, 1987 New Musical EXB¥ese—Page 33, bertorming badlyon Top OF The” {hres epineto capture yous burtit Sndthe Mery Chainknow exactly “Though William Reid's vocals ‘anarethesame unucual depth thethoughtof your empty ded, i ane Uinta scl OCR mAh A aa) Pe PGC a Springsteenesque tile) is The Jesus & Rane Leng ecm eaes LM g uu ome ee a etry the added boon that you can actually listen PORT see eet eT history, not just like them for their cheek eta Peete ete) CORO en ice nurs and those of us who grew up on such Cre eer see ee Ree Ceara ue ea oes ee ag Peer ae acerca arta OMe ae mmc SDC man mee esti Geni ee eum n NT ee Deegan RUC aa at sree ART SGU ers eee COR aS ru These influences are, as usual, worn as Ream tae Lt or) Tasch ne met tat eee eser oma eit eee ne etre eres Cuma aV a een eo sneer ite ae ae Motley Crue happily mistiting along oertig Uc eer Cee ee erie enn ae ant ad cea hae eae Rc ie eas eet PC eee enn Mor ero nny suggestion of frustration, hardly bother to Ue eae eta ‘meant to be that way, intelligently pretty vacant, “on the edge of nothing’ eet Pees nny prac ray ‘When It Rains”, “Nine Milion Rainy Days", CO oes Cr eae t rea ec Cee eae eee er SO an Eee Reece a aero Pecan Tee eee a Sanu es rier nares ee eee Ly me eM ecco nrrat ey eae ei ee eat eee aan not Seer Meee ts attractor — with “Darklands" JMC belong eater acl) LOU rae a Ce ear ay everything else. J&MC are the state of the eer cana PCa Td cultural vandalism, eae Peon Rear ee eer ene eco aac ey Scene cs ene eae mare ees eer eure ean a ead ay Mi Recerca rer ueeuniy Poe en rete Sica cnc nti ret) Same) <4 ‘ | Barrowland DAVID BELCHER Jim: candy wouldn't melt Photo Nick White | Zhe Jesus ‘and Mary in ! | UP amid the empty joity of Bit CANNED SWEET Fears THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN London Hammersmith Palais NOBODY THROWS « nobody buys the official merchandise ether: abalance. And while the scag-acedurban dogs gouptothe frontto ‘shoulder each other and tread the plastic glasses into the floor with their heels, most of what! censee isthesoftiesat the back hundreds ofthom, shrugging andmaking hand (gestures. Theorising. And afterwards, when the dry ice hhas cleared andthe last St John's Ambulanceman has ‘gone home with hisunopened box of Elastoplast, everybody \illhave their own particular theory as to why this gig did't Quite work—too slow, too ‘ordinary, not enough anger. ‘But thought twas perfect, Nowit'sanoldidea~ and one used more by pornographers than pop musicians to take n.But ‘something delicate and pretty ‘ndincrease the urgency of ‘your desire for't by burying it Lnder mounds of armoury Axa, Barbarola, Just Like Hony “Some Candy Talking’ isjust ‘pouting mixture of Sloop. John B'and’tiving Next Door ToAlice’.’Upside Down’ is “White Horses’ ina chain-mail ‘mini-skir. Ando forth. Since ‘they wantyoute leer atthese Songsagainandagain, The Jesus And Mary Chain’s sot mustbe series ofquick flashes endcome-one Separated by thick chunks of riot-shield rejection. Anditis, becausei’s perfectly judged, andeverybody'stiilated nocd for cultural violation is catalysed andtruncheoned, timeandagain. And since nothings ever resolvedin this ‘musicitnever grates. We've reachedthe stage where itjust Slips by, andwe applaud, andit starts again, Inthishuge great dumpy old ‘named work from the’ premict Place we can hardly see the four is ofthe, mised floormop-looking performers, Endeney. The Sinthe ae whichis deal and none of loop ve the Mary Chain themsaysawordtous which Friday night the" Mary isalgoidoal Anything cae = (Gaain came” and! were sen ih Petulone, rioting. enger {heir own angular, dnaiestedias humminesse- would du on; they conconquered totaly Never ones for and retrogressive or quite sage simply daft. What they did—e pron sticker. vocalist Yim Red Brovided 8 gripping focus by passable imitation ofthe Beatlemania shrieks of young oirts, ‘A iting conclusion: they still come complete with their own ‘canned applaus ‘usicianiy slow plod through Savide their album withoutan encore ‘Allcuntlytocang bid hais in wasjustfine 4 blank and insolent way, gazing Ancdlthinkes great spout him wera, ing success, this genta, the mikestand on the ‘oor of {foodbacking oftheir own cheap, {Touching unsteadiy, he and the rotor andi sti ink there's ‘band never seemed Catly sure nobody, not Husker Du ever tas going to ha Whocomes anywhere near ‘extimost bands plan ther sen matching thoJesus And Mary afeer moves months ahead and Chain'sbestshot whichis | aze very dull asa consequence) Getting the squealing and Reid's voice frequently seemed hissingwhichcomesoutof | Ii Sole means of support, which theirtwistedampliferstebea ‘98 should be when you think geese Bisy "iafored Gigi, "whet wm Leith | Happened ext alta seat iP handed oe men Sarcenraon lodic melancholics as the Beach fakery of the rest of the current The Jesus And Mary Chain: enfants terribles get sudd: chart! Addenen’ ‘angst is still attack of maturity. the only way to be. Boys’ Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett and Joy Division. In the Mary Chain’s ant-pop We, the audience, are united ih ‘Our alienation. Death to the bo: fis Donhomic and ‘showbiz | ‘THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN | Darklands Borninahowlo Mary Chain quicky established the enfontstemnblesofindependent ro. dback anda teacup of scondol, The Jesus & smselvess the pre-eminent ck. Their debut P, Psychocondy, remainsone ofthe few essenfalock albums ofthe 80s Screaming stew of disgust and outrage so exireme that thir fist record seemediikely 0 be theirlost. Two yeorslater,the Mary Cheinhave gradvally | emerged s rock costes courtesy ofa trio ofsingles constructed wih the Myglesweana formogits. Copan @ Messina?

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