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Reviews: Royal Festival Hall

A couple of reviews from the Royal Festival Hall in London on June 22:

Another London show - 7th September 2007

Ticketweb and a handful of other online ticket sites have started selling tickets for the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Brixton Academy, London, on 7th September 2007.

Labels: brixton-academy, jamc, london

Thanks to Psychocandy85, the setlist for the Meltdown Festival show was:

Never Understand
Head On
Far Gone and Out
Catchfire
Sidewalking
Snakedriver
Dead End Kids (originally a Freeheat/Jim Reid song)
Happy When It Rains
Some Candy Talking
Between Planets
Blues From a Gun
Cracking Up
All Things Must Pass (a new song first played live in April 2007)
Teenage Lust
Just Like Honey (with Liela Moss from The Duke Spirit)

Encore:
Vegetable Man
You Trip Me Up
Reverence

Other people in the audience included Linda Reid (Sister Vanilla), Kevin Shields, and Green Wing's Julian Rhind Tutt.
Lots of photos from On The Wire.

Labels: gig, jamc, julian-rhind-tutt, kevin-shields, linda-reid, meltdown-festival, set-list

Meltdown: first installment

So far the news from London's Meltdown Festival show on Friday June 22 seems to be:

The setlist was similar to the recent New York shows with the addition of Dead End Kids (a song that was originally played by Freeheat and then by Jim Reid at his solo gigs).
People in the audience included Jarvis Cocker and ex-JAMC members Bobby Gillespie and Douglas Hart.
Mark Reed has posted a review and some photos at the Final Word.
Contrary to Mark Reed's review (above), other reports are that it was Liela Moss from The Duke Spirit who provided guest vocals on Just Like Honey.
Lots of photos from Trev.

Labels: bobby-gillespie, douglas-hart, gig, jamc, jarvis-cocker, liela-moss, live, meltdown-festival, review

Article: Moore confessions: tales from Jim Reid's barber shop

Moore confessions: tales from Jim Reid's barber shop - A follow-up hair-cut related article from John Moore [Guardian Unlimited]

Labels: article, jim-reid, john-moore

Article: A Second Coming

A Second Coming - A heart-warming interview of Jim and William by former JAMC bandmate, John Moore [Guardian Unlimited].

Labels: article, interview, jim-reid, john-moore, william-reid

The Pastels at Meltdown

The Pastels have been announced as support for the Jesus and Mary Chain on June 22, 2007, at Jarvis Cocker's curated Meltdown Festival in London, UK.

Labels: meltdown-festival, support, the-pastels

Article: Back in the chain gang

Back in the chain gang - a couple of brief quotes from Jim Reid, and considerations from the journalist, re: the reformation [scotsman.com].

Labels: article, jim-reid

JAMC to play Oslo, Norway

Øyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway, has announced that the Jesus and Mary Chain are playing on August 10, 2007 and that it will be their only Scandinavian gig this summer.

The date is not yet displayed on the JAMC myspace page.

(thanks to DirtyDeluxe on SCT message board)

Labels: gig, jamc, norway, oslo

Video: May 21 @ Webster Hall, New York

Rob Dobbs has uploaded videos from the Monday May 21, 2007, Webster Hall show in New York. A list of youtube links to the songs can be found here.

Labels: gig, jamc, live, new-york, video

Magazine articles

Uncut July (with the Rolling Stones on the cover) has a two page interview with Jim and William Reid that took place the day after playing at the Coachella Festival.
the current US Rolling Stone (with Amy Winehouse on the cover) has a feature.
Spin.com review of the May 21 Webster Hall NY show with comments by Sune Rose Wagner (the Raveonettes) and Michael Jurin (stellastarr*)

Labels: article, interview, jamc, jim-reid, magazine, review, william-reid