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The Jesus and Mary Chain
November 3, 2017 @ 7:00 pm
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Fillmore Auditorium
Friday, November 3
Showtime 8:00 pm / Doors 7:00 pm
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 10:00 AM
THIS SHOW IS AGES 16+
The Stooges, the Ramones, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Shangri-Las: an eclectic range of influences for sure, and one that inspired brothers Jim and William Reid as The Jesus and Mary Chain emerged from Lanarkshire, Scotland, to become one of the most influential bands of their era.
What followed was a rush of creativity and controversy in which the power of their music – most strikingly the landmark debut ‘Psychocandy’ – was matched by the volatility of their relationship. Their journey sparked a wider influence. Not only did their success help Alan McGee’s Creation Records to flourish into the home of Britain’s most critically acclaimed bands from My Bloody Valentine to Oasis to Super Furry Animals, but early drummer Bobby Gillespie made history of his own with Primal Scream.
By 1998, however, chaos had devolved into terminal conflict and the JAMC story was over.
Then, JAMC made their big comeback in 2007 …… and while the live shows kept on coming – including a special back-to-back ‘Psychocandy’ tour – the prospect of a new album remained tantalisingly out of reach. The challenges were multiple: disagreements on where and how to record, together with Jim’s reluctance to leave a comfortable-but-quiet life with his young family to spend months abroad.
So what changed? “We started to – can you believe? – listen to each other a bit more,” he explains. “In the last couple of years, we’ve buried the hatchet to some degree, and thankfully not into each other. Most people who know us would say that we haven’t mellowed that much. I think it was to do with the fact, dare I say it, that wisdom comes with age. Let’s live and let live, and let’s take each other’s opinions into account. The thing that surprised both me and William was that there wasn’t much animosity in between us in the studio.”
Work on the album, subsequently titled ‘Damage and Joy’ (a reference to the English translation of schadenfreude), began in September 2015, with producer Youth also contributing bass and diplomacy to proceedings during sessions in London, Dublin and Granada, Spain. It was a process, notes Jim nonchalantly, “that didn’t feel as weird as you might expect.”
News of the album broke to the world at large via Alan McGee – now again their manager – in November 2016 and the lead track ‘Amputation’ emerged just a few weeks later. Its waves of distorted guitar flow under Jim’s insouciant vocal delivery collide to create a hypnotic address to his feelings of “being edited out of the whole music business and wondering what had gone wrong. We didn’t seem to fit in anywhere and I felt like a rock ‘n’ roll amputation.”
Elsewhere, ‘Damage and Joy’ expertly judges that precarious balancing act of needing to both grow and to remain true to the spirit that captured people’s imagination the first time around. William’s ‘All Things Must Pass’ is a refined re-energised version of the song that previously appeared on ‘Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain’ in which tales of hedonistic excess simultaneously feel like both a cry for help and an extension of their sardonic black humour.
Ultimately, the triumph of ‘Damage and Joy’ is one in which its sonics transcend its story. “The interesting thing about this record is what comes out of the speakers. To make a good record is an achievement if you’re twenty-two, but to do it in your fifties, the way we are, I think is a minor miracle.”
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 10:00 AM
at the Fillmore Auditorium Box Office, online at http://www.ticketmaster.com or call 800-745-3000.
Tickets are $34.75 GA ADV and $37.00 GA DOS plus applicable service charges.
THIS SHOW IS AGES 16+
Door time: 7:00 pm / Show time: 8:00 pm You must be 16 years old or older with a valid ID to enter the Fillmore Auditorium. Valid ID must be government issued and contain your picture and birth date. There is no entry for anyone under 16 years old!! THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM IS A GENERAL ADMISSION VENUE
Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Fri, 25 Aug 2017 at 10:00 AM
Live Nation / Radio Presale : Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 10:00 AM
Live Nation Mobile App Presale : Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 10:00 AM