Not sure why this show had seats in the pit because NO ONE was sitting down. Photos by Debi Del Grande Setlist: A Warning Web of Deception Lebanese Blonde Take My Soul Until the Morning Liberation Front Overstand Radio R Numbers Game Illumination Is it Over La Femme P Americamacka Culture of Fear Vampires Assault [...]

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We flopped happily far up front at mainstage as lengthening shadows set the mood for My Bloody Valentine. Management was handing out earplugs at the gate and small wonder, since toward the end of “You Made Me Realise,” guitarists Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher (the latter impassive as a Xanax-bombed soccer mom) loosed a gorgeous fifteen-minute-plus feedback annihilation that was easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in decades of doting on amplified music. It was less a solo than a hideous (and hideously effective) evocation of nightmare; a compressed and aestheticized variation on the opening bombardment at the Somme, another historic din that produced few actual causalties.

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