My Bloody Valentine To Reunite for Coachella 2008?

Rumors of a My Bloody Valentine reunion have been knocking around for ages. But aside from Kevin Shields' Lost in Translation soundtrack, there's been little reason -- aside from the band's new MySpace page -- for fans to believe them. Having heard this one before, I'll believe it when I see/hear it.

The Daily Swarm cites US- and UK-based sources who say the band will reunite to play next year's Coachella, following that up with a world tour and two full-length albums of previously-unreleased and newly-recorded material:

But now some tantalizing hints have emerged in the past few weeksthat suggest the band is finally gearing up for a return to action. InJuly, several fans reported encounters with Shields at Primal Screamand Dinosaur Jr. shows in England, Ireland, and Russia, each returningwith the same story: that Shields very matter-of-factly spoke of MyBloody Valentine in the very present tense. The fans reported Shieldssaid that two new My Bloody Valentine releases are in the works – ananthology of unreleased 90s material and an album of brand new studiorecordings – along with the imminent release of remastered versions ofthe band’s original studio work.

(Apologies to the uninterested, it's just that I'm still utterly convinced of this band's excellence.)

[Shields] is also reported as saying, onseveral different occasions, that a 2008 tour is in the works that willfeature the band’s original lineup. (Read some of the reports here, here, and here.) Furthermore, in an interview published earlier this year in Magnet
magazine, Shields was adamant about the band’s return: “We are 100%
going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die orsomething,” he said.

Equally intriguing is the appearance of a new official My Bloody Valentine MySpace page earlier this month, which also links to mybloodyvalentine.co.uk,
a website that now has just a generic holding page. In an email withThe Daily Swarm, Kevin Shields' manager, Vinita Joshi, confirmed thatthe MySpace page is indeed officially affiliated with the band, andthat Debbie Googe, the group’s bass player, is actively working oncreating the My Bloody Valentine website.

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