Indie music fans across the planet are collectively clutching their cardigans amid new suggestions that seminal UK shoegaze act My Bloody Valentine will return to the live arena.
'The Daily Swarm' website reports that the band are close to signing a deal which will see them perform at next year's Coachella festival in California. The cashed-up festival has a history of waking sleeping rock giants, with this year's event marking the return of Rage Against The Machine. And the 2004 festival featured a reunited Pixies, whose subsequent touring has proven highly lucrative.Kevin Shields, songwriter for the famously dormant four-piece, confirmed in January that the band were not yet finished. He told 'Magnet' magazine at the time, "We are 100% going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something. I'd feel really bad if I didn't make another record. Like, shit, people only got the first two chapters, but the last bit is the best bit. It's just that it's taken me such an oddly long time for that to happen."
He continued, "A lot of people say the reason My Bloody Valentine didn't make another record is because we couldn't. That's mostly true, but not because we couldn't make another record, but because I never could be bothered to make another record unless I was really excited by it. And just by fate or whatever, that never happened. I'm quite optimistic about the future, even though experience has taught me that I'm probably just delusional."
