"It's not going to sound like Loveless where it's like looking into another world," he said "More like Isn't Anything, where it seems to be of this world, but with one foot in another world. The songs on Loveless had more in common with folk-blues music to me, just a verse and an instrumental passage, circular. The new songs are more... sometimes it's just that, and sometimes it's songs that have one verse, then a musical part, then something that's totally different. More elongated... and more raw. A lot of the guitars are very aggressive."

Another critical error is in the "1/2 inch analogue tape" remaster: there is an ugly digital transfer glitch approximately 2:46 into "What You Want", during the "I do, I do..." bit. It's prominent and ugly, audible (yuck! through headphones) and visible in a spectral view. This error was also present in the 2008 leak of the analogue tape variant, so Kevin/Sony has had (at least) 4 years to fix this.

ATP Concerts are very proud to present my bloody valentine who will return to play in Summer 2008 across the UK. The band will take to three cities London, Manchester and Glasgow.

The following three dates have been announced:

Friday 20th June – London – The Roundhouse
Saturday 28th June – Manchester - Apollo
Wednesday 2nd July – Glasgow - Barrowland

London - The Roundhouse
A: Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
T: 0870 389 1846
W: www.roundhouse.org.uk
£25 + booking fee

Manchester Apollo
A: Stockport Road Manchester, Lancashire, Manchester, M12 6AP
T: 0870 401 8000
W: www.carling.com/music/venue/manchester_apollo.html
£22.50 + booking fee

Glasgow Barrowland
A: Barrowland Ballroom, 244 Gallowgate, Glasgow, G4 OTS
T: 0141 552 4601
W: www.glasgow-barrowland.com
£22.50 + booking fee

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is one of the most revered albums of the 1990s. Highly influential, shrouded in mystery, it has - so far - been an impossible album to follow up for its chief creator, Kevin Shields. Here, Mike McGonigal pieces together the often painful process behind the writing and recording of Loveless, and tries to separate fact from fiction in a story that involves (among other things) chinchillas, chicken-eating contests, countless engineers, and sleep deprivation. The result - with the help of Kevin Shields and the rest of MBV - is a fitting tribute to this remarkable record.

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. I do feel that I will make another great record. We are 100 percent 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. How long will that take to transpire into an actual physical record? I don't know.

"It makes me want to release something myself to let people know what I've been doing at home. I've never stopped writing over the years. I'm going to try to put out a short album as soon as possible."

Perhaps even better news for My Bloody Valentine fans is that a reunion hasn't been ruled out.

"I've only just gotten free and clear of my previous label deals that had me tied up with Warner and Island/Universal. This might sound strange, but to get out of it I had to leave My Bloody Valentine. So, technically, Belinda (Butcher) is still in the band, but no one other than me can use the name.

"We've always intended to make another My Bloody Valentine record together; we just needed the right spirit, and we didn't have it in us after Loveless. There's a whole aspect of My Bloody Valentine that we never really had a chance to explore."

The remaining five unfinished songs from the sessions were shelved indefinitely as the band proceeded to work on Loveless -- and with the group's breakup soon after, "indefinitely" seemed to turn into "forever" for those missing tunes. Now that could all change. The box set, which is tentatively due out this winter, is said to contain the long-awaited full version of My Bloody Valentine's Glider album, fleshed out by the new recordings. There is, however, no word yet as to what else the box set might contain, or even what label may decide to release it.