My Bloody Valentine is a shoegaze band formed in late 1983 in Dublin, Ireland. The band's best known lineup is
Kevin Shields (vocals, guitar), Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar), Debbie Googe (bass) and Colm O'Ciosoig (drums). In 1991, the band released their second full length album "Loveless", later declared one of the finest albums of the 1990s. The band struggled to record a follow up album and split in 1997. The band reunited in 2007 and performed several concerts the following year.
The band's key member is guitarist/singer/composer
Kevin Shields , a reclusive perfectionist and radically inventive guitarist/engineer.
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The band's other original member is drummer/studio maven Colm O'Ciosoig; during their heyday MBV also included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe. Their band shares its name with a low-budget Canadian slasher film.
MBV influences include The Velvet Underground , Sonic Youth , Cocteau Twins , late-1970s Wire , The Jesus & Mary Chain , and independent artists such as the Pastels . Kevin Shields has also named The Beach Boys as a personal influence.
After leaving Creation Records in 1992 and signing with Island Records, the band fell into a creative black hole. Rumors spread among their fans of albums being recorded and then shelved. Debbie Googe left the band to form Snowpony ; she had not played bass on their recordings since You Made Me Realise. Colm O'Ciosoig eventually left and formed a band with Hope Sandoval, formerly of Mazzy Star , called Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions .
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