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The Jesus and Mary Chain (formed in 1983) are an alternative rock band, from East Kilbride in Scotland. The band is mostly orientated around the brothers Jim and William Reid.

They became well known in their early days as a duo for the violence that started at their live shows and their short sets.

The brothers wanted to start a band after being inspired from groups such as the "Sex Pistols" and in the early 1980's they finally formed their own.

In 1985 the group played a gig at the North London Polytechnic in front of one of their largest crowds to date. This was a big example of the violence that followed their performances, after making the audience wait for over an hour and playing for less than 20 minutes, members of the crowd starting smashing up equipment on the stage.

The brothers went on to buy their own recording studio in 1991 in London, where they made their first new studio single "Reverence", giving them their first biggest hit single in five years.

In 2006 the band decided to split after a lot of tension between the brothers. After that William Reid went solo and released his first EP.

But in 2007 the group confirmed their reunion at a performance for Coachella. And then in 2012 the band went back on tour throughout North America.

For the groups 30th anniversary it was revealed that a discography vinyl box set would be released for them. And in March 2014 the band signed to Alan McGee for the second time.

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There are murmurs of expectation in the air around the streets just yards from the Troxy. It's Psychocandy. Yes, Psychocandy. The album that filled so many student bedrooms with its beautifully dripping mix of sweetness and aggression. The band who, under the gaze of Alan McGee, created such a rumpus with an attitude that kicked and punched the 80's out of its self important fug. For me, they were a huge influence at the time and for years to come. They still are. And, on tonight's performance, they are at a level of perfection that's difficult to match. But first it's the Amazing Snakeheads. I saw them headlining at the Electric Ballroom a few weeks ago. It's going to be too easy to list their influences. It's enough to say that they play some of the finest new rock n roll around. It's snarling, bluesy, raw, coiled and aggressive. Their followers adore them with an intense passion and they repay them with some slicing riffs and super tight rhythm section and a frontman lesson in screaming intensity from Dale Barclay. I love him. One small issue is that I do prefer them in a smaller venue, though. You need to feel the intensity and that's what the venue loses for them. But that's just me. Small venues. So the anticipation rises. Again. And then it's time. They're back. The band meander on with no fuss. William Reid, still with his wonderfully chaotic fuzz top, hooks his Gibson over his shoulder and gives us a downstroke. Jim Reid, I in his laid back, slightly shy drawl, tells the crowd that it would be presumptuous for them to assume that the crowd would want them back for an encore, so they're gonna do it first. And so it's April Skies. For me, it's full of nostalgia. The first song after Psychocandy and I heard it in the Hacienda on my birthday in 87. And tonight, the tears are there. It's beautiful. It's crystal clear and it's just a perfect opener. Head On, similarly is such a wonderfully executed song. Some Candytalking glistens and shimmers with such beauty. Upside Down is a bleeding fuzz of distortion and 60's melodies, and then it's Psychocandy the song to finally knifedge the crowd into a glimmer of what they are about to receive. They play Psychocandy in order. No frills. From the opening drumbeat and cascading distortion of Just Like Honey, the main set opens. William is hunched over his guitar, side on to the crowd and close to his Peavey carving out chord after beautiful chord of controlled sonic chaos and distorted melody. He creates such beauty with such ease. Jim redefined the nonchalance and cool of the frontman. But he also delivered in a way that laid bare his shyness and nerves at being the one who got the attention. Why me, almost? He still has that. The Mary Chain always played with a swagger. Still do. A beautiful swagger which was made even more beautiful by Jim's shyness upfront. I love his vocals but if there's one complaint, they are too low in the mix. But I can sing a long anyway so I'm not going to lose much sleep over it. The lightshow is a visual maelstrom with intensely rapid strobing all the way. It's about the Mary Chain tonight. And it's a like an avalanche. A bleeding avalanche of beauty delivered with that nonchalance and shyness that defined the band. But it's an avalanche in which you take solace. It's comforting. Psychocandy defined an era. A sound that defined how bands like My Bloody Valentine used aural assault to provide their fans with salvation. Without the Mary Chain, music would have had a hugely different soul. The Mary Chain are majestic tonight.

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On Friday, May 1st, 2015, I attended the Jesus and Mary Chain 30th Anniversary of Psychocandy concert at The Phoenix Concert Theater in Toronto, Ontario. The sound was crystal clear and no matter where you stood, you were never more than 100 feet from Jim Reid. The Phoenix is one of the best venues to see live bands in the city.

I met two men from Montreal who were seeing JMC for the third time. The first time they saw them was decades ago and the crowd was full of leather and metal clad punkers thrashing about. Jesus and Mary Chain played for about 5 minutes before walking off the stage. They saw them again last year, I believe, at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal. That time, the event organizers told them that they had to play 20 minutes at least in order to get paid. So Jim, William, and the band played for about 18 minutes and then set down the instruments, let the sound fade and then walked off the stage at the 20 minute mark. I knew that Jesus and Mary Chain hate playing live so this did not come as a huge shock. I was just hoping they would play at least that long this time as it would likely be the last tour they ever do and my last chance to see them.

I have been a fan of Jesus and Mary Chain since 1986 when I was introduced to them by my punk friend in grade 10. I followed them from then on and had all their cassette tapes (so I could listen in my walkman). Seeing them was on my list of bands I had to pay homage to live for a long time. They are who set me on the path to the goth and alternative lifestyles I enjoy and participate in to this day.

Jesus and Mary Chain played two sets at The Phoenix and performed for a welcoming and appreciative audience for about 40 minutes, which from what I heard must be a record!! The first set consisted of music from Automatic and Darklands and the second was the Psychocandy album in its entirety. I claimed a spot in the fourth row for the first half of the show, all the while scoping out a spot in front because that is where I like to be. I was 15 feet from Jim and William Reid at all times and it was amazing! Eventually, I squirmed may way in to second row just off center and was a mere 5 feet from Jim Reid and the band. I had a blast dancing, singing with the crowd, celebrating, and paying homage to the band that started it all for me.

We traveled from Prescott, AZ to Denver, CO to see the boys at the intimate Paramount Theater and had fine seats just a few rows back from the stage. I had not seen them since they played in Los Angeles a few years ago (at the Wiltern, I believe). That L.A. concert was phenomenal with superb acoustics and lot's of that trademark J&MC distortion and feedback, which enhanced the energy and impact and made for most memorable evening. I have to admit, the crowd energy was mostly there at The Paramount on October 23, but I didn't think the acoustics were very good and both Reid brothers seemed a lot more subdued - perhaps they are just a bit bored these days or age is catching up to them after so many years. Jim's vocals were mostly fine and especially soulful on "Darklands", but he seemed (and looked like) more of a proper Scottish businessman than I expected. And William also seemed a bit more laid-back as well, and, as mentioned, I would have appreciated a bit more feedback and guitar distortion from him where he played from mostly towards the back of the stage . The final song they played during the encore, "Reverence" was their best on this evening - full of passion and drive and at least left me mostly satisfied. I was glad to see them again and certainly hope to again; but a more studio-like high voltage pace would be welcome. Overall, I'd give this show a "C+" or maybe a"B", as opposed to that L.A. show a few years ago which was definitely an "A". But glad your're back, boys! Cheers and all the best for your future, Jim and William.

While studying at LCP I went to the nearby Ambulance Station to see hotly tipped Scottish noise merchants Jesus and Mary Chain. It was my Free Trade Hall experience, 23 minutes of pure unbridled noise and attitude. As a result, I went to see JaMC another 7 times in the following 15 years. Through their Krautrock-y Automatic period, and their Stones-ey and Dethrone-sy period. They never disappointed. So I was disappointed by the 16 year layoff that followed their disappointing 1998 album Munki.

in 2007, I was delighted to hear they were (like everyone else) reforming, and I went to the Roundhouse to see one of the most disappointing gigs of my life. As a result, I didn't bother getting tickets for the late 2014 concerts. But the reviews were uniformly excellent, so I went to see their early 2015 Psychocandy anniversary concert. All I can say is that they are back - slightly friendlier and less attitude than when they were young, but no less excellent. 90 minutes of searing, feedback drenched rock and roll. Awesome.

I've bought a ticket now for Levitation in Austin in May. JaMC and Primal Scream on the same bill, reckon Bobby will guest on a couple of tracks?

Getting to see The Jesus and Mary Chain perform live recently was such an incredible experience. Although some of the controversy that they were met with when they first came out has certainly died down and seems a little tamer in this day and age, I think that their passion for performing still comes through on stage crystal clear.

Jim and William Reid's lyrics are just as incredible as they were before the band broke up, and The Jesus and Mary Chain made sure to play newer material as well as some of their old hits when performing at the Festival Cultura Inglesa when in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Their sound did seem a little out of place with some of the flashing strobes and fog, at least on some of their mellower songs, but it didn't dampen the experience of getting to see The Jesus and Mary Chain performing in the flesh at all.

I was especially grateful that they played two of my favorite songs, "Happy When it Rains" and, of course, "Just Like Honey." Jim Reid's vocals were every bit as powerful live as they were when I first heard the band back in the late 1980s, and it was great to get to see him and hear him putting his lyrics to life on stage.

Die Reid Brüder aus dem letzten Loch Schottlands waren Mitte der 80er auf der Insel der "hottest shit". Und das obwohl sie eigentlich weder gut Gitarre spielen, noch richtig singen konnten. Dafür waren sie (Ray Ban bebrillt) unheimlich cool. Keiner ließ den Hass gegeneinander und gegen den Rest der Welt so offensichtlich raushängen.

30 Jahre später gaben sie am 20. April den Auftakt zu einer kurzen Deutschlandtournee in der Centralstation Darmstadt. Darmstadt? Das letzte Loch Deutschlands? Na klar, wo auch sonst!

Mittlerweile ohne Brillen aber immer noch cool, ist der Auftritt etwas milder geworden als die oft in einer Massenschlägerei endenden frühen Auftritte. Auch wenn die Musik heute nicht mehr denselben Stellenwert wie damals hat, haben die Brüder gezeigt, dass sie nicht nur die alten Hits drauf haben, sondern durchaus in der Lage sind noch gutes neues Material zu liefern.

Die Reid Brüder boten in der vollen aber nicht ausverkauften (Darmstadt!) Centralstation ein Gesamtkunstwerk dar, welches sicher nicht nur alte Fans (dafür war der Altersdurchschnitt des Publikums zu gering) begeistert hat.

Opening with an opener from their most recent album, JAMC proved that they weren't exclusively tourists in their own past. A great set with songs spanning their entire discography, excluding Stoned and Dethroned and Munki. Each instrument occupied its own niche and were discernable, despite the shrill and often ear-piercing walls of sound that steamrolled out of the speakers. One example was during the performance of Reverence, during the droning E chord englufed with layers of reverb, modulation effects and distortion. Jim Reid's repetition of the line "I wanna die" was a clear as an April Sky (yes I also cringed at my own pun).The encore of course many classics from their debut, "Taste of Cindy", "You Trip Me Up" and one of my personal favourites, "The Living End". Jim was also overly critical of his vocal performance of "Cherry Came Too", which I and the audience in general thought was as good and melodic as it had ever sounded.

I would definitely recommend ear protection if you are prone to tinnitus; a great gig and band to see live especially if you're a noise pop/ shoegaze enthusiast :)

Once upon a time (1984), in a land far away (Plymouth) I saw a group of lads from East Kilbride play for twenty noisy, eventful minutes. Not quite so long ago (1992) they were part of a quartet of bands who played in what is probably the greatest gig night I've ever seen. They headlined a night with Blur (unexpectedly excellent), dinosaur Jnr and MBV. They were outstanding, in pretty amazing company. So, I went on Wednesday night with pretty high expectations. Great to see they can still rock with the best of them (if it wasn't for the pixies I'd say they were the best bunch ever to strap on an electric guitar...) and just as good to see those big strobes flashing behind them, as if they worked out what worked a long time ago, and have no need to change. The noise is amazing, the lyrics dark and beautiful, and the enthusiasm still as keen as ever. go and see them if you getr a chance.....

Saw JAMC at the Warfield in May 2015 on the Psychocandy tour - I also saw them in DC in Dec 1985 when they played the 9:30 club. At that time all the material they had was the Psychocandy songs. So for me, it was also a 30 year anniversary. Psychocandy is one of my favorite albums. So I was excited.

The sold-out Warfield shows (2700) were amazing, every song they played I considered a hit single, and the group played them immaculately. The tracks were a tad different than found on the album, but this is not a bad thing, they just enhanced the songs - more feedback layers, nice deep bass with Jim’s vocals ( I could understand every word he sung) made this one of the best shows I have ever seen. Don’t miss out – I think they are touring the East Coast in September and October 2015. On the West Coast, they sold out every venue, so buy your tickets early.

The show was, in a word, inspirational. First, the performance was incredible. The venue was the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. It's a small, fairly intimate venue, and sadly the show was not nearly sold out. It would have been the perfect opportunity for the band to just "phone it in"; instead, like consummate professionals, they brought the noise. The set was tight and focused, and the distortion-and-feedback buttressed sonic wall still demonstrates (30 years later) why this band laid the groundwork for the shoegaze genre. Second, I'm in my early 50s, so the Reid brothers are about my age; I listened to their debut album, Psychocandy, in 1985 when I was just starting college. So to see these two guys still on stage and still making such powerful music, with such fidelity to the roots of their original sound, almost made me weep with appreciation.

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Canadian music week 2015 festival in toronto, canada on fri, 01 may 2015.

Brilliant, fierce, intense and mindblowing. A fitting tribute to a truly seminal and timeless album.

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“We’re still making records because we think we’re the best band in the world”: The Jesus and Mary Chain may not have destroyed the music industry as they had hoped, but they gave it a damn good shot

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Every morning before entering Mogwai ’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow to work on the new Jesus And Mary Chain album, Jim Reid would head out on two-hour walk around the city. A meandering amble is one of the singer’s favourite things to do when his band are on tour, aimlessly wandering around a new town, taking in the sights, getting lost. It was the same but different in Glasgow, a location Reid knows inside out having grown up eight miles away in East Kilbride, where Jim and his brother William formed the Jesus And Mary Chain in 1983. On some occasions Reid would look around and not know where he was. Other times, if he’d fallen off the wagon, he’d settle into a local boozer for a liquid breakfast. When he was sober, he'd find himself spending time at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, a place he hadn’t been to since the '80s. All around him was memories, the shards of four decades of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most potent and visceral forces.

Reid isn’t sure if being back on home turf had an effect on the new record by The Jesus And Mary Chain but mulling it over down the phone from his home in Devon, he concedes that maybe it did. For starters, it’s called Glasgow Eyes . “My immediate reaction would be that it could’ve been recorded anywhere but maybe that walk makes the difference,” he says. “Maybe it makes you feel a little bit more in a Glasgow frame of mind. It probably does seep in in ways that I don’t realise.”

Similarly, Reid says, him and William tried not to think about the fact the band’s 40th anniversary was approaching as they made their eighth album but that also must have worked its way in. Those four decades have taken in turmoil, chaos and vicious rows between the brothers but The Jesus And Mary Chain are still standing. There is a sense of celebration at the heart of Glasgow Eyes , not the sort of celebration that would ever raise a smile - this is The Jesus And Mary Chain, after all - but more a feeling of ebullient defiance that they’re still doing it. “I’m proud of the fact we’ve been here for 40 years but, making a record, it should have nothing to do with it,” reckons Reid. “To us, it’s just another Mary Chain record but that in itself is something to celebrate.”

As Reid well knows, there was a time when the idea of “just another Mary Chain record” was a very unlikely scenario. The band had emerged in the '80s with a sound that melded Phil Spector-ish 60s pop with squalling feedback and chainsaw guitars, a tug-of-war between soothing melodicism and barbed sonics that was perfectly captured on their game-changing 1985 debut Psychocandy . It was a pioneering form of rock music that would become a springboard for shoegazing and experimental noise-pop, inspiring a wave of bands to mix hooks with ear-shredding effects. Their sound was built on tension until the tension got too much – by the time of 1998’s sixth album Munki , the Reid brothers couldn’t bear to be in the studio together and recorded their parts separately. They split up later that year: more on that later. They patched things up and reunited in 2007, though, with a seventh studio album, Damage And Joy , following in 2017. Glasgow Eyes , which homes in on their love of Suicide and Can and brings out the more electronic and synth-y side of their sound, shows they have lost none of their devotion to the cause. Reid says they are still doing it for the right reasons.

“We’re still making records because we think we’re the best band in the world,” he declares. “Now, loads of people may disagree with that but that’s the way we are going into this thing – we’re better than anybody else, we believe that whole-heartedly and I think it comes across in the music. Whether you agree with that statement or not, I think you can hear that we at least believe it.”

The Reid brothers possessed that self-belief from the very beginning. The reason they started the band in the first place, Reid recalls, was because they thought music in the 80s was so bad they were compelled to fix it. 

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“The 80s was particularly hateful,” he states. “We used to always have the conversation where it would be like, ‘Fuck , we’re so unlucky that this is our decade, we could’ve got the '60s or the fucking '70s but what do we get, the fucking '80s!’ We were so disgusted with it that we thought, ‘Let’s change it, the 80s doesn’t have to be all bad, let’s go and make a little corner of it pretty good’. To us, the music coming out of the radio was diseased and we wanted to inject penicillin into that radio and cure the disease.” When he looks back at their career, Reid thinks The Jesus And Mary Chain did make a difference but fell short of their world-conquering aims. “We actually did think we were going to completely change the music scene,” he says. “We had massive ambition and we thought we were going to completely destroy all of what needed tearing down. In the end, we did cause a bit of a shake-up but we were hopelessly naïve about the scale of the problem.”

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Whilst the new album is powered with a sense of forward-thinking urgency, there is some looking back. Propulsive lead single Jamcod revisits one of the most harrowing nights in the band’s history - when the two brothers ended up in a fight so bad after a 1998 show at Los Angeles venue the House Of Blues that it brought an end to the first incarnation of the group. “That night has been raked over so many times and everyone always wants to know about it,” states Reid, “but I’ve talked about it so much that I just thought I should write it down, try and get it across in a way that simple language doesn’t, how it actually felt at that time. It was a terribly traumatic experience, it wasn’t just one night, it was over a period of two or three nights, a prolonged explosion and the boom was at the House Of Blues, that’s when the actual gunpowder went off. It was horrible but memorable all at the same time.” After the band split up, Reid says he thought of nothing other than that fateful night for months to come. “I tried to make sense of it and make sense of what happened,” he recounts. “I don’t know if I really have done but maybe I started to at least realise that the band didn’t need to break up then. I also started to realise that at the time I thought it was all his fault but when I reviewed a lot of the arguments and occurrences, I started to realise that I was a complete arse as well, so I think we each gave as good as we got… or as bad as we got.” Not only has Reid never seen another band who argued with such feistiness as he and his brother did, he’s never witnessed another set of humans go at it so ferociously. “Seriously, we used to argue and we could clear a room,” he laughs. “There would be a room of two dozen people who would all have to leave because it was so uncomfortable the way that we used to scream at each other. People would be like, ‘Oh god, I don’t know if I should be witnessing this’. That was the way it was.” These days, he says, both he and his brother have learned that there’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed. “We argue now and we scream at each other but we know that the things that you say that are unsayable should stay unsaid, and they didn’t stay unsaid back then. We said horrible things to each other and it left festering wounds for years afterwards. The wounds have healed so why open up new ones?” Instead, they have a legacy to celebrate. As well as the new record, there will also be an autobiography released this year. You only have to look at the breadth of artists who’ve covered their songs to see how influential they are – Pixies , Sandi Shaw, Fontaines D.C., Richard Hawley and, um, David Hasselhoff have all had a crack at reworking tracks from their catalogue. “Hasselhoff was quite funny, I thought that was amusing,” Reid says. “We had a bit of chuckle. It's good when people do covers, it shows we’re getting through to people.” They might not have changed the world quite in the way that they set out to but they remain an exhilarating band still pushing things forward. They wanted to remedy music’s ills but it’s no quick fix. The Jesus And Mary Chain’s intoxicating shake-up continues.

Glasgow Eyes by The Jesus And Mary Chain is out now on Fuzz Club. The band are currently on tour in the UK, and will launch their European tour on April 2 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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SPILL NEWS: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN LAUNCH NORTH AMERICAN FALL TOUR

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN LAUNCH NORTH AMERICAN FALL TOUR

After a nineteen-year absence from recording, The Jesus And Mary Chain returned with Damage And Joy  which hit the Top 20 and immediately became their highest charting album since Stoned & Dethroned  back in 1994. The phenomenal reaction has been as if they’ve never been away: they’ve toured the UK and the US,

The Jesus And Mary Chain continue their touring in support of Damage And Joy with a fresh blast of touring with shows in the USA and Canada.

OCTOBER 2017 19TH – USA – SAN FRANCISCO CA – THE FILLMORE 20TH – USA – LOS ANGELES CA – CLOAK & DAGGER FESTIVAL AT THE GLOBE THEATER 22ND – USA – SACREMENTO CA – ACE OF SPADES 24TH – USA – EUGENE OR – MACDONALD THEATER 25TH – USA – PORTLAND OR – THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM 26TH – USA – SPOKANE WA – THE BING CROSBY THEATER 28TH – CANADA – CALGARY AB – MACEWAN BALLROOM 29TH – CANADA – EDMONTON AB – JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 31ST – USA – MISSOULA MT – THE WILMA

NOVEMBER 2017 2ND – USA – SALT LAKE CITY UT – THE COMPLEX GRAND 3RD – USA – DENVER CO – THE FILLMORE 5TH – USA – DALLAS TX – THE BOMB FACTORY 7TH – USA – AUSTIN TX – EMO’S 8TH – USA – HOUSTON TX – WHITE OAK MUSIC HALL 10TH – USA – MEMPHIS TN – THE NEW DAISY THEATRE 11TH – USA – LOUISVILLE KY – HEADLINERS 12TH – USA – ATLANTA GA – THE VARIETY 14TH – USA – BALTIMORE MD – RAM’S HEAD LIVE 15TH – USA – BOSTON MA – PARADISE 16TH – USA – ASBURY PARK NJ – THE STONE PONY 17TH – USA – NY NY – PLAYSTATION THEATER

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The Jesus and Mary Chain Expand Tour

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Earlier this year, the Jesus and Mary Chain released their first album in 18 years, Damage and Joy . The Scottish group began touring in support of the LP in Europe last year , extending the trek into North America this past spring. Today, they’ve announced new North American fall shows. Their dates begin this Friday. You can check out all the tour dates here . The Jesus and Mary Chain were recently named subjects in an upcoming documentary by Scottish director Grant McPhee called Teenager Superstars alongside ‘80s Glasgow bands Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, and Primal Scream.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain , one of the most influential bands of their generation, will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2024 with the release of a new album, 'Glasgow Eyes', the first single from which, 'jamcod', is already available. The Reid brothers will continue the celebrations with a tour that will bring them to the Ancienne Belgique on Tuesday 23 April. An unmissable event! The Jesus and Mary Chain formed in 1984 and released 'Psychocandy' a year later, a debut album that simply changed the course of music history with its hypnotic melodies punctuated by haunting and disconcerting dark lyrics. With their screaming Velvet Underground guitars, trashy attitude and bad-boy looks, they're killing it with their over-the-top live performances. Scheduled for release on 8 March, 'Glasgow Eyes' follows 2017's Damage and Joy, the band's first studio album since they reformed in 2007 after a nine-year absence. Jim and William Reid recorded their new album at Castle Doom, Mogwai's Glasgow studio, with the same creative process but also with a calmer relationship than at the start of their career. 2024 promises to be an exceptional year for fans of The Jesus and Mary Chain: the brothers will also unveil an autobiography, a documentary and a world tour starting in March.

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One of the most influential bands of their generation and beyond, The Jesus and Mary Chain mark their 40th anniversary in 2024 with a new album, Glasgow Eyes . To be released on March 8 th by Fuzz Club, this is the band’s first studio album since Damage And J oy (2017). 2024 promises to be a bumper year for devotees of the Reids: the brothers will also unveil their autobiography, a documentary, and a world tour starting in March.

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