Kevin Shields Interview with Double J, 2021

[@jmckenzie962]

I deeply enjoyed this. People like to think of Kevin as this mystical guitar genius who lives in some sort of bat cave, but really this interview shows that he's a really passionate but chill guy who just doesn't want to be a celebrity - and who can blame him for that. I would love to have a drink with him.

[@Shoegazebasedgenre0.]

he is the obi wan of shoegaze

[@blurjose]

Yes but how awesome would it be if he lived in THE bat cave? Right?

[@3nthamornin]

i mean, to me, thats what makes him a mystical guitar genius. this man writes the greatest guitar pieces ever made and doesn't even remember how he made/played them lol.

[@tastemaker_87]

Rare to hear an interviewer who obviously has a genuine interest in the music and asks interesting questions pertaining to the songs 👏

[@lowe-quay-shush]

The thing about this band- you don't 'kind of like them' you love them. You understand that other's at their shows also feel passionatly about them.

[@woawh5616]

i only kind of like them

[@iownarazor]

what a lovely guy

[@kevinmurtagh4996]

This interviewer is awesome! So refreshing to hear unique, and thoughtful questions.

[@jmckenzie962]

The part where he talks about Public Enemy and bad 80s rapping made me laugh so hard because Kevin Shields rapping is just such an unbelievably cursed mental image lmao

[@JaimeBond0010]

take a shot every time he says "you know"

[@brahmansky808]

It's an odd experience to now know that what I'd intuited about this music & its primary creator is looped around for confirmation decades later--even his riff on surfers/surf culture [I'm Hawaiian]. Very inspiring conversation! Super stoked to know the mbv project is [as of 2021] firing. Thanks for the upload.

[@hugowalter-tynan7125]

thanks, the double j version is cut. great to have the full thing!

[@crisha721]

fantastic interviewer, I loved her!

[@thejmancometh8292]

The man from Flushing, Queens! A true musician.

[@mitchelldries6628]

great interview, but it's the 21st century... you couldn't find a better resolution photo of Kevin??

[@Bummerdude78]

Wonderful. Thank you!

[@dixgun]

Interesting and enjoyable thanks in no small way to the interviewer who obviously cares enough and knows enough about MBV and other music. The explanation from Kevin about photons behaving differently when observed as opposed to unobserved I like and can relate to. Hunches are both confirmed and denied here. I thought the white noise of a particular cheering crowd on ‘Claire’ has always felt familiar.

[@jacobreynolds6181]

Insane eyes - you made me realise.

[@tbwatch88]

yes i have everything they've done--the early vinyl, all of it. and Isn't Anything is, for me, best on account of it's the spookiest, most ethereal AND crunchy-powerful.

[@onlinemoneymadeeasy1317]

Yup, it's a better album than Loveless, packs more emotional punch and has such a wide range of songs, different tempos and instrumentation. Still my favourite, too, after all these years! As for the furthest point MBV reached, definitely the Tremolo EP.

[@frankk5588]

2:52:31 "Now its gonna be one 40min album, 2 or 3 eps, and a double album"

[@DaneMarshall56377]

He’s alive!

[@5150show]

Absolutely brilliant thank you

[@davidmcmillan7518]

thanks for the upload !

[@sawcon8063]

Thanks u hero

[@sacred4844]

thank you

[@occasionalstreamsearcher100]

Amazing interview.

[@startervisions]

Guitar God

[@tastemaker_87]

3:30:00 Kevin is working on a new mbv album called "Reverbless"

[@Tabazan7]

@tastemaker do hope its due for release 'soon' 😉

[@eddusr502]

love this guy

[@agostocobain2729]

Strange, I always thought that Soon was inspired by the Acid House, or Rave scene in the UK. The song even had a Andrew Weatherall remix. That track didn't seem inspired by Hip Hop. I'm excited to hear about his love for Rap music. Maybe its the New Yorker in him.

[@agostocobain2729]

@@12sleep34 is that a joke? because that's actually a fact

[@nilssonschmillson5395]

Sodium CHLORIDE - nice profile picture. This is an amazing upload, my bloody Valentine are the dons!

[@startervisions]

Thank you!

[@tidalphantom0277]

Love him

[@jasonlyons1970]

Kevin Shields is a true genius. He is on a level with Brian Wilson from Pet Sounds era. Kevin had to struggle with honing his craft, like any artist does. He admits he has made a lot mistakes along the way. Never content, he persevered, MBV were not part of the shoegaze, scene, they were one of the inventors of pure music. The game changers in the late 80s were Husker Du/Spacemen 3/The Birthday Party/The Jesus & Marychain/Dinosaur Jr/MBV/Pixies/ these were the only ones in this movement to take music as an artform seriously. (I'm sure I've missed so many important bands from this era/scene, this is just my opinion) please reply if an others I may have missed (not monetised btw)

[@abanana2561]

Id add Minutemen, Foetus, Big Black, Butthole Surfers. I think Blinda hating on albini in 80s magazines revealed their affection for his music, they clearly loved everything it seems, having a great love of music I believe was their gravitational center, and being curious without any fear whatsoever. Im sure they quite literally listened to everything, and truly listened.

[@dixgun]

When he uses the word “we,” I wonder if he’s referring to himself or if he’s also referring to the other three.

[@defoperator7993]

Plus the engineers and studio personnel

[@defoperator7993]

Label *

[@eversongabriel7099]

Thank you very much, 95mrrob, for uploading this super interesting conversation. I want to ask you: how did you first get in touch with this interview? Are you from Australia?

[@95mrrob]

I downloaded the mp3 from the double j website when this originally posted. It may have been removed now not sure. No I'm not Australian

[@eversongabriel7099]

@@95mrrob Understood. Very smart and humble from you to do that. Thank you again!

[@markyoung405]

Interesting interview but no mention of the 'Bruce Lee' influence in the early Kenpo days Kevin! Best wishes,Mark Young.

[@Kkidzz]

John McGeoch RIP

[@P-Catt]

New music by the end of 2021…..?

[@startervisions]

2:09:00 new mbv soon

[@crushedupbrain]

he said that in 2007 abt m b v 😭

[@jlouis4407]

Sure…

[@startervisions]

@@jlouis4407 ...what?

[@aaronmartin9207]

Very nice woo hoo !

[@idunno10]

2:52:32 lmao. sounds like something off the old fake k. shields twitter. Her disbelief =same here aha. Awesome interview. Goofy/cool guy, didn't know mbv were squatters but not surprised, lifestyle intersecting w/ music makes real music..

[@rossturcotte419]

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[@mittageisen211]

Great Interview, but it seems at times the interviewer is lost in what Kevin Shields is trying to say. Specifically when it deals with highly abstract concepts-- moments like this appear sparingly, but when it does happens it completely shifts the tone of the interview. Kevin is a musical genius. I know this gets thrown out a lot, particularly by shoegaze heads who herald him as the father of their genre, but more so how the way thinks about music. It is highly philosophical and conceptual, even to his distain (mentions countless times in the interview he's not a conceptual musician). A lot of his music now makes sense to me, or more it confirmed what I already thought about it beforehand. It's introspective music in the truest sense. Something like Shakespeare picking up a guitar.

[@khalidafzal6092]

1:25:00 to here knows when

[@Elhuachi-mg]

Wena 🦇

[@revisethedream8406]

He doesn't swear and he's Irish? I guess he hasn't spent much time with Paul Hewson.

[@cigarroousado4513]

kevin shields = white hendrix

[@UFO_computers]

Or Mascis

[@onlinemoneymadeeasy1317]

But who is the black Kevin Shields?

[@albertcorbero]

Amazing interview. Seems brilliant again.

[@loomer2256]

​@@onlinemoneymadeeasy1317playboi carti

[@12sleep34]

"you know"

[@FinnRedt]

Thank you!