“You’ve already done it, the first thing people want to talk about with My Bloody Valentine is Kevin’s guitar rig,” laughs Marc Carolan. “It’s obviously a point of interest as it is a big monolith, it physically dominates the stage but when you think about the songs, although the guitar is paramount, it’s not in a vacuum!”Marc, a live sound engineer and mixing expert with a career spanning the best part of three decades is right, I’ve fallen into the vortex of intrigue surrounding the band and their creative leader Kevin Shields. Since My Bloody Valentine’s initial forays in the mid to late eighties, they have become the stuff of sonic legend, maintaining a tantalising trail of detail around themselves and their music. As with so many fans, I’m left to collect what I can, constantly wondering how the group gets THAT sound out of their instruments.Their 1991 album, Loveless, is deservedly heralded as a classic. It pushed more conventional indie guitars into bold and blistering new pastures. In the years after, with little new music released, various reports of studio struggles only added to the myth until they eventually returned to the stage in 2008, with their third LP 'm b v' following in 2013.
