It became known as 'the holocaust section', the point in every My Bloody Valentine show, during You Made Me Realise, where the Dublin band would embark upon an painfully loud, open-ended, improvisational white noise freak-out which, on more than one occasion, caused audience members to shit themselves.
"That can happen," bandleader Kevin Shields acknowledged in a 2013 interview with The Guardian. "But there's always someone who'll shit themselves at the slightest excuse."
Talking to Ireland's Hot Press magazine in 2003, Shields explained how the infamous musical experience came to be.
"It was like a Sonic Youth improvisation thing," Shields explained to writer Peter Murphy. "Initially we started playing it live exactly the same as the record, and then we liked that bit and it got longer, and then it got to the point where at its most extreme it was probably 40 minutes long.
"The interesting thing was taking something that was like reality and messing with it to the point where it was so loud, basically people would imagine all sorts of things happening. It wasn’t just making noise with guitars; it was like an out-of-body thing.
"I used to watch the audience, and a certain portion at a certain point would let go of any kind of control, it was so loud it was like sensory deprivation. We just liked the fact that we could see a change in the audience at a certain point, and it always happened, every night... About a third of the audience would resent it, and two thirds would like it."
