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SUMMARY:The Jesus And Mary Chain
DESCRIPTION:präsentiert von Byte FM \n  \nOne of the most influential bands of their generation and beyond\, The Jesus and Mary\nChain mark their 40th anniversary in 2024 with a new album\, Glasgow Eyes. To be\nreleased on March 8th by Fuzz Club\, this is the band’s first studio album since Damage And\nJoy (2017). 2024 promises to be a bumper year for devotees of the Reids: the brothers will\nalso unveil their autobiography\, a documentary\, and a world tour starting in March.\nThe exact point of any band’s inception is hard to pin down\, but for Jim\, the ‘wish’\ncrystallised into reality one night in June 1984: “I always think it was the day we played\nour first show\, because up until then the whole idea had been kind of abstract\, it didn’t\nfeel real. When we played in London\, there were only about six people watching\, but I\nremember thinking\, ‘That’s it. The band is born’.”\nFrom the moment the Reids first pressed the record button on their Portastudio in the\nearly 1980s\, the intense\, sometimes brutal\, often darkly romantic music they made has\nalways felt like past\, present and future smashed together\, alchemising into something\nstartling. Glasgow Eyes might mark a milestone but the Mary Chain are always looking\nforward. As for what fans can expect from the new release\, “hopefully people will expect\na Jesus and Mary Chain record\,” says Jim\, „and that is certainly what it is.”\nThe new album was recorded in Mogwai’s studio ‘Castle of Doom’ in Glasgow\, and “we\nquite liked the idea of a title that suggested that we were kind of returning home to where\nit all started\,” says Jim. “William had a front cover\, which featured a face with fucked up\neyes. This seemed to suggest the title of the album: Glasgow Eyes.” As for their creative\nprocess\, the Reid brothers approach the studio in the way they always have. “It’s\nremarkably the same as it was in 1984\,” says Jim. “Just hit the studio and see what\nhappens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it takes its course. There are no rules\,\nyou just do whatever it takes. And there’s a telepathy there – we are those weird not-quite\ntwins that finish each other’s sentences.”\nThe album’s first single\, ‘jamcod’\, blurs dizzying electronica with the immense guitar\nsound that can only be that of William Reid. Jim’s chant of ‘J A M C O D’ is part\nincantation\, part incitation; this is at once an instant Mary Chain classic and something\naltogether fresh and radical. While the Reids’s enduring connection with electronic music\,\nvia an early love of artists such as Suicide and Kraftwerk\, is clear on this album – not in\nitself new territory for the JAMC – other\, more recently embraced and less obvious\ninfluences have also left their imprint here. “Don’t expect ‘the Mary Chain goes jazz’\,” Jim\nwryly reassures\, “but there are some parts (William) played on the album – and I don’t\nmean it the way it might sound – but they are just pure jazz. The trouble with jazz is there’s\nbebop and then there’s smooth jazz\, which ruined the whole idea of it for lots of people –\nit did for me\, for years\,” Jim continues. “Then I started to listen to Miles Davis and John\nColtrane and thought\, ‘actually there’s a lot more to this than I had ever imagined\, and I\nknow William’s the same. It’s the attitude: they just go in with a ‘fuck it\, let’s make some\nmusic\, let’s get together and see what happens\, and it’s always interesting.” This\nanarchic\, spontaneous quality relates in turn to the punk attitude so interwoven into the\nsoul of the Mary Chain and the Reids’ creative approach from day one.\nWhile the recording process has remained largely the same over the years\, some things\nhave definitely changed; previously sessions have\, by Jim’s own admission\, often proved\na ‘painful’ experience thanks to the notorious friction between the brothers. Has the\nantagonism mellowed at all? Jim: “We’ve learned how to deal with it. I mean\, in the ‘90s it\ngot totally out of control and it was about as bad as hopefully it ever will be. And we\nlearned a lot from that\, how bad it got. Now I know there are certain lines drawn and\nthey’re hard to see. In the ‘90s\, I didn’t see them because I was so wasted\, and so was\nhe\, but now I know that if I say this or I do this\, it’s going to have that reaction\, so best\njust go about it a different way. Let’s just try and get the job done and not fuck each other\noff.”\nThe idea of the Mary Chain at 40 might be disconcerting for those who still rigidly\nassociate them with the energy and frustrations of adolescence. But\, as Jim says\, “The\nMary Chain is about whatever we want it to be. When the band reformed in 2007\, one of\nthe reasons I had a problem with it was because I thought Mary Chain was all about\nbeing young. I thought\, ‘it’s going to be weird: wrinkly old guys going onstage singing\n‘Head On’.’ But then the Pixies were touring the world singing\, ‘Head On’ and I thought\,\n‘fuck it\, they’re doing it\, why can’t we? Yes\, we were young when we made those records.\nBut I think the record we’re about to release is as good as any of our other records\, and\nit’s not about being 22 – we’re where we are now and it’s about us\, now.”\nAdmittedly if you could rewind time and tell the Reids in their East Kilbride bedroom that\nthe Mary Chain would one day celebrate four decades\, you’d be given short shrift. “It\nwould have been unimaginable\,” says Jim. “I’d probably be mortified. But I always said\,\n‘I’ll do it until it feels wrong’. When I was young\, I used to look at the Stones and think\,\n‘For fuck’s sake\, they’re still trudging about all over the world. That’ll never be me…’ Sure\nenough\, here I am. But music is what interests me. I can’t imagine doing anything else\, or\ngetting as much satisfaction out of anything else as being in a band. In some ways it’s\nmore enjoyable now than it was in the beginning; everything now is totally on our terms.”\nSomething that has never changed is the fact that the Mary Chain have always stood for\nthe outsider\, the misfit\, the ‘never understood’. After all these years of being rightly\nconsidered one of the great pop / alt rock acts in British music history\, do the Mary Chain\nstill feel like outsiders themselves?\nJim: “Absolutely. Never fit in anywhere\, that’s just the way it is with us. For years I used to\nthink\, ‘well\, fuck it\, how come we never seem to be invited to the party?’ Then after a\nwhile I just thought\, ‘Fuck the party. We’re the party.’ That’s it. We’re allowed to do this\nthing\, and that’s good enough for me.”
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