10 things we learned from My Bloody Valentine’s awesome Wembley Arena show

10 things we learned from My Bloody Valentine’s awesome Wembley Arena show

1 MBV are an arena band nowEvidently the legend is such that 40 years into a mercurial career, My Bloody Valentine are capable of filling arenas. But are arenas necessarily the best place for this most chimerical of bands and their demand for obliterating volume? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’: the awesome sound emanating from Wembley Arena’s six-storey speaker stacks was more physical than ear-bleeding, buffeting you like a storm, enveloping …

Wembley and the Age of the Super-Gig

Wembley has always occupied a strange space in British culture. It is a national monument, a football shrine, a place of heartbreak and glory, and depending on your age, the backdrop for some of the most important live shows ever staged. Talking about stadium gigs without mentioning Wembley feels a bit like talking about tea without boiling water. You can try, but you will end up fooling no one. The story of Wembley as a concert venue mirrors th…