Tag: Jim Reid

Jim Reid vows The Jesus and Mary Chain will complete its first new album in 17 years

Jim Reid vows The Jesus and Mary Chain will complete its first new album in 17 years

While The Jesus and Mary Chain are busy this year looking back on their debut Psychocandy as it marks its 30th anniversary, frontman Jim Reid is also looking forward, vowing to complete the new album that he and his brother William have been working on since reuniting in 2007.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: MTV Europe checks in with The Jesus and Mary Chain — 1992

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: MTV Europe checks in with The Jesus and Mary Chain — 1992

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’re going to cheat slightly and turn to MTV Europe’s version of the show for this 1992 spotlight on The Jesus and Mary Chain circa Honey’s Dead. The 7-minute reel features footage of brothers Jim and William Reid being interviewed mixed in with some live footage.

The Jesus and Mary Chain chronicled in new photo book with words, lyrics by Jim Reid

The Jesus and Mary Chain chronicled in new photo book with words, lyrics by Jim Reid

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s history, both visual and lyrical, is captured in a new 114-page coffee table book featuring scores of photos, many never-before-seen, by Andrew Catlin and text by Jim Reid and his wife Julie, the band announced today on its website.

Vintage Video: Watch The Jesus and Mary Chain's infamous 1985 Camden gig and riot

Vintage Video: Watch The Jesus and Mary Chain’s infamous 1985 Camden gig and riot

Given that it’s Jim Reid’s birthday today — he’s 50 — we turn this installment of Vintage Video over to The Jesus and Mary Chain, featuring full video of the band’s infamous Sept. 9, 1985, performance at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. The Mary Chain played a 6-song, 20-minute, feedback-drenched set, then left the stage.

Stream: Jim Reid's Jesus and Mary Chain 1985 'Inspirations & Influences' mix

Stream: Jim Reid’s Jesus and Mary Chain 1985 ‘Inspirations & Influences’ mix

Demon Music Group , the label behind the new Jesus and Mary Chain reissues, asked Jim Reid to put together a circa-1985 mixtape, and the result — 20 tracks featuring the likes of Orange Juice, New Order, Swell Maps and The Fall — can be streamed in this player.

Jim Reid on a new Jesus and Mary Chain album: 'It might happen, it might not'

Jim Reid on a new Jesus and Mary Chain album: ‘It might happen, it might not’

The long-discussed new album from The Jesus and Mary Chain has ‘never really come together’ Jim Reid says in a new interview, in which he attributes the lack of progress to the fact that he and his brother William simply have ‘different ideas of how to record this album.’