Reissue of The Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Psychocandy' live album 'Live At Barrowland'.

In November 2014 The Jesus and Mary Chain celebrated three decades of their incendiary cult-classic debut album, ‘Psychocandy’, with a run of tour dates in which the infamous Scottish group played the album in full for the very first time in the band’s history. As part of the ‘Psychocandy’ tour, the Mary Chain descended on Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom – a legendary venue down the road from where the Reid brothers grew up in neighbouring East Kilbride – and tore through the songs that would propel them to worldwide acclaim upon ‘Psychocandy’s release in 1985.

The Barrowland performance – an equal-parts deafening and blinding assault on the senses – was cut to vinyl by engineer Noel Summerville and originally released in 2015. Fast forward to 2022 and the ‘Live at Barrowland’ album is now being reissued by Fuzz Club Records. Due for release April 22nd, the 2022 reissue comes with new artwork in a gatefold jacket with a booklet that features pages of photos from the tour as well as an interview with the Reid brothers and Alan McGee.

The influence that ‘Psychocandy’ and its pioneering sonic belligerence had on popular music cannot be overstated. Taking bittersweet pop melodies and tearing them up apart through the medium of buzzsaw guitars, ear-piercing feedback and an unapologetic hostility towards their listeners, the band’s breakthrough album experimented with noise in a way that had never been done before and would inspire for generations to come. The CD features seven bonus tracks taken from the prelude set on the night, including such fan-favourites as ‘April Skies’, ‘Head On’ and ‘Reverence’.

Tracklisting

Just Like Honey - Live
The Living End - Live
Taste The Floor - Live
The Hardest Walk - Live
Cut Dead - Live
In A Hole - Live
Taste Of Cindy - Live
Never Understand - Live
Inside Me - Live
Sowing Seeds - Live
My Little Underground - Live
You Trip Me Up - Live
Something's Wrong - Live
It's So Hard - Live
April Skies - Live
Head On - Live
Some Candy Talking - Live
Psychocandy - Live
Up Too High - Live
Reverence - Live
Upside Down - Live

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Live At Barrowland