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The Jesus And Mary Chain

Glasgow Eyes

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LThe brothers Reid are back in tub-thumping, floor-stomping, feedback-wailing, rock and damn rolling form - 'Glasgow Eyes' channels those darkened stree...
Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain

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William and Jim Reid

Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain

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  • Limited *Signed* Hardback book with Record Store Edition alternative artwork and bespoke slipcase designed by William Reid

    Released: 3rd Oct 2024

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    Released: 29th Aug 2024

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The entertaining, wild, and sometimes hilarious story of belligerent brothers that we’ve long been waiting for.

The antics of the Reids are exciting, but it’s the moving descriptions of their early days in East Kilbride that’ll stay with you the longest.

The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by the two founding members. For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary C hain. The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

“You emerge relieved that they were spat out of the spin cycle of addiction not just alive, but still in possession of a vicious sense of humour” - The Guardian