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Top Gear: The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Automatic Revisited

On release the JAMC's third LP was dismissed as a dud but the critics were way off mark when it came to the band's experimentation with acid house and hip hop rhythms, says Julian Marszalek
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Sweet Relief: The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid Interviewed

With a global tour in support of their 1985 debut bringing houses and an accompanying live album due for release, Jim Reid tells Gary Kaill why the time was right to revisit Psychocandy
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Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

Anniversary

The Jesus And Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses 30 Years On

It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe
A Quietus Interview

Brown Acid Black Leather: The Story Of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Psychocandy

Jim Reid and Douglas Hart give Julian Marszalek the low down on the making of one of the best rock albums of the 1980s, Psychocandy

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