My Bloody Valentine will play their first show in more than seven years on Nov. 22, 2025 at 3Arena in their hometown of Dublin, the pioneering shoegaze band announced today (Nov. 25). The Kevin Shields-led group hasn’t performed since an Oct. 14, 2018, headlining set at the Desert Daze festival in Lake Perris, Ca.
MBV dissolved in 1997 and shocked the underground music world by reuniting in 2007. Since then, the group has toured in 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2018.
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In recent years, Shields has teased two distinct new My Bloody Valentine albums, but neither has seen the light of day. However, some purchasers of his Fender Blender guitar pedal received a flash drive containing unreleased music last year. It’s unknown whether said music is connected to the in-the-works MBV albums.
In 2021, the group signed with Domino Records, which then made the full MBV catalog available on streaming services for the first time. On the vinyl side, their 1988 debut, Isn’t Anything, and 1991’s iconic loveless, were mastered fully from analog for new deluxe LPs and from new hi-res uncompressed digital sources for standard LPs. Fully analog cuts of the comeback album m b v, which came out in 2013, were also made available on deluxe and standard LPs globally for the first time.
“Time is a bit more precious,” Shields told The New York Times in 2021 of MBV’s well-known glacial pace in the recording studio. “I don’t want to be 70-something wanting to make the next record after m b v. I think it’d be cooler to make one now.”
Tickets for the Dublin show, the band’s first headlining gig in Ireland since 1992, go on sale to the general public Friday (Nov. 29). It is unknown whether any additional concerts are in the works.
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