The Jesus And Mary Chain

The Jesus And Mary Chain

In a just universe, nobody should really have to play after Kanye at a festival slot. That being said, Jesus And Mary Chain doing Psychocandy in its entirety is a pretty good (yet still intense) way to come down from the surge of energy that had just occurred at the main stage. Seeing Psychocandy the whole way through, even tucked away at a stage populated by what, I’d assume, were primarily JAMC devotees, was a cool treat, though there was a more emphatic pulse when they finished that up and played “Head On,” “Blues From A Gun,” and “Reverence.” There was something about taking in a swirling, gnarled wall of distorted guitars that played as a kind of cleanse before trying to go back out into the real world, something especially fitting and thematically linked between seeing Kanye level a main festival stage and then its epilogue being a brooding JAMC set that ended with the echoing refrain of Jim Reid snarling “I want to die just like Jesus Christ/ I want to die just like JFK.”