The Jesus & Mary Chain T shirts

Melodies that possess innocence while simultaneously being veiled in sex and death and urgency. An urgency to state the facts about the confusion in life most people pretend they’re not affected by, but who also wet the bed at night. Life isn’t pretty sometimes, it’s not easy to fathom the fact you love your girl/boyfriend while they at the same time have the power to inflict misery on you and take you up far higher than anybody else. With a mix of Beach Boys melodies and walls of feedback, the Jesus & Mary Chain’s music often seems to express the polar opposites of pleasure and pain through the medium of rock n roll and that’s all it is, but we like it. The music written by brothers Jim and William Reid is deceptively simple, catchy, melodic and groovy often effortlessly and the best rock n roll is always easy. Easy to make, to play and to listen to but it doesn’t mean it IS easy, the The Jesus & Mary Chain fought and kicked their way onto the music scene by pretending to be the support act at random gigs raid the stage and play until someone realised they were the low-down fraudsters they readily admit they are and kicked them off, often followed by fights and mini-riots and the losing of instruments. Easy come, easy go. For prime examples of the Jesus & Mary Chain’s music listen to ‘Psycho-Candy’, ‘Honey’s Dead’ or the best of ’21 Singles’ ( which covers all the albums and proves their diversity as well as the ability to write proper pop singles, albeit covered in noise to keep away the pu**ies ). James F, Manchester, UK