The Rollercoaster Tour was a 1992 co-headlining concert tour by the Scottish

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, the Irish-English

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band My Bloody Valentine, the English

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band Blur and the American

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band Dinosaur Jr. A two-leg 34-date tour of the United Kingdom and North America, the U.K. tour was in support of all four bands' current releases: Blur's first album ''

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'' (1991), Dinosaur Jr.s fourth album '' Green Mind'' (1991), My Bloody Valentine's second album ''

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'' (1991) and The Jesus and Mary Chain's fourth album ''

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'' (1992). The tour was curated by the Jesus and Mary Chain's vocalist

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, who "wanted to break the routine" of performing in small, frequently played venues – such as Rock City in

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– and "cater to all strands of independent rock music". Reid was inspired by, and considered the Rollercoaster Tour a British equivalent to, the North American festival

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, at which the Jesus and Mary Chain performed at in 1992 and which he considered "fairly disastrous". Each band performed a 45-minute set with no encore and the line-up changed each night of the tour, although the Jesus and Mary Chain performed as the final act on all 11 dates. My Bloody Valentine ceased live performances in the UK after the tour and did not play again until their 2008 reunion tour. The band's set, which ended with the white noise section of their song " You Made Me Realise", reportedly caused attendees' pint glasses to fall out of their hands due to excessive

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s. Reflecting on the tour, Jim Reid referred to it as "a lot ike acompetition – who could be the loudest? Whose was the best film show? And then there was, who could be most off their tits and still play a show?" The ''Rollercoaster EP'', containing material from Blur, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr. and the Jesus and Mary Chain, was issued in ''

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'' in March 1992 to promote the tour. The North American leg of the tour took place in fall 1992 and featured the Jesus and Mary Chain,

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Tour dates

''Rollercoaster EP''

The ''Rollercoaster EP'' is an

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which was distributed free in a March 1992 issue of ''Melody Maker'' in support of the Rollercoaster Tour. It includes four songs, which are individual tracks from Blur's second album ''

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'' (1993), My Bloody Valentine's second album ''Loveless'' (1991), the Jesus and Mary Chain's fourth album ''Honey's Dead'' (1992) and a live version of a song from Dinosaur Jr.'s third album '' Bug'' (1987).

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