Album out this week and tour Feb 2024. Tickets onsale tomorrow Manchester Bristol Birmingham Liverpool Cardiff London Glasgow Edinburgh. Latest stage of one of the best comebacks.
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Birmingham is the Institute hurrah not the awful Academy.
I still can’t get my head around the Slowdive comeback, given they were considered the runt of the litter at the time. I saw them so many times in the Granby Tavern music pub, which was about 200 yards from my undergraduate digs.
Switch you pop-up blockers to ‘stun’ and read drummer Simon’s top 10 shoegazer albums:
https://consequence.net/2023/09/slowdive-shoegaze-albums-crate-digging/
Harsh, you’d surely place them above Chapterhouse and the Catherine Wheel in the shoegaze hall of fame? Again, a band whose influence has grown hugely since their first break-up, and timed their comeback to perfection.
Chapterhouse were another local band and, amazingly, have just released a 6CD box set of two albums.
Catherine Wheel very quickly turned into an Indie Iron Maiden, much like later Porcupine Tree.
A little bit harsh on ver Wheel perhaps @fentonsteve though I should declare a bias through knowing them back home
First album definitely shoegazey, followed up by a much more muscular second. Third, Adam and Eve was their masterpiece, tuneful and loud,
They did then I grant you go a bit big fat American rock sound for the next one which was a disappointment and then nobody was listening by the fifth and last proper one.
That’s my take on them anyway!
I have them all, and I really like the track Judy Staring At The Sun with TanyaFromBelly on vocals. I’ve even got the promo CD single.
Only the first one is Shoegaze, though.
Indie Maiden is a reference to Rob, of course.
Yep, cousin Bruce.
Adam and Eve is a very good album indeed. Chrome isn’t too shabby.
Really didn’t like the last two.
Did you hear Like Cats and Dogs? B sides and rarities etc etc . Pretty good..
I saw that list. Pretty obvious influences, and quite a few of my favourites of the time – Cocteaus, Spacemen 3 and JAMC still long lasting pleasures. A few howling typos – ‘Redding’, William ‘Reed’…
@moseleymoles I assume that klaxon has a very ethereal reverb on it?
I have spare time this afternoon so I shall have a listen to this and the Sigur Ros album.
I have one of their early EPs, but I think I prefer their Mojave 3 output – less drowned in guitar atmospherics.