My Bloody Valentine – live in Lyon, France – March 21, 1989 – Radio France, International – My Bloody Valentine this morning in a concert from Lyon, France, recorded by the venerable Radio France International on March 21, 1989. Don’t know about you, but I was taken aback, the first
– Mogwai – Live In Glasgow – Jan. 20, 2014 – BBC Scotland – Mogwai this Election Day morning. As one of those post-rock bands who have plumbed the vast reaches of dreamscape, Mogwai have created a heady mixture of noise, shoegaze, a bit of Art Rock with a dash of
– Slowdive – In Session April 21, 1991 – Getting ready for the weekend, here is a dose of vintage ethereal by way of Slowdive, one of the seminal bands of the Shoegaze movement in the early 1990’s. Slowdive formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989. The band consists of Rachel
Coffee works too: – Toro y Moi – At Coachella 2015 – April 11, 2015 – Digging through a stack of Coachella tapes from 2015, I came across this stand-out performance from Toro y Moi, recorded on April 11th. I admit at the time, I wasn’t all that familiar with
– Ride – live at Town & Country Club – 1991 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Although it was given the unlikely name Shoegaze, and suffered a goodly amount of ridicule because of it, the Shoegaze movement in the early 1990s was one of the more influential phases
Becoming a member is a nice thing, really: Become a Patron! – Slowdive – in concert at Best Kept Secret 2014 – June 21, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – This morning it’s back to the Best Kept Secret Festival from 2014 for a set by Slowdive. Slowdive were one of the
– Cocteau Twins – In concert At Meervaart, Amsterdam – January 29, 1983 – VPRO, Netherlands – No one is going to convict the 80s of being a dull decade. The 80s were a fertile ground for experimenting and trying different directions. The Cocteau Twins neatly filled that bill. Attracting
– Lush – Live at Reading Festival – August 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 This morning, one of those bands without whom the 90s would have been just another stretch of ten years, broken up by periods of sleeping and waiting. Lush were a perennial favorite of mine ever
Coffee is great any time: – Slowdive – Live At Paredes de Coura Festival, Portugal – August 19, 2015 – When Shoegaze legends Slowdive announced in January 2014 that they were reuniting it was cause for excitement and relief – mixed with a sense of apprehension that the band so
Would love it if you could: – Inspiral Carpets – In Session For John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – March 26, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – The late 80s were significant for the introduction of another new word in our Musical Lexicon; Madchester. In the late 1980s a
