"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– 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…
Described in the European press as “one of Americas best kept secrets”, Smashing Orange were a band from Wilmington Delaware, who landed in the UK and became part of the wave of Shoegaze bands of the early 1990s. Sadly, the…
Lush – probably one of the most influential bands of the Shoegaze era, happily (and with much relief) reunited in 2016 and were gigging and going on tour. They hit Coachella in April, and their much anticipated concert tour was…
Lush in concert from This Is Not A Love Song Festival in Nimes, France and recorded on June 4th of this year. As promised, I said a few weeks ago that I was going to try and post some additional…
Chapterhouse – live at The Marquee, London – September 3, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Chapterhouse tonight. One of the bands heralded by the Press as part of the wave of Shoegaze in the late 80s/early 90s,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Charlatans in concert – 1990 – BBC 6 Music Tonight it’s one of the bands that renewed my faith in music. The Charlatans (or Charlatans UK, if you were getting…
Click on the link here for Audio Player:Slowdive – In Session April 21, 1991 Vintage ethereal by way of Slowdive, one of the seminal bands of the Shoegaze movement in the early 1990’s. Tonight it’s from a session the band…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Echo Lake – Wild Peace – 2012 Something of more recent vintage tonight. Echo Lake are a duo consisting of Thom Hill and Linda Jarvis. Their debut release came out in June…
Click on the link here: The Ganjas – Raise – 2012 I haven’t posted anything on The Ganjas in a while. To get you up to speed; if you missed the last post I did on them, The Ganjas are…
In case you haven’t noticed, there is no Glastonbury Festival this year. Reports are, organizers are giving the grounds a rest. Other reports are the upcoming Olympics made the annual festival impossible to pull off. And still other reports had…