I saw The Verve over 20 years ago at The Joiners Arms, Southampton. They were only know as Verve (prior to falling out with a record company of the same name). They had just released Shes a Sup...
The Charlatans first proper release, before only a limited-edition EP almost similar to this one sold only at shows. It was released on their own Dead Dead Good record label. Shortly ...
Outside Your Room is the fourth EP by Slowdive, released two week prior to their second album. Its title is taken from the lyrics of the lead song Alison. Alison is probably one the best known ...
Not the usual fey indie fodder that you have come to love, but a change this week. The reason for this is that my room mate from university is getting married. He used to have to put up w...
The Drop Nineteens album that was shelved for some strange reason. It is rumoured that this was due to the master tapes deteriorating. Admittedly the recording sounds rough. This ha...
The remastered My Bloody Valentine albums are almost upon us and there is going to be an album of early EPs. This will not feature Ecstasy and Wine, the compilation comprising of the Strawberry...
Until the reunion shows of 2008, this was the My Bloody Valentine live recording. Easily the most widely circulated and best bootleg. The definitive Loveless era bootleg. This is a soundboard recordi...
The Telescopes first outing on Creation records. After their previous label ‘What Goes On’, went bankrupt. Alan McGee bought the rights to their songs and was able to get them out of a fix. They move...
World of Twist was formed in Sheffield in 1985 by guitarist Gordon King and singer Jamie Fry, the brother of Martin Fry of ABC. They relocated to Manchester and rode on the explosion of new bands in ...
This is the moment shoegaze got into bed with ambient techno. Slowdive extended themselves into ambient techno, which was the favour of the moment in 1993. They really do pull it off. In Mind is a am...
The history of this Loop live bootleg is largely unknown. The quality of the recording is fantastic, and the performance is something else. Before I heard this Wolf Flow was my favourite Loop album, ...
Bent, was released in 1994. Louis Elliot told the press, ”We write about what we know about – bad sex, cheap drugs”. This helped it become a better all round effort than the debut. They had developed...
Swervedrivers last album that came out in 1998. It nearly never made it on the shelves as they were dropped by Geffen just before its release. The independent US label Zero Hour stepped in and the al...
The Darksides second and last album, had mixed reviews. It moved away from the psychedelic folk rock and went towards the regular indie fare that filled the alternative charts of the time. But there ...
Another fine early EP by the Boo Radleys. From the halcyon era of all things shoegazing, which is around September 1991. There is an acoustic opener Everybird, which is similar to Spaniard but then h...
"You can be progressive without being pompous. It sounds like a cliché but I dont care - we are a progressive band and were in the here and now."Terry Bickers interviewed by Steve Sutherland ...
Yerself is Steam is the 1991 debut album by Mercury Rev. It feels chaotic and psychedelic, with distorted guitars throughout. Nowadays they write (rather good) lushly orchestrated, psychedelically-ti...
Parody or pastiche? The Stairs Mexican R’n’B takes the sixties pop imitation to extreme limits. It is recorded in mono, the band said that, ‘if mono is good enough for Phil Spector it is good enough ...
Rownderbowt could be seen as squeezing the last penny out of the shoegazing movement, Chapterhouse only released two albums and a handful of singles. The compilation was put together without the band...
My first experience of The Darkside was watching the Brit Awards in either 90 or 91. It was the one where Jonathan King proclaimed his fondness of Carter USM. The Darkside appeared in a Live Music We...
Northern Picture Library rose from the ashes of the mighty yet twee Field Mice. This short extract from Wikipedia does more justice to them then all my mumblings. Northern Picture Library was a Briti...
This is a mature sounding EP from Chapterhouse considering this was one of their first releases. The lead track Something More was not produced by The Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie he did the softer ve...
The Feel EP is one of the gems of the Babe Rainbow era. It still has its feet in the earlier classic era, even though it came out after the album. There are at least half a dozen versions of the sing...
Loop were wrongly attached to any scene. Steve Lamacq once said that Ride were, "the House of Love with Chainsaws". In that case Loop must be like Ride in a war zone. Unfortunately there is n...
A virtually unknown band who had one fantastic album. Spirea Xs name was taken from a Primal Scream b-side, and was fronted by ex-scream guitarist Jim Beattie. Beattie was worn out from the tour sche...
The first Field Mice album I brought and also what turned out to be their only full studio album. I had it on cassette from a French label called Danceteria, this was one of the few releases to make ...
The post from two weeks ago made me think about the Joiners and all the gigs I went to. Probably the most famous gig that I never went to was the Whiteout and Oasis double headliner. Back in 1994, I ...
I am a big fan of both Spacemen 3 and Loop, and I see them totally differently. Loops music is very minimalist music with complex layers. It is still very hard sounding with metronomic drums and fuzz...
A couple of Christmas’s ago I received a great book on the history of the legendary Southampton venue The Joiners Arms. Not only does it tell the story of the music scene of the last 30 years, but it...
This was one of the EPs that was released before Isn’t Anything, the other was You Made Me Realise. The guitar effects that would become the My Bloody Valentine sound are evident throughout, but it a...
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