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This show features The Radio Dept's debut Lesser Matters as the album of the week, we play a selection of tracks. We also look back at the 30th anniversary of Ride's debut album Nowhere and the tour which included support slots from Bleach and Slowdive. Creation Records signings Meat Whiplash ...
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We go back to 1999 for this week's featured album of the week. Released in September of that year the second album from death In Vegas was shortlisted for the Mercury Music prize. The Contino Sessions featured a whole range of guests from Dot Allison, Jim Reid, Matt Flint (Revolver), ...
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This week's show is a special with our guest Andy Bell from Ride discussing the influences and events that lead to his debut solo album The View From Halfway Down. We've handed the tracklisting of the whole show over to Andy (hence we've called it The Songs From Halfway Down) ...
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Dean & Britta's latest release the Quarantine Tapes is our featured album of the week on this show. The album is a compilation of tracks recorded during the lockdown and some were recorded as part of their live streams during the spring of 2020. We play a handful of tracks ...
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In March of 1991 Ride set off on their second large tour of the UK in less than six months. Following the huge success of their debut album, released just five months before, the band followed it up with an EP that crashed into the UK top 20. The concert ...
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Maps, Andy Bell, Boards of Canada, Haai, Asteroid #4, Indian Wells and Nothing feature on the latest show. There's a Peel Session track from Swervedriver recorded in 1990 alongside a live track from the Brian Jonestown Massacre recorded in 2008. We also play Slowdive with the exciting news that they ...
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A new short documentary has uploaded to YouTube which is well worth a watch, whilst there are a few inaccurate facts its still a great watch. The thing I loved about this documentary is it mainly focuses on the era before the name shoegaze was created. Whilst many people still ...
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I often say that fans sometimes understand bands better than the band or the team behind them ever could because they observe and obsess over every detail. My theory has been proved right with a new fan-made Boards of Canada film. This is Hexagon Son is a film about the ...
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Chapterhouse, The Telescopes, The Motorcycle Boy and Ride all feature on our album of the week this show. Heaven & Hell was a compilation album of Velvet Underground covers released in 1990. The album also featured Nirvana, James, The Wedding Present and Screaming Trees. You can hear a selection of ...
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Following Record Store Day this show features the Pale Saints compilation Mrs Dolphin as the featured album of the week. The album was originally released in Japan only and has never been pressed on vinyl before. We play several tracks from the album including Colours and Shapes that has never ...
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On last week's show we discussed the 1990 Reading Festival so this week I decided we'd have a break from the usual show to run down the 1990 Festive Fifty. You'll hear standout tracks from the like of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Boo Radleys, Sonic Youth and a few ...
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The latest show features Methodrone by the Brian Jonestown Massacre as the Album of the Week. Released exactly 25 years ago this week. Also on the show we have new releases from I Like Trains, Secret Machines, bdrmm, Ceremony and Dean & Britta. We also remember the 1990 Reading Festival ...
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Slowdive's third album Pygmalion is the featured album of the week. Released in 1995 at the height of Britpop, the album sounds absolutely nothing like other albums of the year with an ambient and experimental approach. Pygmalion is a timeless album. There's also a Peel Session track from Broadcast recorded ...
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This week's show features Ringo Deathstarr with their 2011 album Colour Trip as our featured album of the week. Chapterhouse are live at the Marquee in London recorded in 1991. There's a John Peel session track from The Telescopes recorded in May of 1989. Also on the show there's the ...
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Our album of the week is from Seefeel, Quique was released in 1993 on Too Pure. The album adds ambient and dub sounds alongside shoegaze and dreampop elements. You can hear recent releases by Vinyl Williams, the Flaming Lips, Andy Bell, Tennis System and the BMX Bandits with Anton Newcombe ...
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This show features the soundtrack album to Lost in Translation as our album of the week. We'll be playing tracks from The Jesus & Mary Chain, Death In Vegas and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. Also on the show we'll be playing new tracks by Zoon, EEP, Archie Sagers, ...
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This show is the second and final part of our exploration into the world where shoegaze meets electronic music. Our guest on the show is Joe Clay of the Bytes and we discuss and play tunes by Kelly Lee Owens, Daniel Avery, Future Sound of London, Seefeel, Global Communocation, Chapterhouse, ...
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For this week's show I am joined by journalist, blogger, label owner of Bytes and shoegazer... Joe Clay. This is the first of two shows where we explore the relationship between electronic music and shoegaze. We discuss and play tracks by the likes of Glok, Slowdive, Ulrich Schnauss, Casino Versus Japan and ...
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