Rave Down Radio
This hour is spent mainly looking back 30 years. On 4th March 1991 possible the greatest shoegaze EP was released by Ride. The Today Forever EP featured four of the best Ride songs and also propelled the band into the national charts and as festival headliners. We play all the tracks from the EP in […]
This is probably the most excited I’ve been for a new release in a while, Mogwai’s latest album As The Love Continues was released last Friday and is our featured album of the week this week. We also head back to 1993 to hear Catherine Wheel playing live in Finsbury Park for the XFM Great […]
We head back to 2002 for this weeks featured album, it was the third long player from Sigur Ros and their last before signing to a major label. Is it called brackets? Is it called untitled? ( ) was made up of 8 untitled tracks which have since been given names, and all the lyrics […]
We continue looking back at 1991 this week as we celebrate 30 years of shoegaze by featuring Spacemen 3’s Recurring as the album of the week. Released in February 1991 the album was to be the last under the Spacemen 3 name, at this point Jason and Sonic had started recording separately with the album […]
The show this week features the solo debut album from Dean Wareham. Released in 2014 and following his lengthy career with Galaxie 500, Luna and Dean & Britta the album remains his only solo longplayer. We play tracks throughout the show. There’s a session track from Mojave 3 recorded for 6Music in 2003 whilst promoting […]
The featured album on this show is Psiconáutica, the 2016 album by Linda Guilala. The 20 track longplayer was released on Elefant and is one of the best shoegaze albums of the 2010s. We play tracks from the album throughout the show. There’s a John Peel Session track from Thee Hypnotics recorded in March 1989. […]
We’re heading back 30 years for this weeks show, between the 18th and 20th January 1991 Radio One booked out Wembley Arena for the Great British Music Weekend. The event was broadcast live on Radio One and filmed as part of the Brit Awards that year. Organised by Jonathan King who was a big champion […]
We go all the way back to 1984 for this week’s featured album of the week. It’ll End In Tears was a huge independent album upon it’s release. The project of Ivo Watts-Russell and a whole host of guests including the Cocteau Twins. The album spent 35 weeks in the UK Independent charts and the […]
Happy New Year and welcome to our first show of 2021. The featured album of the week in this show seems to be an album that was massively ovberlooked at the time but is often on my turntable. Black Hearted Brother was a change of direction for Neil Halstead after his solo and Mojave 3 […]
This week’s show is a mixtape to celebrate the new year with no geeky facts or waffling from me, just back to back tunes. All killer, no filler! The tracklisting for the mixtape is: Ulrich Schnauss – Clear Day My Bloody Valentine – Soon (Andrew Weatherall remix) Glok – Dissident (Richard Sen remix) The Early […]
