This appearance by The Pale Saints on the BBC2 alternative music TV show Snub was broadcast the same month the band’s debut album was released.
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Shoegaze on TV – Pale Saints on Snub
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Radio show – 27th May 2020
This week’s show covers a mixture of old and new releases. Album of The Week is The Jesus & Mary Chain’s Darklands from 1987, we play a couple of the tracks from the album during the show. There’s new releases by Dean & Britta alongside the Stephen Morris remix of Maps. We also head back […]
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A shoegazers memory of Reading Festival 1992
Disclaimer: I first wrote this blog post back in 2010 so some details may be incorrect/out-of-date especially as a lot of these bands are now touring again. 1992. This was the year Reading went BIG!!! I first went in 1988 and it was utter rubbish. We all went just to see The Wonder Stuff whom […]
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Shoegaze on TV – The Boo Radleys
On last week’s show we looked back at the year of 1991. Long before Britpop, The Boo Radleys were signed to Rough Trade and turning out some absolutely amazing records. The interview below was broadcast during this era before they later signed to Creation Records and features tracks from the first three EPs.
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Pentamerous Metamorphosis to be repressed
This is an album I’ve wanted a copy of for a while, any original copies cost an absolute fortune so am glad to see it has been repressed. In 1993 upon the release of their second album Chapterhouse asked Global Communication to reinterpret their new album and Pentamerous Metamorphosis is the result. This is an […]
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Gardener’s Question Time
Following our recent radio show looking back at 1991, during that year at the height of shoegaze Select Magazine played all of the bands to Ride’s Mark Gardener to see if he could say who they are. The results are below….
This week’s show is a 1991 special, the year of shoegaze. We take you through the calendar year highlighting all the key releases, gigs and tv appearances of the bands. Here’s a selection of the items discussed on the show… Some of the bands were on the front of the music press. The vitriol from […]
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Lockdown concert #9 – Slowdive
The return of Slowdive in 2014 was the one reunion that I don’t think anyone knew how big they were going to be. Their success was so fleeting during their original phase that I’m not sure anyone expected them to have gathered such a following in their 20 year gap. This concert is from 2017 […]
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Radio Show – Lockdown special
This week’s show is dedicated to supporting the artists who are struggling during the lockdown as they clearly can’t tour at the moment. Therefore we’re only playing tracks released in the first 50 days of the lockdown. I’d like to add that I’d have definitely played these tracks anyway (mixed with a few classics) but […]
Chill Out by The KLF is one of the most important albums of the 1990’s. Released in February of 1990 there have been various stories about who was involved with the album, the sleeve states it was made by The KLF but there have been many pieces written that state Alex Patterson of The Orb […]