Rave Down Radio
Today’s lockdown concert is from 2016 when DIIV were promoting their second album Is The Is Are. This concert sees them play to a large open-air audence at the Best Kept Secret festival. The band had been on the road almost constantly for around 3 years at this point and were close to breaking up. […]
Minor Victories are made-up of vocalist Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), guitarists Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) and Justin Lockey (Editors), and film-maker James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club on bass. They released their self-titled debut in 2016 and toured extensively to promote the album. This concert was recorded the same year when the band played the Pitchfork […]
This week’s show featured The House of Love’s 1992 overlooked longplayer Babe Rainbow as the album of the week. The Jesus and Mary Chain were live from Glasgow Barrowlands in 2014 whilst we played a Moose track from their John Peel Session from 1991. Also on the show were Yeti Lane, Minor Victories, Dean Wareham, […]
Today’s lockdown concert to watch is Spacemen 3 live at Willemsplein 1 in the Netherlands recorded on April 13th 1989. This was in the middle of their Playing With Fire tour, and just a few months before their final ever gig at the Reading Festival. Watching this you’d have no idea the band were about […]
Another show featuring a round-up of new releases, gig news and anniversaries. Tracks featured in this hour are: Hannah Jadagu – What You Did?Silver Moth – SednaBoards of Canada – Telephasic WorkshopEyes of Others – Big Company Large TentaclesSlowdive – Missing YouHorsegirl – Ballroom Dance SceneThe Passions – I’m In Love With A German FilmstarHazel […]
On this week’s show we feature tracks from School of Seven Bells’ debut album ‘Alpinisms’ alongside celebrating 30 years of My Bloody Valentine’s Glider EP. This EP was the first time any of us had heard anything from Loveless. Also on the show there’s a track from Twilight Sad’s new live album, a Peel Session […]
Nathan Fake recently played a set during the lockdown featuring tracks from his new album ‘Blizzards’. The album is his first in 3 years and I’d go so far as to say it’s definitely one of his best. He’s always one to experiment which is great, but this an album with some beats which certainly […]
This week’s show features Chapterhouse with their overlooked second album ‘Blood Music’. There’s a live track from Lush at Glastonbury ’92 and a Peel Session track from Lush. Also on the show there’s new releases from bdrmm, Sonic Boom and Pye Corner Audio alongside classics from My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. This show was recorded […]
Bleach are one of those bands who skirted round the edges of the original shoegaze scene, they toured with Lush, The Telescopes and most notably were main support on the Nowhere tour for Ride. After changes with management and record labels the band seemed to fade away as the musical landscape changed with the emergence […]
Album of the week came from The Early Years with their 2006 debut on Beggars Banquet. There is also a Peel Session track from 1988 by The House of Love with a live track from Death In Vegas. Also on the show were tracks by The Radio Dept, Ringo Deathstarr and Slowdive