Rave Down Radio
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, Mosca, The Early Years, XAM […]
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 Aphex Twin amongst others. The […]
Another week, another show and on this one we celebrate Adorable’s debut album from 1993. Against Perfection was the right album released at the wrong time to be successful, too late to be part of the Shoegaze scene and too early (and too good) for Britpop! Netherless it’s a great album that sounds even better […]
This week’s show features the debut album from BDRMM as our album of the week. Bedroom is one of the most exciting debut albums in recent times and we play a couple of tracks. We also preview a track from the forthcoming Dissident Remixed album by Glok due out in August. Maps have remixed the […]
On the show this week our featured album is Spooky by Lush. Released in the spring of 1992 a whole 2.5 years after their debut EP, Spooky is one of the definitive albums of the era. We play a couple of tracks from the album. There’s a live track from Swervedriver recorded at the Marquee […]
On this week’s show our featured album of the week was from DIIV. Released in 2016 their second longplayer Is The Is Are was a double album from a band that was struggling at the time dealing with drug issues. It’s an album that even the band never knew if they’d be able to follow-up. […]
The latest radio show features The Engineers 2005 debut as our featured album of the week and we play a couple of tracks from the album and brioefly discuss the NuGaze scene created by the NME. We also have a bunch of electronic tracks with Ulrich Schnauss covering a Slowdive song, then there’s Slowdive being […]
On this week’s show our featured album of the week is the 2007 debut from Fields. Everything Last Winter was released on Atlantic Records and blended shoegaze with folk. Also on the show we have the Andy Bell (Ride) remix of the latest BDRMM single. We play a John Peel session track from 1991 by […]
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 […]
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 […]