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A friend of mine out here in Brissy is in a great band called Forevr, check them out... I don't normally like this stuff but really like what him and his gf are doing...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di1lh32qVmk
From Chile.
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I was properly into the shoegaze thing at the time and was in the right place for it...Oxford late eighties early nineties. MBV were a huge influence on all those bands but were miles ahead. Ride got dull after the first three EPs, Chapterhouse had one song, Slowdive were hugely pompous but I was amazed when mogwai an going an identical thing arrived to great acclaim. Me I had a soft spot for the House of Love....tunes lyrics and loud as hell, the telescopes were violent then went jazzy then disappeared, the pale saints were great till Ian masters left and the Boo Radleys really took the britpop dollar. All of those bands sound similar but different to MBV.
Now who does shoegaze now? Fucking Coldplay -
The Spacemen were doing their own thing, huge Stooges, MC5, Suicide, 13th Floor Elevators, Cramps, Panther Burns fans... Their sound perfectly reflects those influences to my ears, predated MBV by a few years... Loop were one of the shittest bands going, pointless rubbish... Spacemen 3 imitators dressed in black... Useless... #notafan
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who does shoegaze now?
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Bilinda's a very old friend of mine, I remember bumping into her in Brixton one afternoon BITD and asking her how the new album was going, they were recording Loveless at the time... They'd just spent two weeks recording Colm's drums and binned the whole lot...
I saw MBV a couple of times, my old band even played with them once, but I've never seen them since B joined... Must fix that the next time they tour...
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I bought Stereolab's first 10" after hearing John Peel play it, thankfully I had recorded the show and he read out the address as it was mail order only.
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I saw them on the Loveless tour with Boo Radleys as support. Was left astounded by what I experienced for days afterward.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0upaIZF_gA
Cocteau Twins were the precursor to shoegazing with the sonic cathedrals of sound, and better than any of them. Spacemen 3 worked best with their drone-rock tracks, but I agree that Spiritualised took the boring bits of Spacemen, and made them worse.
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Not strictly shoegaze, but shoegaze-influened
https://youtu.be/KI79GPXAICM
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New Ride album out in June
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^ a bit goth for my tastes.
The Chilean band I posted a couple of pages ago were due to play SWSX but were refused entry to the USA, #fucktrump. Their new video has a fixed bike in it.
Rather jolly, and has acoustic guitar, but awesome vocals. From New Zealand.
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Seeing as this thread has been dredged ... Ride played three new tracks at Bestival in the autumn and are recording a new album for release in 2017 with Erol Alkan (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve) producing - https://twitter.com/erolalkan/status/804354651458039808?lang=en. Will be interesting to hear what they come up with.